Recent content by Derf

Yes. The story is provided in 2 different passages. 2 Kings 20 first several verses. Isaiah 38:1-5 is the more detailed account. No, I don't, as I already told you. God has given some things into our hands, and we can do well or poorly with those things. Jess talked about this in the parable of...

In other words, God, seeing all the possibilities before He created the universe, prearranged everything that was going to happen? This is standard Calvinism. The problem is that it doesn't square with scripture. Go back to the Hezekiah scenario, where God gave two future possibilities of...

Yes, but I don't see how they apply. Just quoting a verse about scripture does little to help me understand you position. I apologize for a more harshly worded post than I intended, though perhaps you caught the gist better. I guess I don't get the "one accuser" comment. Anyone who writes...

I agree the we's and you's and us's are important, and context is required to know the target groups. But in that chapter and the next Paul makes it clear that he is talking about the church at Corinth and himself...if you actually read the context to glean information from it. He is including...

Mia Love just died of brain cancer at 49. Quote from her on The View appearance: “I’m fully vaccinated, I believe that people should get vaccinated,” Love began, clearly about to share a controversial opinion. “I do believe that federal mandates are a slippery slope. But if New York wants to do...

Which means, of course, that arranged marriages might work just as well as the other kind.

That say what? Removed from context of the discussion, I'm unsure of your point. That you sometimes throw in some references to scripture that don't seem to apply? No need to show me that. Thanks, you too!

See, you didn't find "a" verse.

But not a good association with Macron's "demiurge" theology.

The discussion just has no meaning if man doesn't have free will. Even our whole conversation is pure drivel if man doesn't have free will with which to have such a discussion. But if man has anything from being made in God's image, it's that he, and He, have the ability to will things and bring...

I quoted it specifically because it applied to the conversation. Did you miss the point I made about it? Yes, I know that's how you see those, but my point was that none of the disciples of Christmas ever told anyone in the gospels or epistles that Jesus raised Himself from the dead. So why is...

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John didn't say, "Jesus raised Himself from the dead." What he did was quote Jesus and explain it was about His body as opposed to the brick and mortar temple. John had a chance to say it, but he didn't. He said this (John's commentary in blue): John 2:19-22 KJV — Jesus answered and said unto...

And the place where Peter reappears is when he has to be chastised by Paul for hypocrisy.

I know, but afterward, not one of the new testament writers ever said He raised himself from the dead. If they never did, should it be how we declare the gospel?