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How modern? It was used by Webster in 1828 to define "repent": ---------- 3. To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct. Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return. Exodus 13:17. 4. Applied to the Supreme Being, to change...

You were accusing me of ignoring the plain text, not your points. Why change the conversation? Then you agree that "plain reading of the text" is a mere smokescreen? Or begging the question? Of course everybody claims to believe they have the "plain reading of the text", because otherwise they...

I'm certain you are reading it wrong. God is the one speaking in both vs 1 and 2. You keep trying to insert some other accuser, but it isn't needed to understand the passage. And inserting one where it isnt needed makes you go off into weird speculations about what the passage means. Rather, it...

Just so you know, I don't always have time to peruse the different threads I've contributed to, so I might not see a response that doesn't directly address me by either quoting one of my posts or by using the "@" sign followed by my name (no spaces). I know that's your answer, because you've...

I think I already did what you are asking for. In John 10 Jesus speaking to the the leader of the Jews, chastising them for how they led the people. You can see this in the earlier part of the chapter where Jesus talks about thieves and hirelings and those that don't care for the sheep. This...

Should we discuss which plain reading you're ignoring? Here's an additional point: Whereas you gave the following as enough to disqualify Paul as author-- “Which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.” — Hebrews 2:3--by these words: That...

Yet, here's the next town he went to: Acts 14:1 KJV — And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. So the Jews were still his focus, at least when he first...

I'm going to focus on this point, because i don't have time to deal with the rest right now. Paul"s ministry was continually to Hebrews (Jews). In every town he visited, he went to the synagogue first, if they had one, or to the God-fearing Jews who met together if there were any. Throughout the...

Contradictions often stem from false presuppositions, as you well know. Since Hebrews was written by someone who knew Timothy, that person also must have known Paul and his teachings. So it is very likely that he wrote from Pauls doctrinal position. Therefore making it out to be non-Pauline is...

That shows not who the author of Hebrews isn't, but how fragile your theology system is.

It is. We know this from what Jesus said when quoting from it: John 10:34-35 KJV — Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; The bolded parts connect the words "you are...

A man who thinks he's better than a man, but will still die like the man he is. The previous verse explains this. Psalm 82:6 KJV — I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

If it was Paul, then we know why...because a lot of the Jews still hated him for bringing in Gentiles without circumcision. He omitted, or somebody delivering the letter probably deleted, the greeting and closing sections that would have confirmed Paul's authorship to keep the messenger from...

Not to mention leaders, sometimes overlapping with food, like: Earl of Sandwich or Mayor of Hamburg

So sabbath days are not holy? I appreciate the fact that you are quoting scripture, but i don't see how it helps your point. If the sabbath was a shadow of things to come, then, like the other shadows, it does not need to be continued in the shadow form, since we have our true rest in Christ.