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Hi. I guess from the signature you are the Loke from rational skepticism?

Mm. I incline to the gap theory, but not on those grounds. The argument that, where tohu and bohu occur elsewhere in the OT (Is.34.11, Jer.4.23), they are associated with God's judgment seems very persuasive to me.

I have just returned from my first trip to the US. It wasn't just the unlimited soda refills, or the 1/3-pounder Angus ... it was the inscription on the side of the cup: We have nothing like that over here ...

I haven't time to research the matter, but I would imagine that in that society females were not the owners of property, and an unmarried female without prospects would not have had much going for her (look at the hoo-ha Zelophehad's daughters caused by insisting they be given some land; that...

Ah, you're in favour of me giving more than 10% even if I say I believe in tithing, and I'm in favour of you giving more than 10% even though you say you don't. That's all right, then. :-) :-) :-)

Yes indeed, and so should our giving be an outward expression of ours. I have read somewhere, "In the OT they had to tithe - in the NT we're to give." But I believe we are, when we can, to give more than a tithe. John Wesley taught, "Give all you can," and lived it, better than I do. But he also...

If you don't mind me saying so, I think that rather bottles the point. We already have a Lamb slain for us. I agree that we are not bound by any Mosaic laws on tithing, and also that there is no clear injunction to tithe in the NT. But the fact remains that we do have an example of a man...

Abraham tithed!

Most of them were addressed to the disciples. And some of them are in the Sermon on the Mount, which is definitely not before the cross.

Ivdavid - Amen!

Amen! I pinched it from Steve Goss.

I was working round to it. :-) Watchman Nee remarks somewhere that we are not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners: we can’t help it, because we are all born with that fallen nature we inherit from Adam. What I am saying is that all Christians may commit sins, but that...

Glad you liked them, but I am so glad they're not in the Bible.

Afraid not. I didn't like to press further; she hasn't posted anywhere I know of for 3-4 years - I think she is in some Christian community in Germany.

Maybe we periodically regain it. This is from John Wesley’s biography: And here is Charles Finney: I don’t have any personal experience of this, but I think I have met someone who has. Some years ago I corresponded with a Quaker on another forum. She challenged me as to whether or not...

But you won't find the following verses in the Bible:

Danus, one question: when Paul writes to a church, does he address his letter to sinners or saints?

The Mosaic Law is still here. So is sin, for that matter. Christians have died to both.

1. Agreed: the verse is written by a Christian to a Christian. It is not an argument made to an unbeliever for the authority of scripture, it is - if we put it back in its context - commending all scripture as useful to a believer: 2. Also agreed.

As an Oxford don replied to "Henry Root", Sir, you are either an extremely ingenious hoaxer or suffering from a massive delusion.