Recent content by Wick Stick

Nations operate in cycles. Sounds like yours in on the downturn. Mine is too. But when one ends, another emerges. You have to look at a longer time-frame.

Mmmm hmmm... 1Ti 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

So then... no agent?

Aunty, I live in America, so of course I'm going to speak from what I know. Feel free to substitute Australia (or wherever you know) and I think my original statement remains true. Any comparison of today to a couple hundred years ago is going to show that we've got it good. The world is...

Death isn't such a bad thing. Living eternally with all the problems of aging seems drastically worse.

Is it? I read the other day that the average middle-class American's standard of living is about the same as that of King George III - the most powerful monarch the world had ever seen just a couple centuries ago.

So in practical terms, when "the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah" in the Old Testament, who do you see as the agent? Is there really an agent?

A sect, yes. 1st century Judaism had multiple sects that disagreed about more things than they agreed on. Judaism CELEBRATES that ability to disagree and debate the finer points of the Law and Prophets. The WAY had significant disagreement with Jewish Orthodoxy, which evolved out of the...

Archaeology has pretty much answered the question of what "sons of God" means, at least within the context of Bronze-Age in the Levant.

Well then Jesus and His apostles weren't Jewish monotheists, because that's how they saw it

Ok, so it wasn't meant to be a rebuttal? All good. I'm pretty ok at Biblical Greek. I don't speak it or anything, but I can read it at like a 2nd-grade level lol. And when I read the King James bible, I can usually tell what Greek words are hiding behind the English. Ousia isn't an...

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I'm a little confused by this... you claimed they DIDN'T talk about this in the OLD Testament, then I agreed, and now you're saying they DID in the NEW Testament... what in contradiction of your previous claim? Are we just disagreeing for the sake of disagreement now? What's going on...

Story time? I was once asked to give a Sunday-night sermon at a church I attended. I gave what I thought was a fairly innocuous lesson out of the epistles to the churches of Asia Minor in the early chapters of Revelation. Afterwards, the pastor was... well, furious... that I had given the...

It really depends what it is. I've bit my tongue through a sermon plenty of times. I've never heard anything from a pulpit yet that was so drastically terrible that it required me to immediately object. Ultimately, talk IS cheap. I left churches twice now because a pastor did bad things and...