Recent content by Derf

Why is it borderline Gnosticism?

Why would we go to your ask me anything thread when uou just ask Chat GPT. It's like having to go through a negotiator--just to talk to artificial intelligence. What does that make you, assistant to the artificial intelligence?

I usual prefer the literal, but you seem to be searching for anything in your time frame that might fit.

Why does "seven hills" have to be literal, since most of the rest isn't?

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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.