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Don't end up making the same idiot mistake the Ayn Rand made and think that everything that passes for Christianity even remotely resembles what the bible actually teaches. First and foremost my worldview is rational and it is Christian only in the sense that it is consistent with what the...

I don't follow.

There is no evidence to support that the fig tree represents anything else.... Hosea 9:10 – "I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became...

A week. Of course, there is no way to be dogmatic about that answer but there is good reason to accept the conjecture that Adam and Even fell on the following Friday. See the link in JudgeRightly's post for details. I'm curious to know why that would have been your first question.

The difference is free will or the lack thereof and, by extension, the existence of justice or the lack thereof.

Here's a hint... The fig tree is Israel. The fruit is faith.

Death, in the biblical sense of the word, is always a spiritual separation. Physical death happens when one's spirit separates from the body. Spiritual death is when the spirit of a man (human) is separated from God. It is the later of these two that definitely would not have occurred prior to...

You need a new version of the bible! That is a perfectly awful translation of that passage!

The only books of Lewis' I've read are the Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Brilliant stuff, to say the least! I'm two thirds of the way through "The Abolition of Man" and would definitely say that it does not have the same feel as either the Narnia books or Mere Christianity, both...

As if you've read any of it to know. Your first sentence negates the validity of the second.

Suicide. If one is wanting to kill the mind, what good does the body do them?

So, I was watching a movie several evenings ago and the main character was reading the last of a list of 100 books that everyone should read and it inspired me to find a similar list of books to read. I was somewhat surprised to find out how many such lists exist and so I enlisted the help of...

A tattoo is an object.

James is indeed talking about justification but he isn't implying that the readers themselves are necessarily unsaved but he is talking in general terms. He is talking about how they got saved and how they would remain saved. One could lose their salvation in the previous dispensation, by the...

Show me your line of thought here because it makes no sense to me whatsoever. There seems to me to be no path that leads from any premise I support that ends at such a conclusion. James himself says that he is talking about salvation! He IS talking about justification, NOT sanctification...

How could it? The king can lie and even if he didn't, if he can't ever be removed from the throne, why would he care whether it's required or not? Maybe he decides just to blow off writing any records of any kind. Who's going to do anything about it? Well, he would be able to ignore the...

This objections seems backwards to me! It is I who am reading the whole thing! How can you not read the whole thing, understand that James is specifically talking about how faith alone cannot save you and then come here and say that it's all about faith? Which is true! How is it that you didn't...

Both appropriately so, by the way. Abraham is legitimately the father of both groups and thus of the whole household of faith.

That IS too what James was saying! That is explicitly what James is saying. The entire premise of the book of James is about what it takes to get saved. He is not talking about sanctification but salvation! It is literally the theme of the book! NO! His own example proves this false... James...

The problem, Idolater, is that your "belief" amounts to lip service. It isn't the same doctrine at all really. You believe not only that works are required but that there often isn't even enough good works that one can do during this life to overcome the evil actions you're guilty of and you...