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Separate subject. I never said all of prophecy was historically fulfilled. Preterists tend in that direction. I do not. Jesus did say that he was giving prophecy, in the Revelation, of things to happen *after* the things that presently were. So after detailing the things that were happening at...

I don't believe this. Jesus said "this generation" would see all of the initial birth pains of the coming destruction of Jerusalem. This destruction, involving the desolation of the temple, stone by stone, took place in that generation, in 70 AD. Nothing could be clearer, and yet futurists...

Whoa, you're too fast for me. I was still adding to the post! ;) Please go back and see what I added. It's an attempt at clarification, albeit not my best work.

The use of the word, "Israel," implies a nation, which naturally consists of those who inhabit it. It does not need to be explained. It is part of the word's definition. When that word is used, it is understood by any reader who knows the language, and how the word "nation" is used. When we...

I wasn't giving my opinion. I was giving Scripture. The Scriptures, in a multitude of places, refer to the nation Israel, which logically includes the full number of its citizens. This is not conjecture. It isn't speculation. It's fact. But the notion that only some of the nation will actually...

I agree. I want you to know that I've been praying for Blacks in America for a very long time. And in some ways, Obama and BLM have helped Blacks restore some of their dignity. That's on the positive side. And I agree, we need to keep things in balance. Now I'm praying that many American...

It's very popular to say just the small number of "chosen few" are God's People, were Israel, and are now the Church. In reality, God includes all who nominally belong to a group, before culling out the bad ones and disqualifying the illegitimate. So from the start, the entire nation was...

Perhaps, but I don't think they were into "inbreeding," since incest was prohibited under the Law. This is a good case to show that God, even with His "separatist" Law, had no thought about preference for a particular race. It was a religious matter, as well as a practical matter. Until true...

I agree. My wife has a friend--don't see her often now--who is African American. The last time she came to our house there had been a tension between her and myself over politics, due to the current state of racial hostilities. And so I tried to change the subject. I was trying to be polite...

In the current environment that's really going to go over well! ;) To start with, there are mixed blacks and asians in my family. I have no interest in showing an ounce of racial prejudice, for the simple reason that I love my relatives. 2ndly, racism certainly is a hot topic now, and well...

My view of this is that the Canaanites were expressly banned because God had given them a long time to repent of their wicked ways, and they had ultimately become so hardened in their ways that marrying them, or partnering with them in business, would be like countenancing their wickedness. It...

A racist God? I've heard non-Christians accuse Christianity of being bigoted because our beliefs view gays as sinners, or non-Christians as lost. Things like that. And then there are legitimate Christians who read about God killing everybody in the Flood, and killing all of Israel's enemies in...

You are misrepresenting the word "perfect" as it was being used *in context.* You are using it as though it is used in English, which does not easily translate into the context of human sinners, which we are discussing. Yes, "perfect" would normally be used in English for something unblemished...

Rev 2.17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful...

No, nice try though. Unscriptural truth won't help anybody, including yourself. You are deceived.

I've said all I can say to you. You'll have to learn the truth over the long haul. Good luck! Well, let me just add this. You've apparently won the victory over one small area of your life, and you now think that any enemy can be defeated, and now you're perfect. But one small area of your...

Feel free to believe your convictions. I also think the Scriptures oppose your belief when they say we continue to have a sin nature, even after receiving Christ, such that we have to regularly "overcome" sin in our daily lives. I don't know how you fool yourself into believing otherwise. I've...

You won't be able to completely clean up all of these "lesser sins." I'm not here making light of sin, but there are greater and lesser sins. The worst sins end up killing people, or destroying them emotionally. Or, they separate us from God in a serious way, such that we aren't really walking...

I don't see it as hyperbole, but I agree--it is walking in a new direction. It's like a truism that says, "if you walk in the right path, you can't be walking in the wrong path." In our passage it is saying, in effect, "You cannot live a life of sin if you are choosing to walk in righteousness...

Again, Jesus' command to "be perfect" is the equivalent of "be obedient" or "be righteous. " It is to folllow the path of the just as those corrupted and influenced by sin. People infected by sin can indeed be obedient. Every covenant God made with fallen Man was predicated on the idea that...