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Understanding our sin is always necessary for repentance, Acts 2:38. But his sermon in that chapter was mostly focused on the resurrection and ascension. Acts 3 is similar. The sin is stated clearly, but the "good news" is not the sin, but the remedy for it. Acts 3:15 (KJV) And killed the...

I appreciate that the message the 12 were taking to the people of Israel was different early than what they later found out, but don't you think their message changed?

Can you state both gospels next to each other?

That's not what I imagined when you said "so many things".

Sure they are: attach axle to vehicle, then attach wheels.

If your currently available evidence were strong, then why do you predict such a party when more evidence is found. If you're searching for truth rather than for confirmation of a particular theory (with specific epistemological implications), you should rejoice over any progress--not just for...

Because you have so little evidence currently? That's called "faith", and it should make you question your presuppositions.

Kinda like how a car and a tricycle both have instructions for how to attach an axle?

Otherwise known as "rightly dividing".

Yes, just like Clete's garden! And the elephant rocks you posted! That's wonderful! I'm finally starting to understand. If something looks like something else, then it must have a common ancestor.

You can find several other verses where grace is a gift, but no other where faith is a gift. And the faith in Christ allows access to the grace: Romans 5:1-2 (KJV) 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith...

The prepositional phrase "through faith" might modify the whole prepositional phrase "by grace", because adverbial phrases don't modify nouns, but they can modify other adverbial phrases.

Paul gives the information, but not the faith to believe it. God gives the gift (life death resurrection in Jesus' life death resurrection), but not the faith to believe it, just as he gave gifts to Abraham, but not the faith--it was reckoned as righteousness because the righteousness wasn't...

Sounds like the same kind of thing Peter said were too onerous for the Jews. How will you know if you've achieved them all? Faith alone is what is required of us, but faith is not alone in us.

That's one of the clearest explanations I've heard, but it says we are saved by something other than the cross--you have us saved by this "gift", and therefore the cross is unnecessary.

The link is hilarious! Thanks for posting it. Too bad they ascribe purpose to a purposeless process and won't give glory to God.

That's why I compared Aaron to Paul or the other apostles. Of course there are fakes. But if the main guy, Aaron in OT, or Paul or other apostles (all of them) in NT are fakes, the movement dies. That's why Jesus said, John 17:12 (KJV) While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy...

That's my point. If the man in charge of the ritual doesn't believe in the ritual's power, how could it last?

Try this scenario. Let's say all 12 of the original apostles went the same way as Judas, but didn't commit suicide, or repent. They didn't continue to preach the gospel, nor confirm the resurrection. All they did was baptize and offer communion. They then trained their own disciples to do the...

But surely any Israelite reading that would think, "There's no way God can save me from hell, if even Aaron is in hell today." Do you know of any other case where God tells of a particular man's ultimate destiny (Judas excepted, perhaps)? To say the high priest can't be saved by doing what God...