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A news item yesterday says Kerry called the Chattanooga shooter a perverted jihadist. Why use two words when you could use one? But more important, was he just trying to retrieve votes lost for 8 years of mumbling by BO?

[When I first wrote this I went down the wrong trail. I meant to express what is now in the OP: that Rom 2 is one of the major indicators that Paul thought the worldwide day of judgement was right after the horrible events about to happen in Judea. I hope I didn't lose too many with the other...

As you can tell from the expression 'being born again' (even in the text!) it is an image; it is not the actual, literal thing he was talking about. Even Nic asked him about that, and found out he was using a figure of speech. There are two parts of salvation: 1, the work of God in Christ in...

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There is no distinction any more between Jew and Gentile. Paul said that there was wrath upon Israel in the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and wrath upon the rest of the nations after that. This is consistent with what Mt 24 etc said. He did not think there would be a delay between them...

If someone can show where the truth of the Bible or God, according to the apostles, finally rests on a view of a future Israel, please do! In Romans, that is never the thing that resolves this problem, or question. The question is resolved in the belief that Christ fulfilled what was promised...

Please post any links on this. He said he had Ohio constitutional right not to do any marriages at all. I only saw the item on Fox text crawler last night.

#6 of 10. The previous was: Acts 26 shapes Israel's outcome. [re threaded with a TITLE this time; it seems to help get people involved!] #6: The "people" of Mt 21's vineyard workers parable who receive the kingdom are the church, the honest, actual believers, no matter their race, education...

#6 of 10. The previous was: Acts 26 shapes Israel's outcome. #6: The "people" of Mt 21's vineyard workers parable who recieve the kingdom are the church, the honest, actual believers, no matter their race, education, gender, tribe or tongue. The term used is surprisingly 'ethnei' which is...

"Anger must be the right kind and the right amount at the right person at the right time." --Dr. D. Seamands When James 1 says human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God, what context is this? What does the context say a person would have been angry about?

Paul could have saved himself a lot of trouble by saying that there was another round for Israel as such in Acts 26. But he didn't. He couldn't. Instead he says that the hope of Israel is already fulfilled in the resurrection, which is what he said in 13's sermon. And he's still trying to...

If the place/authority of Scripture, including the place of the NT over the OT, is not established, what is the point of claiming a certain position to be Christian? Anything means everything is Christian. Our dark world is brute statisticism: if some Christians do something then it is...

The NT proof that Christ was Messiah and the Gospel and the new David is in Isaiah. Acts 13's sermon quotes Isaiah showing God saying he would give the promises of David to Christ. But before that, in Acts 2, we have: David was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that (God)...

My Gift to Icelanders A UN poll recently asked Icelanders what they believe in. 90% of them said all they believe in is themselves. I would like to help them out. If I met someone who only believed in themselves, here are the top ten things I would like them to know: 1, tectonic geologists...

A recent radio sermon on Acts 19 shows what happens when people don't really know what the NT means by kingdom of God. The pastor, though not a national broadcast, said that Paul sometimes uses this kingdom of God expression to mean the spiritual realm and sometimes to mean heaven. This...

NT eschatology is either about the 1st century situation in Judea OR about a distant future final day of judgement. At first, the two parts were not separated at all. In Luke (chronicling and compiling for Paul) ch 21 allows no separation. Everything I find in Paul makes it sound quite soon...

If you can't be at rallies in NYC and LA, protest the agreement by letters to reps online. >Most if not all of his military advisers disapprove. >We don't have money for things like this, not when the national debt has doubled already due to BO spending. >Iran is considered a state that...

Paul's theology at its core is dealing with what Judaism replaced. Nevermind the title 'stoicheia tou kosmou' for the moment, he does show in Gal 3:17 that Judaism (as he was taught) voided and replaced the Promise (of the Gospel) with the Law. Meaning, all blessing promised was to arrive in and...

Recent discussion of I Cor 7 reminded me that yet again, there was a very strong apostolic belief that the end of the world was coming right up. Paul wishes to spare believers from grief (not marital conflict, but the grief of loss) because of the difficulties ahead in their lifetime. I...

A recent discussion of Isaac's birth (and the type of miracle which produced him) lead me to the question: even if descendency was not broken by the miracle conception, what was Abraham before he believed? As far as I know he was Persian. further proof to me that once a person has faith as...