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How many languages are you fluent in?
According to Yeshua, who the Koran defines as a messenger of God, the "Way" to "life" is "narrow" (Mt 7:14), and that if one doesn't heed his message, their "house", their church, will "fall" (Mt 7:24-26). The prophet Joel, in Joel 2:31 states that one must call on the name of the LORD (YHWH) to "escape"/"survive" the day of the LORD. YHWHHow many languages are you fluent in?
Hebrew? Aramaic? Greek? Arabic? English?
It's like saying His name is not Dieu, it is God.
Do you think G-d cares what language our mother-tongue is? I don't.
..but He does care if we are narrow-minded and refuse to learn.
God has many names..
What is important are deeds, not "intentions", best expressed by James 2:14-17 & Matthew 25:41-42. "Faith, if it has no works is dead", whereas those who did not feed the hungry will be "accursed" and sanctioned to the "eternal fire". The God of Israel, Abraham, and Isaac crushed Israel when they sinned and worshipped other gods. God promised Israel a redemption because of their name (Ez 36:21-23), for which they would be "gathered out of the nations" and placed back on the land given to Jacob/Israel (Ez 36:28). That land when the state of Israel was established in 1948 was a wilderness, and now it is a land of milk and honey, to glorify the name of the LORD. There are two days of judgment. One is the "day of the LORD" (Joel 2:31) which is at the door (Mt 24:29-33), called Har-Magedon (Great tribulation) (Rev 16:16), which starts at Jerusalem, whereas the neighboring nations of Jerusalem are destroyed, and the "panic of the LORD will fall upon them", whereas the "hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another" (Zech 14:12-14), as with the Sunni versus the Shia, and Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, whereas the wealth of gold and silver will be gathered from the surrounding nations, and a plague will fall on all the nations. The other judgement, after a 1000 years (Rev 20), is the white thrown judgment, whereas everyone is raised from the dead, and judged by their deeds (Rev 20:11-12). False beliefs or kissing the black stone will not save anyone, and the results of the Muslim black stone gaining eyes a mouth, and arguing your case will not help. Your deeds are already recording in the book of remembrance. The Kaaba was the receptacle of all the idols, with the black stone being one of those idols. The black stone does not suck up your sins when you kiss it, even if you do the 7 round abouts, which is a ritual in image of the march around Jericho by Joshua/Yeshua. Jericho is now the central city of the Palestinian Authority, which now acts with respect to the whims of the Israeli army, and whose time is on the clock.
..but what is behind our deeds, if not intention?
..and what does that mean to you .. a literal book??
Har-Magedon, a Revelation of Yeshua in Revelation 16:16, is the same event of the "great tribulation" given by Yeshua in Matthew 24:29-33. Scripture is a revelation of the present, past, and future. According to Yeshua, those who tell of their good deeds in the congregation, they have already received their reward. For those who keep quiet, their reward is multiplied.
I believe I do not claim the flood was world wide and rivers flood often. By definition in a flood the waters cover the earth and there aren't many high points in Mesopotamia.
I believe it varies. My pastor is guided by the Holy Spirit but not all the time. We disagree about things and he will say the Bible says so but it is just his interpretation and not the leading of the Holy Spirit. Then there are those who think they have the Holy Spirit and do not. I know I do because I have fulfilled prophecy.
Okay, but a local flood would have been worthless to God.
I believe God decides what is worth it and what isn't.
I believe that may be true for others but is not true for me. I can't be judged by what happens to someone else.
I do not think that you understand. You declared that all of the supposed events of the flood did not happen. That was the implication of your local flood claim. In other words you are saying that the purpose of the Flood was not the one given in the Bible. Your version of the flood would allow people to avoid it by taking to the high grounds
I believe the Biblical account of the Bible, that it happened just like Genesis 7 says and have no reason to believe otherwise.
You would have very good reason to believe otherwise if you studied the world that God supposedly made. The evidence in the world is quite clearly against the flood of Noah. How could the biblical myths possibly shown to be right in the end? The only answer that I know of is that God would have had to have planted endless false evidence. But that would mean that God is a liar. What alternative do you have?
I repeat my applause for this kind of self-serving threat!
What you say is a myth is what I call supernatural events by a supernatural, all powerful God who has the ability to create things by speaking them into existence. The Flood was a supernatural event, the Resurrection was a supernatural event.
You do not seem to understand. The let's say that the myth occurred. Why don't we see the endless evidence for it that we should see. You want to claim that it was God magic. When did the God magic stop?
There is evidence but you dismiss it because you don’t like the source and only accept yours because it fits for you at the moment.