How many times have I explained this to you? A hundred at least?
The Law of Moses is the Completeness of God's will. Abraham still obeyed God's "judgments, statutes, and ordinances", of which we have no idea what exactly they were. Noah knew which animals were clean and unclean.
Besides, you...
No, the relationship with God is directly tied to the obedience to the Law. One does not come before the other. One may think they have a good relationship with God based on their own beliefs and assumptions and presumptions, but that is all just pretensious self-righteousness if God doesn't...
I wish I could throat punch when people deserve it, there's probably more people than ever before who deserve a throat-punch, but those darn pesky laws get in the way. With that said, we should still restrain our language nonetheless, just like we must restrain our urges to throat-punch. Because...
Because I think I explained in very clearly. A moderated debate is where we bring aboard someone to act as a judge to moderate, such as when we feel the other side is ignoring points, or acting as if points have been addressed when they have in fact not been (such as your reply to my issue of...
That's the point, it puts a dent into the idea that the NT is infallible. Not that the Gospels themselves are bunk and can be completely disregarded. Just that the exact details of the narrative are beyond reproach as many fundamentalists like to claim.
I'm not sure exactly if fluency in...
You're the one who took it in a different direction and kept going and going with it even after I said its best for another thread. Let me know when you want to have that moderated debate.
Or it could mean he gave the laws, as in the commandments that pertain to "The Law".
We know that the word "the laws" (Ha-Towrot) is used to refer to the statutes in the commandments that are part of "The Law" as well.
http://biblehub.com/text/leviticus/26-46.htm
Apparently it was only ONE...
El Elyon simply means "God most High".
The Canaanites may not have necessarily had a "YHWH", but a completely different but similar sounding YHW god with somewhat similar consenants (missing an H) but different vowels. Besides, as your link says:
this concept that the Karen Armstrongs try to...
Doesn't matter if they are united. They have gone from a few thousand in the land to over 5 million. The number of people who believe in the Abrahamic god has gone from .25% of world population to 51%. The prophecies are unfolding. The dissolution of war is the "Final ending", the happily ever...
If they are all fulfilled at once by one individual during one lifetime, whether it takes 1 year or 30, that's still the "overnight" concept.
Where does the text explicitly say that this individual will cause those events to happen himself during his lifetime?
Pilate was recalled specifically for massacring a Samaritan prophet and his disciples.
So you're saying that when Julius Caeser granted the Jews religious freedom, for all those years, they had no way to enforce their own laws. What history book are you using?
Maybe they believe the Messiah is going to teleport them all there or use magic mind control to break their stubborn attachment to the land or buy them all tickets or something. All at once. Overnight.
Oh, so now Jesus CAN be tempted when he's in a "Weakened state". So now you, in your own words, just basically said Jesus COULD be tempted in a "Weakened state". Well there we have it, from the horses' mouth. I Don't see what rebelling against God even though he couldn't win has to do with it...
Again, it doesn't exactly say it happens overnight.
Meanwhile, many of those prophecies have been happening slowly but surely over time.
To argue and say that it's necessarily meant to be read as fulfilling overnight, I don't even think the modern Rabbis agree to that, in that every prophecy...
Should supply and demand be a factor in determining price gouging rates at the Temple? You see no problem with that? You think that's charitability being demonstrated right at the Temple courtyard?