Recent content by Derf

By "absolute", do you mean that something morally bad will always be morally bad in all cases? I would maintain that morality is at least somewhat subjective, or it is circumstantially derived. For instance, God can kill a human impunitively, but we cannot always. Another example: adultery will...

I guess if you have to find your particular favorite doctrine in scripture, you'll be able to, even if you have to ignore all the rest of scripture. Regarding the story of the workers, it could hardly be about reincarnation. You don't pay what looks like a different person for the work someone...

Can God change the events He sees in the future?

Jonah, perhaps?

So you are saying the 12 (not including Paul) were going into all the world, but not going to Gentiles? I'm struggling to understand the point you are trying to make. Here's what you started with: I gave a response that they did indeed go out into the world, i.e., they did not stay in Judea...

They aren't now. Are you asking whether they ever did? Scripture doesn't say one way or another, but it seems very unlikely that they stayed in Jerusalem and Judea as it was being besieged and falling, since Christ had told them to leave Matthew 24:16 KJV – Then let them which be in Judaea flee...

There's a national Catholic shrine to an unbiblical event that is antithetical to Christ's atoning work? That's weird.

@Clete Did you listen in on the recent Real Science Radio broadcast where they talked about trinary asteroid systems in the asteroid belt?

Yes, but only older versions, usually, and I don't have a lot of storage for apps. What do you recommend?

Yes, but realize the significance of a prophecy quoted by Matthew for a narrative that occurred a decent amount of time before Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, probably written after 1st Corinthians (according to some scholars, it between 45 and 55 AD, some say as late as 90 AD). This shows continuity...

You're funny. My spell checker is not funny. It's an Android phone, and older one that I'm not able to update some of the apps anymore. But it refuses to use "Christ" or "Jesus" as an option, even when I spell them correctly. I can add the words during a session, and then it's ok for the rest of...

That was a good answer--thank you! Despite the salvation of the Jews being thought of as salvation from physical enemies, the enemy Christ defeated in the resurrection, and it will be defeated finally for all believers at His return. Paul gave us much of this, like here: 1 Corinthians 15:54 LSB...

Ok Do you think "salvation" has anything to do with the good news of the kingdom? Is the gospel of the kingdom at least partially about salvation for the Gentiles? If so, are they saved by Jesus Christ's death on the cross in the kingdom gospel?

And how would you know which verses are to be taken literally? Is there a guide for that? Can we see the guide you use for determining which verses are to be taken literally and which not?

All of us benefit from reading any Scripture without presupposing our own system.