Recent content by atpollard

You have missed the point of the objection. It is not that “and” is an evil conjunction, while “by” is a good conjunction. The issue is that AND places both verbs (“slew” and “hanged”) as actions of the same subject (“ye”). 1. Did the Jews slay Jesus? (Yes.) 2. Did the JEWS hang Jesus from a...

Jesus told the truth. The real question is “Which translation is telling the truth about what Jesus said?” :Cool

from the [source] I linked to “I wonder if it has something to do with the use of the present indicative tense in "I am not going up"? (I'm getting that from BibleHub, which appears to use the Nestle 1904 text). If I understand this tense correctly, it means that at that moment, he (Jesus) was...

About John 7:8-10 … [source] Both “not” and “not yet” are correct grammatically and theologically. Note the change in verb tense among the passage. Jesus says “you go (immediately) but I am not going (immediately) because it is not yet the right time for me.” [a paraphrase of a longer...

Throwing a virgin into a volcano is the traditional method.

"ALL THINGS" either means ALL THINGS or it is NOT ALL things. You are claiming NOT ALL THINGS by rejecting the "ALL" of ALL THINGS. I cannot fix that for you. Your unbelief is above my pay grade.

So that would be a "Yes, BE ESTABLISHED and ALL HIS GOOD PLEASURE and ALL THINGS and UNCHANGEABLE really mean NOT established, NOT what God wants, NOT all things, and NOT unchangeable." Got it. :Thumbsup

Not at all. Isaiah 46:9-10 … Will God’s plan BE ESTABLISHED? Will God accomplish ALL HIS GOOD PLEASURE? [A simple ‘yes‘ or ‘no’ will do.] Ephesians 1:11 … Does God work ALL THINGS according to His will? [A simple ‘yes‘ or ‘no’ will do.] Hebrews 6:17 … Is God’s purpose UNCHANGEABLE? [A simple...

Isaiah 46:9-10 [NASB] "Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; [I am] God, and there is no one like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My plan will be established, And I will accomplish all...

I am beating a dead horse at this point, but the “A” & “B” analogy was about God creating Adam (not all people) and was created to address the specific question about whether God created Adam predestined to sin. It does NOT apply to all people (we are not a specific act of divine creation like...

Just for the record, does your God decide who to save? [Does Ephesians 2:8-9 apply to your God or just the “Calvinist” God?] Did your God create them both or is only the “Calvinist” God the great creator? Does your God send people to hell, or is that only the “Calvinist” God that condemns...

”For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel”. (Who said that?) “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.” (Who said that?)

Yes, in theory. In reality, we know that Adam DID SIN. The fact that Adam DID means that Adam COULD [it is self evident that if Adam “could not” sin, then there would have been no fall]. Therefore, the only real alternative to what DID HAPPEN (Adam COULD and DID sin) would be for God to...

List all the people that “can sin” but “does not” … does the fact that ZERO people achieve the Pelagian ideal say something about “Option C”? That’s Total Sanctification, which most Christians admit cannot be achieved this side of “glorification”. But If you claim that you no longer sin, who am...

Humanity is not the issue. I jumped in on a debate over whether God MADE Adam sin and was pointing out that God had only 2 possibilities for Adam … Adam was created so that he COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT fall, or Adam was created so that Adam COULD AND WOULD fall. From there, we examine what...