Recent content by Derf

And not to be a pest, but I don't see the application in the vineyard passage for eternal suffering. The part I bolded talks of "Sheol", but it fits as a term that means "the grave", meaning that while the people have gone into captivity (Babylon), men have become famished (from a siege), and...

I'm not disagreeing with you on this, but I have been thinking through some of these things. Are you saying that the "kingdom of heaven" passages are talking about post-millenium timeframe and not millenium timeframe? I (possibly wrongly) thought that Mid-Acts treats those as millenial, and that...

Why was that necessary if he had already been declared righteous? (Gen 15:6, as you pointed out) And he was already known to be faithful extending to his family? i.e., it didn't appear to be because of the interrupted sacrifice of Isaac that Abraham was faithful thereafter. Genesis 18:19 KJV —...

If he's weak, (aren't we all in some way?) then other Christians have a responsibility to not throw temptations in his face, right? We don't take a dry alcoholic to a bar, etc.

My point was to consider HOW God hardened Pharaoh's heart--not by magic fairy dust, but by doing things He knew would get a negative reaction from Pharaoh, based in His knowledge of that particular Pharaoh's inclinations. To me, it's the only way it makes sense both that God hardened Pharaoh's...

Ah, so you're saying it was not related to any of the previous posts? It's hard to tell, because some people get so triggered with everything so quickly.

Who's accusing anyone of being hostile?

I remembered the comparison of rebellion to witchcraft (which Saul faithfully eradicated in his early years as king), but not stubbornness to idolatry.

Lol! I call that the "door/window fallacy", not because anyone else in the whole world would recognize the term, but because when my kids were little, they would argue like that, and I tried to show them what it was like by imagining two people arguing, one pointing to the door, saying, "That is...

I'm going one step further, because miracles may produce unbelief in a hard heart, ie, someone who is already against the thing the miracle is promoting, which would certainly include Pharaoh, but miracles also produce belief, like when the man with the son whose demon would throw him into the...

How would someone actually cause entrenchment in someone else? I ask because our church is going through Exodus and talking about God hardening Pharaoh's heart. I don't think it's necessarily difficult, but I'm not sure of all of the technique. For instance, I think Pharaoh had magicians who...

1 Samuel 15:23 KJV — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Irrational truth: i**2=-1

Do you have a link to the debate?

You’ve omitted the more obvious option, that the Son of Man is creating new creations (new believers) from existing people and the devil is making people to be like him. There’s no need to assume the people are just now becoming humans. No, I don’t see that implied there at all. Here’s where...