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The first picture is Martin Luther, not Jean Calvin.

"That old serpent" is neither a wild animal nor a demon.

The word is "specific".

The biggest problem with the idea of the eclipse being prophetic is that no established and recognized Christian prophet is saying what the message is. In other words, people are speculating… and speculation on the basis of celestial events is astrology, not prophecy.

You do realize that "stable" and "stability" are simply different forms of the same root word? The point is that for anything to be used as currency, there must be agreement as to its relative value.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Further, perspective is a consideration.

What is being overlooked is that "stability" is simply agreement on value writ large. There is no stable, intrinsic standard of value in any substance or thing. Native Americans used seeds. Polynesians used shells. Israelites used shekels. Americans use dollars. People have used gold. All are...

Define "sound money" as you are using the term then.

Five! Do I hear five?

There you go with the baseless assumptions again. It's no wonder that so many have given up on communicating with you.

Any physical thing can be "sound money". It simply depends upon agreement between two parties as to the value of the thing relative to other things that are desired by either of them.

While that may make sense in its own context, it fails when you consider Malachi 3:10: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a...

Gold has no "intrinsic" value other than as an industrial material. Men give it monetary value for various reasons.

I see no need to answer a question that Posthuman has already answered.

Sometimes Eugene Peterson got it right.

I see no need to answer a question that Posthuman has already answered.

He probably also understood that Yahweh's words to the woman in Genesis 3:16 were not an "edict" but a statement of sad consequence.

The Message is one man's paraphrase of Scripture, not a formal translation. Don't use it to argue about specific words.