re: Israel / Hamas in a biblical context - any content recs?

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Revelations was written after the Temple fell so how did it fortell it's destruction?

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The majority consensus by biblical scholars is that it was written in the 60s AD, prior to the destruction of the temple.

Just a basic google search… this is the reply


95-96 CE
Almost all New Testament scholars now take the view that Revelation was written during the reign of Domitian, sometime around 95-96

Romans 11

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Mary is the Mother of God. She is the Queen Mother of Jesus Christ's Davidic Kingdom. The Queen Mother is a very important part of the Davidic Kingdoms. So, it is quite fitting that Jesus would "Save" his own mother before her birth by deeming that she be born Sinless. Mary is the New Eve. Jesus is the New Adam. They usher in the Messianic Age, and it's fitting that the New Eve would be superior to the original Eve by being Sinless. Finally, the Angel Gabriel's greeting to Mary is a Scriptural indication that Mary was Sinless. Gabriel uses a Greek expression indicating that Mary being "full of grace" is something that is part of her identity and happened in the past. The Greek word in the New Testament is a tough one: kecharitomene.

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This is lunacy.

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You keep worshipping your popes and Mary

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As I've stated countless times. You truly are a first ballot hall of fame level idiot.

I to am a former Catholic

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This is lunacy.

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Lunacy and not Christian in the least.

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So, it is quite fitting that Jesus would "Save" his own mother before her birth by deeming that she be born Sinless.

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First of all, Jesus IS GOD. The Gospel verifies who Christ is, and God has NO MOTHER. Mary was a blessed woman, and chosen to deliver Christ into the world, but she was still born into sin and has a sin nature like every single one of us. She is the blessed vessel whom God the Father chose to deliver the human body of Christ, but not the sinless God Himself, without which Mary and the rest of us would have no hope of salvation had He not paid the ultimate price for our sins through His sacrifice. This can only happen through someone who knew NO sin, and that is through God in human flesh. We are the corruptible, and God is the incorruptible. To mix those up is to distort who Christ is, and who we are in our relation to God, and our need for the Savior in the first place. Mary too.

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
John 1:1-3

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David himself, the same linage of both Mary and Joseph testifies to the sin he was born into.

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“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.”
Psalm 51:5

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Mary hails from the lineage of David through Nathan which gives Christ the bloodline to Kingship through the human side, but a woman’s bloodline would preclude Christ from the throne. Joseph (Jesus’ step father) also hails from the linage of David, but is precluded from inheritance because he hails from Solomon, and that bloodline was prevented from inheriting the throne.

All that to illustrate that Christ is the true Heir to rightful Kingship as a result of what John 1 pointed to, and that’s is that His Is GOD! Mary was born into the same sin that every single human is born into as a descendant of Adam, and under the same curse of that sin and fallen nature. She was not sinless. She was born into it, the same as every human was born into it.

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who is our mediator between God and man


The RCC says it's Jesus.

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So then why instruct people to pray to anyone but Christ and Christ alone?

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

1 Timothy 2:5-6

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who we are to rely upon for our salvation

The RCC says it's Jesus.

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Along with your works, sacraments, and everything else under the sun that is NOT Christ and Christ alone.

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So is it Christ and Christ ALONE (monergism), or does our salvation rely upon some cooperation with Christ on our end (synergism)? You're contradicting yourself.

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Not at all. I play no part in my salvation, only belief, reliance, and dependency upon the finished work of Christ. I can do nothing to earn my salvation through anything but believing upon what He has already done. I can not add to what it took a perfect God to do for me.

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None of these, with the exception of the Sacraments, specifically baptism, aid any way in our initial salvation.

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If baptism saves you, then explain the thief on the side of Christ whom walked with Christ into His kingdom because he believed upon who He said that He was, who he knew he was, and the dependency that he placed upon Christ on the cross for his salvation.

Not one sacrament was done by him, including water baptism, which is simply obedience to Christ as an act testifying of repentance. John 3:16 is final.

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Based on all of the above, I can only assume you slept through catechism. Only bad Catholics become Protestant.

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I went through years of Catholic school religious education, and far from failing it, I actually wanted to be an alter boy at one point until God revealed Himself to me through His word and I saw the RCC as the very religious of the day whom Christ addressed in scripture, those whom wanted reliance upon themselves for people to attain salvation rather than reliance upon Christ alone. He came to them, and they knew Him not, yet the most religiously educated of the day. None were more proficient in scripture than they were, and none more oblivious to the truths that Christ taught than them either, willfully ignorant. Why? Because Christ represented an enormous threat to their authority over the people, because Christ was worshiped, and they were on the back burner.