Your distaste for this parable may be due to a misunderstanding. The "Rich man" and "Lazarus" are not individual people. Consider this very brief explanation.
Jesus Christ was speaking to his disciples in the present of the Pharisees and scribes prior to the account at Luke 16:19-31. The...
You say the Church fell into "apostacy"? When did that happen [iow dates], who did it [names], and what's your source other than maybe from a certain denomination?
Secondly, did Jesus lie or make an error when he said that he would guide his Church through the end of time? There are 109...
Would it surprise us if the hypocrites said, they are not hypocrites?
I can just hear the Pharisees telling Jesus, “We are Abraham’s offspring and never have been slaves to anyone. How is it you say, ‘You will become free’?” (John8:33) “We were not born from immorality; we have one Father...
And you take that as saying Exodus never happened?
That's clutching at straws.
The Jews were talking about THEMSELVES. They all
believed they had been in slavery - two or three times by
then and a million or so were about to go back to Egypt
as slaves within 40 years.
The Jews say they were never slaves to any man.
John8:33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
Further more Isaiah 58, it speaks of "break every yoke":
Is there not the song, Would you be free from the Burden of Sin [1 John 3:4]?
This was why there was to be no Burdens borne upon the 7th Day Sabbath day of God, for the Day is the Sign of freedom from the burden of Sin!
And it came to...
Yeah, this is the problem. I quoted the scripture, and you simply choose to think otherwise than what it plainly said. The "burden", and "bondage" is sin.
There are two yokes, the Yoke of Jesus Christ, and His ways, or the yoke of the devil, and his.
Those which laboured, laboured under the...
Paul wrote about the mysteries... aka, the deep things...
Did you think it was a coincidence that Jesus uses the same Greek word in Revelation, but calls them the deep things of Satan?
If so, you're sadly not alone, Spartan.
Your list is dead wrong, BTW...
I've taken it out of your post, in...
A) Hi Tigger2
1) GRAMMATICAL RULES VERSUS TRANSLATOR BIAS
I very much agree with you that a translator will use their own personal context which affects their translation. This is a point @Oeste makes, (though it works against the trinitarian theology as much as it does for it). An...
Maybe I was unclear (a common problem these days). I was specifically referring to the exceptions to clear article use: especially those 'prepositional' examples which cause irregular article use or nonuse. These exceptions could also include abstract nouns, personal names, etc.
We can see...
That adds in nicely, although it is not Hebrew and is written in AD. How can they be set free if they aren't slaves? How can they be slaves if they are actually free? How can it be the body of Christ if its bread, and how can it be his blood if its wine? In John 8:35 he highlights a previous...
I suppose.
John8:33 33They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
I agree with the ^ above^ because in the previous chapter (John 7:11-32) opinions varied about Jesus - John 7:12.
The people had concerns out of widespread fear of the reaction of the Jewish religious leaders.
Those leaders in the previous year they wanted to kill Jesus for healing on the...
Hi @DavidMcCann
Thanks for your post. Back in 1964 Eric Berne wrote his classic book the games people.
Games People Play (book) - Wikipedia
It looks at the psychology of relationships and how people get stuck in unhealthy or unhelpful dialogues that are ultimately problematic for both...
There were some Jews of Israel who were into going after other gods.
But the true Jews of Israel worship only the true God of Israel.
But the question is, which Jews of Israel?
Even Christ Jesus denounce those Jews of Israel, That came to him saying, They answered him, We be Abraham's seed...
Look Christ Jesus gave so we would know, who the good fig tree Represents and who the bad fig tree Represents.
Unless you don't believe Christ Jesus.
When Jesus curse the fig tree, who do you suppose Jesus was actually cursing ?
Mark 11:13 - 21. Jeremiah Chapter 24
In John8:33 - 47.
Who do...
Yes King David was a begotten son of God.
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the...
Wrong again.
King David was not a begotten son of God. There is only ONE begotten son of God - Jesus Christ.
John 3:18, 'He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.'
The Jews...