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“Best practices for internet voting are like best practices for drunk driving” – there’s no safe way to do either one." I do not disagree with that point. I recant my earlier post.

As far as this issue is concerned it doesn't even matter whether the vision recorded in Revelation was of a literal city, with literally twelve foundations, each with the literal names of the twelve apostles, literally written on them, or not. The point is that there is no biblical reason to...

That's an interesting thought! The answer is that it very likely could do exactly that. The block chain system is quite good at ensuring that a particular digital item, whether it be a digital coin, piece of art work, or a vote, is completely unique and the fact that votes are counted very...

What b57 is trying to teach here is that God is arbitrary. Go ahead, ask him! He won't deny it. “God is moved to mercy for no other reason but that he wills to be merciful.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 22, Paragraph 8) “… predestination to glory is the...

Before they were born, yes, but not before they existed. You'll end up giving away the whole farm to the Calvinist here if you aren't careful.

Okay, so you're post was really long and so I wanted to bring special attention to this particular point for fear that it would get lost in the length of your post. What a great response to Derf's argument! It shows a familiarity with the text that I envy. Great job! Clete

God cannot see what will happen in the future. Therefore, God is not omniscient. YES! It is! And what do we know about the self-contradictory? In other words, don't stop your mind at that point. What does the fact that its self-contradictory mean you should do with that idea except to declare...

It is surely your doctrine that prevents you from seeing it. The text of scripture is clear as can be. There is NOTHING in the bible, whatsoever, that would suggest anything other than that Matthias replaced Judas - nothing. You're stretching here. It doesn't make any difference how many people...

Interesting question. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any reason why there would have to have been a hard dead line. I'm content with believing that there was a transitional period when the growth of the Kingdom was diminishing while the growth of the Body of Christ was increasing. If...

Canonical MADism? I'm pretty sure there isn't any such thing. There are details in Stam's teachings that I might quibble with and that are debatable. For example, while he was certainly a Pauline Dispensationalist, I don't know whether he believed that the dispensation of grace started in Acts...

The fact that they had some contact with and perhaps even preached to Gentiles isn't an issue for me. It's what they preached and why that would be an issue. If, Peter ended up in Rome for some reason and he was telling people there about Jesus then, so long as he was teaching doctrine that was...

This might have already been answered and so forgive me if this is redundant but the resurrected Jesus transferred His authority to the remaining Apostles so that they could act in His absence, even to the point of remitting or retaining a person's sins. John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again...

Why Mid-Acts Dispensationalism is clearly the superior systematic theology.... There are actually several reasons but one of the most elegant arguments I know of is the ability to read the bible and take it to mean what it says. There are, of course, lots of places where the bible is written in...

An honest answer. I like it!

Matthew 19:28 So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 22:30 that you may eat and drink at My table in My...

You don't think that Paul explicitly separating himself from the Twelve and agreeing with them that his ministry would be to the gentiles while the Twelve ministered to Israel is relevant to that discussion? No, it isn't. It's based on the following facts... Paul, then Saul, was in the...

His COMPLETE lack of ANY argument either in favor of his doctrine or in rebuttal to ours is telling. If he could make an argument, twelve legions of angels couldn't keep his ego from showing it off.

In what conceivable way is that argument circular? Did Jesus not spend years training His apostles? Did Jesus give the Twelve the "Great Commission" or didn't He? Where not ALL TWELVE of the apostles (i.e. including the newly added, Matthias) filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost? Where...

What? John's ministry (along with the rest of the Twelve and James (i.e. the writer of the book of James) was toward BELIEVING members of the nation of Israel. Their writings will become primary, as Paul's are now, when the Body of Christ is removed at the rapture and Christ turns again toward...

Bitcoin and other "blockchain tech" is definitely not going to last. Certainly not in its current form anyway. There was a NFT piece of art that sold for $69,000,000 that I have right now on my hard drive without having to pay a penny for it. All I did was download it. I'm talking about the...