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The law was always under-girded by grace because it was not possible to follow the law flawlessly and so it isn't just many Jews, it's every single Jew that was ever saved was saved ultimately by grace. The difference, however, is in what afforded them that grace; under what circumstances was...

She doesn't care what God said. She only cares about the emotion that the subject of divorce wells up inside her. It is a barrier that cannot be overcome by any amount of reason. God HIMSELF could not persuade her, as the passage you quote it proof of. She's entrenched and has chosen this hill...

Well, this is the problem you run into when you are in the habit of not taking the text for what it seems to be saying. Go and find a young kid, something like 10 or 12 years old and read him the passage in John 4 and see what he thinks is going on. He doesn't have the life experience needed to...

According to you maybe but not according the the law. As I said before, marriage is more than just having sex with someone. Marriage is a legal proceeding where one's legal status is altered. An adulteress is not married to her lover and neither is a fornicator. John 4:17 The woman answered...

My brain is broken. 🤪

I have said, quite accurately and repeatedly that there IS NO PROHIBITION in the law for a man to take back a divorced wife so long as she has not married another man and so your dismissing God's own use of the divorce imagery, not as a threat but as something that has already taken place...

I don't understand what it is you think a doctrine is other than "an opinion concerning whether God [fill in the blank]". In any case, it is what I was referring to. I have already conceded and readily so that it is a metaphor. It is a metaphor that God Himself uses to communicate something...

Not much to say in response here except that I can't imagine anyone wanting to read a book written by me. I wouldn't know what to write about that better men haven't already written.

Excellent verse. I added the word "mortal" to my post to add clarity.

AMEN! We are identified in God Himself! No need for ANY priest. No mortal mediator of any kind. We are hidden in Him and the Holy Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf.

Anyone care to take bets on whether Idolater will concede that Lon failed to "rule out MAD" as he claimed would happen? What's amusing (to me at least) is that by Idolaters own non-MAD premise, the book of Hebrews crushes Catholic doctrines and practices concerning their priesthood and that...

EXCELLENT POST!

That is what the Calvinists call "permissive will" which just means "everything that actually happens". So, according the the Calvinist there is.... 1. God's "perfect will" which is what God wants or would prefer to have happen. 2. God's "permissive will" which is what actually happens. The...

So you're saying that God doesn't desire to fix the sin problem? That it wasn't God's desire to send His Son to die? I'm not talking about "desire" is some sort of sensual sense. God desires righteousness and justice and He desires to be merciful. He did NOT desire to be merciful at the expense...

I do not deny sticking stubbornly to the policy of allowing the bible to mean what it says and conforming my doctrinal beliefs around that. The doctrine that insists that God did not divorce Israel. That's obviously the case. The point is, why? What is it that is motivating that difference of...

They were the mosquitos that transmitted the pagan Greek mind virus into the Christian population.

I don't even understand what your question is, Lon. It seems to me that you need to redefine "God's will" away from whatever it currently is in your mind to "what God desires", which is what it actually means. Once you've done that answering the following questions becomes easy and...

Not sure you used the right word there. "Decimated" means "reduced by 1/10th", not obliterated out of existence. Also, there's good reason to believe that a remnant of those tribes have survived.

I don't think you're correct on the point about any Calvinist insisting on "one will, nothing else". One of the first places I can recall being exposed to this "perfect" vs. "permissive" will as it was termed at the time was in a Sunday school class where the teacher was the hardest core...

It seems at this point that you are just being stubborn, preferring to believe your doctrine over the text of scripture. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked and yet they die all the time and He Himself has killed a great many of them and so your argument about God hating divorce...