Recent content by PaulThomson

IMHO, the last 1000 years of God's 7000 year long week, as others have suggested in this thread I would see a need for a reference for every expression, if I were to take your post seriously as a biblical notion.

In the lifetime of those who saw the things mentioned including the Abomination of Desolation (AoD) which has not yet happened. So, in the lifetime of this generation or a later one, depending on when the AoD is revealed.

Why was Paul allowing his companions to baptise converts, if he was against baptism ?

Are you of the view that the plants that withered in the sun had literally, no roots. And the plant choked by thorns had literally no roots? Have you ever seen a plant grow but not reach fruitfulness that was also without any roots?

How about at the crucifixion. The Jews said, "His blood (i.e. His death) be upon us and on our children". And His blood was completely shed, He died on the cross.

Can you pleae give references for these expressions in the Bible?

Luke 21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but...

13 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as...

Faith and unbelief are not binary concepts in the Bible: such that you either have faith or you have unbelief. The Bible describes faith and unbelief as a spectrum from a strong faith that knows what is believed, to a strong unbelief that refuses to even listen or countenance what one is being...

I would rephrase that to avoid confusion as, "IF, you are following these conditions you have eternal life." And clearly the "eternal" in "eternal life", does not identify duration of life, but a quality of life.

Luke is obviously using a figure of speech here. There is no plant above ground which has literally "no root". He obviously means an under-developed root. Seeds always put down a root before breaking the surface of the soil.

10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them...

Matt. 24 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown...

But according to Jesus, the shallow rooted plant had roots, just no depth of earth. Why are you claiming it had no roots? You are working very hard to eisegete your opinion into the Bible by claiming the exact opposite of what the Bible plainly says. Three of the four soils produced a plant...

It was the quality of the soil, which Jesus related to the quality of the heart, that affected fruitfulness. The path would not receive the seed, but the seed was incorruptible. The stony soil and thorny soil received the seed and sprouted, so the "seed" was incorruptible, but the plant...