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Playing a bit of the devil's advocate there, actually. Definitely not.

I love it. My favorite sentence in this whole post is.... "I don't know if the grammar of the original language texts would support this, but...." If every Christian tried this hard to both make actual arguments that make sense and displayed even half this much intellectual honesty, the world...

Nevertheless, he was water baptized and does point to himself as the prototype. But it was done as the result of Paul's preaching. Paul brought up baptism and then they got water baptized in Jesus name. Whether he physically did the dunking is a matter of speculation and isn't the point. Well...

Well said. ...or at least it had been up until God said, "Rise Peter, kill and eat." at which point it was no longer. Do you think there is anything to the idea that God had in mind at first to take Paul's gospel, the gospel of salvation through grace apart from the law, to the world through...

I don't disagree but I think where some make a mistake is by neglecting the fact that the Kingdom gospel, as we typically call it, was still being preached by some and believed by many AFTER Acts 9, and when we draw too stark of a line at Acts 9 we open ourselves up to objections that are more...

I agree, the Acts 28 position is more or less ridiculous. But there were people being added to the faith in significant numbers at the preaching the the Twelve AFTER Paul's conversion and so it wouldn't be accurate to draw too stark of a line at Paul's conversion (Acts 9).

Your points do not connect with anything we believe because you do not know what you're talking about. It's hardly your fault though, really. It's paradigm blindness. Your objections are only valid from within your own theological paradigm, which is precisely what is being debated. They call it...

So, in an attempt to turn this thread into a discussion that is actually profitable and interesting.... I happen to be reading through the book of Acts right now and, as you well know, I am definitely a Mid-Acts Dispensationalist. I would, however, stop short of saying that the Acts 13 and Acts...

While the subject of the content and extent of God's knowledge is a perfectly legitimate topic to discuss, I wonder, if there's any sort of knowledge at all, whether experiential or otherwise, that God doesn't know, whether it even makes sense to say that God is all-knowing in the first place...

So what? The quote conveys a principle. Do you seriously not have any idea how such a principle can be applied in more than one situation? Yeah, or any other situation in which the principle applies! You can't possibly be this stupid! Then again, you don't seem to know how to use a search...

Seriously? Would you like a refresher course on how to use Google? "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000 Asked and answered.

By those who stand to benefit from it and who have a personal interest in how the money is spent. "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell...

This is, frankly, naive. If only scientists were so honest! Consensus based on facts is the way it is supposed to work, but if you think that modern science isn't up to its neck in politics, you need to wake up. There are at least three major aspects of modern science that are severely...

There's lots of evidence! First of all, just to give one piece of evidence myself and in my own words, the concept of spacetime is tied directly to what is called the isotropic constancy of the speed of light. This property of light is very weird. Most people do not understand it so let me...

I saw it. It's a catchy headline but there isn't anyway that mainstream science is coming within a million light years of accepting the idea that space/time isn't a real thing that expands and contracts depending on which way something moves and that somehow "curves" to create gravity (curves in...

You sound like a new age nut, was the point!

So what are you even doing here if you aren't going to discuss things with people?

Nonsense from the beginning to end. Science isn't beginning to say that time doesn't exist! The whole of modern cosmology is predicated on the idea that time does exist and that space and time are the same thing. Yeah, the first half of my life was spent thinking about Einstein's theories. He...

Events occur and objects exist but that isn't what time is nor does it require time for those things to happen, except in terms of the CONCEPT of time. Time is not what allows things to happen, existence is what allows things to happen but the duration and sequence of events and the location of...

Man! That guy sure knows how to turn a phrase. I love it when people say so much in a single sentence like that!