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Evolution doesn't posit that "life comes from death" as the theory of evolution doesn't posit where life originates, in the very fact of it being limited to being a science. It is related to observable and investigatable biological phenomena. Even if there are some atheist scientists who seek to...

Jesus is the propitiation for the whole world; and babies & infants are not what the bible means by "sinners" for to them "belongs the kingdom of God" cf. Mark 10:14. There is no "default" position of a man being taken to have rejected Christ, before he has rejected him. Moreover, the mere...

The church is Jewish. You become an honorary Jew when you become a Christian. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," Eph 4:5. The church is the body of the Lord, a Jew, Col 1:18, headed by a Jew and obeying the doctrine of Jews. Calvin wasn't appointed an apostle by Jesus. Don't know how anyone...

The New Testament was indeed a covenant with the Jewish church, the vine remains Jewish, with the Gentiles only grafted in Romans 11:11-24.

I have learnt in my time that petty quibbling over every word posted, that only seeks to distract the reader's train of thought into endless irrelevance, and down blind alleyways, is never worth replying to.

IMO, the above cannot be indiscriminately applied in the temporal realm. It might be plausibly said of those with fair amounts of treasure stored up in heaven, but everyone is capable of making a fool of themselves, should they happen to let go of discipline for any reason. The Old Testament...

The Greek draws pertinent distinctions here, between settled anger, or a state of indignation, that is the property of the subject when an object is in view (ὀργή - noun, from ὀρέγομαι - verb [= middle/passive of ὀρέγω - stretch/reach out, yearn]), and anger that is expressed and directed in...

The one doesn't preclude the other. The point is this: the unfaithful amongst the Jews cannot say they weren't "called". "Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises." Rom 9:4. They threw it all away...

I find the above article to be extremist, misrepresentative, unobjective in that it falsifies the meaning of words, and unworthy of a Christian. "Evolution is both a fact and a theory. Evolution is widely observable in laboratory and natural populations as they change over time. The fact that...

Anger moves from the originator to the recipient, but may turn back again (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point). As the exact nuance of the Hebrew word is contextual to its usage, there is no necessity to posit where it goes to. Anger just disappears when it turns away...

"For many are called, but few are chosen." Matt 22:14. You need to revisit the Old Testament, to discover how the Israelites, who are called "God's people" were rejected by God. See especially Jeremiah. Jer 4:22 "For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and...

It is never incoherent to keep the jurisdictions of heaven and earth distinct in the bible. Creation days are defined only by reference to what God is doing in and from heaven.

As God never self-identifies as part of the creation he made, so His days of creation, which relate only to His work, and nothing else, are not to be taken from creation. A 6x24 hour creation would represent a pantheist view of God, where God and His creation aren't construed as divisible...

Where does the bible say that anyone merits election? Isn't the point of Rom 9:11 to suggest that election is of God's mercy and not of our merits? Although God does foreknow, what and how he foreknows or determines anything is unknown to man: "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and...

Contradiction and incoherence always lead to issues. And TULIP doesn't appear to resolve them. I would also discount "I" as a contradiction of the biblical record: irresistable grace in some cannot mean grace isn't resistable in others. "T" is framed wrongly: the issue isn't about "men coming to...