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The whole argument is completely illogical. For a start, no "scientists" were involved. Archaeologists, but not scientists. What evidence do we have that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea? Two gospels, both written within the lifetime of people who knew Jesus in the flesh. What evidence is...

The beast in Revelation 13:1-10 appears to represent worldly power, which operates according to devilish principles. Its seven heads indicate that it has many ‘incarnations’: political fashions come and go, but the same potential for tyranny underlies them all, and the overthrow of one overlord...

We shouldn't trust in any theologian, ancient or modern, if that means accepting everything they say or write without question. Nevertheless, they can be valuable sources of insight. The particular value of the early Church Fathers is that Greek (the language of the New Testament) was their...

I do mean languages - I'm using 'tongues' as a technical term to specify the spiritual gift. Never heard of this before. Women are of course more likely to be Christians in the first place, so in terms of pure numbers one would expect there to be more women with this gift than men. The real...

One shouldn't leap to the assumption that these are two different accounts of the same event. It's not like comparing the Gospels, when the same story is being told by different witnesses and you would expect discrepancies. The two stories you mention - apart from the main point (David spares...

They are US - the whole Church

I haven't even started. My decorations usually go up about 7-10 days before Christmas.

"in a state of religious fervour"? I have often prayed in tongues while driving. It doesn't impair my concentration because it doesn't involve my brain - it's rather like listening to the radio, except that the sound comes out of my own mouth. I've no doubt that some people do speak in tongues...

I do

Not everyone who is filled with the Spirit is given the gift of tongues.

Yes, a bit, but I didn't learn until I was an adult. I have large hands because I'm very tall (5 ft 11 in).

I don't think that we're ever commanded to 'turn the other cheek' on behalf of other people. When we are the victims of injustice, we are to be meek. When we see others being victimised, we should stand up for them (although there may well be occasions when discretion is the better part of...

i'm a woman but I have large hands - 7.5" for me

Scribes/teachers of the law were by and large the same group of people. If you want to make a distinction, then replace "scribal" with "teachers of the law-al". "Hate your enemy" is not in Leviticus 19.

Why not, indeed? I think you can make a case for pets in the new earth (if not in "heaven") from the Bible. https://deborahsbiblestudies.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/do-our-pets-go-to-heaven/

Heaven is 1) where God is and 2) a spiritual realm, as opposed to the physical universe. Believers will go to "Paradise" when we die. (Luke 23:49) Not exactly "heaven", but maybe a sub-zone of Heaven? Christ is there, so it comes under the definition of Heaven that I've given. Do unbelievers...

The "You have heard that it was said..." format refers not to the actual written Law but to the scribal interpretations of what was written. Jesus wasn't changing the Law but going back to basics - cutting through the oral tradition and the legalistic twisting that had taken place over the...

Oh yes we do

Not proof, maybe, but pointing out that you can't make an assumption to the contrary.

They were allowed to eat from every tree (except for one). So the Tree of life was included in their diet. There's no indication, anywhere in Scripture, that one only needs to eat from the Tree of Life once in order to live. In the new earth, the tree of life will produce fruit regularly...