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Did you read the entire sentence?

If you want to call letting the author complete a sentence "eisegesis", I guess you'll have to live with that

I've looked up some info on this, and it seems they were possibly there for 210 years, not 400, based upon Isaac's age as ONE WAY of explaining how the prophecy of 400 wouldn't be true. Either way, that' still 8-10 generations, and is almost at old as the United States is. This assumes, of...

I already explained it from the text. The fact that you don't like what the text actually says isn't my problem.

So, Jesus forgot that He was omniscient upon taking a human nature to Himself? It's one thing to veil yourself from omniscience. It's quite another to forget who you are. Even if Jesus didn't know at the time how His words would be parsed, certainly He knew that they would.

Guided. Assisted. Corrected.

It's this kind of silliness that just wants to make me roll my eyes and walk away, since you don't even put a little bit of critical thought into your claims. The Israelites were in slavery for 400 years. That's not "barely a couple of generations." That's more like 15-20 generations. 400...

And here I thought you believed that God decreed everything that would happen. Unless you don't think Jesus is God.

No, my premise doesn't rest on that at all. That's just you trying to force me into your pigeonhole. The WRITING of Genesis is a product of ANE culture, and I'm sure Moses had a variety of sources from which to draw in order to write. But Moses wasn't a compiler. He wrote Genesis. And, in...

The lexical definition is something shaped like a circle. (My source is actually Dr. Walton, whose Ph.D. is in Hebrew and Cognate Studies. He knows the language. And he says that Isa 40:22 refers to a disk, not a sphere. There's another word for that.)

You really ought to take a language course before trying to stress this. Words mean in context. Especially Hebrew words. In fact,forcing the meaning of a word into another context is a fallacy. And, if you look at the world through ANE eyes, the horizon IS a disk. It is a flat circle that...

There is, but whether they were confused or refused to believe (or wanted verification) isn't relevant to whether Jesus just told them that faith was their work to do.

Apparently you aren't familiar with the GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION known as the "ellipsis." You might want to actually check out what someone says before speaking next time: Figures of Speech - Ellipsis (Elliptical Construction) And Jesus still says that this is a work in verse 27, so that...

Do you mean to say that if God doesn't totally control something that He will necessarily fail at anything He does? Or maybe you have a false dichotomy.

Well, let's see... the Old Covenant writers were mostly God's PROPHETS... you know the ones that heard from God and spoke to the people, and if they weren't true prophets, they were stoned to death.... So, yeah, they had a pretty close relationship there.... Solomon... Who was the wisest men...

Yeah, because scripture writers were SO disassociated from God, they would never have any idea what He wants them to write. HYUK, HYUK.

Isa 40:22. The "circle" there refers to a disk, not a sphere.

You seem to be saying that God would be incapable of communicating via human writers without controlling their every move. That doesn't sound like omnipotence to me. And I don't recall in any discussions of inerrancy where every word and structure has to be perfectly controlled by God. Do...

The Jews transition the discussion from what the works Jesus spoke of in verse 27 to asking Jesus for a sign to show that what He claims is true. And this exegetical error is in verse 29.

I was hoping to get through vv27-29 before moving on to the rest of the chapter.