Recent content by Derf

Good Not really different, but potentially deeper, or greater. For instance, in prophetic passages in the Old Testament, the prophets were giving information they didn't fully understand sometimes. Paul is less likely to write such things, because he is not writing prophecy or poetry. And I'm...

I saw your previous post, but haven't had time to respond. Thanks for reiterating.

Yeah, but... I've heard people suggest, and it makes some sense, that the reason they recognized Him when He broke bread is that they saw the nail-scars in His hands. If so, then it seems weird that His appearance was changed to look like another person, but the scars were still there. It is...

This statement is a free will statement. "Trying" to "conform" with every fiber of "my" being. I'm confused on your antecedent. what does "it" refer to here? If "it" is your will, then I don't think that is applicable to the conversation. We're talking about the future being open and your...

No more so than Paul's. Of course. Any event in the past is history. But the point is that Paul was preaching the faith that he had previously persecuted. Here's who Christ said Paul was persecuting: Acts 9:2 KJV - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any...

But we're also not sure what He was doing. Was He making some effort to blind their eyes to His real identity, or just they were not expecting Him to be there with them, and so didn't recognize Him? Either would fit the passage, imo. If He changed His appearance, that's His business, and if...

I guess it fits with her desire to be president

I supposed the left would be quite happy with a man who identifies as a woman, meaning he can't make up her mind whether they is or is not a woman.

I "liked" your post because you are presenting your arguments (mostly) without the insults. Thanks for your patience. No, of course not. But is fallen Israel still joined to Israel? No, they have been cut off. And if they have been cut off of the true Israel, and others have been grafted in...

There's a lot to unpack in your ppst, Clete, which I don't currently have time for, but hopefully I can get to it. Suffice it to say that your response to my contention in the other thread is exactly the kind of thoughts I was hoping to stimulate. You boiled it down to language, including...

And it doesn't really help your point either. So we can let it be now. But we were talking about what the Ephesians were joined to, with the middle wall of partition broken down. Here are all the verses where Paul uses that language, including a couple where he possibly talks about it in...

But if any creature of this world sins, then sin has come into the world, has it not? Or was it because Adam had been given resposibility/dominion over the world? Or was it that Satan was not part of this world, but was merely performing a task in this world for a short time? idk No, peas and...

I see what you mean. But was Sheol, "realm of the dead" something that applied to Satan at all?

It makes sense to me, but I struggle with the verse --Romans 5:12 KJV — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:-- if "sin" entered the world by Adam, how could Satan have sinned before Adam? Did Bob offer...