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I can actually, whether you believe it or not, agree with most of this post of yours.

No, I have not had to Google or check AI, I did my homework a while ago the hard way, by reading scholarly material and sometimes looking where others said it was worthless to look, even though they admitted they could not answer questions using the approved sources. Translators translate to...

And of course, you are so smart that Satan or his minions could not possibly deceive you, even though they manage to deceive entire churches. From what distance can you detect a demon, for instance can you know if a demon commonly appears in a church by just driving past it at a normal rate of...

Jesus forgave the woman her sin before He told her to "go and sin no more". So, she was forgiven, just as all believers are, when she was told to sin no more. So again, was it a general command or just with regards to one specific sin? And very closely related, are there a variety of sins or...

I trust that since you are so aware of ancient languages that you know that there is a single verse in Colossians that is interpreted in 5 different ways in various translations as well as possibly in a sixth way that no translation will use, all while staying within the rules of Greek grammar...

Which implies that you perceive yourself as being superior because you "follow the Lord", even though you, just as the scientists, are a flawed, sinful human being. that cannot perfectly see the truth. At best you know this and regret it, at worst you believe that you are superior and enlightened.

Then y0ou claim to belong to a brand-new tradition, by necessity a tradition of exactly one person. All other Christian traditions follow from Orthodox traditions, RCC traditions or generic Protestant ones, with the exception of some relatively unknown traditions, Syriac, Ethiopic or Coptic for...

Are you certain that many verses cannot be taken in multiple ways? In Hebrew, the 10 Commandments are written as declarations, not imperatives. Thus, they actually read better as "when you get it right you will" as opposed to the more traditional "to get it right you must". Jesus tells the...

As long as your "proof" does not involve BELIEF if God, it would be interesting. However, in a fallen world, humans lie to themselves, then choose to believe the lie and thus render themselves incapable of knowing absolute truth. This is a psychological truth and impossible to get around. Now...

How does one prove absolute truth? Note, this is not to declare that something is absolute truth, but to prove that such a claim is true. Hint, in a fallen world it cannot be done, thus variant views all have potentially credible standing (obviously some more than others based on evidence)...

Many verses can be understood in multiple ways depending on one's assumptions. Different people on this forum post the same verse to make different points. Now there likely is one proper way to understand every verse, but who is interpreting any given verse properly is largely a matter of...

You are asking very good questions, I apologize for the fact that so many are discounting them and trying to treat them as trivial. The one comment I have seen that is very good is that it is hard to answer some of them in a single post, or even in just a few posts. Good questions require good...

Good scientists, whether Christian or not, tend to agree that if we humans know even 5% of all that can be known, that is a very high percentage. Most would guess that our knowledge is a much smaller percentage. But just as science does not have ALL the answers, neither are ALL the answers...

Yet ever believer's goal should be to make it for at least 24 hours of conscious life without sinning. I doubt any of us can ever do it, but it is a goal to be strived for.

And ALL Protestant denominations are born out of the reformers. Thus, you are declaring yourself to be a servant of the devil. You really might want to think about things a bit more before you make some of your statements

You make excellent points which is why communism is properly a distortion of Christianity. Both promote the same ideal situation, but communism claims that it can be achieved without God and Christianity recognizes that sin exists in the world and will corrupt any human endeavor and thus...

And I see the death as separation from God, which did occur with the first act of sin. Your understanding of the Hebrew clashes with what I learned in my Hebrew classes. I was taught that the double use of the word for dying was an emphatic idiom in Hebrew implying absolute certainty. And...

Actually, you were responding to a poster who recognizes that all the evidence we have from science indicates that either scripture is false or that it was referring to spiritual death as paleontological records indicate that physical death for the genus homo has always existed. But then I...

Are the wages of sin physical death or spiritual death? If it is physical death, then one must explain why Adm lived so long after eating the fruit. but if it is spiritual death, then a long physical life might well be possible.

Healing and discernment are also higher gifts. Healing is often an overlooked aspect of ordination in most denominations. The ritual of ordination technically confers the gift, but it is rarely acknolwedged.