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If you openly acknowledge yourself to be an otherwise damned sinner, infused from conception with a sin nature that no amount of philosophy, self help, or external discipline can atone for much less correct, and you are frightened of what is to become of you if you are left in this state, that...

Read this: scribd.com/document/421495943/The-two-beasts-of-Revelation-Identified For the lazy the upshot of the thesis is that there are two great threats that Christ's church, in any and all of it's manifestations, faces from the State: Oppression and Co-option. Salvation is given today as...

Revelation 20: 9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down...

Jesus said: 8And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them. Jesus said: 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 2nd Corinthians says: 4For if someone comes and...

I don't push the identity of the little horn out quite that far. During the Imperial Crisis there was a group of pretenders to the status of Emperor as well as a few who wanted to rule independently of Rome in their own pieces of the Empire, about 10. Remember, scripture said they would reign...

Well, you at least took the timble to throw in a quote from the Psalms, which are a timeless collection, and that's precisely what that scripture reference is, timeless. There is no reference to its historical place of fulfillment whatsoever and it is rhetorically dishonest of you to try to...

Look man if your not going to address the argument you are posting in dissuasion to or to even modify your own position by adding a bit of justification to it just give my post a thumbs down. You long ago in this thread took on the timbre of a resounding gong or a clanging cymbol, you dig?

I dunno. My exact eschatological formulation is still very much in flux. I like the mapping of Daniel's 70 weeks on to the period from time to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Where I differ from the various opinions here is that I identify the first and second beasts of Revelation...

Family. I have been investigating the various eschatological constructs for about three decades now. I have come to the conclusion that there appears to be something of merit in all of them. To the scholars who believe that the work is strictly an apocalypse foreshadowing the fall of...

I followed the link. I does posit three possible culprits for the destruction of the library of Alexandria, and maybe four if you count it's digression on the possibility of societal decay just letting the place disintegrate. The three overtly proposed are pagan Rome, Christian Rome, and the...

I disagree 100%. I have been a late date advocate for a few decades and that synopsis was the most complete argument for the AD 96 dating I have ever read. In fact the OP better be careful because so much of the original author's scholarship is in place here that he may be going beyond the...

Scott, if you open a post and then just throw out some sophistic prose that doesn't carry any kind of point to a conclusion eventually people are going to treat you as the boy who called wolf and stop paying attention to anything you say. Not everything that gets posted here requires a...

Uh huh. That was the same justification that the early muslims used (which the modern muslims have disavowed) for burning the library of Alexandria to the ground.

Please consider 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does...

What I argued, and you would see if you took the cum fear filters off you eyepiece-s, is that God's love is not etherial and coolly distant, the kind of buzz you get when you "break through the wall" on a distant run, but warm and familial, cuddly and even sensual when in the act of home...

JE-sus Scott, if you want to learn and practice effective prose, try reading Gibbon.

Mmm... I take issue with your assertion that God is going to kill everyone that is not like us. Read correctly, the Bible teaches that after a looong period of trying to convince everyone on the earth that he is a good and providing God who will meet them wherever they are and lift them up out...

For I know whom I have believed (and it ain't you) and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. ' 13 Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.' 'The poison of vipers is on their lips.' 14 Their mouths are full of cursing and...

Hmm... Judging by the level of vitriol in this thread I am sure there are some Satanists out there laughing their asses off. Dig on this boys and girlies in the faith. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2...

I think we can all relax a bit about a global scorching. Whether by man's curtailing of his more polluting habits or by God's providence, the earth will last as long as we need it. Genesis 8:20-22 20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird...