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Othniel, I wrote: God created Adam and Eve in about 4000 BC (Gen. 2) long after creating the human race. (Gen. 1:26,27) You answered: So, when God searched this "perfect" human race for a helper suitable for Adam, he couldn't find one? (Genesis 2:18-25) Genesis says nothing about God...

: good luck with that. This way of understanding Genesis has had very "good luck." (Though I prefer to think of it as God's blessing.) It is endorsed by the ASA (American Scientific Affiliation), an organization of some of the world's most highly respected Christian scientists, scholars and...

: What the Bible says or what man says ... Nope. That's your position. I see absolutely no conflict between the Bible and science. Christians like you do, and then tell people they must choose either one or the other. What a sad situation that puts Christian school children in. God created...

Reformationist, Unfortunately, your "total depravity" belief is based on false premises. The false premises I here refer to are these: 1) The Bible portrays Adam as "the first man" in an absolute chronological sense; 2) The Bible indicates that we are all Adam's descendants; 3) The Bible...

Reformationist, You asked: First, when you say "just like us" who do you mean? "Us" being every human being who has ever lived. Free will meaning that God did not want to create robots who had to do things His way. He wanted to give us all the freedom to make our own decisions in life...

I believe the Bible clearly indicates that all angels were created with free will, just like us, with the ability to do both right and wrong. This raises an interesting question. If this is true, does the sacrifice of Jesus Christ also cover the unrighteous acts of angels who put their faith...

Josiah, The notation "ibid." is an abbreviation for the Latin word "ibidem" which means "in the same place." In other words, he was telling you to read the 27th verse of the same chapter he had just referred to. Maybe the guy's a real "Pastor" seeing he knows a little Latin. : ) Mike

Postrib, First off, why did you not answer the question I asked you? If the Jews were captives in Babylon for 70 years, not only 49 years as the first century Jewish historian Josephus and all modern historians tell us (587/6 BC to 538/7 BC), then which date or dates do modern historians now...

Pastor, You are kidding right? You are counting 2300 days as years and starting them in 457 and ending up at 1844 for the start of the 7th day Adventist Church? Cute. Very Cute. And very wrong. Other cults do the same things with all of Daniel's day prophecies, try to say they point to...

Postrib, I asked: What history books do you feel are in error? You answered: Any that deny the Bible's teaching that the Jews spent 70 years in their Babylonian captivity (Zechariah 1:12, 7:5; 2 Chronicles 36:20-22) in fulfillment of Jeremiah's 70-years prophecy (Daniel 9:2, Jeremiah...

GW, You wrote: I favor AD 30/31 for Christ's crucifixion. All scholarship I have seen has led me to adopt that date. From everything I have read on the subject, and that's a lot, AD 30 and AD 33 are by far the two most preferred dates. And of the two AD 33 is the most favored for a number...

GW, Getting back a bit closer to this thread's title subject. I noticed in your article that one of the reasons you seem to favor an AD 30 dated for Christ's death is that it gives us a biblical "40" year period of time between Christ's death and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70...

GW, What do you say to those who remind us that God often used "types" in the Old Testament to point to then future people and events. (Elijah was a "type" of John the baptist. Abraham's having children with the slave woman Hagar prefigured God's later having spiritual children who would be...

GW, I carefully read all you wrote, including the article you linked us to at "Preterist Planet." You answered my question quite thoroughly and well. Thank you. I notice in the article at PP that you mentioned a second part of the article was coming. Was it there somewhere or is it now being...

GW, You wrote: [Partial preterists] make the compromise with the creeds and render the apostles fulfilled eschatology as a TYPE of the creedal "end of the world." Follow? I understand their compromise, but I think it's unnecessary. I understand why it may be unnecessary. Revelation and...