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Maybe the rest of us don't have as much problem with gasses as you do...just saying.

Depends. How long has she avoided me, and why. I will say having sex with a lump of motionless flesh wouldn't be very satisfying. But that goes back to the dual nature of sex... and marriage. She belongs to me, and I belong to her.

Based on whose standard?

Was the marriage forced? If not, then the abstinence from sex has to be mutually agreed to, and limited in duration. Otherwise the woman is depriving the man of what belongs to him--her body. Of course, if the man is only seeking sexual gratification, he may be depriving the woman of what...

You used the difference in your argument. We can presume that part of your argument is retracted, right? I did address the difference, in saying that once it was named, the references to the firmament could now be further described with both words. Remember that God was creating things and...

Check the Hebrew words and the other translations.

I agree it wasn't finished yet, but that's no reason to read something into the passage that doesn't fit. Rather, with the waters still covering the earth, the earth is still "formless and void", the good light only illuminating that fact. There's nowhere for a man to live until the dry land...

Yet Paul tells Timothy to do righteous things. 2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV) Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I appreciate the detailed response, JR, and such deserves a more thoughtful response from me than I can give right now. But in the meantime, can you confirm for me whether the words for "heaven" and "heavens" really distinguish between singular and plural as you have done?

He's speaking about the Jews, comparing them to Gentiles (don't forget to read the context). Romans 10:12 (KJV) For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. So if the Jews need a preacher, the Gentiles who believe (to...

Paul said we needed to be interceded for. Romans 10:14 (KJV) How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Oh, my mistake.

Yet he was writing to churches that Paul wrote to when he wrote that. What do priests do? They intercede for the people that can't intercede for themselves. If the whole nation of Israel was supposed to be priests, who would they intercede for? The Gentiles. If Israel refused to do their job...

Didn't you just agree with @Idolater?

So you should be looking at another Saul story, where he made a vow that his son Jonathan broke unwittingly. The people had to save Jonathan.

Did you read about the Gibeonites? They gave false testimony to the Israelites, who made a treaty with them under the false pretenses, but God held them to that treaty. He sent famine in David's time because Saul violated that treaty many years later.

Are you justifying breaking a vow? God didn't allow that, even without full informed consent. See David's fix of Saul's breaking of Joshua's treaty with the Gibeonites.

That's not what Peter said.

But Peter was writing to the mostly Gentile churches Paul wrote to.

It wasn't my choice to ban you, and I appreciate that you would have stayed on topic. The flat earth gig is a major distraction for believers.