Hawkins

It's human mind which limits God. Humans have to assume that, 1) Humans understand time But in reality no human actually know the nature of what time itself is. Just as Einstein once put, time is not a stable physics unit but instead SPEED is. In both Relativity and Quantum Physics TIME is never a stable physics unit. We take for granted that time is evenly progressive forward, but our physics simply disagrees. We don't actually understand how time behaves. Our assumption that time being stably and evenly advancing forward is based on our speculation on our current environment, not the environment how earth and our universe began. 2) Earth was created in our universe (in terms of time and space) This is yet another huge assumption. Nowhere in the Bible says that earth was created in our space/universe. More likely, earth was created else where which is a 'void'. My theory is, earth was created else where, outside of our space, and was 'move' into our space on Day 4. That's why sun and stars only appear on Day 4. Before Day 4, earth is not inside our space but in an 'adjacent' space where the light source is artificial (i.e., not necessarily from a sun). Earth was created in an empty space which was a void, till forests were formed. Only then it was moved into our space. All our today's dating method is based on the decay of isotops. Now the question is how isotops behave if earth is moved in and out of our space? There's no physics on this. The Bible is a witness about what happened on earth after (but not before) it is moved to our space. 3) Earth stays in its current position all the time (in terms of time and space) Even after being moved into our space/universe, it by no means says that God didn't touch it ever since. In contrary, for Israel to steal time to win a war, God 'made the sun stands still'. No one know what God did in terms of human physics. Possibly God manipulated time and space for the effect of the 'frozen time'. If so, again there's no physics on how the isotops should behave during this time and space manipulation. In a nutshell, with our limited human mind we assumed too much and too fast to build up our theory on what the Bible would like to say.

The "sons of God" may refer to other homo erectus including the Neanderthals. They married human women to give birth to the giants. The other possibility is "sons of God" refers to angels breaking laws. They tried to make humans to take their form to marry the pretty women. But their limited knowledge can only allow them to make the homo erectus such as Neanderthals. They then take on the "human form" in order to marry human women. That gave birth to the giants.

I use Wordsearch instead. I have more than 1000 books worthy of more than 5000 bucks, including tons of commentaries. However, Wordsearch discontinued after being acquired by Logos. Logos is never as good as Wordsearch.

First I made a whole explanation. It's not even honest to refer it to as a random pull. Second. no one in this world can come to a conclusion that he can actually understand the book of Revelation in full, let alone the 666 puzzle. Face it. This could be the only fact you need to know!

Do you realize that this is just yet another assertion? "666, in all likelihood, refers to Caesar Nero" You made zero valid argument by far, already after 2 posts. lol. Sometimes it's funny to see people behaving this way in a discussion board. lol.

Your feeling expressed doesn't form any valid argument though. Actually sometimes people are speechless by showing only some meaningless feelings and assertions.

So? Even so I don't think it invalidates anything, except at the semantic level. How you choked over anything won't form any valid argument at any level though. Take care buddy.

It is a puzzle can be deduced by a forward deduction and a side deduction matching with each other. Revelation 13:18 (NIV2011) This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666. The side deduction starts with calling for the word "Wisdom". It is about a Jewish rumor saying that the 666th figure of the Bible is Solomon. Solomon is not only about wisdom, but also about richness. The equivalent of richness is the word "Gold". 666 as a number (in today's human digit presentation) when viewing upside down becomes the 999 gold. The forward deduction is from Rev 13. The side deduction matches into the forward deduction in that, Revelation 13:17 (NIV2011) 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. In the side deduction, 666 represents gold without which one cannot buy and sell. Actually we can't buy and sell without gold's currency form. In today's human monetary presentation, gold is the US dollar notes. 666 is the name of a man whose name being Washington with his portrait on the US dollar notes. When apply this to the forward deduction, the second beast is thus the US with Washington as its alternative name. The forward deduction starts with the "first beast" from the sea, which is England. Science (partially about the Tree of Knowledge) with its education starts with UK's influence as UK is representative of the "Great White" colonialism (the white horse in Rev). Today's secular education (so-called scientific education) started with England's conquerors till English became a global language. The standard of education is also lying in English as its conveying language. England the beast however was wounded in WWII, the second beast thus took its place in terms of worldwide education in English language. Today's US is thus the center of world wide secular/atheistic education. Humans are forced into such an education system since childhood to develop their mind and behavior (fore head and right hand) into a atheistic force of fighting God and persecuting Christianity. They all have a stamp of anti God and anti religion in their forehead and right hand (of course except Christians) as a result of the secular education cored on US but inherited from UK before England was disabled in WWII. Map of England: a beast from the sea "...I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads" - 10 horns and sever heads because the beast is a United Kingdom. "The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." - that's the map of today's England.

It boils down to in reality whether God exists. If God truly exists He is in control. The Bible becomes the only mean for God's info to be conveyed to humans in the form of human testimonies. The content is thus all true such that those humans not fulfilling the requirement set forth by the said New Covenant will be judged in accordance to what is said. In a nutshell, the Bible is more of a court document. The Church on the other hand is the legal entity to guard its legitimacy. If in reality God doesn't exist then how accurate the Bible is no longer matters. What humans cannot be sure is whether God exists in reality or not. That exactly ties to the faith needed by the said covenant. It's nothing circular. If it's circular it means you can provide a better "solution" or answer. The situation here however is that you can't possibly provide a better solution.

A bit similar to our linguistic ability. It is a given ability to humans. However there's a process of synchronized by interaction. If a person is completely isolated after birth till, say the age of 8, he can no long pick up a complete set of human language. Our conscience and moral code are originally set up all the same and will be used for our Final Judgment. There's a similar synchronization by interaction. It's more like a pizza with toppings. It comes originally the same piece of bread. We however add toppings differently to make it into a different pizza. We are given the same set of law as our conscience and moral code, that however changes when impacted by our environment which is contributed by our parents, our culture and custom, our society behavior and such. Not only so, it is also subject to Satan's manipulation when we are still in mother's womb. Even we vary but the core is still there for us to accept that killing is not right, stealing is not right etc. as mentioned in the 10 commandments.

The New Covenant is basically about saved by Faith in Jesus. However because in the end it is about a reconciliation between God and men that men's repentance is required. Baptism on the other has many significance. One of them is to signify the switching to the New Covenant from the old default covenant that we are born with. Baptism to a certain extent resembles the circumcision of the Jews. We all born as a gentile under a gentile's contract which is an old covenant. Everyone of us without exception is born with a default covenant according to which each individual will be judged in the Final Judgment. To everyone this is default but an old covenant to us. The New Covenant is not born with, you need to believe in Jesus with intention. A Jews is formally switched to the Mosaic covenant by doing a circumcision on the eighth day after birth. Similar, we switch to the New Covenant from the default old one by doing a baptism.

Reformation is about how the original theology being twisted by RCC while reformers would like it to be corrected from what being distorted and deviated from original.

Faith alone means it is specified in the New Covenant that humans are saved by faith alone but not the work of Law. Bible alone is that the authority on explaining what the Bible says doesn't belong to a particular physical church such as the RCC. God's Church on earth is composed of many physical churches and denominations under the new era of reformation. These churches with their salvation power can be identified by the statements in the Apostles' Creed. "Bible alone" is rather a denial of the "RCC only" authentication.

Faith alone means it is specified in the New Covenant that humans are saved by faith alone but not the work of Law. Bible alone is that the authority on explaining what the Bible says doesn't belong to a particular physical church such as the RCC. God's Church on earth is composed of many physical churches and denominations under the new era of reformation. These churches with their salvation power can be identified by the statements in the Apostles' Creed. "Bible alone" is rather a denial of the "RCC only" authentication.

Those fulfilled the requirement of a covenant applied to them. The Jews are supposed to be God's chosen people. It is thus said with a presumption that their names are in the book.