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If so, then Jesus misspoke, since he spoke of counting. Agreed. Several here talk about the things that God wants to know or not. I'm not completely on board with the idea, but I can understand why they go that direction. There is a need, if justice is in mind. Like when one might say, "If you...

I don't think that answers my question. If Jesus is going to be building a church (congregation) starting with a foundation that has something to do with a Rock, the Old Testament doesn't seem to tell me about it very well, except in future terms, because all past terms are not applicable to the...

Let's at least think it enough. So He was not starting a building, but continuing one? One where the foundation was only recently laid, or was about to be laid? Is this a wise way to build, waiting for the foundation until other parts are built? I just can't see how Jesus' statement could be...

I don't know that we can actually know whether you are right or not in saying "He does not." Maybe He does choose to, and thus, when Jesus said "the hairs are numbered", it would appear that He would be either lying or mistaken if God had not, at least once in recent history before Jesus made...

Couldn't AI fabricate a whole game anyway? Metrics too.

The division of sheep and goats is the future building of the church mentioned in Deuteronomy? Are you saying there wasn't a church in the wilderness? If there was, and it's the sheep vs goats church Jesus was going to build, then was the building of it incomplete, or not started? Jesus, after...

And it is metaphor that we are struggling with?

So it was a new church (group, congregation), right? One that was required to follow those laws you mention below? And another church (group, congregation) was built that did not have to follow those laws. In terms of buildings, then, there was a wall of separation between the two, right? Now...

When did the other church start? You know, the one that Jesus said He would build (future tense) on that Rock. Has He not yet built it? When Paul spoke of the middle wall of partition being broken down, was he referring to the wall between two churches? Or between something else?

But "biblical" is unnecessary when one can merely claim the Spirit is giving the words, if we don't have to worry ahead of time what we are going to say (i.e., if we don't have to study the Bible at all), since we are going to be reminded at any point in time what the truth is. We all know this...

Ok. It is interesting. Certainly we all struggle at times with metaphors. What else is your point?

If the verse can be used to say church doctrine can be determined without considering anyone else in the church, but merely based on the claim that the Holy Spirit gave a person that doctrine, nothing is off limits. My example of the Pope is not even an extreme case, since he or they do not make...

Is that the one Jesus was going to build?

That's important, but the context is more when the followers of Christ would be brought before civil and religious leaders, not just in determining church policy or doctrine. Your use would imply that the Pope's supposed ex cathedra statements are all valid, because he could claim the Holy...

But if you are MAD, Hebrews doesn't apply to you, right?

Well, confessing now is better than never, but all the media that helped hype it are equally to blame or more.

I'm not sure what you are arguing against here, as I agree with all of that. My point was that Jesus was clearly talking about a future building project, and Peter was going to be involved. So what future church was Jesus talking about, where Peter would be involved, if the believing Jews were...

From Webster's 1828: REPLEN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin re and plenus, full.] 1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water. Multiply and replenish the earth. Genesis 1:28. 2. To finish; to complete. [Not in...

You probably won't gain much traction namedropping me in this conversation.

Wouldn't that be rather "rebuild my church"?