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Townhall.com ^ | January 9, 2018 | Dennis Prager

[tang-soo]

Interesting when I see the 10 Commandments listed with headings using Roman Numerals.

[Kaslin]

Aren’t they always in Roman Numerals?

[lonevoice]

ping for your interest

[nonsporting]

So the point of your post on the thread is to what? Warn us not to read it? Warn us not to take anything a jewish person says to heart?

I would hope that you read the Bible and have it instruct you, not pick and choose, but use the entire counsel of scripture to inform. Since you appear to be claiming you are Christian, the Bible should be authoritative for you. I've supplied many scriptures, not my opinion.

Let us know what a good Christian you are?

Don't you think a "good Christian" should read the Bible and heed the words of Jesus Christ? Perhaps you do not think the epistles of John are inspired and you reject 1 John. Jesus said pretty much the same thing about himself and father in John 5 and 8. Tell us all how we’re supposed to think as Christians?

I would hope that "as a Christian" that you would first and foremost be Biblically minded. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Timothy 3:16).

Beware your motives - your post has little to nothing do with anything he says in the article.

I paid careful attention to what he (Prager) says in the article. He references the "Bible" in a limited way. (I've done more Bible referencing in my few posts than he has in his article.) The Pentateuch may be the first 5 books of the Bible, but the Bible doesn't end there. There is an entire new covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ which Jews reject outright. Prager, as a good Jew, also rejects this new convenant. Paul asks in 2 Corinthians 6:14: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"

I don't completely reject all things that Prager might say. He and I align closely on many policy positions. However, I completely reject anything Prager might have to say to me about God, since he does not know him.

[tang-soo]

Aren’t they always in Roman Numerals?

The 10 Commandments were written by Moses around 1500 B.C. and in Hebrew. Rome didn't exist until around 500 B.C. ABout 1000 years and a couple thousand miles difference.

[arthurus]

Are you saying that Jesus would cast Prager’s observations and insights into outer darkness because Prager is not your particular brand of Baptist or AME or whatever?

[nonsporting]

Are you saying that Jesus would cast Prager’s observations and insights into outer darkness because Prager is not your particular brand of Baptist or AME or whatever?

A not so clever rhetorical trick. The Bible says the dead, who are to be judged based upon their own works, are cast into the lake of fire.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)

The Bible says that no one can attain to the law of righteousness by the works of the law.

31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Romans 9:30-33)

Jesus Christ is that rock of offense.

[lonevoice]

Re-pinging for the Dennis Prager ping

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