Fulfilled prophecy - A famine of the word of the Lord

[Roy]

My claim is that there is a period of about 400 years of silence, if you don't count the apocrypha.

Your claim was that there was a period of about 400 years of silence, especially if you don't count the apocrypha. You've now changed your claim without ever admitting that the original claim was wrong.

You made that up. You couldn't possibly know whether or not it is true.

Well, see the scriptures I mentioned, Paul's instructions on prophecy indicate that there was a new era of prophecy starting, in the Christian church.

No they don't. You made that up too.

[lee_merrill]

Your claim was that there was a period of about 400 years of silence, especially if you don't count the apocrypha. You've now changed your claim without ever admitting that the original claim was wrong.

I think it's pretty clear what I meant! But I will agree that my claim should have been more carefully worded.

No they don't. You made that up too.

But a flat denial is not an argument...

Blessings,
Lee

[shunyadragon]

I think it's pretty clear what I meant! But I will agree that my claim should have been more carefully worded.

No it was not clear.

But a flat denial is not an argument...

Blessings,
Lee

The flat denial is based on historical facts.

[Roy]

But a flat denial is not an argument...

Nor was your flat (and false) assertion.

[lee_merrill]

Nor was your flat (and false) assertion.

I asserted that there was a period of about 400 years of silence (if you don't include the apocrypha), and gave a link as evidence.

Blessings,
Lee

[Roy]

Conversational context restored and emphasis added:

Well, see the scriptures I mentioned, Paul's instructions on prophecy indicate that there was a new era of prophecy starting, in the Christian church.

No they don't. You made that up too.

But a flat denial is not an argument...

Nor was your flat (and false) assertion.

I asserted that there was a period of about 400 years of silence (if you don't include the apocrypha), and gave a link as evidence.

You aren't capable of following a conversation, you can't remember what you wrote, and you can't be bothered to check.

[lee_merrill]

Conversational context restored and emphasis added:You aren't capable of following a conversation, you can't remember what you wrote, and you can't be bothered to check.

That wasn't a flat assertion either, Paul's instructions do indicate that a new era of prophecy was underway.

Blessings,
Lee

[Roy]

That wasn't a flat assertion either, Paul's instructions do indicate that a new era of prophecy was underway.

You aren't capable of following a conversation, you can't remember or understand what you wrote, and you can't be bothered to check.

Or maybe you just don't know what an assertion is.

[Rushing Jaws]

ORDORD.
People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the LORD400 years, especially if, as protestants do, you exclude the Apocrypha from the canon.

Blessings,
Lee

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.2

3 a
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

5 saying,
6 buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

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10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.

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14 bhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+8

STM the whole chapter makes excellent sense as a statement about 8th-century Israel before, and at, its destruction by the Assyrians.