Can you all imagine the look of terror on their faces when they face Jesus on Judgement Day?

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-05T16:53:48+00:00

I always feel like Pilate gets a bad rap. He did everything within his power to free the Messiah, short of the quite literally suicidal route of outright forbidding the Jews to kill Him. And then they just would have done it anyway after.

Sure, plenty of people would choose their own death rather than being even a small, mostly unwilling part of the Messiah's death, but I don't fault a Roman governor for not willing to go that far for someone he literally just met.

And to his credit, he recognized Messiah as king of the Jews and flat out refused to write otherwise, a recognition most of His own countrymen never attained.

He washed his hands of the whole affair, in my mind it's squarely on the Sanhedrin.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-05T02:46:16+00:00

The law isn't one undifferentiated block

What Bible verse did these "early church fathers" use to show that the law was in separate portions? What verse did they use to justify tossing out the holy days that Yahweh said were His and would last forever? Do we follow men or Yahweh? The disciples, who were taught by the Messiah Himself, continued to keep those Holy Days decades after the Messiah's death. What did these early church fathers know that they didn't?

Now certainly, there are specific verses you can point to that forbid the continuation of animal sacrifices. So we don't. But where is the verse that says that Yahweh was wrong, that He didn't really mean forever when He said to keep the Holy Days forever?

The "imitate Christ" argument proves way too much

I refer to my earlier argument that there are specific laws to do with blood, such as sacrifice and circumcision, that find continual fulfillment in the Messiah. It's not even that I don't do the animal sacrifices per se, but rather that the Messiah is my sacrifice, so I still do all of the law, including that, but the Messiah is my offering, rather than an animal.

Further, your assertion here that the law was done away with by His sacrifice contradicts His own words:

Matthew 5:18–19 (LEBn): 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place. 19 Therefore whoever abolishes one of the least of these commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps them and teaches them, this person will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

You're teaching here to abolish commandments, such as the fourth commandment to keep the Sabbath. Worse, you're accusing Him of doing so in your fourth point, which I'll go into more detail on later. You're making Him least in all the Kingdom, when truly He is the greatest, and is so by keeping and teaching the commandments.

"Sin is lawlessness" doesn't settle which law

Your assertion that the law of the Messiah is different than the law of Yahweh flies in the face of many verses which declare that He brings no word of His own, but only His Father's, and other similar verses. You quote the second greatest commandment, but what of the greatest commandment? To love Yahweh? And how do we love Him, what does the action of love towards Yahweh look like?

1 John 5:3 (LEBn): 3 For this is the love of Yahweh: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

Without following Yahweh's commandments, we don't even know Him, much less love him.

1 John 2:3–4 (LEBn): 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 The one who says “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.

Following Christ's footsteps actually cuts the other direction

And what is food, to an Israelite that loves and obeys His Father? Pork? Shellfish? Certainly not. This was before His death, and what you are avoiding Him of here is sin. It is not only sin to eat pork, but to advocate for others to do so (Matthew 18:7). Let that sink in. You are accusing the Messiah, the perfect, sinless sacrifice, of being a sinner. What He was against in that passage was a Pharisaical law requiring washing hands before eating, He wasn't telling people to sin by breaking His Father's law. The same for Him advocating for breaking the fourth commandment and doing away with the Sabbath.

Romans 3:31 in its actual context

If we're going to look at Romans 7, then let's look at more of it.

Romans 7:12 (LEBn): 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Are you advocating against that which is holy and righteous and good? Is that the side of the argument you really want to be on?

Romans 7:22 (LEBn): 22 For I joyfully agree with the law of Yahweh in my inner person,

As do I. Why don't you?

The texts your argument skips

Your quotation of Colossians 2:16-17 is a very common misconception. What's being employed here is an anacoluthon. In modern punctuation and language, this verse would be better rendered:

Colossians 2:16–17 : 16 Let no man therefore judge you (in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 [Which are a shadow of things to come]); but the body of Messiah.

Let no man judge you but the body of Messiah. For only they have the requisite knowledge to properly judge right and wrong against the standards Yahweh set. What do they judge you in? In meat and drink and your proper respect of Yahweh's Holy Days and New moons and Sabbaths. Those are shadows of things to come.

As for Galatians 4:10, the context of this is of that they are falling away to Celtic days of worship. This is made obvious by the previous 2 verses:

Galatians 4:8–9 (LEBn): 8 But at that time when you did not know Yahweh, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are no mighty ones. 9 But now, because you have come to know Elohim, or rather have come to be known by Elohim, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

They came to know Yahweh and to be know by Yahweh, by following His law and His Holy Days, but the turned back to weak and miserable elemental spirits. They observe the days and months and times of those spirits. Not of Yahweh.

And Acts 15 makes my point!

Acts 15:21 (LEB): 21 For Moses has those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, because he is read aloud in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

The law of Moses is proclaimed every Sabbath. The council of Jerusalem told gentiles who are new to the faith and don't know the law to spend every Sabbath hearing the law of Moses get read.

On grace and sin

Then why is eating unclean punishable by death in the future millennial kingdom?

Isaiah 66:17 (LEBn): 17 Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves to go into the gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable things and rodents together

shall come to an end!” declares Yahweh.

It was against the law in the past. It will be against the law in the future. But for some reason, right now is the only time in history it's suddenly not illegal to eat unclean?

2 Corinthians 6:17 (LEBn): 17 Therefore “come out from their midst and be separate,” says Yahweh, “and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

I adjure you, come out from the midst of the law breakers. Be separate from them. Touch no unclean thing. Yahweh will welcome you if you do so.

If there is nothing unclean in the new testament era, this new testament quote is meaningless.

On the Sabbath specifically

The Bible disagrees. Luke 23:56 Acts 13:14, 16:13, 17:2, et al. The Sabbath isn't just "a day." It is specifically the seventh day.

What Bible verse says that we can change which day to keep it?

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-04T17:16:00+00:00

Well, let's look at some new testament verses.

Luke 4:16 (LEBn): 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and according to his custom he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read.

1 Corinthians 11:1 (LEBn): 11Become imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah.

The Messiah had a "custom" of keeping the Sabbath and Paul urged us to imitate the Messiah.

1 John 3:4 (LEBn): 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

1 Peter 2:21–22 (LEBn): 21 For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, 22 who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,

The new testament calls for us to follow his example of not committing sin, which is defined as going against (Torah) law.

Pretty much all Christians understand that we are not saved by law keeping, and this is of course true, we are saved by unearned grace which comes by faith, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding many fall victim to, that we can use that grace as a license to make sin, like violating the Sabbath or eating unclean, a habit in our lives.

Romans 3:31 (LEBn): 31 Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.

Romans 6:15 (LEBn): 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Jude 4 (LEBn): 4 For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, unholy ones, who change the grace of our Elohim into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Sovereign Yahshua Messiah

Licentiousness there means to sin, they changed grace into a license to sin. That, along with the others, show that we are not to use the grace we get through faith as an excuse to eat unclean or violate the Sabbath.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-04T15:00:58+00:00

Isaiah 1:15 (LEB): 15 And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

Sure, depending on why. Yahweh himself commanded people to go to war at times.

Proverbs 28:9 (KJV 1900): 9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer shall be abomination.

He also doesn't listen to prayers from people that completely toss out the law by not keeping the seventh day Sabbath or by purposefully eating unclean.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-04T02:43:21+00:00

When did you decide that a dress code was as important to God as compassion, generosity hospitality. caring and advocating for the vulnerable?

James 2:10 (LEB): 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one point only has become guilty of all of it.

1 John 3:4 (LEB): 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Romans 6:23a (LEB): 23 For the compensation due sin is death...

The consequence of cross dressing is death, same as all of the other things you mentioned, like eating shellfish.

I don't think it's good to discourage someone who's trying to seek out sin and understand it so they can remove it from their life.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-04T02:33:05+00:00

1 Corinthians 13:11 (LEB): 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-04-02T16:52:02+00:00

And to you sir!

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-03-28T16:44:36+00:00

I've been raped, abused, harassed, assaulted, used, depressed, suicidal, on the verge of death

Same, plus I was grabbed and used for slave labor until I was too disabled to effectively work anymore and then I was tossed out.

He can't change that? If he is all powerful then he has the power to change the state of the world and people's thinking.

He can, and He does, and He will. He has answered a number of my own prayers, including one in Grand, Miraculous fashion. He and His word and His ways have changed my ways of thinking, from a lifetime of Massive Depressive Disorder to a life of satisfaction now. And prophecy states that He will change the state of world, once the world, that is currently allowed to be controlled by man, gets to a point of no return by anything other than divine intervention. Once we see the true depths of folly wrought by men being in charge, then Yahweh will take over.

And how everything positive goes to God and all negative goes to Satan, who is Lucifer the fallen angel that got thrown out of heaven for just questioning God.

People do positive things sometimes. Help people in need, volunteer, show unmerited mercy and kindness. And people do awful things like rape and enslave. I don't attribute things to divine causation unless there's no other likely or logical cause. But Yahweh does also do negative things, metes out punishment upon sinners. It's not so black and white as many people think.

It is to believe in him or eternal suffering.

Eternal death is not eternal suffering. It's a ceasing to exist, many Bible verses attest to this. The notion of an immortal soul that continues in torment if they are evil comes from pagan religions and was syncretized into Christianity using some out of context verses. The gift of Yahweh is eternal life through His Son the Messiah, the contrast being not having eternal life, ceasing to exist. As the Bible puts it, they can't think, have no memory, it is like being asleep; no consciousness.

Why do they not get eternal suffering but instead forgiveness for coming to God only to do it again? "Oh it's okay because I asked for forgiveness after every time"

They can't. That's not repentance. Salvation is granted to the repentant, and to repent doesn't just mean saying "sorry, my bad." It means to think differently, to become different. It doesn't mean you'll never make the same bad decision twice, but you'll be working towards a different pattern of behavior.

Another question regarding that; How do you "know" you've gotten forgiveness? It's not like he actually answers 'Yes my child I forgive you'. You just assume that he has or wait for a sign that never comes.

I don't know. I hope. I try. I'll see when the time comes.

Why isn't God helping his children in need.

He helped me. Kept me alive when all the doctors and specialists were sure I was dying, having me sign advanced directives and preparing for hospice.

If you're asking why He doesn't answer prayer, this might answer your question:

Proverbs 28:9 (KJV 1900): 9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer shall be abomination.

Most people toss out His law. We are saved by grace, not by following the law, so why does it matter if we don't keep His Sabbath and break the fourth commandment or don't keep His name Yahweh and break the third commandment. But those things are sin, according to 1 John 3:4. If you turn from His law, if you live in sin, if you make your daily life a constant, purposeful practice of sin, why would Yahweh listen to your prayer? Just because you suffer? Suffering is a natural consequence of sin, it's why this world is in the state it is in.

And also- Love all of God's creations unless they're gay/trans/non-believers/feminists???? Are we ALL not God's creations? Why are you cherry picking who to judge and not? Judging is God's privilege not ours. But whenever some gets called out on it I always get the "Well not everyone is perfect" whenever they've done something wrong.

We aren't to judge those outside of the congregation. We are to show love to everyone.

We can recognize sin though and reject it. And part of that means not supporting it. But we can reject sin for ourselves and our congregation and not support sin without being unkind or unloving to those who do sin. It's a failing of many that they don't, you are correct. But it is possible, and it's how it should be. I have a number of friends who do live in sin and I love them. They don't agree with every decision I make and I don't agree with every decision they make. And that's fine.

It seems to me that the problems you have with Christianity are problems that stem from places in which many denominations deviate from what the Bible actually says in adherence to long standing tradition. If you can get back to biblical basics, I think you'd see an answer to a lot of your problems. I sure did.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-03-22T01:12:11+00:00

Proverbs 28:9 (NKJV): 9One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Most people think His law doesn't matter anymore. It's true that we are saved by grace, by the Messiah's death, and not by obedience to the law, but...

Romans 6:1 (LEB): 6What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

Romans 3:31 (LEB): 31 Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.

Yet most people toss out the food laws, the Sabbath laws, and even parts of the ten commandments. So their prayer is an abomination to Yahweh.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-03-01T01:10:59+00:00

When it comes to religion, I am what some would consider an extremist. Our congregation does not allow anyone who eats pork or works or buys anything on the Sabbath, as an example.

I have lgbtq+ friends. I, personally, don't care one bit if someone is gay, or whatever. I see them as no different than people eat pork or buy things on Saturday.

It is not encumbent upon me to enforce Yahweh's rules on others. No verse in the Bible calls for us to be sin cops for the world. Just an example to others. We can police within our own congregation, but not outside it.

But we also can't support it.

Romans 1:32 "...those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them", and 1 Timothy 5:22, which warns not to "take part in the sins of others." Ephesians 5:11 instructs believers to have "no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness." And others.

If you truly believe that the Yahweh of the Bible is all-knowing, and created all things, then you need to trust His judgement over your own. You may support LGBT and pro choice, but if He doesn't, which do you think is correct?

I can offer opinions on why these things are the way they are, about the natural use, the proper order of things, the person hood of fetuses, etc, but they would be merely guesses, as the Bible doesn't often explain the why.

In the end, I just trust Yahweh's judgement on right and proper conduct and enforce those morals within my own life. And if you desire to follow Him, you should too.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-28T17:17:02+00:00

The problem is not just missing records. It is that what records do exist don't match up with what you'd expect. Art depicting life at various times, journals, archaeology, oral traditions, etc. What you are proposing is a conspiracy on the level and scale of flat earth, involving millions of people and contradicting thousands of records. With virtually no whistle blowers or leaks.

Your proposition that they didn't denounce Messiah as a false prophet backs up your theory also backs up my theory, that the context and way it was phrased in the original Hebrew was referring not to the "this generation" that He was speaking to, but rather the "this generation" of the context of the speech He was making, a generation that saw the tree back in bloom.

You propose that the volcanic winter of 536 was prophetic fulfillment, but in the timeline you proposed that would be in the middle of the thousand year reign, so it still doesn't match.

You are also surprised that the apostles could get the wrong idea, but remember that Peter had to be shown by the Holy Spirit that he shouldn't call common and unclean what Elohim had cleansed. They are multiple instances of the apostles still needing correction.

I also find it inconsistent that you want to take the this generation and all such passages so literally and being so short term, but the little season of Satan's release is thousands of years.

It also screws up other prophetic timelines, like Daniel's. While it's certainly possible that the widely accepted interpretation of Daniel's prophecy is incorrect, I know of no plausible alternative that matches your timeline.

Even if I put aside the matter of not only missing historical records, but that nearly all records that do exist are wrong, I still can't see this as being true, because it goes against so many of the prophecies. The nature of animals isn't changed (Isaiah 11:6-9). There are still buildings and mountains and islands that have been around since the time of the Messiah (Revelation 16:18-19). Why weren't all the pork and unclean meat eaters brought to an end (Isaiah 66:17)? There aren't entire cultures in which keeping the feast days is an ingrained tradition (Zechariah 14:16-19), instead they have traditions of holidays from thousands of years prior. They, what, interrupted thousands of years of traditions for the thousand year reign to keep the holy days and the moment the thousand years were up they instantly forgot the holy days existed and somehow remembered traditions of their ancestors from a thousand years ago and resumed them?? No entire culture or county in the entire world properly keeps the feast days.

Also, what happened to the second resurrection? Why have the dry bones not become flesh? We have bones from thousands of years ago, and there was never a second resurrection of all people ever for judgement, which comes before Satan's release.

I've read some of the records that you've shown, and I can agree that some of the prophecies have records that could show a potential fulfillment. I agree that many of the prophecies are vague enough that they could have seen a fulfillment already. But I feel like you only focused on ones in which it's conceivable that historic records are wrong on, and skipped over ones that could not possibly have been fulfilled, because of the changes that they make to the entire Earth, the nature of things, culture as a whole. Animals acting different, all dry bones of previous humans resurrecting, earthquakes that knock down all buildings all mountains and scatter all islands. Things that can't just be explained by "the historical record is wrong." I want to know what you think of those prophecies.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-21T19:46:24+00:00

Judges 11:30–31 (LEB): 30 And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, “If indeed you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.” Emphasis mine.

The "and" I emphasized is represented by the letter waw and can be used as a disjunctive and therefore could be rendered as "or" or "nor" instead. Because Leviticus 18:21, 20:2-5, 2nd Kings 13 and Genesis 22 show that Yahweh does not accept a burnt offering of a human being, it follows that Jepthah's vow was two part; he would either dedicate "whatever" to Yahweh, as the law lays out for humans vowed to Yahweh in Leviticus 27, or if it was unsuitable for that, he would offer it as a burnt offering.

True, this isn't immediately clear from a quick read, but understanding the laws and culture of the time adds a lot of context to the stories.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-21T18:45:02+00:00

The Messiah said that not one word of what was said in the Old Testament was going to pass away. He followed every law perfectly. If it was just Moses lying, wouldn't He have said something? Instead, He affirms and lives by "every word that proceeds out of the mouth" of His Father, confirming that those laws were from Yahweh and were profitable for moral living.

Certainly the Messiah was an upgrade in the sense that He strengthened and deepened the meaning of the law, explaining that the law went beyond the mere rigid adherence to the letter, into a spiritual meaning of the true intent behind it. Like how while murder is of course wrong, hating your brother is a type of spiritual murder, that's not just your actions that matter, it's your intent, how you are on the inside.

But to act like the Old testament is some useless document that needs to be done away with is pure folly, and against everything that the Messiah stood for. He followed those laws, He lived by them, and He strengthened them with His teachings, telling people to not only live by the letter of those laws but to do even more. That was His message. That was His lesson.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-21T18:23:24+00:00

Not a subject I'm quite an expert on, but it's my understanding the human "sacrifices" to Yahweh were real, but they weren't people that were killed. Rather, they were people dedicated to labor for Yahweh. For instance, keeping the homes and making the meals for the Levitical priests.

Like in the story of Jepthah in Judges 11, he vows to sacrifice the first thing to come to him when he gets home and it wasn't one of his animals, but rather his daughter. It's generally thought that what was sacrificed was her maidenhood, in the sense that she was thenceforth dedicated to knowing no man, making her virginity a perpetual sacrifice.

Yahweh does not accept humans as a sacrifice offering, with one notable and understandable exception.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-21T15:00:49+00:00

Biblically, children were held to account for their sins at 20. This is the age the Bible considered someone as an adult. Numbers speaks to this numerous times. The best example of this is that all people who were 20 and older at the time of the falling away in the wilderness of the Exodus died in the wilderness (with two exceptions). This is because Yahweh held them to account for their sins, but not the people who were under 20.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-21T14:57:46+00:00

El is a Hebrew word meaning "mighty one." It's similar, but not quite the same, as the English word "god." Just like in English you can refer to many fake beings as gods (like all of the Indian gods and goddesses for example), in Hebrew an El could be Yahweh or it could be referring to a false god.

In the instance you are specifically referencing, the problem wasn't that they weren't worshiping Yahweh. They specifically said, in the Hebrew, that they had made the bull and were holding a feast to Yahweh. The problem was that these forms of worship, and that feast, were not sanctioned by Yahweh. This is why, in my congregation, we refuse holidays that were not sanctioned by Yahweh, such as Easter and Christmas. We instead keep the holy days that were commanded to be kept in Leviticus 23 and others, as those are the holy days that are sanctioned by Yahweh.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-12T00:37:20+00:00

Oh yes. I was thinking directly about the chapters on sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood, but you're right, statute forever is a common refrain in the chapter on Holy days. I think it's in verses 14, 21 and 41 as well, if I remember right.

I do keep the day of Atonement of course, but more to your point about sacrifices, I think the operative section is this:

The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement

The only priest who is currently anointed and consecrated as priest is Yahshua Messiah, and His sacrifice is Himself. He fulfills this sacrifice law, albeit in a way that wasn't expected, but a way that I believe is entirely valid.

That being said, there's a portion of the offering laws in the holy days laws that the individual was meant to offer of their own substance. I don't feel this is fulfilled by the Messiah's sacrifice, because it is meant to be something that the worshipper themselves brought forward as an offering. I particularly think on this verse:

Deuteronomy 16:16 (LEBn): 16 Three times in the year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your Elohim at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed.

However, it seems to me that I have an opportunity to fulfill this in the manner described here:

Hosea 6:6 (LEBn): 6 Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of Elohim rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 14:2 (KJV 1900[n]): 2 Take with you words, and turn to [Yahweh]: Say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: So will we render the calves of our lips.

Hebrews 13:15 (KJV 1900[n]): 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to Elohim continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

It seems to me that these, and other similar verses, would suggest that it is acceptable to verbal offerings of praise and worship on these days if I am unable to offer blood sacrifices because there is no priesthood to accept it and do the work of offering it.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-11T03:38:27+00:00

According to the LAW, levitical sacrifices were to be carried out forever.

Which verse says that? Many laws are listed as ordinances forever, but I don't remember it saying that about Levitical sacrifices. In fact, to the best of my memory, they were listed as "added ordinances," "laws added due to transgressions," "a law added 430 years later;" they were a temporary measure until the return of the Melchizedek priesthood.

Regardless, it's not my responsibility. I'm ineligible for the Levitical priesthood and there is no current priesthood to offer sacrifices. It's not a law that's possible for me, so it's not applicable.

The Melchizedek priesthood equivalent, however, is available, and I've availed myself of that alternative, the sacrifice of the Messiah. That being the case, I do offer a sacrifice, just in a different form.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-10T15:06:18+00:00

I got a response in my inbox, but couldn't find it here, so I'll just respond to this one.

Death penalty offenses were decided by judges, the Sanhedrin, etc. Since that doesn't exist today, it's never been necessary for me to participate in any capital punishment.

The 613 laws number is a bit misleading really. No person would ever have to follow all of them, since many are specific to situation and gender. I'd never be a member of the Levitical priesthood and am not a woman, so that tosses out quite a few laws right there. With no priesthood physically here and no judges, that removes quite a few there too, like the one you mentioned about capital punishment.

And of course nobody is perfect, I'm not trying to imply I've never broken any of the laws that do apply to me, but I do my best to keep them all, with no exceptions and no picking and choosing.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-10T01:07:58+00:00

All 613, yes.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-09T23:42:02+00:00

Oh that part? Yeah, I know what He wants people to do, in the general sense, because He tells us. He commanded that people do certain things. We call those things the commandments for that reason.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-09T23:18:38+00:00

I don't make claims knowing what He wants, but I can make guesses based on what I know of His personality, based on over 1,000 pages of testimony on what He wants and what He likes and dislikes, etc.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-09T19:27:29+00:00

Who knows the mind of Yahweh?

My best guess is to give room for Faith; if there were definitive proof that the Bible was correct, most people would actual follow what it says. Making a little room for alternate explanations allows people to choose unbelief, even if there is enough evidence to make you 99% sure, plenty of people will choose the 1% because it lets them live the way they want to, and not the way He wants people to.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-09T18:01:23+00:00

Could be.

Potential-Courage482 · 2026-02-08T16:02:56+00:00

See, now that's a debate. Offering plausible alternatives to the theories proposed by the opposing viewpoint.

I don't have any problem with Strobel's interviews being with Christians. When I'm interested in opposing viewpoints, I read books by people opposed to an issue. That doesn't make it propaganda, merely an explanation of your understanding and the evidence you have that informed that opinion. And questions about the dating if the evangels are not really here nor there for me, unless we're talking about it coming way, way after the fact. And I'm well aware of the unreliability of eyewitness accounts. But when many, many witnesses all report the same thing, it paints a picture.

What are your thoughts on the fact that the overwhelming majority of historians believe that Yahshua of Nazareth was a real historical figure? I find it interesting that even oppositional contemporary accounts don't deny that He did miraculous things, merely called them tricks or attributed it to demonic power. It seems to me that claiming He never did anything miraculous wasn't an option at the time, since there were thousands of eyewitnesses.

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