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This is the simplest way to explain Christ’s remark at John 8:11, “Sin no more.” I think the conventional interpretation is that if Christ forgave this woman’s original sin, perhaps this gave her the power to avoid sin in that moment. However, this is incoherent.
Anybody with such an opinion would certainly admit that one can have a human nature without original sin, which is all I mean.
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Or, John 9:3, “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents,” to whom the Pharisees say, “Thou wast altogether born in sins.” John 9:34, and to whom Jesus says, “ If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” John 9:41.
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John 15:22, “ If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin,” and again “ If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin,” John 15:25.
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24 Dec 2023
In addition to psalm 96:5, there are other discrepancies between masoretic and Septuagint.
1. Isaiah 7:14 (virgin birth)
2. Deut 32:8 (Angel for each nation)
3. Amos 9:12 (the call to all nations)
4. Songs 1:5 (black but comely)
5. Zech 11:13 (potter vs furnace)
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24 Dec 2023
Psalm 96:5 Septuagint: “For all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.”
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declaring his thought to mortals (hebrew) vs declaring his Christ / anointed one to mortals (completely different)
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Zech 12:10 LXX: “ καὶ ἐπιβλέψονται πρός με ἀνθ᾽ ὧν κατωρχήσαντo.” They will look unto me, because they treated me despitefully.
MS—“ וְהִבִּ֥יטוּ אֵלַ֖י אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־דָּקָ֑רוּ”. They will look unto me, who they pierced (referenced in John 19:37).
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See also Mark 8:31, which states that Jesus must be rejected by the presbyters.
If an apostle appointed all the presbyters (and this is what you maintain), it was not Paul who appointed the presbyters of Ephesus. It further seems the presbyters of Ephesus had a hand in Timothy’s ordaining from 1 Tim 4:14
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The heart is not, as is commonly supposed, simply the emotions, rather it is more like a guardian angel. Elijah says at 2 Kings 5:26, “Did not my heart/spirit go along when the man got down from his chariot to meet you?”
But Abraham was a righteous man, who resisted the evil inclinations of his heart, and endured the reign of sin and death.
You say “Abraham was guilty.” If this was true, there would be some tradition in the church critical of him. None exists.
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This is a kind of caricature of the popular notion that the nation state is a 19th century construct. The “Chinese nation state,” is a poorly named centralized entity considered to be distinct from
the pre-modern state in China governing the Chinese nation.
The century of humiliation” didn’t happen, in part because there was no “China” for it to happen to. Whenever you recycle this meme, you’re just recycling authoritarian propaganda.
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He had been baptized with water, but not with fire. Luke 3:16 says, “I indeed baptize you with water; He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.” This baptism by fire takes place after Christ’s death, I think.
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Jesus had already been baptized at this point, meaning he was in the turbulence of the Waters? 👀
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The Baole say it is only Great Heaven who brings children. This Great Heaven plays the role of the Allah-who-brings-children among the Afar.
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Here a second distinction is made between the Allah who distributes children, and the Allah who distributes food to feed them.
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this notion can also be found in medieval byzantium
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part of dostoevsky’s reason for opposing catholic church was they used death penalty. medieval orthodox church iirc thought only torture/mutilation was ok
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Mandaeans call themselves “Sabians” to avoid persecution, because Quran 2:62 defines the 4 true religions as “Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Sabians,” without defining what a Sabian precisely is. If they were not “Sabians,” they would be jahaliyyah (“ignorant”) and persecuted.
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One chronicler describes the Crusaders as bringing in uncircumcised settlers from among the Arabs. This could refer to Christians from lower status families however it could also refer to Mandaeans.
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This poster observes that the monks, needing to constantly depart to go to church, are unable to do any of their customary labors.
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That post rather observes that the true hermit life “is no longer permitted in our day”
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24 Sep 2023
“My vocabulary cannot describe the Kaaba. It was being circumambulated by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, and race in the world.”
-Malcolm X
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For example, the pre-Islamic cult of kaaba existed alongside the islamic cult of kaaba
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this Bedouin swears “By the Rabb of the Kabah,” even though he is not a Muslim. It is not clear that he thinks this Rabb of the Kabah is himself Allah, nor is it clear that he thinks that either of these entities will preside over the day of Qiyaamah, reckoning.
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If Abraham thought human sacrifice wrong, he’d expect punishment for sacrificing Isaac. Scripture says Abraham imagined his act was permitted—Hebrews 11:19, “Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.”
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The original movies do say that Luke’s father followed Obi Wan on an “idealistic crusade.” That the Sith were merely a school within the Jedi religion, potentially cooperating with Jedi, seems implied by the statement “You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.”
There should NOT be a Star Wars movie about how a good man becomes Darth Vader, a vicious, scheming servant of evil.
You don't make blockbuster movies centered around the corruption of good!
Leave that for serious novels like "Crime & Punishment".
The mistake was making a set of films about Young Darth Vader.
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That being said, although the Old Republic is called a more civilized age, it is not entirely clear it is a *better* age. The Republic may have been as wicked as the Empire, for all we know, or even worse—so that a crusade in support of the Republic is both idealistic and wrong.
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The Orthodox Synaxarion of Holy Monday says “He broke out by His own power.” This contradicts Roman 10:9, which says “Believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead.” However it accords with John 10:17-18 Vulgate “I lay down my life…I have power to take it up again.”
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