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Discussing Scripture and its application to our times and lives is a great thing to do. However, this verse and several others warn us that when we take on the role of a teacher, we should be very cautious when telling others how to interpret certain verses. I was in a discussion years ago when...

That’s God’s point, not mine.

James 3:1- Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you realize that we will be judged more strictly,

It seems we see things a little differently. That’s ok. God’s omniscience is really beyond anyone’s ability to grasp truly. I enjoyed discussing the issue with you, but we have reached an impasse. You have reasoned well in your responses, but the degree of arrogance in your summation is a sad...

First time I have ever been intimated to be a heretic. I guess I’ve lived a charmed life to have escaped that moniker for so many decades.

I recently listened to an older pastor, very old. He spoke of his initial studies, training, and seminary education. When asked would he recommend that course to others he said he would not recommend seminaries, but instead reading Scripture and praying, to bring scripture into one’s heart. Too...

OK- So I said I was out of the conversation, but then you posted a rebuttal. It is with this reply that I shall once again to state my position, and leave it at that. What you get right: 1. Immediate narrative context You are correct that Book of Numbers 23 occurs in a specific historical...

I fear you have misunderstood why I posted these early figures. They addressed to the best of their abilities some of the major questions that arose then - and continue to be discussed today. It was merely to show their understanding at an early point in Christian history. Christ is my...

When boxed in with only two choices, it blinds one to other options. Your context seems to be at odds with 2,000 years of orthodoxy.

So, this verse must be a lie, according to you. Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.”

You just don’t get It. Scripture is not flat prose. It is law, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, narrative, epistle, and apocalypse—each genre employing many literary devices intentionally. Ignoring these devices leads to misinterpretation; recognizing them deepens clarity, reverence, and theological...

The assumptions I refer to have been taken from the scrolls and texts for a couple of thousand years. Seeing God through various lenses is nothing new and much of the NT is laced with warnings about those that creep in with unorthodox views. To see the God of the Bible as lacking in any way...

You must be correct. God can’t possibly be as powerful as some of the words in Scripture have traditionally (over 2,000 years) described God’s attributes. Church leaders and average everyday believers have been wrong about all those descriptive terms like Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent...

Nice platitude.

Have you read the end of His book?

If “All things were created by Him and for Him,” what would be outside of His sphere of knowledge? The Greek Text (Col 1:16b) τὰ πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἔκτισται Literal word-by-word breakdown τὰ πάντα — “all things” (the totality; nothing excluded) δι’ αὐτοῦ — “through Him”...

But within the grasp of the youngest child.

Yet, you are a man? All I’m saying is that no matter how much we know about God, there is always a greater degree of understanding awaiting all of us. That’s the beauty of His word, it’s depths lie deeper than the wisest man.