Ahhh, ... now I'm beginning to understand where you were coming from when you posted your thread. And I can also understand your inability to make sense of my first post, so ignore it.
For the record, I saw the first post in the thread "Greater Purpose" and passed it by because (a) it didn't...
Which seems to me like an excellent reason to suggest that traditional Jews ignore non-Jewish proselytizers, stay out of the Christian Scriptures, keep calm, and continue doing whatever it is they think they're doing.
If I thought there was a good chance of your understanding my explanation, I'd try to explain. But since I currently doubt that you'd understand my explanation, I don't see any potential benefit in doing so.
I am, however, actually curious what it was and where it was in the other thread that...
Wait a minute, ...
You're not religious,
by your own confession:
Math isn't your strong point,
by your own confession:
You start a thread entitled "Religious Mathematics" in the "General Religious Debates" forum and you ask:
But when I post my answer, you respond with:
Question...
In mathematics,
Given >, 5 > 1;
Given =, 5 = 5;
Neither > nor = is better (or worse) than the other.
In Christian religious mathematics, according to Matthew 23:11,
to be greater than another, one should be lesser than the other, and in neither case equal to the other.
What of it? One priest would not and several priests would have consented to my wife's marriage to me when I was not RCC. But I wasn't marrying a priest, was I?
Apparently, I failed to make it clear that the woman I wanted to marry was a member of a family of Mexican RCCs who believed, at the...
That's a very broad brush that you painted that with.
I am the adopted son of a Lutheran minister and his wife.
My wife is a naturalized citizen, whose parents brought the family from a small town in Mexico to the U.S. in 1959.
My wife and all members of the newly-immigrated family were Roman...
If you catch me calling anyone a Nazi, call me on it. If you catch me quoting someone who is calling someone else a Nazi or who is identifying him- or herself as a Nazi and I fail to cite my source for the quote, call me on it. In my dictionary, "Nazi" is not a label to be thrown about casually.
During last night's debate between Biden and Trump,
"...Trump was confronted by Biden about his leniency toward white supremacists and right-wing militias, and he was asked by moderator Chris Wallace to publicly condemn them. He didn’t do that, although he did address one such group, the Proud...
Always.
My first question is always: "Who's asking?"
I've been in RF long enough to have developed stereotypes of a number of people. Occasionally, one of them surprises me.
Those on my "Ignore" list, I generally avoid like the plague.
I have to reflect a little longer for those who are not...
My favorite line from last night's first debate between Biden and Trump was when Chris Wallace told Trump: "We're done, sir."
Given the challenge that Biden faces if he moves to cancel his participation in the last two scheduled debates, I intend to suggest that each participant be enclosed in...
Note: this is in "Interfaith Discussion". No debating allowed.
For the record, I'm not an avid student or fan, for that matter, of Messianic and/or "End-Times" (eschatological) speculations. At my age, when I think of "the end-times", my own personal "end-time" tends to loom into view.
My...
Having applied your erudite critical thinking skills to the New Testament, perhaps now you'll take some time to read the part of the Bible that precedes the portion that you say that you have read and grace RF members with your opinions on it. :D