Recent content by PaulThomson

I think you mean, "When is the age of accountability?" I would ask you, "What is the age of accountability?" What do you mean by "the age of accountability". I don't see anything like "the age of accountability" mentioned in scripture.

I asked DuckDuckGo "What is the logical fallacy of using erudite language to create an impression of reliable expertise" Search Assist The logical fallacy you're referring to is often called the "appeal to authority" fallacy, where someone uses complex or sophisticated language to give the...

That would make every worldview that isn’t Christian into a counterfeit Christianity. I think you are misusing the word counterfeit.

It seems there will be no sexual intercourse for resurrection bodies. Otherwise, that woman would be having sex with seven men after the resurrection.

The point of Jesus’ riddle is that Jesus was a descendant/son of David, so why does "the forefather call the descendant “Lord”? Traditionally, the forefather is the elder and the Lord of the younger descendant. However, Jesus appears twice in his own genealogy. Jesus the son of Joseph…. the son...

This is my best guess. When Jerusalem fell to the Romans in AD 70, they installed in Jerusalem, images of Vespasian Caesar in Jerusalem and then one inside the temple, which they sacrificed to and worshipped. After the man of sin makes public claims to being a god above all other gods, and...

I don’t see “counterfeit church” there, @Lovette . A counterfeit dollar, looks just like a dollar, but is not one. Does "mystery Babylon" look just like true Christianity. The impression I get of mystery Babylon is that it is an alternative to Christianity that looks nothing like true...

OMC, you say, “… but nothing in that passage resembles the cultic enthronement act of 2 Thess 2:4, where the man of sin sits (kathisai) and proclaims himself God, an act that only makes sense in a sacred space patterned after Daniel’s temple_desecration_pattern, not in the metaphorical “living...

Where does Jesus explicitly say Judas was never of the truth? Jesus said He lost Judas. He does not say he never had Judas. None of the disciples were regenerate until after Jesus' resurrection.

There is no chapter one and chapter two in Paul’s letter, where he presents "airtight syntactical chain in 2 Thess 2” that is not linked to chapter one. There was only one chapter in Paul’s letter. The chapters and verse numbers were inserted by modern publishers. You are creating an arbitrary...

How do you know that? Where is "the counterfeit church” presented as a real thing in scripture? When the two witnesses prophesy, will they be presenting truth? If some church members and unbelievers embrace that message, will they be “receiving the love of the truth? And will those church...

1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are a divine temple (ναὸς θεοῦ), and that the Spirit of...

Erratum - Thess. 2:6-7 should say 2Th 2:6 And now ye know what/the thing that is restraining that he might be revealed in his time. 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity is already working: only he now restraining will restrain, until he/it becomes out of the midst.

If, “these things includes 1:6-12, then this passage does mention of include an apokalupsis for Jesus, and it is not accurate to say, "Paul never uses apokalyptō for Christ’s return in this passage”. This is a single letter, and the topic of Jesus return begins in chapter 1, with a long sentence...

You make a fair point about enestEken. 2:2 εἰς τὸ μὴ ταχέως (suddenly) σαλευθῆναι (aorist passive infinitive, to start to be shaken) ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ νοὸς μήτε θροεῖσθαι μήτε διὰ πνεύματος μήτε διὰ λόγου μητὲ δι᾽ ἐπιστολῆς ὡς δι᾽ἡμῶν ὡς ὅτι ἐνέστηκεν (perfect passive active, has been made present)...