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He did, it's called a conscience. When the Rabbi Hillel was challenged by a Gentile to explain the Torah to him while he was hopping on one foot, Hillel responded by saying: "Love God and your neighbor; the rest is just commentary." The same thing Jesus says. Intellectual pursuit and the like...

The fact that Kim Jong Un believed an article in The Onion about him being voted sexiest man alive goes to show how deluded they are. So they should definitely be dealt with. But like with the USSR, provoking a hot war if avoidable, isn't the best idea. So all we can do is wait. I don't really...

Why do you suppose the deity has to be limited? To me it sounds like you're saying God can't create a world in which He tells one of his creatures "worship me like this." That doesn't seem a necessary constraint to me. I think you are employing the fallacy of language or false equivocations...

Similarities in prose do not concern us here. Hammurabi's law code, which predates Moses' no matter where you put him, is also near-completely similar. If God decided to bring His religion via Abraham instead of imposing an iron fist upon everyone like the hand in Daniel, obviously God would've...

By "himself" I meant God - there's simply no reason to assume God couldn't use Abraham to bring about the religion that ancient people changed (Rom. 1) in a symbolic way. There are many other examples. Interesting point, but I don't feel that's necessary to suppose. Interest for humans usually...

1. This would be true if God was doing things with respect to Himself only. Which would mean He's not "omnimax." What I mean is, God has no reason to choose anyone or use "intermediaries" if He is simply trying to do something. But if He wants to elucidate a point by using a man as a symbol...

You mention your son-in-law sees no wrong in his actions. That's classic for a self-centered (not the same as selfish) person who doesn't know better. Try to explain to him that screaming, esp in front of children is not the solution to whatever imaginary problem/attack he feels he's repulsing...

I know this was a dead thread but... well, I've read through it entirely and here are my thoughts: -The 2400 BC Exodus is very unlikely - most of the towns mentioned didn't even exist at that time. Chariots could've existed here and there back then, but Pharaoh wouldn't have had 600 of them...

I don't think Christians, especially in the early Church, were anti-Semitic at all. Especially since most early Christians were Jews themselves! To describe the Holocaust as an anti-Semitic act in a Christian land is a bit of a misunderstanding - the act was perpetrated by people who were...

I know that his post is a joke about the OP's (sincere) question regarding 2 Peter, so it's not me who has to reread a post if you took my post seriously :p

That was almost as funny as the joke you made that I quoted. Keep trying to replace facts with entertainment. Not to mention that the comment you made and the one by your predecessor could have only been made by self-inflated ignorance and irreligious intolerance.

But how can we trust you that time dilation is an actual thing if you can't even read (there is no 2 Peter 3:90)? :confused:

You're right, it was a little complicated, so thanks, there, fixed it for the reading-impaired.

As a Christian and a Creationist for the past 6 and a half years, only once and exactly once very briefly did I think that evolution might be true, and I made the following wish: may it be that my enemies have evolved to be ridiculous. And after all these years, I realized one thing: that...

Ok, so now it's Brown and Robinson who didn't do meta-analysis. I know Robinson for a fact surveyed 30-50 scholars and I've personally read 5-6 of them. Unless you are willing to say he's lying, you don't have any basis for that. Robinson's book Redating the New Testament is well known for an...

I honestly don't understand what you don't agree with. You claim anecdotal evidence yet you give me some random quote about 80% of statistics being made up. I didn't look up statistics my friend, I actually read the people who said these things and I can assure you that the 70-80% quote by...

I could be wrong about Ephesians, I've simply seen numerous sources that give the impression of an almost universal rejection of it very near that of the Pastorals. And all the scholars I've read except JAT Robinson reject it: Kummel, Marxsen, Grant, Heard, Brown, and many others whom I haven't...

To say that a book is Deutero-Pauline might not be the same as rejecting it for some scholars, but for most it's undoubtedly their nice way of saying it. And I'm pretty sure that 80% for Ephesians was fairly accurate - absolutely every book I picked up on the topic that has been written since...

That website is not very good nor useful except if you're looking for particular translations or other such technical things. For example, Colossians and 2 Thessalonians, while rejected by about 60% of scholars today are most certainly Pauline - see bible-apologetics[dot]com/2thessalonians.htm...

That's true insofar as terms and phrases, but highly unlikely that any doctrine will be upset since Jesus' understanding of the purpose of man and the nature of the Jewish religion was markedly different from that of his contemporaries, and this can be seen whether one puts it in a Jewish...