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Regarding your first quote: Earlier you implied that the Man of Sin would sit on God's throne. The scripture doesn't say that. Paul specifically said that the Man of Sin was being restrained when he wrote the epistle: "Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these...

You appear to be adding your own words to the scripture. It says nothing about the Man of Sin sitting on a throne. Satan and his angels were kicked out of heaven in the first century when the remnant was still preaching the gospel (Rev 12:17.) How do you know? There were lots of wonders and...

Christ said the great tribulation would occur in his generation. I believe him. The Jews believed they were safe, and the promises (as they interpreted them) were being fulfilled, when Vespasian and his armies departed. "[T]he Jews considered this skirmish [with the Romans] a great triumph...

That verse seems to me to be rather meaningless by itself since the Greek word ἀποκαταστάσεως is used but once in the NT and LXX; but it comes to life when interpreted in the context of Peter's address, beginning at verse 12. Peter is speaking to the Israelites to confirm the covenant God made...

I am reasonably certain that the disciples and elect who were still alive saw the things he said they would see. He also said the temple would be destroyed before that generation passed away. When Christ said the part about "no one knows the day or hour" he had yet to go to the Father. He also...

Christ and his disciples said in many different ways that Christ would return in their generation. I am not qualified to second-guess them.

If we rely on the words of Christ (which I highly recommend) those events occurred during the generation of Christ and his disciples. From the scripture and historical documents, I have concluded that the great tribulation was the Neronic persecution that began in 64 AD, two years before the...

Population geneticists have determined that mutations in man are cumulatively deleterious which causes man's genome to become more and more brittle with each generation: "[In summary,] the vast majority of mutations are deleterious. This is one of the most well-established principles of...

The first instance of Satan's fall was in the garden, which was on or (more likely) after the 6th day. The scripture seems to indicate that the angels were created before the creation of the earth. "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding...

I am unaware of any rebellion before day one:

Modern genetics supports the created man rather than the evolved man. For example, the research of the late Eric Davidson of Cal Tech reveals that there is no redundancy in the subcircuits of the developmental Gene Regulatory Network (dGRN), so any change (e.g., by mutation) is catastrophically...

Septuagint (LXX) dating would place 2300 BC during the life of Serug, about 800 years after the flood.

The Bible is loaded with scientific gems. For example, scientists did not recognize the significance of the first verse until the 20th century.

Agree. It is written that the lights were created "to divide the day from the night," and "for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years."

It is written that God created light on the first day. What if the first and subsequent days were each based on a full rotation of the earth, and the later creation of the greater light (sun), lesser light (moon), and stars were created on the fourth rotation for signs, seasons, days, and years...