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How does it keep you out of the club? Do you think it is the rules, the club members, or yourself who allows this to keep you out? Jesus let doubters in the club. Even those who were closest to him doubted, but were still commissioned:

This is why I've become more and more interested in searching for meaning rather than historicity. If a Christian believes the resurrection happened but their life isn't changed, then so what? The resurrection had a purpose and that purpose wasn't just so some people might mentally believe that...

Yes, makes sense. That sounds close to a dictation theory; that God literally dictated the words to the authors. Is that your view of what is being claimed for Paul's letters and Genesis, for example? For those to be "the word of God", it would mean that God told Paul exactly what to write and...

We decide the same way we decide for any other literature. The first thing we need to know when reading something is what genre it is. You know when you're reading a metaphorical poem or a history textbook. You know when you're reading an AP news wire article or a political opinion piece. You...

Can you lay out what you think it means for a text to be "the word of God"? What does that look like to you? How does it require that the texts behave? For example, why can't a dream or vision that is then written down be "the word of God"? Why can't a slight on Caesar be "the word of God"?

It seems pretty clear that Whitt was an issuefor this defense. Not that Miami and Denver are great offenses, but much better defensive performances the last two games. I’m confident they would have both looked like top 5 offenses if Quinn hadn’t taken over. It’s nice that they are watchable...

I don’t think Washington has run wildcat all season. They’ve tried it twice tonight. No idea why they think it’s going to work against Denver.

That’s a topic I avoid with most Christians :biggrin:. Maybe I will set a goal for myself to do a Revelation class at church in a few years. Give myself plenty of time to learn a lot more and figure out how to structure such a class. My church doesn’t have a ton of people taking about China and...

6-7!

He had absolutely no pressure on him and decided to scramble up into pressure and then do a jump pass. It made no sense. He could have stood back there another five seconds without a defender getting near him.

Punting? Is this the 90s?

A message of hope to a persecuted people. Anti-Caesar, claiming that it is God who is ultimately in charge and who will eventually make everything right. Choose wisely which King you will serve. It does this through the use of images and symbols and heavy use of scripture. The symbols aren’t...

My youngest son (18) is into movies. Now that he's an adult, it's fun to see him explore more movies. Last time he was home from college, he watched Seven, The Joker, and Zodiac in three consecutive nights. He told me that and then said, "I need to watch something less intense tonight." :lmao...

See my previous post. A big key to an interpretation of these verses is where 33b belongs. That text isn't part of the potential interpolation, so it makes sense to me that it belongs with 33a and not with 34-35.

What is the message? I don't think "women should be silent" is the message. I think "women should be silent" is a contextual application of a message.