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Recent content by BigDave

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    The Rapture

    The NT tells us explicitly when God will resurrect His saints and gather them together. For example: Matt 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be...
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    For Those Who DO Believe In The Illuminati

    Whenever I encounter a conspiricist, I always think of this quote by GK Chesterton:
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    Structure of Revelation

    What is the structure of Revelation? Chronological, cyclical/thematic, or other? I am especially interested if you can support your position based on interal evidence from Revelation alone - IOW, without relying on eschatalogical structures one reads into Revelation.
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    I will have to disagree slightly with this. Yes, Pauls criticism is that people were being gluttons and drunkards at the Lords Supper, but it was *not* because he felt everyone should get their fair share. Instead, he points out that eating for the purpose of getting full or drinking for the...
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    Hmmm...what consequences are you referring to? If you mean the dangers of overindulging in alcohol, I don't think anyone here disagrees with you on them. Where we would disagree is your seeming equating of 'drinking moderately' with 'getting drunk'. If you mean some sort of spiritual...
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    Can you explain what you mean by the paragraph? I am choosing to assume this isn't as 'unhumble' as it looks and am hoping you can enlighten me on this. What does being a Nazarite have to do with knowing when an interpretation is wrong?
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    Should Christians totally abstain from alcohol?

    Notice that Cliff is no longer trying to make a Scriptural argument. No longer trying to make pretzels out of passages to prove his point. No longer relying on obvious fallacies to support his assertions. Now he is just relying on the good ol' pragmatic argument. I am cool with that...
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    Narnia Vs. Lord of the Rings-Christian and Biblical Allegory?

    Hmmm...it is the fact that he is merely a Maia spirit that one can know for sure that he is *not* meant as a Christ figure, much less an allegory of Christ. If the parallel must be made to Christian belief, then Gandalf would be a lesser angel.
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    You can't be serious!? Every-word-is-perfectly-inspired-by-God-and-changing-those-words-to-some-other-word-damages-its-inspired-stasus-KJVonlies actually hold that the inspired translation of 'wine' actually means 'grape juice'. Now thats the height of irony.
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    1) You have a basic misunderstanding of winemaking and its relationship to yeast. a) First of all, fermentation does not cause yeast to occur - instead, yeast is what causes fermentation to occur. Yeast is naturally present in grape juice which is why fermentation naturally occurs unless some...
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    First, lets note that never did so. True. The evidence you cite does show that it did happen 'regularly' and that it was 'the preferred method'. However, you make two logical fallacies. While the evidence does show it 'happened regularly' you fallacious equate this to mean 'it happened...
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    Disinformation on 'wine'

    Sorry, reading now I realize I had been imprecise and therefore you misunderstood what I was saying. I agree with you that fruit of the vine could be and was preserved in various fashions. I agree with you that it would be disinformation to claim that it couldn't be. However, you use this...
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    pharmakeia: Drug Dealing in the NT

    [/b] True. Try - you won't be able to give any passages. True. Go ask a chemist. When the yeast fermentation process is done, the yeast is dead. It settles out and is then filtered out. [/b] Again, true. For instance notice Pesachim, VII, 13; X, 1 in which it is said the wine used is too...
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    Should Christians totally abstain from alcohol?

    OVERCONSUMPTION. Moderate consumption would not cause beach riots. Get over the showing how ABUSE of alcohol is wrong - we agree with you on that. One logical fallacy piled on another. You show all the verses which show the dangers of abusing alcohol, then you turn around and talk about the...
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    Should Christians totally abstain from alcohol?

    1) Paul is speaking of grape juice and not alcoholic wine. 2) We know this because God does not support the consumption of alcoholic wine. 3) How do we know that God doesn't support consumption of alcoholic wine? Because all passages which are positive of 'wine' really mean 'grape juice'. This...
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