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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...

This one example clarifies so many "givens" about how the apostles quoted the OT: A great example of NT using OT. Lk 22 quoting Is 56 re the house of prayer. This passage is quoted and used because the house of prayer was the one that came to be after the exile and during the NT. So when...

In Rom 9:8, Paul explains that the Abraham's descendants (NIV offspring) are those who believe the promise and the object of belief is Christ, because Christ was the Seed. The term for that group is 'sperma'. Those born the natural way are 'sarkos.' The 'sperma' can be from any nation and are...

I'd like to cycle through these propositions with people here. We did #1 last week. Please move on to #2. 1, Rom 11 is prodding not prediction 2, Gal 3:17 is the true RT issue 3, Isaiah shifted David's promises 4, Acts 26 is the true shape of Israel's outcome 5, The "people" of the parable of...

Up to 130 whales at a time have been sited over the past week near the Farallon Islands, N. California. The schools of krill have been very healthy, obviously. This can't be true. Ehrlich said the planet would be dead in 1990 and still has his chair at Stanford. Al Gore adjusted this by a...

...That's why the ethnicity doesn't matter. What matters is faith in the Gospel, Gal 3's 2nd paragraph. It was Judaism that later made the issue to be ethnicity.

[I started this thread over at Religion when I didn't understand how the categories work here. My apologies. It's title missed the word "marriage" so I think I've missed comment from lots of people. the last comment there realized that the petition would force churches to declare whether they...

Everyone in theological study should spend a year learning how the NT quotes/uses the OT. There are about 2500 instances. A short list can be compiled by going through the footnotes of the NIV. The complete list will be found in Metzger's ABS Greek text. When you've completed this year...

Half way through this response to the supreme court decision on SS marriage, Pastor Hibbs claims homosexuality will become violent. I have a hard time believing much can get through our existing laws about assault and injury but if you think I'm naive, let me know. Just look at where sexual...

Petition text (copy and start in your US county if you live in one): To further keep the state from 'establishing a religion' (1st Amendment), churches should be allowed to grant marriage licenses, not the state. A couple who wishes to be married should follow a churches beliefs and practices...