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- Sat May 11, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 16
- Views: 367
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
Claiming the electoral college is “undemocratic” is obviously partisan. That’s why I say it’s actually a Democratic position.
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Proselytization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 480
Re: Proselytization
Overall, we just don’t view ourselves obligated to obey the entire OT law, but it is obvious some things are things Christians must do: thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not bear false witness, etc.
Commandments in the NT do seem to be obligations. Otherwise why would they be there at all?
Commandments in the NT do seem to be obligations. Otherwise why would they be there at all?
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Proselytization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 480
Re: Proselytization
What I really don’t see at all is that Jesus taught us not to obey the teachings in the NT books.
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 16
- Views: 367
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
We can have democratic institutions (universal suffrage, direct election of Senators, term limits on the presidency, etc.) And we can have undemocratic institutions (electoral college, 3/5ths compromise, filibuster rules, etc.) This looks suspiciously like Democratic institutions, not democratic in...
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
No, most of the Jewish people did not become Christians. Not at all. That's why the early Christians had to scatter from Jerusalem. That's why Paul, after initially preaching in synagogues wherever he went, would take the gospel to the Gentiles after being rejected by most of the Jews. Furthermore,...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
I suppose if one thinks "might makes right"; what I question is why many Christians assert that "Israel has a right to exist" but they don't also assert that Palestinians and their lands in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to exist. Or do they believe that might always makes r...
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
Well put. I think there are indications of a return to the land of Israel, Who is doing this returning? As I’ve clarified earlier, most of the Jewish people became Christians. The rest died in 70 AD making a last stand at the temple. Whatever modern day Judaism or Jewish identity is, it has no prom...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
Interesting group. Really hard to get up there, at least when I was there. Even harder to find out exactly what they have in their "temple." My friends at Jerusalem University College think they have a priceless trove of manuscripts, that outsiders can't get access to. Yes. They end up wo...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
And is full of a combination of essentially atheistic seculars and believers in a made up religion that was posited as a replacement for the true religion that God prescribed, commonly called Rabbinic Judaism. One of the more interesting groups are the Samaritans - all 900 of them. About half are i...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1216
Re: The Israeli state?
Just so I understand you clearly. You believe ALL the unbelieving Jews were slain at that moment leaving ONLY believing Jews...including Josephus? I don't have any idea of ALL of them were slain. I am simply saying that those who decided to stay and "defend" the temple, and attempt to fig...