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Right, I like the idea, but it's one possible way to explain the scriptures. Like "the seven seas", a term that refers to the connected oceans? "Oceans" isn't used in most English translations of the old testament, because it's a Greek word. But it would fit: Definitions from Oxford...

How about..."This gives an idea of what earth might have looked like..." Another possible view that might align better with the text is that all the continents were together in a single continent and all the oceans ("seas") connected surrounded it. Genesis 1:9-10 KJV — And God said, Let the...

Not just the suffering, but it was for their sin ("iniquity*)

The riches are unsearchable, but not the scriptures. Jesus and Paul both explained using the OT scriptures why Jesus had to die. It was hid, but not once the object of the hiding was achieved--then it could be revealed.

Maybe this one: Isaiah 53:5 KJV — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Which scriptures was it according to, if it's not found in any other scripture?

That wasn't a list of verses, that was one verse, repeated numerous times.

Of course, but why is the medicaid office doing voter registration?

The state medicaid office???

Jesus went to the Samaritans. John 4:32-34 KJV — But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. By...

can you give scripture references for each of those?

I knew those Chic Fil A cows were evil.

Is that notice for college students? They probably don't know about consequences.

Those are synonyms usually in a systematic theology sense, as you said. Does that verse require such a sense? I suggest that it doesn't, which would mean Paul is merely talking about how grace is being dispensed through him to the Gentiles, using this definition from Websters 1828 dictionary: 1...

If Peter mentions Paul's writing to the people he's writing to, who are in Asia Minor, and Paul has already established some authority over that area, it doesn't fit the timeline you've proposed. And even more than that, Paul had by that time written more than a couple epistles that had been...

I don't fault @oatmeal too much for this, because it is pervasive in Christian teaching, just like Calvinism and Arminianism are (which are the two sides of settled theism), but it is frustrating to hear it so often, without an explanation of what it results in or much in the way of scriptural...

It's hard to give up firmly held beliefs, so they cling to whatever will allow them to maintain it in the face of logically strong opposition. That doesn't mean good arguments don't have some effect on them...I think they see the holes, and if they allow themselves to process through it, they...

It seems to me that when you say, "Logically, you can't both know someone will make a particular choice in every given circumstance, and that the person has the ability to choose between the different choices," the only answer is to say, "Logic doesn't apply." That's what that answer does...it...

It allows them to say, "God is more wonderful than we can even know, so what I say about God is true." In other words, it is a blank check to support a doctrine that can mean whatever they want it to mean.

That's all good stuff, Clete, but I think there's more to it. There was an agreement between David and Bathsheba that her son would sit on the throne. We don't know when the agreement was made, but I expect it was part of the deal early on, maybe when Bathy first discovered she was pregnant...