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It has a lot to do with whether the source of said
news is reliable.
I don't see it as coherent or reliable.
Using what as your standard of measurement?

Science?
 
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Unless or until you try to apply that "love neighbour" bit.

How would the golden rule apply to nailing your slave's
ear to the door frame?
God gave you a brain and intended for you to use it.
 
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God gave you a brain and intended for you to use it.

So some say.
Others say that God tells them.

Has either approach given anyone the
True meaning of the words, or how to apply
them?
 
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So some say.
Others say that God tells them.

Has either approach given anyone the
True meaning of the words, or how to apply
them?
Two simple commands sum up everything in the law, everything we are instructed to do. If we just get these two commands right we have covered everything
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Mar 12:28


Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving Mar 12:29


Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Mar 12:30

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’Mar 12:31

“And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[fn] There is no other commandment greater than these.”

I know people who are not Christians who do a better job at loving their neighbors than I do. If we ever got that one right we could quit fighting about everything else. The best sermons are what you do, not what you say.

 
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You want a clear plan?

Here it is ...

1 John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Nineteen one-syllable words.

No Latin phrases.

No Greek gobbledygook.

No technobabble.

No college cliches.

No "blue wall of text".

Just nineteen one-syllable words.

In English.

No wonder academians can't understand it.
OK, so the long, strange, convoluted bible, that doesn't make sense, is redundant. Drop it in the round file :ebil:
 
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inquiring mind

and a discerning heart
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If they meant something different than a "day" they should have used a different word. Like "era" or similar.
God’s ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9)… but, I guess His time is (Ecclesiastes 3:11)???
 
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