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    Peter and Paul

    What you seem to be saying is that if James, Cephas, or John wrote letters or presented their gospel to Gentiles, then that would make them bald-faced liars, right? And the same standard applies to Paul, that if he wrote letters or presented his gospel to Jews, that would make him a bald-faced...
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    Our biological evidence of creation and the seventh day Sabbath

    Me personally? I started my rest when I was 7. It's more of a reminder not to return to works for salvation, like keeping sabbath days.
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    Peter and Paul

    Not so clear and unambiguous, if the people Peter wrote to were also written to by Paul, because Paul said: 1 Corinthians 10:32 KJV — Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: Indicating that the church was neither Jews nor Gentiles. Galatians 3:28...
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    God is one.

    You're using your model to attempt to confirm your definition, but you should be using the definition to support your model, which it doesn't do. Multiple, small, separate seas isn't a unified plurality, unless the water is connected under the land mass, as a sort of water table. Is that what...
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    God is one.

    Right, I like the idea, but it's one possible way to explain the scriptures. Like "the seven seas", a term that refers to the connected oceans? "Oceans" isn't used in most English translations of the old testament, because it's a Greek word. But it would fit: Definitions from Oxford...
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    God is one.

    How about..."This gives an idea of what earth might have looked like..." Another possible view that might align better with the text is that all the continents were together in a single continent and all the oceans ("seas") connected surrounded it. Genesis 1:9-10 KJV — And God said, Let the...
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    Peter and Paul

    Not just the suffering, but it was for their sin ("iniquity*)
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    Peter and Paul

    The riches are unsearchable, but not the scriptures. Jesus and Paul both explained using the OT scriptures why Jesus had to die. It was hid, but not once the object of the hiding was achieved--then it could be revealed.
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    Peter and Paul

    Maybe this one: Isaiah 53:5 KJV — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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    Peter and Paul

    Which scriptures was it according to, if it's not found in any other scripture?
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    God is one.

    That wasn't a list of verses, that was one verse, repeated numerous times.
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    The Election was Stolen - PERIOD!

    Of course, but why is the medicaid office doing voter registration?
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    The Election was Stolen - PERIOD!

    The state medicaid office???
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    Peter and Paul

    Jesus went to the Samaritans. John 4:32-34 KJV — But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. By...
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    Peter and Paul

    can you give scripture references for each of those?
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    Black History Month

    I knew those Chic Fil A cows were evil.
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    A little comedy break....

    Is that notice for college students? They probably don't know about consequences.
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    What is a Biblical dispensation?

    Those are synonyms usually in a systematic theology sense, as you said. Does that verse require such a sense? I suggest that it doesn't, which would mean Paul is merely talking about how grace is being dispensed through him to the Gentiles, using this definition from Websters 1828 dictionary: 1...
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    Book to the Hebrews... same target audience as James and Peter

    If Peter mentions Paul's writing to the people he's writing to, who are in Asia Minor, and Paul has already established some authority over that area, it doesn't fit the timeline you've proposed. And even more than that, Paul had by that time written more than a couple epistles that had been...
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    On the omniscience of God

    I don't fault @oatmeal too much for this, because it is pervasive in Christian teaching, just like Calvinism and Arminianism are (which are the two sides of settled theism), but it is frustrating to hear it so often, without an explanation of what it results in or much in the way of scriptural...
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