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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...

You're hysterics won't get you anywhere other than on my ignore list. The reason you aren't smart enough to know what energy is, is because you think its a thing instead of an idea. Energy is simply action and reaction. The reason a scientist will tell you that energy is work, is because that's...

Yes, very much so. Stupidity. Is this really how you do theology? Is this really the process you used to form your doctrine? If so, there is no wild-eyed insanity that is outside the grasp of your belief system. Romans 1:20 is referencing the obviously designed nature of the created order...

I have a really hard time believing that you don't understand the difference between an idea and something that exists independently. Let's take it step by step though... There can be no such thing as either language or semantics without logic and so no, neither of those things precede logic...

How about if Jesus Himself says so? Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. That's one of four separate times that Jesus refers to Himself in this exact manner.

"Pure Energy"? Terrific 1980s song! The "pure energy" line is a sample of something Spock said in the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy" (S1 E26) (Click the link above to hear the song!) That too would depend on just what you mean by "energy", which can actually get quite complicated and...

You guys are talking about two different kinds of "light". God is not electromagnetic radiation.

Saying it doesn't make it so, CCoburn. Not only can there not be any truth without reason because the concept of truth is predicated on reason but there isn't any way to know ANYTHING at all without reason because knowing IS reason. Even if you didn't think it through in formal terms or even in...