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YHWH is the most high God. YHWH created Adam in his image and likeness. YHWH created mankind male and female. Eve was created for Adam as his helpmate. The serpent deceived Eve into sin, but Adam consciously followed Eve into sin. As a result of Adam's fall, death reigned, and through the...

That part starts in Matt 25:31, but all of Matt 24 and Matt 25:1-30 takes place within the first century, leading up to 70 AD. [Mat 25:31-32 NASB95] 31 "But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 "All the nations will be...

I did the same for about 20 years. I tried to serve God through false doctrine, and God made it clear that I had to make a choice to either wake up or remain in deception.

Do you hold to the Westminster Confession of Faith? At least in colloquial terms, that would make you a Calvinist. I think that was probably a long the lines of what @Verily was asking. (I encourage Verily to correct me if I'm wrong.) If you don't wish to be called a Calvinist, but prefer...

He was addressing his disciples who would become his apostles about the destruction of the temple and the things leading up to it. They were already in the end of the age. These things happened in the first century. [Heb 9:26 NKJV] 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation...

[Mat 24:29-31 NASB20] 29 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and...

That's because Jesus was applying these Old Testament prophecies in a spiritual way to the Body of Christ. But they also still have to be fulfilled within their OT context too. Jesus was addressing his disciples, remember? Everything in Matt 24 was for the Body. That's true for most of...

Lol. That is pretty funny. I didn't expect it to go over well, anyways.

It's already happened for the Body of Christ. Israel's regathering is still to come. [Rev 1:1-3 NASB95] 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated [it] by His angel to His bond-servant...

We still have the ability to sin, but we also have the ability to completely stop sinning by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus' commandments are not burdensome (1John 5:3), so it shouldn't be too difficult. Jesus' commandments amount to faith in Christ and love for one another, but they must...

Peter didn't think so. Neither did Paul. [1Pe 4:1-2 NASB95] 1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of...

It's the same idea as the rapture, only it happened at the end of the period of great tribulation that lasted from 66-70 AD. This is what Jesus said would happen. [Mat 24:29-31 NASB95] 29 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE...

Yeah. According to Paul, that's been accomplished. The nations were the nations of the oikoumene, not the entire globe.

Oh, but you said exactly that: "Romans 7:14ff is paul as a Chrsitian." Romans 7:14 is descriptive of someone who is still in bondage to sin. [Rom 7:14 NKJV] 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. So I'll ask you: Are you still sold under sin??? I'm sorry...

Paul spoke as if the spreading of the gospel and discipleship of the nations had be fulfilled within his lifetime. Most Christians don't understand or preach the same gospel that the apostles preached, nor do they disciple believers in the original apostolic doctrine. The 'Great Commission' was...

So you're still in bondage to sin? [Rom 7:14 NASB95] 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. That would go against everything Paul taught in Romans 6, Romans 7:1-6, as well as Romans 8. Romans 7:7-24 is not about a born-again believer. It's about...

Respectfully, you really haven't been able to prove otherwise.

That's a bit of an assumption. Paul never explained in his epistle to Timothy exactly what he meant by "rightly dividing the word of truth"; but we do know that the juxtaposition of the Letter of the Law vs the Spirit was a dominant theme in most of Paul's epistles. [2Co 3:5-6 NASB95] 5 Not...

Were James' audience believers in Christ?

David's birth was his mother's iniquity, not his own. This was likely because under the Law of Moses, a woman had to make a sin offering as part of her cleansing after child birth. [Lev 12:2, 6 NASB95] 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male [child,]...