Recent content by Derf

Two pairs of pliers, or four pliers. In case you were wondering, here's a plier: At least that's what my 4-yr-old grandson would tell you. (He has some trouble with his "R's".)

Yes, but it's not the ability to bear good fruit, rather it's the impetus to gain due to the fear of death versus the recognition of life ahead because of the power of the Spirit as an earnest of the life to come.

The problem comes in when you say that God knows everything because He is pushing all the buttons He wants pushed. One of those buttons creates Peter and his faults, including both the braggadocia and the inability to resist temptation, not to mention all of the thoughts Peter had about the...

My point was that "all things" in Peter's mind didn't have to include all things past present and future for all humans past present and future. It might just mean "You know all that's in my heart, good and bad."

So, if they don't know everything, then He wouldn't either? I'm not sure that's what "lower than the angels" means, but it could, I guess. Not a strong argument, imo.

You are correct that the text is more clearly saying that Jesus knows all things (omniscience), but the text doesn't stand on its own. We know that Jesus didn't know all things at one point in time: Mark 13:32 KJV — But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in...

James 3:12 KJV — Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Faith is in the "..." on my post.

Why would that change my answer?

If he was already a demon, then sin had already entered the garden and the world, and it wasn't "very good" anymore. But rather, I think, Satan and Adam sinned around the same time.

Wild grapes on a domestic grape vine is bad fruit. Adultery is bad fruit. Covetousness is bad fruit. Jezebel luring people to commit idolatry is bad fruit. Love, joy, peace, patience, goodness...self control is good fruit. Of course, that all takes us back to the idea that a tree can refer to...

He knew based on knowing Peter, searching his heart, not on some preexisting knowledge before the world began.

The first sin wasn't because we were broken.

Not on a fig tree.

Such an honor!