The Narrow Path Ministries

kaufmannphillips wrote: (2) Is my religious identity relevant? darinhouston wrote: Only for context and my curiosity of who else might have these views of the saints. Addressing your curiosity, then, I am not Roman Catholic. I myself generally think of expired folks as dead as a doornail until/unle...

Steven,

Thank you for your posting.

Your work is admirable. However, from context, the natural reading of Hosea 11:1 is not as a prophecy of the future, but a discussion of the past. If Hosea is referencing the Pentateuch, wouldn't Occam's Razor suggest Exodus 4:22?

RND wrote:

(3) If the saints are in heaven with G-d, are they not alive?

Big if.

For some complainants, but not for others.

The situation is not utterly different from asking your pastor to pray for you. No, the situation is utterly different. (you aren't Catholic, are you?) My pastor is alive, and I can communicate directly with him and ask for his support in prayer. It's a talisman plain and simple if not some form of...

True to a point, but the New Advent site (though not authoritative, certainly mainstream) does list Joseph as patron saint of home sellers. If you'll just look at the thousands of patrons and patronages, I think it shows the depths to which the RC church will direct people away from Christ for your...

Paidion wrote: In the Luke reference above, Jesus seems to have been saying that the REASON there will be no marrying or giving in marriage in the ressurection, is that the resurrected persons will not die any more. Thoughts anyone? On one level, the point about not dying may draw a contrast betwee...

Paidion wrote: I googled Herrell's name as kaufmannphillips suggested, and found that He is indeed anti-Jewish. Indeed, I was utterly horrified with some of his anti-Jewish articles. I wasn't aware of this when I directed you to his article about the Septuagint vs the Masoretic text. I want you all...

Edted from another forum : http://www.theos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=2241&p=32964#p32964 The reference in Matthew may be to ignorance of the nature of the scripture: it is a legal device, a hedge against the vicissitudes of this present world. In the present world, the scripture lays out a par...

Jason wrote: Emmet, are you saying there is no Rabbinic tradition from the 2nd Temple period or that you don't trust them as the B.T. was compiled much later? I'm not so much interested in the Persian period since the meaning could've been altered considerably by the time it came to be used by Jesu...

Priestly1 wrote: No more does my Old Testament text oppose or disagree with my New Testament..............100% agreement. (1) Considering agreement between the NT and a textual variant is putting the cart before the horse. First one should evaluate the different textual variants on their own merits...