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He's equal parts arrogant and dishonest. I truly am baffled by such people. I mean, if this were a discussion forum about Corvette restoration or breeding Rottweilers, it would be different, but I simply cannot imaging treating issues that effect one's eternal soul with the hypocrisy, willful...

Your point here is quite valid except that I'm pretty certain that "nacham" does not mean, nor has it ever meant, "to sigh". נָחַם (nacham) does not mean “to sigh.” Here is the scholarly, linguistic, and historical basis for that conclusion: 📚 1. Lexical Consensus All authoritative Hebrew...

Nor were either of them the James who wrote the book of James. Both the Gal. 2 James and the biblical author was the James who was the brother of Jesus and who was not only, BY FAR, the James that most people are referring to when they simply mention "James" but who was also NOT an apostle...

Why? What's the difference between a "modern colloquialism" and any other aspect of modern language? The answer to that question is NOTHING! "Modern colloquialism" is just the term you're assigning a certain set of sounds we use to communicate a particular idea that you don't want for the...

James was not an apostle. There was an apostle named James but he's not the one who was the leader of the church in Jerusalem and the one who wrote the book of James and was the one being spoken of when Paul mentions "men from James". (Gal. 2:12).

Just do the first ten. Well, that and number 100.

Okay, here's one more revamp of my reading list. I was looking through the list this morning and realized that there are a few redundancies that I didn't want in there and so I had those replaced with something distinct. Here's the revised list. Hopefully, this will be a final version! :cool...

Paul's existence as an Apostles doesn't even make sense from anything other than a Mid-Acts Dispensational perspective. Jesus already had twelve apostles that He Himself personally trained and commissioned to go to the whole world, which they DID NOT DO.

This line of thinking sounds like Oneness Pentecostalism or even Arianism. It certainly is not sound theology. Christ is treated like a created visible form that God puts on like a suit, which collapses the Trinity where “God,” “Father,” “Jesus,” and “the Image” are used interchangeably, as if...

I wonder what it's like going through one's life intentionally hitting the reset button on your mind so as not to have to deal with clear arguments and sound reason and to lie TO YOURSELF so you can go on believing whatever it is you desire to believe in spite of being shown that its very...

That's right and words are the symbols we use to name concepts. It's more complicated than just that though because the concept a word names changes depending on how the word it used. You’re making a mistake about what language is and what words are for and I suspect that you're doing so on...

@Lon, Answer this for me before we continue... What is the purpose of language? What function do words perform?

Is that really what you consider to be a convincing argument?

So, I had most of a really long version of the following post written up in my usual format, where I respond to each segment of the post as it comes along, but it was really getting to be a bit much, even for me, so I ran it through GPT and had it condense my post into what I've posted below...

It isn't literal in the sense that you swap out one mind for a different mind but that stupidity isn't even worth the time it takes to say it. To change your mind simply means to alter your way of thinking, your intention, your goal. If you think "A" and now think "not A", you've changed your...

Well, yes and no... As I mentioned, there are three main versions of these churches: Church of Christ – extremely conservative Independent Christian Church – conservative but less rabidly so (this is the kind I grew up in) Christian Church – Disciples of Christ – extremely liberal Doctrinal...

What Happens When You Don’t Rightly Divide: The Case of the Church of Christ

The Church of Christ and its close cousin, the independent Christian Church (as well as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), which is just a super-liberal version of the others) come out of the 19th-century “Restoration Movement”. Their stated goal was to "restore the New Testament...

There is a word in Hebrew that means "to change one's mind". That word is 'Nacham'... The Hebrew verb נָחַם (nacham) is commonly translated as repent, relent, or be sorry, and literally carries the idea of a change of mind, regret, or emotional reversal. When applied to God, it clearly...

Well, just remember that every generation of Christianity going all the way back to Paul himself believed that they were living in the end times. The fact is that the pendulum has swung back and forth a few times over the centuries. For me, the biggest clue that we may really be near the end...