I have a question ...
How did you determine that God is the good one in the Bible and satan is the evil one?
How did you determine that "God is extremely good, fair, and merciful" .... ? 'Cause I'm not seeing it.
Please show a scripture that says don't beat neighbors.
I don't know what they were. But, I believe God's punishments are for evil and unrighteous people. But, in the case of animals, in Biblical point of view they can be killed even if they are not guilty for something (lambs and doves were...
So, you think that people both could have, and should have stopped what you view as Jesus' sacrifice.
If you had a time machine, and could go back and stop it, would you?
God forsaw how they would act.
Look at the story of Jonah:
Jonah predicted Niniveh will fall. Jonah3:4.
However, Niniveh repented and all of a sudden God changed plans. Jonah 3:10.
That's how it works normally.
Might have happened in the case of Jesus, too.
I guess! I am not a superheroe...
Archaeological discoveries in Assyria are teaching us a lot about the exile there of the Lost Tribes of Israel. They give us the basis, for example, for a more poignant interpretation of the book of Jonah. In fact that fascinating book turns out to be about the exile.
During the centuries of...
What an abysmally poor excuse for exegesis, leading to an equally untenable theological grounding for an argument. I’d reply to this, but I don’t fight with the unarmed.
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First of all he caused all death by tempting Eve.
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Satan isn't IN that story, though. And they don't die until they're nearly a thousand years old. God...
God is omniscient and knows the future. There is nothing to know that God doesn't know. In other words, He is not an ignorant God.
The idea that God could "choose not to know" is one of the more bizarre of the Watchtower teachings. First He would have to decide what it was it was He didn't want...
Hail on God's holy day.
You cannot make the assumption that there was a period of time for satan and or the angels to learn or KNOW about good or evil prior to making a decision to disobey since God did not create any evil to be observed. In fact it is well within logic and reason as well as...
The verb hafach, which is, in fact, what's used in the text, is an idiom known to be used for complete destruction. In its original context, that is almost certainly how it is intended to be used.
But there are a couple of much later midrashim that play on the double meaning of the word, saying...
Maybe some of the Jewish guys on here can comment or verify this:
In Jonah3:4 God told Jonah to bring the message to Ninevah that in forty days they would be overthrown. The text does not say destroyed, but overthrown. I was reading that the word overthrown in Jonah3:4 in Hebrew is...
Doesn't wash. To English speaking people, those for whom the English language Bible is published, "Die" means "To cease living; become dead; expire." It doesn't mean "sort of cease living" or "Kind of expire." If it did Gen. 2:17 would have said, "sort of cease living" or "kind of expire,"...
You kinda changed gears there about Adam? On the very day Adam sinned, God pronounced the death penalty upon him: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Adam began...
God does not plan. He has a purpose and that purpose is fulfilled. He will change his proposed actions when the circumstances that caused him to take that action change. For example, Jonah's message to Nineveh was "Only 40 days more, and Nineveh will be overthrown". (Jonah3:4) But because the...
The Bible as a whole, through "patterns (prefigures) of things to come" (Heb 10:1) in the NT, shows who Jesus is. And that is why the following are found in its individual books.
The more one is familiar with the Bible, the more one sees the patterns of Jesus in the OT.
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The Bible as a whole, through "patterns (prefigures) of things to come" (Heb 10:1) in the NT, shows who Jesus is. And that is why the following are found in its individual books.
The more one is familiar with the Bible, the more one sees the patterns of Jesus in the OT.
**Indicates titles I...
The Bible as a whole, through "patterns (prefigures) of things to come" (Heb 10:1) in the NT, shows who Jesus is. And that is why the following are found in its individual books.
The more one is familiar with the Bible, the more one sees the patterns of Jesus in the OT.
**Indicates titles I...