You accuse others of adding to scripture but you guys cite non-scriptural text to try to make your argument against my citation of scripture.
One thing I've noticed about you is you try to come to the defense of these modern jews too often when we have these Christian theological discussions. You're too consistently making excuses for modern jews for me to not be suspicious that your argument is not merely scholarly but has ulterior motive.
There is only one evil people today with enough power and influence who still assemble in temples they call "synagogues" and still reject Jesus Christ and mock Christ and the Virgin Mary and the saints they killed. They still put poison in the water poison in the food poison they call medicine. They still specialize as dealers and ambassadors of sin and they do lie because their father is the father of all lies. Now find me a modern jew who isn't a liar. They're still spiritually poor but monetarily rich, as the passage explains.
The evidence is clear. Maybe it's just not the answer you wanted. For that I cannot help you. It's not really an argument between you and me. We don't know each other or need to persuade the other. This is a struggle you are having with the truth or perhaps you are being dishonest with yourself.
I learned from Scripture that there was a real group in Philadelphia and Smyrna and knew that for many years. So when I came across the history showing who that group was, I recognized it immediately. Jesus said warn those two cities about that group, and that was the primary surface meaning. For you to assume he's warning you about something very different that contradicts the plain words is eisegesis. It's possible but it would be one of a thousand interpretations of the book.
I came to Win because there were dependable privacy-oriented conservative Christians and I could freely share community and weed out errors. When I realized that group was being targeted by collectivists, I found myself weeding out one particular class of errors more than any other. When people defame Christians, Muslims, or others unjustly, I weed that out too.
I have no problem accusing any number of Jews freely; let's pick on Shatner and Nimoy today for promoting a globalist view of politics and race relations. What I have a problem with is accusing "the Jews" as a group, when that means every man, woman, and child. I haven't needed to change my pretty simple boundary in five years.
You accuse others of adding to scripture but you guys cite non-scriptural text to try to make your argument against my citation of scripture.
One thing I've noticed about you is you try to come to the defense of these modern jews too often when we have these Christian theological discussions. You're too consistently making excuses for modern jews for me to not be suspicious that your argument is not merely scholarly but has ulterior motive.
There is only one evil people today with enough power and influence who still assemble in temples they call "synagogues" and still reject Jesus Christ and mock Christ and the Virgin Mary and the saints they killed. They still put poison in the water poison in the food poison they call medicine. They still specialize as dealers and ambassadors of sin and they do lie because their father is the father of all lies. Now find me a modern jew who isn't a liar. They're still spiritually poor but monetarily rich, as the passage explains.
The evidence is clear. Maybe it's just not the answer you wanted. For that I cannot help you. It's not really an argument between you and me. We don't know each other or need to persuade the other. This is a struggle you are having with the truth or perhaps you are being dishonest with yourself.
I learned from Scripture that there was a real group in Philadelphia and Smyrna and knew that for many years. So when I came across the history showing who that group was, I recognized it immediately. Jesus said warn those two cities about that group, and that was the primary surface meaning. For you to assume he's warning you about something very different that contradicts the plain words is eisegesis. It's possible but it would be one of a thousand interpretations of the book.
I came to Win because there were dependable privacy-oriented conservative Christians and I could freely share community and weed out errors. When I realized that group was being targeted by collectivists, I found myself weeding out one particular class of errors more than any other. When people defame Christians, Muslims, or others unjustly, I weed that out too.
I have no problem accusing any number of Jews freely; let's pick on Shatner and Nimoy today for promoting a globalist view of politics and race relations. What I have a problem with is accusing "the Jews" as a group, when that means every man, woman, and child. I haven't needed to change my pretty simple boundary in five years.