@PDavidCMcGuire@JoshuaBarzon Not a few set your bar at today’s modern ““ profits, who are liars and deceivers and grifters. But think about what the book of Hebrew says. We have a better priesthood, a better, high priest, a better covenant, and better sacrifices. Don’t take my word for it; read for yourself.
@JMMODE@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Here’s what I’m talking about with things being poetical in certain context. It does depend on the genre. The psalms are meant to be red as poetry. But check this out:
Does the Bible teach that the earth is flat? - an article from Got Questions Ministries gotquestions.org/flat-earth-Bib…
@CaidenHooks@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Just cherry picking what is allegory and what is literal, that's all. What did the ancient Hebrews believe? What did Jesus believe about earth? Why didn't he correct their misunderstanding knowing it would be argued on X a couple thousand years later?
@JMMODE@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Have u considered that, whatever the ancient Hebrews believed about the shape of the Earth, the Bible doesn’t actually talk about it? Also, considering the prevalence of Greek knowledge by the first century, don’t you think the Hebrews would know by then that the world was round?
@JMMODE@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon If God is all powerful, why couldn’t he do both? What are you even trying to say? Why couldn’t God have created the world purposefully as a globe, or an oblate spheroid as the case maybe?
@CaidenHooks@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Is the resurrection and ascension poetic? What’s harder to believe, the earth is purposefully created or God ascended from a flying ball?
@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Don’t be like that. Those are seriously theological topics. But most of the places where end of the Earth or pillars of the Earth are found are in prophecies, describing either places or locations, not the shape of the Earth. Not even answers in Genesis agrees with you.
Schools today have students from many different religions and cultures, so some people believe certain foods should be removed to avoid offending anyone.
Others think students should have the freedom to choose what they want to eat, while many feel respect and inclusion should come first.
What do you think schools should do???
When I was Muslim, I compared Muhammad’s last words to Jesus’ last words.
Not just the facts, but the spirit behind them.
And bro, the difference is staggering. It shook my devout Muslim faith.
According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad’s final words included: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians. They made the graves of their prophets into places of worship.”
Those are words associated with his final moments.
No forgiveness. No reconciliation. No peace.
Now compare that to Jesus.
Beaten, betrayed, tortured, hanging on a cross with nails through His wrists, Jesus says:
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
And then: “It is finished.”
One dies speaking curses.
The other dies extending forgiveness.
One ends by drawing lines and reinforcing division.
The other tears the veil and reconciles heaven and earth.
And whether people like it or not, final words reveal something deeply personal about the heart.
That contrast shook me.
Because one man’s final moments reinforced separation, while the other’s changed eternity through mercy, sacrifice, and love.
Please sit with that honestly.
@PDavidCMcGuire@JoshuaBarzon Not. 1 John four: one says to test the spirits to see whether they are from God. And Deuteronomy 18:20 says that if someone prophesies and it doesn’t come to pass, that is a word that Yahweh has not spoken. Everything else got better under the new covenant, but not prophecy?
@CaidenHooks@JoshuaBarzon Not necessarily. The New Testament changes the standard when someone misses it. The standard was so strict under the Old Covenant because many prophecies became scripture. Under the New Covenant, there is room to grow if someone falsely prophesies.
“A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me” (Psa 3:0-1).
The relationship between Psalm 3 and Psalms 1-2 is critically important for identifying King David as a Messianic figure and for understanding the Messianic hope throughout the Psalter. Although Psalms 1-2 promise the establishment of the Messianic kingdom (Psa 1:3, 6; 2:4-9), they also describe a terrible rebellion against the LORD’s Messiah (Psa 1:6; 2:1-3), which anticipates suffering on the Messiah’s part. By placing Psalm 3 (a prophetically inspired song of David) as the first psalm in Book 1 (Psalms 3-41), directly after Psalms 1-2, David’s suffering (Psa 3:1-2) and eventual triumph over the wicked (Psa 3:5-8) become Messianically paradigmatic. When King David cries out, “O LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me” (Psa 3:1), we hear prophetic echoes of the rebellion against the LORD’s Messiah (Psa 2:1-3).
But this rebellion against King David, and by extension the Messiah, is deeper than we might first imagine. In both the first and last psalms of Book 1 (Psalms 3 and 41), David is betrayed by someone from within his inner circle. In Psalm 3, David is betrayed by his son Absalom, whose name in Hebrew means “father of shalom.” In Psalm 41, David is betrayed by a “man of shalom” who lifts his heel against him (Psa 41:9), most likely an allusion to Ahitophel, who partnered with Absalom to overthrow King David (2 Sam 15:12).
When Yeshua declares that one from among the inner circle of His disciples will betray Him, it is clear that He has been reading David’s story through the prophetic Messianic lens provided by the book of Psalms. By reading the Psalms this way, Yeshua knows that His path to victory must first lead Him through the valley of rejection and suffering.
@myheartgoes_out@JoshuaBarzon GROIPER ALERT! You’re running rough shot with the context of those passages again. There’s actually debate on what Jesus was even talking about. And you need empirical evidence for your claim that they run the world.
@JoshuaBarzon The mark of a false prophet isn't if they prophesy falsely, but when they prophesy, and it comes to pass, but they lead you to rebel against God.
@TGrogan268173@JoshuaBarzon Most if not all of those are figures of speech or poetic language. Generally speaking, the Bible doesn’t really weigh in on that debate.
Well a lot of good things I could say, but one that is is not addressed enough is gluttony, the way we look in a church…some are okay but i see too many people that do not know how to take care of their appearance and health. There is a way to eat healthy and not look like a blob.
@thefreestones@JoshuaBarzon Post tribulation rapture guy here. I’m not exactly sure what position you’re advocating, but if you’re talking about a pre-trib rapture, then I agree with that point.
@JoshuaBarzon Noah didn't get raptured... He got a boat, that he had to build for 100 years while everyone that he was crazy. The end will be like the days of Noah, which means we will get an ark, not a rapture.