I am wondering how people would get in touch with you without knowing your personal name.
I work with people with dementia. I've learned to answer to anything, including "hey, girl!"
What does spelling or even pronouncing a name differently ( each language has its own pronunciation ) matter.
homonyms and homophones are easy to look up
even a single comma can make all the difference in the world:
"I'm ready to eat, Granny."
"I'm ready to eat Granny."
I mean, I never really enjoyed English/literature/grammar class, but I still paid attention.
If angels fell from heaven, how better will heaven be for you and me.
EXACTLY. If wars can happen in heaven, clearly it's not all it's cracked up to be.
He tried to get them to see that robbing widows of their homes was not of God.
He never tells them to give full civil rights to women either. Martha's trying to do the dishes or whatever and Jesus doesn't get up and help. Tells me all I need to know.
These priests were using their priesthood to profit themselves with power and money.
It's more involved than that, since the Romans and Syrians and others were heavily involved in Temple politics. Ten bucks says that if the Temple were being run by "real" Jews, Jesus wouldn't have thrown his little tantrum.
Jesus was speaking very seriously when he said the majority of priest (and scribes who came out to test him) were worshiping the devil.
And yet I don't see Jesus helping anyone much outside of a few "photo ops", which he told other people to avoid, because ostentatious displays were their "own reward" and you wouldn't get any extra credit in heaven for it.
Jesus preached the Torah. Only those who were not obeying it got riled up.
The problem is that various characters assume the scriptures are all we need to live, but I note the transient nature of Hebrew/Israelite/Jewish society when it tries to be a racially and theologically pure state. It fails miserably every time. The bible is an ironic cautionary tale of how NOT to run a country.
The Roman crackdowns happened after Jesus' death and resurrection.
It might behoove you to read about the politics of the era.
The destruction of the Temple was because the Jews rose up against Rome about 70 C.E. Drama of their own making with the sins I mentioned above.
The Romans were looking for cash and treasure. The end.
God sent Jesus to bring them back to Him.
Wouldn't be necessary if God wanted to do His job.
That they prefered to get riled and persecute him instead of listening to his words and obeying him and his Father speaks of their weak stupidity not God's
How did Jesus make anyone's lives better? His followers end up dead if not tortured and dead and it is nearly wiped out before the Romans legalize it for political perks.
Have you bothered to read thru the Greek scriptures. I have and see no problems in them.
Why must Jesus come back if he fixed things the first time?
Am I supposed to be impressed that God gets out of His promise not to kill everyone with water by killing people with fire?
The NT claims no one is righteous except there are several people described as such.
The NT claims Satan deceived Eve and yet Satan isn't in the story and the serpent was the only honest one there.
The NT claims only through Jesus' death and resurrection can God forgive us and yet both God and Jesus forgive people all the time way before that occurs.
The NT claims Jews murdered all their prophets when that actually comes from a list published around the same century as Jesus and it's not historical at all.
Satan's lies were about God's intent as Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness and confrontation of Satan shows in spades.
No, he baits Jesus to see if he'll choose egotistical things. He doesn't at the time but his life story shows that the gists of those temptations were done. He didn't make magic bread while Satan was there but made magic wine and food elsewhere. He didn't claim kingship while Satan watched but claimed to be a king later. He didn't jump off a cliff but calmed storms. He used his powers thematically just as Satan foretold/baited. Baiting people isn't lying.
Moses killed an Egyptian who was abusing a Jewish slave. He didn't stay to be a religious terrorist.
The Egyptian law would've told Moses to go to the Grand Vizier if not Pharaoh himself to talk about it. We have archaeological evidence of strikes in Egypt, so the concept of getting compensation for being screwed is there. Moses was kicked out for being a vigilante murderer.
He didn't stay to be a religious terrorist. If you are speaking about the disasters that befell Egypt, all Moses did was predict them and teach the Jews how to be left alone by God.
And none of that generation save for Joshua and maybe less than a handful of other people actually lived through a 40 year walk that should've taken less than a couple of weeks max.
He was saying "Put God first" and family second and leave if they cannot live by the law of love.
He didn't love his family or he'd have been nicer to them. He can't even call his own family "Mother" and "Brothers". He makes it a point to ignore or insult them at every turn. He is a hypocrite.
However, my Bible says the kid was dead.
Your bible was written by people who couldn't tell the difference between coma and death, as we see in a couple of Jesus' stories. No one had an EKG or EEG lying around to confirm. I would rather go to an Egyptian, Roman, or Greek medical facility/temple and risk the primitive science than to trust the blatant ignorance of the biblical characters. The biblical characters were doing incantations while civilized people had medicine and surgeries.
Surprise wakes a person up pretty effectively. They were cognizant enough to speak of putting up tents for the three of them.
Jesus frequently rebukes the apostles for not understanding him, and yet you want me to take them at their word?
I find No one was resurrected before God resurrected Jesus.
No one was returned to life before Jesus? Want to think through that some more?
The reason the name was changed, is the Jews didn't want to speak his name. I think it is because they said his name was too holy to pronounce, and didn't want to take it in vain.
And it helps hide the fact pre-monotheistic Judaism existed.
Please give me some scriptures showing the different names for God you are talking about. You do know there is a difference between a name and a title - right?
To be fair, a lot of names in the bible, especially deity names, are just translations of titles. Even Satan isn't a name, just a job title. As is Baal, El, Yahweh, etc. You could worship Yahweh and Baal and El because at the time either one was just a title and could be referring to the same entity or multiple ones.
Man does not live by bread alone but, by every word of God.
You have a pile of bread in one corner and a pile of bibles in the other. Which one will help you avoid starvation?
