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I didn't say he was crucified at that time. But as B57's citation pointed out, Meaning that when God promises something He often acts as if those things were already fulfilled, as long as they aren't contingent on something else. Christ's death was promised in Gen 3, but wasn't fulfilled until...

While I don't agree with B57's "eternal perspective", he's right about Jesus being slain from the foundation of the world, and the reason why the language is consistent. God promised that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head, and that His heel would be bruised.

Faulty wording. They might have needed it in some way, but they were never lost. I don't think they were born "spiritually dead", but it doesn't matter, because of your quote to JR: Thus, because God was going to save them, they were never lost, but always saved from God's point of view...

All Calvinists believe all that will be saved were determined to be saved before they ever existed. There was never a time in their lives when they were in danger of losing their eternal lives. Thus, if they were never in peril of their eternal lives, they didn't need to be saved. That might be...

People that were never going to be lost don't need good news, because they never were in danger.

Your answer, of course, is a dead end. There's no good news in your gospel. If you aren't saved, you might never be. If you think you are, you might not be. It all depends on the whims of a God that decided before you were born to dangle the forbidden fruit of eternal life before your eyes, then...

Pride comes to mind.

I grew up baptist. Back then I was sure only baptists would be in heaven. I've matured since then.

"Apocrypha" means "hidden", so I guess they're hidden amongst the rest of the books. 😉

I should have said "to @Catholic Crusader's post". The op was much more general. I did a search for how many books are in the apocrypha, and of the first 10 hits I saw 5 different answers.

This is exactly the answer to the OP. There isn't universal ("catholic") agreement on which books belong in the deutero-canon.

If I remember correctly, the artwork depicting the spoils Titus brought from Jerusalem did not include images of the ark of the covenant. Your cited verse doesn't support the more imaginative stones. Exodus 24:10 (ESV) and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a...

I don't have any opinion on those locations. They might be correct, or might not be. At this point in time, the use of the actual locations is mostly not helpful, just as the use of the actual body and blood of Christ in Mass is not helpful. The memory of each IS helpful. The memory of the...

Yet the church from early on had nothing written by Timothy or Titus telling us what Paul said that was considered worthy of including in the canon of scripture, probably because it was unnecessary or duplicative. Which tells us, I believe, that if we are going to get some doctrinal wisdom from...

How can we tell if it contradicts God?

Traditions can be good or bad. They might not convey truth. They might hide the truth. Mark 7:7-8 (ESV) 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

And that's why we need to be careful about "traditions".

I found a picture of the tablets:

I'm not sure you got the republican one right. He would complain about the oppressive democrat tax, get elected into office, then give you part of your cow back.

Never heard of this before. I'm not an expert on the Torah, by any account. But @ffreeloader's references seem to be good ones. The ark wasn't cube-shaped, and there was enough room to also hold Aaron's rod that budded, along with a jar of manna.