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Agreed.

The 70th week is interesting, if you associate a week with a year. It was literally AD 70 when the temple was laid waste and it's been ground to powder ever since, never heard from, never seen again.

God's control of the future causes His foreknowledge, so it's really a distraction to ask the question whether his foreknowledge settles the future. The future is settled because He settled it, His foreknowledge is the rather trivial coincidence that He also happens to KNOW what the future is...

You're just focusing in on one lapsarian position. The one that states that God decreed the fall before He created. That's not standard or canonical Clavinism—that's just one party among Clavinists. Others believe He decreed the Fall only after He created, and not before. So He creates, then...

15 Nisan begins what we call Friday at sundown. So that night, is both the first day (because the day begins at night) of Unleavened Bread, plus the Sabbath, meaning 16 Nisan is First Fruits, which begins Saturday night. So with those two holidays happening at the same time, overlapping...

I wonder what it was like, coming to after that.

Mere faith? or faithfulness (or 'allegiance' maybe)?

So are we talking about faithfulness then, or mere faith? If all we're meaning by faith as a fruit is mere faith, then we are all the same, because we all acknowledge and believe what I think we all believe to be mere Christianity, meaning basically the Trinity and Christ's Resurrection, right...

I believe all of the bold above, and I am not Open. This is why I mentioned Sozo because he also recognized that the provocative movie The Game with Michael Douglas explores this issue, he would always say the movie demonstrated love, I saw instead sovereignty and divine foreknowledge...

It's similar to Trinitarians trying to dunk by quoting the disciple Thomas saying, "My Lord and my God." Why are they assigning /assuming infallibility here, when it seems prima facie to be extemporaneous? It's weak.

It's stronger than @Lon 's argument for why He said He didn't know, which was an argument from silence.

Thomas Sowell has five books on that list—how accurate is that? That seems slanted. You mean to tell me that if I want a solid education from just reading 100 books, that I need to devote 5 percent of that to Thomas Sowell? How? In what way can I not glean from just one or two of his works...

Sure, but I was only agreeing with your point about the first sin not coming from man's brokenness. The first sin broke him.

And @Clete said the fruit is faith, so I guess I was wrong about it not being partisan and controversial lol.

"and arranged to have him asked 3 times" was the rest of the post I was responding to.

With the Biden administration coming to its end, the Europeans are no longer able to just sit on their hands: This quote is from June 2022—sound familiar? President Trump's not having any or that, he just wants a truce, a ceasefire, a peace deal. And he's not a sucker. The deal will be a...

It was provocative, for sure. Millennials are the ones who turned us back toward being anti-abortion as a country, 'got to give the devil his due. I mean they made it fall back into the Overton window again.

Canada would be the most populous state by a smidge, if population data I've seen is accurate (they have a little bit more than California), so they'd get their two Senators plus a ton of Congressmen in Washington, and Ottawa would remain their seat of government. We can't really offer full...

It was prompted literally by a possessed by a demon (the original demon) serpent. It's the first time in the Bible demons are seen capable of possessing an animal, but not the last.

All makes sense until you sin (I would say especially sin gravely, but I'm a standard Roman Catholic so that might be unnecessarily obfuscating) especially seriously, like adultery or something. Do you think an adulterer, a habitual adulterer, could be a regenerated Christian? I mean as a...