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Yea, "love is love".

The only perfect church is Jesus's church. We simply won't know all of its facets of it until (I presume) we are with Jesus. Jesus tried to dumb it down for us. Love God and love one another. That's it.

That's a great response! Thank you!

I believe that God made them perfect but then permitted them to be corrupted. After all, why else would God have permitted Satan in the garden? Satan is doing what is necessary for our edification.

I believe he did! I believe that God allowed us to be lost for some time in order for us to learn that the only path to everlasting life and happiness is by following and obeying God. In the meantime, we'll try every other path and find ourselves lost - until we give in and follow the...

Correct. That's Satan's job. :)

I respect your belief but I don't know what to believe and that's ok. I have a LOT of questions for Jesus! Maybe that's why he's letting me live a long life; he's putting off having to answer them!

Because he's a sadist and gets off by making helpless creatures suffer?

Beautifully said as always and, yes, Jesus continues to refine and save sinners even AFTER their bodily deaths. He must. He must rule until all of the lost sheep are saved!

Yes, Jesus had said he would his church and the gates of Hell would not prevail. But what does that really mean? I believe the proper definition of "Hell" is death but Jesus was speaking figuratively and so he may have been referring to Satan and/or evil. I believe the deeper meaning is that...

Doctrinal discussion is fun, fascinating, and fruitful when done correctly. I do believe that our understanding is affected by spiritual forces. The great news is that doctrinal understanding isn't important. What IS important for salvation (meaning no death, judgment, condemnation, or a trip...

It's the doctrine that ALL will eventually repent and turn to Jesus and be saved. Regular "universalism" does not require Jesus, which we followers of Jesus reject

How is it that God made a bad fruit considering that Jesus said that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit? Jesus's statement leads me to believe that God either created Satan or deluded an angel into becoming Satan for the purpose of our edification.

Are they the same entity?

You see, the burning of those two cities was for a period of time or "age-during", not "eternity". The problem with most English Bible translations is that garbage translations create garbage doctrines, such as "eternal" punishment.

Those places aren't burning today so it's obviously not "eternal". Here's Jude 1:7 using Young's Literal Translation: 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an...

Do you believe that all English translations of the Bible are accurate?

I love and appreciate your heartfelt, scriptural, responses, my sister in Christ. Jesus said that the devil was a murderer "from the beginning". But the beginning of what? The beginning of the ages? The beginning of mankind? Or something else? Anyway, some say that Satan can't be Lucifee...