The Oneness Pentecostals are coming out of the woodwork. They are entirely worthless wastes of time to try to debate. You might as well try to debate race issues with a member of the Yehweh Ben Yehweh cult.
Bob Enyart had five rules for spanking. I can remember several of them but I’m missing one.
1. Have clearly defined rules
2. No yelling
3. Do not spank with your hand
4. After letting the child calm down, speak with them looking to see if they’re repentant. If not, spank them again.
Which one...
So, I'll take that as a, "No, I don't ever answer questions directly."
Here's a question that you will answer directly and without qualification before I'd ever be willing to pay any attention to you whatsoever....
Is Jesus Christ THE God?
I've done that repeatedly already and you act like I'm changing the subject, imply that the concept I'm talking about is absent from your bible and then cite the very concept that I'm trying to tell you that your ignoring and then implying that RightDivider and I are the one's who aren't...
You seem to be woefully out of practice.
You don't seem to understand how to have a rational discussion! You do understand that this entire discussion is still here and available for everyone to see, right?
See posts 222 and 223
I think I agree but it depends on your intent.
If you are here speaking of salvation as the "win" then you've turned Paul's race analogy into a way of turning his entire ministry upside down and backward. Paul was not teaching legalism. Your salvation does NOT depend on how well you run in a...
I'm simply saying what I've said all along. You simply don't get to ignore the context of a passage and expect to understand it correctly. The context has direct bearing on the meaning and application of any passage. That's true throughout all of language.
Then what were you suggesting, Chrys...
All of them have the concept though. All of them - including the original!
The original Greek word is ὀρθοτομέω. Literally is mean to cut straight or to cut correctly. It is an idiomatic expression that mean to make a correct distinction or to handle properly.
The words may be different but...