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Haven’t men imagined going faster than the speed of light?

I think He's far beyond what we can do*, but He tells us what He's like, that He doesn't lie, and that He changes not, and that we can trust Him. So if He says He made the whole of heaven and earth in 6 days, I believe Him. However, I haven't been able to figure out the details yet. *God...

Are you saying God could have used an improbability drive to get light here quicker? I like the idea!

I draw your attention to the post I was responding to:

Then you both would say that Christ fulfilled the law in the case of idol worship? Jesus reworded them more positively: [Mat 22:37, 39-40 KJV] 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ... 39 And the second [is]...

But what was the purpose of the different house rules for the Jews? Did God really tell the Jews to do something (and to continue doing something for 3000 years) that had no meaning. Was it purely just an exercise in following orders without question? But you can see the importance for the "do...

"So let me now spend the rest of my post commenting on what you beg to differ about." Here's the thing. If idols are nothing, and it doesn't matter if anyone eats meat sacrificed to idols, why do Jews have to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols? Is God's command to them of no import...

Yes--it was because he was preaching it. He also used the terms: "the gospel" "the gospel of God" "the gospel of Christ" "the gospel about Christ" "this gospel" "the gospel of your salvation" And he used "the gospel" in connection with Peter: [Gal 2:14 NET] 14 But when I saw that they were not...

Paul said he was preaching the same gospel: [1Co 15:9, 11 NET] 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ... 11 Whether then it was I or they [the other apostles], this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed...

That doesn’t mean he takes pleasure in the eternal punishment of the wicked.

So why was the gospel of the kingdom good news for Cornelius, who wasn't part of the kingdom? How would he benefit from hearing the gospel of the kingdom? Not yet...keep talking. That's what I was asking you. Why would Peter offer anything to Cornelius except the best good news he had for...

In other words, you just start with that presupposition, and use your presupposition to reject what the Bible plainly says, that Christ died for all, but all will not believe. That puts your presupposition in a position of higher authority than the Bible. That’s what Adam and Eve did with God’s...

But the good news Peter offered to Cornelius was the same good news Paul offered to the Gentiles, right? If so, then Peter was preaching the gospel of the uncircumcision, which you said he had agreed not to do. If not, then Peter was preaching the gospel of the circumcision to a Gentile, which...

Maybe you don't understand the gospel. Maybe the good news Peter was preaching to Cornelius was that he could be resurrected, which included the remission of sins. Do you think Cornelius was unaware that Jesus couldn't actually be resurrected unless He first had died? I mean, you seem to think...

Those are big claims. Do you make those claims with scriptural support that you can share with me? Why? Would that change the target of your posts, to only shoot at those that I might be persuaded by? You seem to think little of your persuasive powers. Should I think the same?

I guess that can be true of almost anyone. So you like to think of the gospel as a formula that you have to express in exactly the same way every time for it to be effective? Shall we return to the Phillipian Jailer story, where Paul said nothing (at least from the text we have) about the...

I did, but you rejected it. I can’t do more for you, except try one more time: Acts 10:39-43 (KJV) 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: 40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly...

Of course they’re related. But Acts 13:32-33 is about the defeat of death promised in the Garden, (God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again) so it applies to the Jews and Gentiles, alike, whereas the land promise to Abraham was to provide a place...

I don’t think the land covenant and the Mosaic law are the same thing. The people who aren’t priests partake as well. What’s the difference?

It’s an example of a covenant that was in effect, then put on hold, or “paused”, then in effect again (then put on hold again in 70 AD, then in effect again as of 1948). That is to say, the nation of Israel, the beneficiary of the covenant, ceases to receive the benefit of it for a time. That...