Recent content by David Lamb

All I can say is that all the Christians I know who hold to the doctrines of grace fully believe in the necessity of faith/belief. If we look at the Calvinistic confessions of faith we find the same thing. For example, the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith comtains a chapter entitled...

I haven't come across the idea of translating the Greek into Aramaic. Most, if not all, languages have idioms, so I can understand how a knowledge of Aramaic idioms might help, but not translating all of the words of Jesus in the bible from Greek into Aramaic.

Yes, that is true. But Jesus said: ““No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (Joh 6:44 NKJV) In the first 10 verses of Ephesians 2 Paul reminds his Christian readers how they had been granted new life. They had been dead in...

I am unsure what difference it would make if somebody could give a definitive answer to the question of whether Jesus spoke in Hebrew or in Aramaic (or both). How would it affect us as Christians?

I am embarrassed by the time and effort you must put into replying in such detail - thank you! I would say that when we look at what the bible as a whole says about Jesus coming from heaven to earth, we find that it was not only to the Jews. For example, we have these words of aged Simeon, as...

Yes, I have read Matthew's gospel. The passage about the Canaanite woman continues: “Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great [is] your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.” (Mt 15:28 NKJV) Similarly He healed the Roman...

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply. I do agree that Paul doesn't use the sheep and goats metaphor in Acts or in his letters - I never suggested that he did. As I said before, the only place where sheep and goats are mentioned together in the New Testament is in Matthew's gospel. Are...

Certainly. You wrote: "There are NO sheep and goats metaphor in these times we are living in now where the context shows it to be strictly Jewish."

Sorry, but I am not sure what you mean (which is more likely my fault, not yours). All I meant was that you had claimed that the context of the mention of sheep and goats was in reference only to Jews, but Jesus seems to have used the phrase in the context of all nations.

Jesus mentions both "sheep" and "goats" only in these two verses: Mt 25:32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides [his] sheep from the goats. Mt 25:33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the...

Sorry, I seem to have been guilty of misunderstanding your earlier post. I thought you meant that the KJV was right in having "Easter". My mistake!

But the original Greek word is translated "Passover" in 26 of the 27 times it occurs in the KJV New Testament. Why should it be translated as "Easter" here: Ac 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him...

I agree. Jesus said: ““I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” (Joh 10:9 NKJV) Not "If any nation enters by Me."

So why did they append Scripture references after every statement, rather than quotes from Augustine, pagan philosophy or John Calvin? As I said before, you must have an intimate knowledge of the formulators of the confessions of faith to be able to say with such apparent certainty that they...

No I am not saying that. I am saying that they believed the doctrines of grace because they found them in the Scriptures, which is why, when they came to formulate the confessions of faith, they backed up every statement with Scripture, not with pagan philosophy, or even by quoting Augustine.