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The Mosaic Law applied to Old Covenant people. Under the New Covenant, those who received Christ as Saviour became totally new creations through the indwelling Holy Spirit. This involved a whole transformation as their spirit, which was dead in trespasses and sins beforehand, was made alive...

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Your views are based on eisegesis, which is reading stuff into the Bible which is not there. The quote about a thousand years being a day to the Lord, does not refer to creation at all. Paul is referring to those who are concerned about the delay in the Second Coming of Christ, to show that...

My short answer is no. Let's look at the Scripture most used to support this doubtful practice: "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do...

Where did I say that you didn't know the difference between figures of speech and literal meanings? I was commenting on the topic in hand, not your handling of it.

There is a group that handle rattlesnakes, and there is a video where a guy was bitten by one that he was handling, and I think that he died as a result. I don't think the reference in Mark referred to the deliberate handling of real snakes. It was more figurative language in the same way that...

I don't know what happens where you are, but in my country there are strict laws involving accounting standards in the use of public money. Our definition of public money is all income received from members of the public and donations from community organisations. We are required to keep...