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It's not as interesting as the three denial prophecy. It's more interesting just because it indicates John wrote his Gospel AFTER Peter's death, which puts it after c. AD 66—maybe the last book written in the Bible for all we know.

Since when do we believe sources outside of the Bible Clete? And if we do permit them, then why only people like Josephus who did NOT believe in Christ? If we allow extra-Biblical primary sources in, then why aren't we also receiving Clement and the Didache and Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp...

That's what I said. I'm glad you're not headed for Hell—ofc. Why was there a possessed serpent in the Garden with them? It wasn't like that was against God's will, that the Ancient Serpent Deceiver was there. That was God's will. He could have arranged to stop the Devil from entering into...

There are no advantages to this view over my position that 15 Nisan was a Saturday, and so counted as both Unleavened Bread and the standard weekly Sabbath in one day. As you say, there's no limit to what day 14 Nisan could be, so there's no limit to when 15 Nisan could be as well. So nothing...

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...