Shalom!
I guess we need to start with Peter talking about Paul...
2 Peter 3:16 He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort to...
Shalom!
I was just wondering. I believe you are wrong about Paul, Christians have so corrupted his writings over the years I can see why you think the way you do. But all the've really done is prove Peter true...2 Pet 3:16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters...
Shalom brother!
Why do you reject John and Paul? I understand rejecting the Paul of the Christian "church", but not of the Rav Shaul of the bible.
There are even groups within Christianity the are starting to see that the Paul they've taught and have been taught, isn't the Paul of the...
Yes, maybe Moses would have said something, maybe not. This was a few years before he came on the seen, and maybe the whole story of everything wasn't passed on to Moses. Maybe being an old man who felt his years were numbered, he started writing down those things he felt most important and died...
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Mosaic Law does not require you to wash your hands before eating, this (as stated) was a tradition (Rabbinic (sic) law). To me the context is eating 'kosher' food that has become defiled through contact with dirty hands. And Jesus response is 'eating...
Do you have a proof text for this, or is this a guess?
If it is a guess, let me do some guessing too.
Elohim said man would die if he ate from the tree in the midst of the Garden. Man ate of the tree and lived on physically. Therefore, the death must have been spiritual.
I'm guessing man is...
What is the prescribed punishment for eating what is not fit?
This has people actually going after other gods, and taking part in worship of those other gods. Part of which must have included a imitation of the peace offering found in Lev3 and Lev 7:11-34. This was a voluntary act of worship...
Actually, the Pharisee Shaul, who we call Paul, had no intention of replacing Judaism. He sought to bring it back in line with the Judaism of the first Temple era (and before) in regards to Gentiles. Paul is one of the most misunderstood writers found in the Apostolic Writings and one who's...
Why does a nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan affect anyone besides the Japaneses?
Who is man that God should make us privy to all His thoughts and plans? And if we did understand everything, then we would be God's, and I would sure hate having most the people I know having God status (Some...
Hi Pegg
So either you missed my post above, or you prefer to take this verse out of context and that's OK.
If you look at Jesus' life, He kept the Torah, but not all of the traditions (Oral Torah) of the Jews. Why is that?
He did what the Jewish authorities believed was work on the Sabbath...
this is correct.
It does not matter to God if one chooses to eat pork and another chooses to abstain. We are all free to make that choice for ourselves. God is not testing anyone or enforcing dietary laws on anyone...the evidence came from the fact that he was giving holy spirit to...
OK, let me now go to the person most Christians turn to last, Jesus. I'll save Paul for last because he is more complicated, as Peter tells us 2 Peter 3:15 And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation (as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according...
OK, I'm home from work and can get off my phone. There were 2 post I saw before getting off my phone, one from pegg (I believe) bringing up Acts 10 and the other asking if I considered Noah.
Let me start with Noah. If Noah and his family could eat just any old meat and decided to have a big...
Swine is not food for Christians. A careful study of the scriptures would prove this out. No where are the dietary laws done away with. One doen't even need to go to the Greek origianly used, you only need to keep verses in context.
Col 2. The discussion isn't about pork or beef, it's about...
Could you guys give me more information on whether Swine was prohibited for Christians? Also, if it was only prohibited in the Old Testament, is there evidence to show that it only applies for Jews?
Yes. A careful study of the scriptures proves this. From Peter's vision, Paul's statement...
I say that Saul was the FIRST member of the Body of Christ !!
Hi Dan,
Then are we to understand that you believe no one mentioned in the OT is saved? None of the apostles were saved? How about the theif on the cross that Jesus told that he would be in paradise with Him? Can you go to...
Church is found in the Greek. The word is ekklesia, which may not translate directly to church, but assembly or congregation. At the most basic level, that is what a church was.
1577 ἐκκλησία [E)KKLHSI/A] {ekklēsía} \ek-klay-see'-ah\
from a...
The whole "original sin" thing is a canard!
If you read the Jewish scriptures (Ezekiel 18:14-20), it is clear that sin is NOT INHERITED!!!
Simple as that.
Bruce
You know, I never said I believed in the original sin concept.
And if you read Ezekiel 18:14-20, all it proves is God will show...