7/27/2022 0 Comments Is the Church the "New Israel"?First Opponent Jay:
Even in the Old Testament, it is confirmed ethnic Israel isn’t exclusively the people of God. Think about Ruth, Uriah, Ephraim and Manasseh, etc. But more so than individual examples, see what the Old Testament Scriptures say:
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7/22/2022 0 Comments Oneness V. TrinityFirst Opponent Skunk:
I'd like to invite Daniel (or anyone else of the same persuasion) to the stand, to testify concerning the doctrine of the Oneness of God. Could we find from the Old Testament and the New Testament definite passages that either affirm or oppose the doctrine that says God is only one Being with no paradoxical interpersonal relationship within Himself? And conversely, could we find from the OT and NT definite passages that either affirm or oppose the doctrine of the Trinity (i.e. God is "One yet Three;" God is One yet paradoxically Three distinct Persons)? 7/21/2022 0 Comments The Hebrew TrinityUp until A.D. Second Century, it was the Hebrews' understanding from their Bible that their God is one yet paradoxically three. Yes, they were monotheistic, meaning that they believe that there is only one true self-existent God. At the same time, many of the Hebrews who knew their Bible well were becoming Christians, because they were seeing the clear link between the mysterious appearances of "second Yahweh" in the Bible and the person of Jesus. It was only when the Jewish elders feared losing more of their congregants to the Christian faith that they declared their biblical concept of the "One yet Three" Godhead a heresy. The Hebrew Bible, what we now call the Old Testament, truly prepared the people's minds to accept the arrival of the Messiah as the arrival of God Himself.
7/21/2022 0 Comments Evolution v. genesisMichael:
Evolution is the belief millions of years of death of animals can give man physical life. Christianity is the belief that the RESURRECTION of one sinless man was enough to give us eternal life. Evolution is nothing more than a death cult from Satan to deceive you into believing that the wages of sin is not death, and y’all have been wilfully deceived and fooled from the oldest trick in the book! Jack: Gonna respectfully disagree on this one. I think, when the Bible is properly understood in its Ancient Near Eastern and literary context, there is no conflict between it and any modern theory of human origins. I love and revere the Bible and have dedicated my life to studying it, and, whilst I understand the apparent conflict, there is no true contradiction. I'd recommend John Walton’s "Lost World" book series as well as, "Death in the Garden," a dissertation by Joshua John Van Ee. Skunk: did not God say He created the world in six days? And also that is the reason why God says in six days you shall work but on the seventh day you shall rest? 7/20/2022 0 Comments Battling our temptation1 Dear brothers, I humbly present this post for your courage and support.
I find that I am most susceptible to temptation when I am discouraged. And I am discouraged when I lose sight of the nobler and greater purpose of imitating Christ and become distracted by a seemingly unfair "game over" life event in a fallen world. And my discouragement is caused by just that; it is caused by my confusion in my moral conscience whose job is to constantly sift through things and tell me what (or better, who) is most valuable. |
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