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When you tell it to someone do you say "believeth?"

The rule of hermeneutics and exegesis is to ascertain what the original author meant in his original language in it's original context and this is what GOD was speaking through him. Authorial Intent. If any English translation does that it is a good translation. If any Spanish translation...

When the first 3000 got saved at Pentecost (can you say MegaChurch) they devoted themselves to the fellowship. God's method and plan has always been that we devote ourselves to the gathering with the saints and fellowship, teaching, prayer, breaking of bread, etc. If we find ourselves...

It's a good translation but the archaic English is not necessary. Translating from the original languages into English words that convey the same meaning that the author intended using Hebrew or Greek is better done using English that we speak with today when we try to convey such meaning...

The more I learn about translating the more I appreciate some of the modern works like NIV, CSB, ESV. They really do help get to the objective of authorial intent. I think that learning Greek and Hebrew will help make things easier to decide. I use to think that the KJV were probably better...

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. Ironic that you quote the Passage...

“We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.”

I would say that they could use the Forum and argue less but that didn't pan out.

You probably want to rethink that one. Since Jesus said "this is my body which was broken for you" it would be obvious he was talking about the crucifixion in general as well as the floggings. He wasn't talking about bones specifically. It is still accurate for Jesus to say "my body which...

It's a very serious error to teach people to go back to a shadow instead of the Real thing Jesus Christ. Once Jesus fulfilled the reality of what the Passover foreshadowed the Passover shadow was done away with and Now we remember what Christ has done for us by faith not by literally eating...

No, Jesus did not teach that Christians should observe the Jewish Passover. Or any other Jewish feast. The spirit of His words were to believe in the broken body and shed blood and that it applies to me. That is what gives me eternal life. The fact that Jesus was talking about...

Some think it is a burn over, others think it is a complete dissolving. Elements melting with fervent heat makes me think of the molecules all burned up turning it back into a gaseous substance without form and void. But then I think that the universe (heavens) itself is also removed and not...

I have no idea what you are talking about at this point. I thought you were insinuating that the Lake of Fire has an end when the former things pass away. The scriptures you just posted don't support that idea. What makes you think that the Lake of Fire is part of the old heavens and earth?

If the Lake of Fire is not of this physical realm, then it is not part of the former things that have passed away. You have not made a logical case for including it in the natural realm. I believe it is a spiritual or other worldly thing not subject to the physical laws and physical...

Again. Leaven is used as a type or metaphor for something in the context in which you are reading. These references don't apply to any other context than the one where they are used. In Matt 13:33 and Luke 13:20 The parable is about the KINGDOM OF GOD. Now I understand why some want to...

It might be the end of the story for you but the majority of Christendom and scholarly commentaries agree that the most likely intended meaning is something similar to these few examples below. enter the domain of a first-century woman and household cook in order to gain perspective on the...

I don't agree that leaven is always a symbol for sin in every reference in the bible. It was used in daily life to make bread. They ate it. It was not bad. It was used as an example in a parable about how the kingdom of God would spread just like yeast in a small measure can make enough...

So the constant need to modify the plain meaning of various texts to find a loophole or alternative angle no matter how unlikely and questionable that angle sounds does not alarm you in the least? No red flags in your conscience?

Here is one of the best passages about the theology behind these judgments in Revelation. 2 thess 1 4Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 5All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a...