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How is this harmonized with "the sheep and the goats" in Matt 25? 31 “When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with him, he will sit on his royal throne, 32and the people of all the nations will be gathered before him. Then he will divide them into two groups, just as a shepherd...

No, not connected. That was unintentional. Apologies.

It’s noticeable that more recent Bible translations no longer use “Christ” as the only translation of the Greek Christos. The GNB, in particular, seems to use “Messiah” quite often and “anointed” sometimes, too. It occurred to me one day that a statistical comparison of the frequency of these...

I have never seen any reason to cast doubt on the traditional timing. The Last Supper was on the Thursday evening, the arrest in Gethsemane was around midnight or in the small hours of Friday morning. Jesus was crucified on Friday and taken down from the Cross later the same day. He was placed...

Obviously not at the same moment, but on the same day, yes.

Until now I had never heard of the theory that all or part of the Textus Receptus was “backtranslated” from the Vulgate, so I followed your advice and googled for it. I went first to Wikipedia, which has ― as we might expect ― a long article about it. The “backtranslaion” theory is mentioned...

Ah, okay, thanks. Yes, I remember reading something about a different calendar. It may have been in Allegro's book or it may have been in Edmund Wilson's book. I read both of those at pretty much the same time. I'll see what I can find. I don't remember any mention of Galilee in the calendar...

The Passover was not only a meal, certainly. No doubt about that. But there was only one Passover meal. There was only one day on which the pilgrims took their lambs to the Temple to be slaughtered and there was only one evening on which they all ate their lambs at the Passover meal, all pretty...

What is DSS?

You seem to be saying that the unnamed "they" in John 18:28 are going to eat their Passover meal about twenty-four hours after Jesus ate the Last Supper with his disciples. Is that correct? You say you agree with me that the Last Supper was a Passover meal. How, then, do you explain that...

The two calendars theory exists in several different versions. Just a few weeks ago, in fact I started a thread on the subject but it wasn't a success. Your version, however, is new to me. Can you give a source for it, providing evidence for both the differences -- the two-day gap and Galilee...

What about John 18:28? The unnamed "they" have not yet eaten the Passover meal. Why not? 28Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could...

Does the number 144,000 occur anywhere in the Bible outside the book of Revelation? I don’t think so, though I could be wrong. You seem to be suggesting that Jesus had read Revelation and expected his listeners to make that connection.

I see. Thanks for taking the trouble to give such a detailed explanation, but I'm still not sure it really answers my question.

@GWH, I’ve been thinking about what you said here. I have to confess I still find it puzzling. Do the words “redemption” and “justification” both denote the same event in the life of a Christian? If so, why do we need two different words for it?

Just noticed that Shyanuraix got himself banned. I’m not surprised. How long ago was that? For some time I'd had a suspicion that he knew all along he was completely wrong about the name Jehovah, but he wasn’t here to defend any particular view about the names of God. He was here for the sake...

In most of the verses where re’em occurs in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint translates it as monokerotos, literally “one-horned.” In the Vulgate it sometimes appears as unicornis, which has the same literal meaning, and sometimes also as rhinoceros (“nose-horn.”) The rhinoceros is, after all, a...

I'm sure there are people who manage to combine both good parts, but they're found in a number of different churches

In your post #48, what does “transitional water baptism” mean? It seems to imply that spiritual baptism has in some way superseded water baptism. Have I understood you correctly? If so, what support for that assertion do you find in that first verse, Eph 4:5, which uses the word “baptism”...

We're in full agreement on both points. No doubt about it.