Theology
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“Many nations will come, saying, ‘Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of Jacob’s God, so he can teach us his commands and we can live by his laws. For Zion will be the source of instruction; the Lord’s teaching will proceed from Jerusalem. He will arbitrate between many peoples…
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“On balance it seems that Jesus is not telling the disciples to buy actual swords. He is saying that they are about to enter into very perilous times and they will need to keep the sword of the Spirit ‘half drawn’ at all times” —Paul Carter.1 “Is it foolish to be defenseless in a hostile…
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“What does Jesus say about people who engage in same-sex relationships? Or about people who identify with as something other than heterosexual, who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, queer, pansexual or any other ‘orientation’? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.” —Bart Ehrman1 “The early church, as we see her in Acts, expected and endured persecution without armed…
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“A person commits the fallacy of bifurcation when he or she claims that there are only two mutually exclusive possibilities—when, in fact, there is a third option (or more)…The fallacy of bifurcation may be more difficult to spot when the person merely implies that only two options exist, rather than explicitly stating this.” Jason Lisle1…
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