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As far as I can tell, Hosea was a contemporary of Isaiah, both being prophets under the same kings and at the same times, but Isaiah being a prophet of Judah and Jerusalem and Hosea a prophet to Ephraim. The time frame when Hosea began to preach seems to be about 30 years before their dispersion...

I do not know Mike but I do not agree with him in the context you have posted. Maybe there is a larger context. The WORD is set forth in the Godhead as a person in John 1. Why is it so hard for you to believe that be is still the word on earth. Isn’t that the point?

Logos, I don't think you understand the word of God and how precise it is and I do not think you understand why Jesus is called in the NT, the WORD. In the same context he then says the WORD was made flesh. Which of these descriptions do not fit the Lord Jesus, the flesh or the WORD, in your...

Dave, I have given a right smart of thought about your biblical position you posit in your comments. I am going to call you a moderate Calvinist, but a Calvinist nevertheless. So I am going to present this post to demonstrate that it is the Calvinist theologians that you are believing and not...

I have given some thought to your reasoning here Dave and I think this post highlights what is wrong with Calvinism and why it should be rejected as the Christian faith. You have not used your great IQ that God blessed you with to reason out what happened to those apostles on the day that Jesus...

I don't think you and Mr Flowers are right about that, Dave. If there is one thing about the Christian faith that is non negotiable it is the person and work of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ marked the transition from Law to Promise as it pertained to salvation of the Jews...

I would have liked your answer to my post to have been the Calvinistic rebuttal to my presentation of the resurrected Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, giving these apostles proof of his resurrection by showing them his wounds so they would know that he had physically come out of the tomb where...

I think the difference in theological views among some is the failure to understand and define biblical terms. I think Calvinists like yourself mis-define salvation and what it is and what happens when a sinner is saved. Earlier you said that one must have the Spirit of God before they can have...

I do not have a clue why you would teach that one who responds to God's offer of salvation to someone who needs it and for whom he has provided it is somehow not an act of the grace of God. Whether this one who needs it receives it or rejects it does not negate the fact that God is dispensing...

I did not intend to throw any verses. I intended to quote from the source of doctrine, the scriptures. This in a setting where Jesus addressed the very issue of the will. Are there scriptures that says something different? Dave, to whom would you suggest we go to find the truth? What would be...

Thanks, Van. The reason I posted as I did on the subject of the Nicolaitans is because I am a context man. I know that Paul the apostle and Barnabas did not begin their first missionary journey from Antioch Syria that took them through the region of Asia Minor before 42 AD. I know that they had...

Nothing that Zaatar1 posted is true but here is a Biblical story that refutes what he claims about faith and the will. John 20:19 Then the same day (resurrection day) at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the...

When a Jew is forced out of his country it is a sign that he is cut off from his covenants with God. There are several reasons for this that I will not go into now but I will say that the government of God was and is a theocracy. The citizenship of the kingdom agreed to this form of government...

As a matter of interest, the 12 apostles and the 70 elders who were summoned to the mountain in Galilee and who were to occupy the physical ruling political offices in the kingdom, were also the foundation of the church of Jesus Christ, a separate entity but in the same kingdom over which Jesus...

A preparation for the study of the Jewish Christian epistles and the identity of of the strangers and foreigners to whom they were addressed should naturally begin in Hosea chapter 1 and proceeds from there. No, actually, it should go back to the division of the kingdom into the nation of Judah...

They were the foundation of organized false Christianity, IMO. ACTS 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation...

One thing I like to do is to consider a passage in it's historical context especially if it is important enough to be brought up by the author. In this case of Mt 28:19 it is. By writing this baptismal formula here yet not recording the apostles and elders ever using it God wants us to stop and...

I have proven to myself over the years that the word of God is a supernatural book in all respects, including the words the supernatural God chose and the number of times he chose to use them. I also have found that a numerical structure exists through words and not just numbers. Some are easy...

There is no such thing, IMO, as a Baptist Arminian and there is no such thing as a Baptist Calvinist. In reality one is either a Baptist or an Arminian or a Calvinist. These are totally different belief systems and they all define the person of God and his work of salvation in completely...

I am reading this command to the apostles in the context that Matthew puts it, which is one week after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and it is in Galilee, called in some passages, "Galilee of the nations." Mt 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them (the Mary's V1), Be not afraid: go tell my brethren...