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From Christianity.com (I don't vouch for their content): Nestorius maintained Jesus was really two separate persons, and only the human Jesus was in Mary's womb. If Arianism says Jesus was not God and the God created Jesus, and Nestorians say Jesus was not God until some point after He was...

I don't mind considering Islam as the beast, or even that it is related to 666 somehow. I just don't see how you get from 666 being the number of his name to 666 being the year of his...something or other. it's a jump not warranted by the reading of the text, afaict. Remember Daniel warned...

Maybe they merged with Nestorians.

Why is the year 666 important? It doesn't fit with anything in Revelation (as a year, that is).

Did you write any down?

Aggressively calling out "heresy" is often a sign that regular debate isn't working.

I remember some of mine, usually when I'm woken up in the middle of it...so I never remember the end of any dreams.

And what @inthebeginning was trying to convey was that when he reads such and such passages, he understands them in so and so way, graciously allowing that others might have a better understanding than his, in which case he would likely change his opinion. But if we treat our understanding as...

The tomb was empty. And Christ said that people will be called out of their graves at the resurrection (remember Lazarus?). If His new spiritual body was not somehow made from His old flesh body, Then it wasn't really a resurrection, was it? He disappeared. That doesn't have to mean He assumed...

Except Abraham was not remote enough from the descendents of Canaan to have such a crack between them.

Not if His body that was raised was the same body that died. Maybe, but if you were to change your form to a duck, for instance, wouldn't hand scars make little sense to display? That seems possible. Sometimes I think He wasn't recognized because they weren't ready to acknowledge anyone could...

I don't see Paul contradicting Jesus. Like here: 1 Corinthians 7:19 NKJV — Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

Why do you think we'll be able to change the way our bodies look? Why would we want to? I think Jesus' resurrection body is the model, and if he could change the way he looked, then why was it a help to show them his scars? He could have just manufactured the scars for the eleven, but they...

In a conversation we often repeat things we've said before to someone else. This one should be a simple answer, not requiring a search.

It might imply it, but it might not. The original call for the death penalty made no mention of it, and the sanctuary cities suggest that it wasn't always adjudicated. In other words, if the perpetrator has to "flee" to the sanctuary city, that suggests the punishment wasn't going to wait for...