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No, he's saying they are justified by faith, which produces works. Read it again. And don't forget this part: James 2:26 KJV — For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. If there is no spirit, the body ceases to function. There's no point in a spiritless...

Yes, Paul was consistent with Jesus and the 12. But in being consistent, he reneged on his agreement to leave the Jews to the 12, if that's the way you read it. If it's the Jews that were left for the 12, while Paul went to Gentiles, then Paul reneged. But if it was the gentile nations, then it...

No, I don't see the problem. James was saying that faith produces works, so in that sense, Abraham was justified by works. But the sense is that he was justified by faith, which is always and only shown by works. Paul never suggested that we are justified by a kind of faith that doesn't produce...

James is not saying the Jews are justified by the works of the law--Abraham didn't have the law. He's saying that if your faith doesn't produce works, it is powerless to save. Real faith produces real works. Works can't produce faith, but faith will always produce works, or it isn't real faith.

You're judging the command by the obedience (or lack thereof). It should be the other way around.

In terms of the high sabbath, it could still work for the passover to be on a Saturday (Friday evening). Christ's death would occur in the afternoon (the "evening" seems to mean while the sun is going down...from its apex that day). But there are other things in play. The requirements for the...

The feast of unleavened bread starts with the day of passover, which is a sabbath day no matter which day of the week it falls on. If on Friday, it makes for two sabbath days in a row (neither of which would work for the women to go to the tomb, apparently, so they waited until Sunday morning)...

That doesn't seem to work, because the Jews thought the passover hadn't happened yet: John 18:28 KJV — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the...

That's not true. Jesus gave gentiles as a task to all the 12: Matthew 28:19-20 KJV — Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with...

Does God love the inanimate molecules enough to preserve them through destruction (the death of a molecule, I suppose)? Yes. But wasn't it important enough that God provided it? I'm not saying why it was important, only that it was. Genesis is not a HUGE postulation to build a theology off of...

The same church He said He would build, but there are multiple churches. So He is the head of the church, without continuing to be the head of the church of Laodicea, where He has to knock to be let in.

I'd count myself a dispensationalist, but not mid-Acts. But I don't think I need an excuse for anything. Jesus sent letters to 7 churches. And the movement wasn't called a church movement, it was called the Way. If you group together to worship God for providing salvation from death through...

I didn't know the date for Calvin's assumption. Thanks.

That's for all those Catholic Calvinists.

Your question is "What does one gain from Open Theism". I said, "Meaning". You said: This is, imho, a way to avoid the conversation, despite it being your thread. If you say, "meaning is of no importance", then your thread is of no importance. But by saying, "meaning isn't important, only...

I just don't like it importing curses. Sounds like it would destroy life instead of create it. It should import blessings.

Maybe tomorrow.

On what way do you think we are made in the image of God? Do you think the battery is a temporary infusion of God's characteristic(s) that express His image? Was that a good or a bad thing? If God has freewill, isn't it a good thing?

Nope, just turtles all the way down.

You're avoiding the question by bringing it into the conversation. Ok. Not if He decided you would hate it, as He must have with some in that theology . Truth. You're the one that put limits on immutability.