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  1. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    Can you prove Paul was a liar? If you're going to reject Paul outright, you have to prove he's a liar. The burden of proof is on youA
  2. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    We have no idea if it became the norm for the 12, as such is never mentioned. We don't even know if the 12 continued after Jesus died. And Jesus didn't really declare all foods clean. The issue, as seen in Mark, arose because his disciples were seen eating with uncleaned hands. That was the...
  3. fallingblood

    Early American History was Intertwined with Faith

    Here's the problem. We have no idea what Marcion actually did. There is the possibility he cut things from Luke. There is no evidence he did, but it's a possibility. Its also a possibility, one that is being accepted by more scholars, that Marcion simply had a proto-Lukan Gospel. As in, a...
  4. fallingblood

    Who was, and is the beast right now?

    I think there is way too much overthinking here. The Beast, as described in Revelations, is Nero, or someone who reigned like Nero. The number, 666, or most likely, 616 (as seen in the oldest and best manuscripts), relates to Nero. I'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote in another thread...
  5. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    I've read what you've said. I'm saying that you're wrong, and you've read Paul incorrectly. And you're responses have largely just been cherry picking various verses and stringing them together without addressing my points.
  6. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    Here's the problem. You never dealt with Matthew. You jumped to what John wrote and then what Paul wrote. By the time Paul was writing, Jesus was dead. Paul never met Jesus and there is no evidence that what Paul was saying came from Jesus. To combine them all as if they were one written record...
  7. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    I would suggest you read the Letter to the Romans. Or just go back and reread my response where I summarize the position Paul is making, as you haven't actually addressed it. Paul also speaks of the Spirit of God who lives in those reborn. And that once that happens, you aren't bound to the...
  8. fallingblood

    Does Paul Rub You the Wrong Way

    616 isn't totally bogus. The oldest and best manuscripts we have put the number at 616. It's not six hundred, threescore and six. And the literal reading of the Greek text is 666 or 616. Six hundred sixty six, or six hundred and sixteen. That is literally what the Greek is saying. To break it...
  9. fallingblood

    Early American History was Intertwined with Faith

    So two very different things here. Jefferson's view and Marcion's view don't coincide. Marcion, in the 2nd Century, believed that the God of the OT was a different God from what Jesus and Paul taught. Marcion was basically a polytheist. One who took Jesus and Paul out of their Jewish context...
  10. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    So the Spirit of God lives in no one then. We are all sinners. So since the heart of the sinner is the domain of the devil and his demons, then that is true for everyone. Ironically, the argument that one has to put on a new wine skin to hold the Spirit of God is what Paul was saying as well...
  11. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    The consensus in mainstream scholarship, is that Christianity formed, in a separate form from Judaism, after the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. The early church period is then measure from there. There is a continuum for sure. The power went from Jesus, to James, Peter, and John. And...
  12. fallingblood

    Early American History was Intertwined with Faith

    That's not true. Thomas Jefferson was very influenced by deism, as well as the scholarship at that time. At that time, there was a movement in scholarship, which became dominant, that rejected the miracles of Jesus. Scholars simply stated that they didn't happen, or they found natural...
  13. fallingblood

    Early American History was Intertwined with Faith

    Fake news isn’t a defense. It’s a cop out. Small pox was a real part of the US’s history, one that was devastating.
  14. fallingblood

    Early American History was Intertwined with Faith

    I didn’t watch the whole thing. It’s an hour long, and there would be too much to cover anyway. What really stopped me though was that the very premise of the video is wrong. Hidden history? History historians don’t want you to know or are erasing? It’s simply not happening. The fact that their...
  15. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    So lets assume that what you're saying is how it was (it may be more semantics than anything else. I don't consider it to be the early church until Christianity is formed after it split from Judaism, so in the late first century and early second century. That generally is manner in which it is...
  16. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    One issue before we begin. What you have consistently done is rip verses from their overall context. Taking one or two verses out of the larger context really distorts what is being said. Seeing that Paul often has an interesting rhetoric, one in which he builds up an argument only to later flip...
  17. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    And that's why the Bible, as a whole, is complicated. What Matthew says, where it is clear that you have to follow the Law, is different from Luke of John. They don't agree. And we can't assume they believed what the other authors did. It's just a mess. Paul did say circumcision wasn't...
  18. fallingblood

    What path to choose?

    Paul is very clear that we all shall die. He states it very clearly in Romans. He states we are all sinners, and the wage of sin is death.
  19. fallingblood

    How do you become a Christian according to the Bible?

    Jesus never says that his death was a point of a new covenant. That is someone writing after the fact, that claims Jesus's death was a new covenant. Someone who we don't know. Someone who's book nearly got thrown out of the canon. The mention of a new covenant is only post Jesus. Jesus states...
  20. fallingblood

    Does Paul Rub You the Wrong Way

    I do read everything you write. I don't think the same can be said for you. So here's a problem. Lets say that 666 and 616 are only Arabic numerals. How in the world does Jewish Gematria work then? Are not 1, 2, 3, 4 etc Arabic numerals as well? So, your argument is that 666 and 616 are Arabic...
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