But if you delve into the Bible, Daniel and John primarily speak of the empires around the Great Sea. Not empires in other areas of the world.

Why? Because the Bible is focussed around Israel which happens to be in…[Read more]

You need to be careful how you judge things.

What if the USA had a good purpose in God’s plans. If so, calling them the dragon is not blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (I don’t think), but is heading in that direction.

Some Christians pass harsh judgements on other Christians because they understand them not. Often those that have a calling…[Read more]

The Jesus says, “the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these”, now please back up to verse 11, “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.”

Fact: About 95 percent…[Read more]

Concerning your other post about adoption; the adoption narrative is moot and really a waste of time to debate UNLESS you can back up what you are saying with proof, because what you’re presenting is “hear say” and you’re really applying today’s standards of an “adoption” to an event 2000 years ago; did you read the link I gave you, it’s what…

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The Greek wording does not specifically say “miracles”.

The immediate context emphasises belief and mission, it’s not miracle competition.

“Greater” (Greek: μείζονα, meizona) in its context is about Jesus’ ministry which was largely confined to Judea and Galilee, but his followers later carried the message across the Roman…[Read more]

So the claim that Jesus said believers would do “greater works” than he did is correct in the sense that the statement appears in the Gospel of…[Read more]

You are correct that in the Hebrew Bible tribal affiliation normally follows the father.…[Read more]

I disagree with your denominations teaching about this. Here is part of the reason.

Daniel states that his vision occurred while he was in the Babylon during the reign of Belshazzar (Daniel 7:1).

Babylon was located deep inland in Mesopotamia, hundreds of kilometres from the sea.

For someone in Babylon, there was essentially only one…[Read more]

If Jesus was a Jew, what house would you place him?

Unfortunately the Jesus fails on being a member of the tribe of Judah; biologically he isn’t connected to the line of David because the spirit is the one who fathered him (Luke 1:26-35, Matt 1:18). It is of the seed of David the Messiah is to be born of (2 Sam 7:12-17, I Chron 11-14). Lineage is associated with the father and not t…

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In fact, the Jesus tells us in John 14:12

12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Yet, these who are doing these “greater works”, the Jesus says he doesn’t know. By the way, when was the last time you raised someone from t…

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Not the verse I was referencing I was speaking on Matt 7:21-23 where the Jesus is speaking.

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, a…

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Matt 11:25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants.

1 Cor 2:14 But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they ar…

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

Your take on this is not a contradiction of the text, but it doesn’t add up with the rest of the text and with science.

You can equally read it in a way that does…[Read more]

Matthew 1:22 to 23
This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: ‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son…

Luke 1:34 to 35
Mary asks how she can have a child, and the angel says the Holy Spirit will come upon her, indicating a m…[Read more]

It’s not the geographical setting that matters here, but rather 👉the interpretation of a symbol

In the Hebrew Bible the term “the Great Sea” was a common name for the Mediterranean. For example, in Numbers 34:6, Joshua 1:4, and Ezekiel 47:10, the same phrase clearly refers to the Mediterranean coastline west of Israel. So geographically, the p…[Read more]

Why don’t they point the Hubble Telescope at earth?

Yes post the links.

Free will is subject to all kinds of pressure and influences. That doesn’t mean free will doesn’t exist. You can always choose the right way in every situation if you love righteousness enough.

Woe to the world…[Read more]

These are not exact matches, but the events overlap. I could also get more accurate by quoting multiple scriptures to get a better match, but let’s start…[Read more]

Obviously, sky was created where there was once water around the earth.

The bigger and only question one must ask, did the Jesus fulfill what was spoken about the Messiah in the Tanakh?

If you take the entire Bible as true, then all genuine messianic prophecies in the Tanakh are considered fulfilled in Jesus either in his first coming or at his future return. Some prophecies are seen as already fulfilled, while o…[Read more]

When the Jesus was here, he only spoke to the Jews and had a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny population of the world following him; since you believe he is yet to return, what portion of the population will serve the Jesus…only those he has determined worthy – depart from me, I do not know you; even though they thought they were serving the Jesus, he tel…

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When you understand that YHWH is a name for the fullness of God as well as the name of each presence of God, i.e. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, many things in the Bible become easier to understand. Give it a try, ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate this and open your heart and mind.

When God is understood as more than one person, that is, two…[Read more]

Proclaimer, verse 16 tells us that God made the two great lights in the context of day four. Throughout out Genesis 1 “God made” is repeated over and over.

Read it properly.

“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.”

The subject…[Read more]

There have been many of God’s Sabbath rests in God’s Feasts alone. Obviously, we are not in the 7th day Sabbath rest.

You are entitled to believe that God rested for a 24 hour period after creating a universe in 6 x 24 hour days and even before the sun was supposedly created on Day 4.

But I personally think any rational thinking person is not goi…[Read more]

Let’s start here:

In the OT, what is the proper name of the God and Lord in Deuteronomy 10:17?

YHWH. Jesus is Lord means: Jesus is Kyrios.

Kyrios: “master,” “owner,” “sovereign,” or “lord.”
It’s a title, not a name, and could refer to:

A human master (e.g. “lord of the vineyard” in Matthew 20:8)
A respected person (“sir”)
A false god or…[Read more]

If you attach a doctrine to a person or a people like the Jews, it makes it easier to hate such a person or group of people. Hatred for the Jews works like that because they were chosen by God. All who are chosen by God will be persecuted. Simple.

And there it is!!!! Finally someone went out and studied a scriptural passage!! There is hope for one finding the truth!

I’ve been doing this for decades; it’s not something I’ve only just decided to take up. The New Testament is precise, and I never accept anyone’s words at face value without first questioning and studying them careful…[Read more]