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Your questions concern issues that theologians and philosophers have debated for thousands of years. Lengthy discussions typically just deepen the confusion. The way you have posed the issues is slanted toward an accusatory stance. In fact, they are not even questions, but assertions. I get...

A mediator bridges two estranged parties to bring about reconciliation and peace, often guaranteeing a covenant or settlement. A intercessor pleads, prays, or advocates on behalf of one party to another, seeking mercy or help without necessarily holding the structural office of legal...

In Hebrew, the word oth (אוֹת, pronounced owth) means sign, token, mark, or miracle. It describes a physical object, event, or symbol that points to a deeper meaning, a divine promise, or a proof of an event. Strong’s — Oth = a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument...

Can you think of a better guess as to what was the mark God put on Cain?

@Anthony Pritchard has not mentioned law or legalism. And his explanation of the precise terms used in scripture is not “quibbling with words”. You place church tradition and dictionaries above the scriptures.

When a person places church tradition on the same level of authority as scriptures, you cannot convince them of error by quoting scripture to them. If their traditions teach something, they will persist in it, even if it is not in harmony with scripture.

This ties in with the discussion about the mark of the beast, which must be physical, because people will need it to buy and sell. Like the mark of the beast, the mark on Cain had to be a literal physical mark. The "mark of the beast" (Revelation 13:16-18) is frequently associated in modern...

Genesis 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. ———————————— What mark on a human being would make you afraid to kill him? I have never seen any...

Necromancy is a type of magic that involves communicating with the dead. People historically used it as a form of divination to learn about the future or find hidden secrets. Over time, the word also came to mean black magic or sorcery in general. Deuteronomy 18:10,11 10 There shall not be...

Mary is exalted to a divine, co-redemptress status to appease followers of pagan religions that worshiped a goddess. The pagans called their goddess the Queen of Heaven. Early Israelites emerged from a Canaanite background where El was the chief high god and Asherah was his wife. As Yahweh...

The rosary seems to a Protestant to be Maryolatry, the over-valuation of the mother of Jesus. The church epistles never even mention Mary. That is odd, if she really is our advocate, or co-redemptress. Catholic Charities states: How to Pray the Rosary Make the Sign of the Cross and hold...

How are blessings different from grace?

Have you been blood tested for possible anemia? Are you self-disciplined in other areas of your life? Do you have zeal for anything, like a hobby, a romance, a game, cooking, hiking? Are you also depressed in addition to feeling lethargic?

Have you been lethargic and unmotivated about other things in your life? Or is it only prayer and Bible reading?

I do not see anything profitable arising from discussing Spinoza. The main philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza is a radical form of pantheism and rationalism. He argued that God and the physical universe are one and the same single, infinite substance (Deus sive Natura—"God or Nature")...

I recently had a discussion with someone, on this or some other forum, who claimed that we will be judged according to our deeds, not thoughts. As long as he did not act upon the thought, he felt he was not sinning. I and others quoted verses about lusting for a woman in your heart being...

But they wrote their gospels after Jesus died and rose from the dead, and after Pentecost.

I like Martin Lloyd-Jones and puritan Thomas Watson, whose Great Gain of Godliness is one of my favorite books, which CH Spurgeon wanted to read, but could never find.

John MacArthur was primarily shaped by 20th-century Welsh Calvinist preacher D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, modern theologians like J.I. Packer and John Stott, and historic Puritan writers such as Thomas Watson and Stephen Charnock, who anchored his commitment to expository preaching and Reformed theology.

Do you know what theologians influenced Mac, Washer, and John Piper? My position is that it is valid to tell an unsaved person to receive Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior. They should know that Christ wants to be and must be their boss, teacher, master, and manager, and not just an...