Posted on 07/28/2018 8:00:05 AM PDT by Salvation
Only a rank fool would say something like this, clearly supposing that his audience was equally naive and helpless to think straight.
Even Pontius Pilate knew better than that, affiximg a sign in three languages and alphabets to the Cross. And the disciples at Pentecost were heard by many pilgrims at the feast to speak in their mother tongues.
Please take a break. Go take a nap. Read some Hebrew yourself, if you can. Please stop inviting the disparaging remarks of others for your childish responses. Even a farm equipment salesman knows enough not to stand to the rear of his manure spreaders.
And you’ve seen them personally to verify their existence, have you?
Well, the whole Lucy thing is predicated upon a false notion to begin with.
Except for Dan Brown!
Not only that, but we have the teachings of early church fathers (ECF) where they quote practically every single verse of the New Testament. It has been said that even if we had no extant copies of the New Testament books, we could recompile them just from their writings.
I’m not sure what Philippians 3 has to do with our discussion. It doesn’t say anything about sin or confessing our sins.
imardmd1 pointed us to 1 John 1, which in verse 9 states, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Is it your contention that God will credit the righteousness of Christ to our account without us confessing our sins?
You don't think so???
And believe me, I appreciate not having to deal with the easily disproven lies of a fake rabbi cluttering up my notices.
Of course, if you don’t want my additional attention, you could just choose not to reply to me.
We’re on the same wavelength! ;o)
He already did...The moment we trusted him as our Savior...
LOL. See post 274.
Hmmmm. Pardon me Els, if I don’t buy that. 😁🤣 I have, however, been to Purgatory already, so I don’t worry about going there. It’s in Colorado, and the skiing is great. 👍
I found this interesting article that questions the "foremost expert" attribution on Miles Jones:
Dr. Jones self-published a non-peer reviewed book entitled The Writing of God. In the book Jones attempted to interact with my above-mentioned article. He tried to dismiss the possibility that this inscription was a forgery because: “In Saudi Arabia there is no antiquities market selling artifacts to tourists. There are no tourists in Saudi Arabia” (2010:147). The statement is incorrect on two counts. First, Dr. Macdonald, writing from personal experience, informs me that: “His [Jones’] statement that there are no fakes or forgeries in Saudi Arabia merely displays a complete ignorance of the situation in the Middle East, and he is very naïve if he really believes that because something is against the law in any country (even with draconian punishments) some people will not take the risk of law-breaking for profit” (personal correspondence, October 24, 2009, emphasis added).
Second, contrary to Jones’ statement, there are many foreign tourists visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia every year. The statistics from 1996 to the last recorded Hajj (2011) state that there were well over one million foreigners each year that made the pilgrimage to Mecca for the Hajj. Interestingly, the owner of the object in question was given the inscribed artifact by the Saudi prince who was the governor of Mecca (2010:147), the same city where the Hajj takes place.
Jones further attempts to convince the reader that Macdonald’s and Younger’s identification of the letters and translation of the word YHWH are incorrect. Yet, an understanding of the ancient language in question leads one to the conclusion that the artifact is not genuine. For example, the diacritical marks underneath the letters “wḥẖy” are in the text of the article. But the Semitic letter H with a line under it (ẖ) and the Semitic letter H with a dot under it (ḥ) are two different Semitic letters rather than the plain Semitic letter H, like in the word YHWH. So the letters that made up the word on the inscribed object do not spell “YHWH,” whichever direction it is read. Jones also said that “the ‘dot’ under the H is a pit in the stone” (2010:148). However, the diacritical marks underneath the letter “H” are scholarly convention for familiar modern Latin letters to represent Semitic letters and do not appear in the ancient lettering! Further, it has nothing to do with the pit in the stone.
Jones also attempts to dismiss the suggestion by Dr. Kahn that the object with the inscription was “recently scultured” [sic] by saying “the patina within the grooves of the engraving is the same color as the rest of the stone, a sign of its age. It is not a newly made gash in the stone” (2010:148). Yet, it is common knowledge among antiquities collectors that a modern forgery can be buried in the ground for a year or more after it is made in order to give it the appearance of age and patina.
It WAS a terrible feeling. That is why I am no longer a catholic. 👍
Of course, I don’t know for sure, but sometimes I think that people who belong to false religions, would rather go to Hell, than to spend eternity in Heaven with us. I have no way to know if that is true or not, but that is what I think.
Oh, E-S, you are the one who needs to WAKE UP!
Just think for a minute about this: if Hebrew was the ideal, chosen-by-the Holy Spirit language by which God would communicate ALL His revealed truths, then how could ANY man, woman, organization, demon, angel, power or principality confound that purpose??? Don’t we still have copies of all the Old Testament books in Hebrew?
In your zeal to promote your cult and its leader Michael Rood, you have fallen into a terrible and heretical ditch that threatens your eternal salvation. I pray that you do awaken to the accursed gospel you are held captive to and come into the light of the glorious Gospel of the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Prove it.
Something beyond your say so.
List the guy's credentials.
Yes.
When we turn to Christ and repent and confess, and are born again/born from above, then we become new creatures in Christ and Christ's righteousness is credited to our account.
We don't lose it when we sin. It's a permanent transaction, which is why our salvation is secure and we cannot lose it based on works or lack thereof, or sin that we commit and don't confess.
That being said, we are encouraged to confess our sins, as in the Lord’s Prayer, James 5:16, and 1 John 1:9.
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PhD in Linguistics, PhD post secdondary education.
Analysis of Mt Sinai accepted by the Saudi antiquities Ministry!
He is absolute top dog in ancient written languages. He has no peer in that discipline.
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