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Yea, I believe the laws that exist with God's word ensure that the environment around it guard its purity. Wherever God's word goes forth, whatever is contrary to it is proscribed.

For those of you who think that as Christians you won't have to see the Antichrist, think again. What you're witnessing right now is the beginning of what I think is the beginning of the end of European Civilization as we knew it. The Antichrist spirit has been taking over, and it has been...

I don't think that's what Paul meant, that without the Law no sin is incurred. Rather, God doesn't hold one completely accountable for what he doesn't know is wrong. However, sin is wrong whether one understands it as such, and he is held accountable whether he knows why or not. Sin preexisted...

No, I've not been misled. I've just studied these things for decades, prayerfully. I don't claim, absolutely, I'm right, as you seem to be claiming about yourself. I never said 70 AD was "the end." My position is not contingent upon that. What Jesus proclaimed was that Jerusalem would fall in...

You seem to think there is only your argument? There is actually quite a good other argument, which is the approach I take. My view is based on the idea that Jesus was not referring to all the signs he had listed, but rather, only to those signs connected to the fall of the temple in 70 AD. He...

I've been studying the book of Revelation for about 50 years. So I'm very familiar. If you haven't studied well enough, you will see things only through the lens of modern eschatology, or popular eschatology. Much of it is futurist, as I am. But it tends to think *everything* in the Bible...

That's the usual argument, to try to prove that this generation is an end-time generation. However, it is illogical, because Jesus said all these signs would take place in "this generation," referring to his own generation. 1) Jesus was speaking to his own Disciples in his own generation. 2)...

Yes, the Coming of Christ is indeed noisy. That's a major argument we Postribbers use against Pretrib and their "Secret Rapture." If you don't believe in a Secret Rapture as a Pretribber, then you're a rare Pretribber indeed!

You didn't show differentiation at all between what you just said and what I said. I do believe that the book of Revelation is largely about the last 3.5 years in this age, when Antichrist presides over 7 leaders and 10 states in Europe. It is in fact future. But all of this is given to the...

What are you talking about? *Pre-Tribbers* are the ones who concocted the Secret Rapture theory!!

Separate subject. I never said all of prophecy was historically fulfilled. Preterists tend in that direction. I do not. Jesus did say that he was giving prophecy, in the Revelation, of things to happen *after* the things that presently were. So after detailing the things that were happening at...

I don't believe this. Jesus said "this generation" would see all of the initial birth pains of the coming destruction of Jerusalem. This destruction, involving the desolation of the temple, stone by stone, took place in that generation, in 70 AD. Nothing could be clearer, and yet futurists...

Whoa, you're too fast for me. I was still adding to the post! ;) Please go back and see what I added. It's an attempt at clarification, albeit not my best work.

The use of the word, "Israel," implies a nation, which naturally consists of those who inhabit it. It does not need to be explained. It is part of the word's definition. When that word is used, it is understood by any reader who knows the language, and how the word "nation" is used. When we...

I wasn't giving my opinion. I was giving Scripture. The Scriptures, in a multitude of places, refer to the nation Israel, which logically includes the full number of its citizens. This is not conjecture. It isn't speculation. It's fact. But the notion that only some of the nation will actually...

I agree. I want you to know that I've been praying for Blacks in America for a very long time. And in some ways, Obama and BLM have helped Blacks restore some of their dignity. That's on the positive side. And I agree, we need to keep things in balance. Now I'm praying that many American...

It's very popular to say just the small number of "chosen few" are God's People, were Israel, and are now the Church. In reality, God includes all who nominally belong to a group, before culling out the bad ones and disqualifying the illegitimate. So from the start, the entire nation was...

Perhaps, but I don't think they were into "inbreeding," since incest was prohibited under the Law. This is a good case to show that God, even with His "separatist" Law, had no thought about preference for a particular race. It was a religious matter, as well as a practical matter. Until true...

I agree. My wife has a friend--don't see her often now--who is African American. The last time she came to our house there had been a tension between her and myself over politics, due to the current state of racial hostilities. And so I tried to change the subject. I was trying to be polite...

In the current environment that's really going to go over well! ;) To start with, there are mixed blacks and asians in my family. I have no interest in showing an ounce of racial prejudice, for the simple reason that I love my relatives. 2ndly, racism certainly is a hot topic now, and well...