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Search results for query: "Malachi 2"

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  1. WonderingWorrier

    Mystery Babylon Identified Using Just Two Verses

    You have put wilderness as desert and waste places. So reading the verse as all being the same thing, rather than being about separate things. Can you show any other supporting verses that they are all the same thing? So what is the difference between Wilderness like Eden, and Eden like...
  2. 2

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    The difference is that the LORD knew Esau/Edom from the foundations of the earth, and knew his and his seed's end, and apparently things didn't and won't end as well for that family line as they might have hoped. Keep in mind that the Arabs claim to be of Ishmael, but their native homeland was...
  3. Elihoenai

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Malachi 1 1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons...
  4. WonderingWorrier

    The Curse of the Law.

    Maybe instead of escaping it we could confront it. So what would happen to the curse if the blessings were found to be saying the same things as the curses, and the curses were saying the same things as the blessings? As even the blessings have been cursed: If ye will not hear, and if ye...
  5. John D. Brey

    The Curse of the Law.

    If you like the paradoxical nature of the Law, then you'd probably like Daniel Boyarin's essay, Was Paul and Antisemite? In the essay Professor Boyarin argues that Paul's belief was that if you "do the Law" you will not fulfill the Law, since living by faith is the fulfillment of the Law, while...
  6. WonderingWorrier

    The Curse of the Law.

    The Law is both a blessing and a curse. It is not about accepting or rejecting the law. It is about understanding the law. If the commands are understood correctly then it is a blessing and leads towards. But if the commands are not understood correctly then it is a curse and leads away...
  7. nPeace

    Does Atheism Lead to Immoral Behavior?

    You only say this because you are atheist, and that causes you to oppose anything remotely truthful about God. The atheist simply will not allow himself to consider anything that would threaten his desire to not believe in God. I don't expect you to accept anything reasonable, lest it forces...
  8. dybmh

    With bafflement upon bafflement!

    @Redemptionsong , Since you haven't replied this morning, I'm thinking maybe you're finished debating. If so, it's time to tally up the results: Spiritual Blindness vs. Spiritual Hallucinations. Spiritual Blindness: Post #21: Psalm 22 is about the crucifixion? Yes, it's similar to the...
  9. dybmh

    With bafflement upon bafflement!

    And that's how idols are made... ;) Not really... if Christ is salvation, these words are describing zealotry. Salvation is not zealotry, two totally different concepts/archetypes. Just ask yourself, does salvation kill? But... but .... you skipped verse 4 :p. "... My covenant be with Levi...
  10. Redemptionsong

    With bafflement upon bafflement!

    Seeing Christ in the various types and figures of scripture is important. In Numbers 25;12,13 you have two verses that could easily be applied directly to Jesus: 'Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an...
  11. Dogknox20

    Baptism in Christianity

    Fool So you say.... Christians have always believed Baptism makes us God' children! Baptism washes away sins! Mark 1:4 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Luke 3:3 He went into all the country around the Jordan...
  12. Fool

    Baptism in Christianity

    everything is already god's because is the creator, the father of all being baptized makes you aware of what already is, not what might be possible our father doesn't require a baptism. it only requires a recognition of the hallowed named mentioned in the same prayer. malachi 2:10 acts 17:28
  13. David Davidovich

    What is the Jewish Understanding of Exodus 6:3, YHWH, G-d, and Hashem?

    But, @Ehav4Ever, the regular Jehovah's Witnesses get all their information from a group of 7 or 8 men called the governing body aka the faithful and discreet slave who claim to be anointed with holy spirit and who will go to heaven (most JWs aren't, but only a few of them are) who live at...
  14. paarsurrey

    A question for the Jehovah's Witnesses

    " God is a spirit " A wrong Hellenist-Pauline notion, it seems, please. Right? All spirits are creation of G-d, G-d is the Creator not the created, I understand, please. Right? Regards
  15. tigger2

    A question for the Jehovah's Witnesses

    God is a spirit person (see New Bible Dictionary - p. 427), which means that he does not have a material body, but a spiritual one: We read, “If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one” (1 Cor. 15:44; John 4:24). God, being an individual, a person with a spirit body, has a...
  16. stvdv

    Malachi 2:16

    If verses makes no sense to me, I try reading between the lines and try seeing the non literal meaning of it . God does not "hate divorce", so naturally something else is meant. This is one of the interesting verses, where people who are taking things literally totally might miss the point...
  17. Brickjectivity

    Malachi 2:16

    I agree with this statement from the above link: ...But we should stop saying that God hates divorce as this is may well be misquoting and misrepresenting scripture. Moreover, pronouncing that “God hates divorce” brings only hurt, confusion, and feelings of condemnation to Christians who are...
  18. Rival

    Malachi 2:16

    Christian Bibles differ hugely with each other on this and the LXX also has a different reading than most of those other Bible translations come up with based on the Masoretic Text. One can imagine certain translation choices were made with Matthew 5:31-32 in mind.
  19. Harel13

    Malachi 2:16

    For starters, "I" isn't there. It's "he hates etc" and then switches to "said the Lord God of Israel", and then again third person referral and then "said the Lord of Hosts". I suppose the understanding in your link that "he hates - [therefore] divorces" and the thought that it refers to the...
  20. rosends

    Malachi 2:16

    There are different opinions about the point of this verse but take a look at this translation (from the Judaica Press version): If you hate [her], send [her] away, says the Lord God of Israel. For injustice shall cover his garment, said the Lord of Hosts, but you shall beware of your spirit...
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