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Incontrovertible objective fact: The “quote” in your post (for “is counsel shall stand, and He will do all His pleasure.” is NOT a quote from the Bible! Rather its origin appears to be from the following verses in the Bible, Psalms 115:3. Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases...

It is extremely unfortunate to find such tripe as this on a Christian message board! The “quote” Is NOT a quote from the Bible! Rather it is sloppy paste job from ancient Hebrew poetry and a doxology. Psalms 115:3. Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. (NRSV) Isaiah 46:10...

“Greek secular science?” All science is secular. “This is the crux. We find nothing of Greek secular science in the bible, beyond the choice of words used by the LXX.” Which words are these? “But the point remains that what you are articulating is "secular science" rather than what merely...

Most of the Christians in the first century could not read Hebrew. That is why the Tanakh was translated into Greek. Paul could read Hebrew but the majority of the time when he quoted from the Old Testament he quoted from the Septuagint. Other times he quoted from texts that we do not have...

God did not die on the cross or anywhere else! God’s only begotten son, a genuine human being and a perfect sacrifice, died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, was buried, was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. THE...

I am pleased to learn that you are reading the commentary on Genies by Delitzsch and that you apparently still have a healthy mind. Delitzsch was, as you have observed for yourself, more critically minded than was Keil. When I wrote that Delitzsch was more accurate, I was not at all referring...

You are apparently quoting from pages 52-53 in the English translation of the 10-volume commentary on the Bible, Biblischer Kommentar über das Alte Testament written in German by Johann Friedrich Karl Keil and Franz Julius Delitzsch and originally published in the years 1866-1877. Keil wrote on...

If the human being Jesus was a credible witness to the events in Genesis 1-11, he had knowledge beyond what was humanly possible. Therefore, he was not fully human and his death on the cross was a tragic but useless event. Indeed, the human being Jesus would have known only what he had learned...

If your view is correct, the death of Jesus on the cross was of no value and we are still living in our sins. If my view is correct, the death of Jesus on the cross was of infinite value and all true believers have been set free from their sins.

As I wrote above, “Genesis 1-11 is written in a genre of prose literature that is radically different from that of Genesis 12-50 and the rest of the Bible.” Genesis 12-50 is written in the genre of prose literature known as the “Historical Narrative.” That is, it is a supposed literal...

The doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible is highly complex with very many opposing views. My views are not based upon superstitions, hunches, or religious dogma; they are based upon the data with which I am familiar. Genesis 1-11 is written in a genre of prose literature that is radically...

I have never said, suggested, implied, insinuated, intimated, hinted or mentioned that I am a believer in the absurd notion that the earth is flat. Instead, I have quoted from Scripture where it very inaccurately describes the earth as being flat and covered with a solid dome that had real...

The final redactors of Genesis 1-11 did not know what actually exists. Moreover, all Jews at the time strenuously resisted Greek cosmology but believed in a cosmology that was commonly believed at the time by many non-Grecian peoples. Therefore, Genesis 1-11 needs to be understood from the...

A Baptist once wrote, “In order to be able to expound the Scriptures, and as an aid to your pulpit studies, you will need to be familiar with the commentators: a glorious army, let me tell you, whose acquaintance will be your delight and profit. Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think...

I quoted directly from the Scriptures and you blew them off just as do the Jehovah’s Witnesses when presented with the truth. And even worse than the Jehovah’s Witnesses, you accuse me of not believing the Bible, which I obvious do believe—even enough to actually study it in the languages in...

Of course, I deny it—and so did the Church as a whole deny it until 1961. Some ancient Jewish rabbis continued to believe into the 8th century A.D. that Genesis 1-11 was an accurate, literal account of actual historic events. Ancient Christian scholars, however, were writing at least as early...

Are you confusing the doctrine of the sovereignty of God with the doctrine of the absolute sovereignty of God like you are confusing the Tanakh with the Torah? The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible consisting of the Torah (the five books of Moses, the Nevi'im (the Books of the Prophets), and the...

It is painfully obvious that you have not read either commentary and that you are not at all familiar with Claus Westermann or Kenneth Mathews.

Should we believe what God has said, or what Ben is saying? They are vastly different, and since there is nothing more important to me than the truth, I believe what God has said.