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Well, I was talking about the early Acts period, which, obviously, is after the death and resurrection and the point at which the Fig Tree had been "fertilized" by the giving of the Holy Spirit (see Luke 13:6-9). The official rejection of Christ as their risen Messiah didn't happen until about a...

Had Israel not rejected their Messiah, God would have sent Jesus back and given Israel her Kingdom, just as Peter preached in Acts 3. Acts 3:18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be...

This gave me a chuckle. Not because it's stupid or anything like that but because once you see it, the teaching isn't just taught somewhere in the bible, its everywhere! It's so pervasive that it seems to be on every page! And I'm not exaggerating! You're quite right, by the way! There's lots...

Well, yeah, it really is. I've been a Mid-Acts Dispensationalists for decades and nothing you said comes within a mile of touching a thing I believe about anything. It's just a regurgitation of your doctrine stated within the context of a discussion about something that almost seems to be...

The above post is simply ridiculous. It's just a bunch of nonsensical rationalizing to preserve your own doctrine. It doesn't even read as though it were in response to anything dispensationalists teach! You are either totally ignorant of what you're talking about or you're just being dishonest...

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Saying it doesn't make it so, Psychlo. Think it through. Imagine a scenario where someone gets killed by someone else. While I'm sure that someone might be able to concoct a hypotheitical scenario where everything is identical except for the motive but that wouldn't ever happen in real life...

Yes, I think so. I've been talking about reason per se, whereas you've been talking about the use of it - or lack thereof. My point is simply that people, as rational creatures, CAN correctly use reason if they choose to do so.

I get your point but its a bad example. James was teaching law to believing Jews who were under the law and "zealous for the law". Acts 21:18 On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. 19 When he had greeted them, he told in detail those things which...

When the bible speaks of "the heart", it is speaking about the mind. EVERYTHING volitional act you perform, whether thought, word or deed, comes from your mind. Since any moral action is a volitional action, by definition, then it follows that all of what could be considered righteousness or sin...

Reason is man's ONLY tool of knowledge. Reason is a faculty that man has to exercise by choice. Man can choose to either use reason or not, which means he can choose to think or not to think. Thinking is not an automatic function. In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to...

This is just so wrong, it's hard to even put into words! I'd love to know by what process of thought you came to such a conclusion. Define "perfect"? Perfect, by what standard? Define "perfect" in the absolute sense. Exactly! He wasn't finished! Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, “It is...

This is further evidence that we are not as far apart as it may seem! One thing, however... I think you overstated things when you said "sin isn't in the action, but in the heart." There are dozens of scriptures along these lines but here's just a few.... Proverbs 24:12 If you say, “Surely...

I'm saying that this question makes no sense given the topic of discussion. Replace "reasoning" with something else and maybe the point will be more clear. Say, riding a bicycle, for example. Some people are better at it than others. You seem to be suggesting that we are born with one leg 20...

Issues like what?

Evident? What evidence do you have that God's CAPACITY to reason exceeds our own. Define your terms and explain what evidence you have that our capacity to reason diminished? You seem to be talking about something other than an ability to think properly. You seem to be talking about...

I wonder what percentage of Messianic Jews are saved? I know that nearly all of them more or less ignore Paul as far as their regular relgious practice goes and that, therefore, they're up to their eyeballs in legalism but that's not a terrible description of the church I attended as a child!

Perhaps, but I have no evidence to suggest that I've been exposed, although I really don't know how I could have avoided it. My wife has had it at least once, perhaps twice and my oldest daughter had long COVID and still to this day hasn't fully recovered her sense of taste. In addition to that...

In what way is it a mischaracterization? You directly implied that Paul lied when he "made the assertion" that Jesus "gave him a different mission" (to use your terminology). That's blatant heresy by ANY definition of the word! You've just thrown practically the entire Christian faith right out...

Is it weird that I haven't ever gotten COVID?