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... Are you familiar with the event that Christ speaks of in the Olivet discourse about the abomination of desolation?

Matthew took a sentence of Jeremiah out of context. Here is the definition of context: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning "context." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, 2013. Web. 21 June, 2013. The surrounding sentences of the...

I'm basically saying that it's possible for God to reveal a mystery by the [right division of] scriptures (Rom. 16:26; 2Tim. 2:15) that are unchronological and scattered (see my previous post), and still deny authorship of confusion.

"In the original context, Jeremiah is speaking of an event soon to come as the Babylonian Captivity begins. As the Jewish young men were being taken into captivity, they went by the town of Ramah. Not too far from Ramah is where Rachel was buried and she was the symbol of Jewish motherhood. As...

I think that the scriptures tell us that it's ok to read extrabiblical literature, as I have shown in my wikipedia link. But I think that the scriptures are the full measure of where we are to find sound doctrine and principles and etc. that judge every other literature out there. Like you say...

True, but I never said contrary... By the way, do you believe that the Apostle chose his quotation from Aratus randomly? (Just trying to figure out your post).

You're parroting me.

Allow me to introduce you to the italic emphasis ;)

So God can't deny authorship of confusion and have mysteries that He reveals by the scriptures (Rom. 16:26) at some other point later on in history after those scriptures, unorganized and unchronological in character are written? Have you read the scriptures I gave reference to yet? Psalm 69...

But you didn't in your post. Here's what you said: And people identify Justin as a Church Father and an Apostolic Father: Whether or not Justin Martyr had erred in some areas is beside the point I was getting at. You said: You distinguished between those before the Church Fathers and the...

I think you misread me. I did say "as well": This would denote that I am stating another different point.

To prove my point, how both our methods are plausible, let's go to Ephesians 5:4. In it we find a word that makes its only appearance in the Bible: "εὐτραπελία". How do you interpret such a word? Of course, immediate context says that whatever this word is, it's "not convenient" (Eph. 5:4...

Biblicist, if I may, I am going to give you some criticism. I read a lot in your posts of how quick you are to anger. People don't like conversing with a man like that: "Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath" (Pr. 29:8, KJV), "Wrath is cruel, and anger is...

Ever heard of Justin Martyr?

Why the caps?

I agree (to a degree). I say that both ways (mine and yours) are plausible methods of interpretation. Where we run into trouble with your "context" method is, with OT scripture. The OT scriptures are scattered in their composition. The rule of "context" isn't as applicable to the OT...

Hey Biblicist. I agree with you to a degree. Concerning your first point, that's not necessarily true, though the Bible is the sole spot for sound doctrine, and all other literature comes second to its authority. What I find when I read extrabiblical literature is, that sometimes at least...

...And Matthew 5:19, that teaches that rank in the kingdom is based on teaching and doing "these commandments" (ESV), could be speaking of commandments that are not placed on the Church. In the same sermon, we read that Mosaic altar doctrine is to be kept (Mt. 5:23-24). This sermon evidently...

Hey Yeshua, I'll give my input into this thread: Have you ever heard of the montanists?

What made you change your mind so quick? You don't believe that paradise is a different place than hell now? It concerns you to the point that you stated that premillennialism (or at least the thousand-year separation between Rev. 19:20 and Rev. 20:10) is a recently made doctrine. Be a man...