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No, they don't. Not really. None that anyone with genuine credentials respects and will verify. That's why peer review exists. Cultic translators will never survive genuine peer review.

Romans 9 is about BROADENING the scope of election... not restricting it. Seriously. It is.... you don't know that, because you haven't been taught proper exegesis, but Paul's argument doesn't begin in chapter 9... Start at chapter 5 and follow Paul's argument through to chapter 11. Then...

You got it... BAM! BAM! BAM! Emril Legasse gets it.... Poor stupid non-Calvinist... Yes...if you don't embrace BAM! BAM! BAM! You won't get it..

Aaahh….. No. no. no, you just don't get it, ITL. The Bible regularly spells out self-evident tautologies such as: "The elect are elect" "Those who God loves he loves" "The saved are the saved" etc.... The fact that you don't get this obviously suggests you don't "understand" the Scriptures at...

Yes. Apostates aren't "true believers", And they do not "endure to the end". They are, by definition, those who once embraced the faith and have fallen away. The S.B.C. decidedly wants to be O.S.A.S... But, the language of the BFM does not exclude those who believe that one can have truly...

I can take "it" just fine... I find our correspondence mildly entertaining, nothing else. Except, I don't.. I am the one arguing for the need for more educated men to help us understand the harder passages to understand. I am not claiming to be that guy. Instead, I am the one who claims to...

They shouldn't. No, it wasn't. That is the kind of mind-boggling platitude only un-educated men assert. It says BOTH everything and nothing all at the same time. That is what makes it a meaningless assertion. Because highly educated men condescended to do that for you.. But, so also are...

Duh.... Everyone knows that...Please tell me you didn't slay trillions of innocent electrons to make this rather obvious and stupid point. I don't think that. YOU THINK THAT. You don't need the countless hours of people spending lifetimes mastering the craft of Bible study... I like their...

Frankly, you don't know me at all. I claim no special knowledge. I don't think I.....especially "ALONE" have the correct means to understand Scripture. I am arguing that more educated men have helped me immensely, and if you had humility you could benefit from it too. I don't think I'm...

I don't think that. I didn't say that. When it comes to many, many texts of Scripture, no child, and very few adults really understand them. Sometimes it takes work and a lot of it. Statements like this make me wonder whether you've really ever read it seriously before. That statement is...

It would help immensely, and God has established specifically gifted men whose calling it is to help us with just that very thing. You don't need a mediator, but it would help you to learn how not to treat the Bible like a patch-work quilt to stitch together as you think best and instead...

But if we don't agree on what it is saying than we cannot say we are "understanding" it differently. Either one or both of us is wrong. You aren't a relativist I'm sure. We are disagreeing on it's meaning, we aren't both "understanding" it differently. Anyone can draw out the basic Biblical...

True. But the question is what the Psalmist says, not what you think Romans says, or you think Isaiah says or anything else. But it doesn't all contain the sum total of all doctrines and ideas in each passage, nor should you import them into any given passage. I know, you already assume you...

True, but that Psalm says nothing about anthropology. Ultimately, yes. But you are not reading the Psalm for what it says.... You are ignoring what it actually says, and using other passages of Scripture to repurpose it. Yes, and that Psalm is an imprecatory Psalm with nothing to say about...

The point is the Psalm cannot be made to be making an anthropological statement about man's nature, sin etc.... It is an imprecatory Psalm about wanting God to slay his enemies.....break bones, smack their teeth in etc.. The Psalmist assumes he is not one of the "wicked". It simply cannot be...

That is the "wicked"... Not everybody, it's right in the text pay attention to it. The Psalmist doesn't consider himself the "wicked". That's why after wishing God's vengeance upon them he writes in vs. 10 of the Psalm: "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his...

They die because of Adam... Adam brought physical Death into the world He didn't bring sin-guilt..... It's so simple any idiot should see it. Christ brought the physical resurrection. Even the non-believer is resurrected. Adam brought physical death, Christ brings a resurrection, Some are...

k gotcha! Guess I wasn't perfectly clear, or misunderstood you.

There's nothing to explain. Every man is under law. Even those without Torah are a law unto themselves. But the Torah was given to the Jews, not gentiles. The Universal Moral Law is eternal, universal, understood by all man and not disputed. Moses didn't give "mankind" that law, he gave God's...

Wrong. And Moses gave nothing to "mankind". The Mosaic Law was for the Jews. Mankind in general has always had a moral code, and they are abundantly aware of it.