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Thank you for the question….not withstanding the carry on from one particular poster who is hell bent on getting the first word in just in case you might not want to wait for my answer… Since your question was directed to me, I would like to answer for myself…..if that’s OK? The Scripture in...

So…..what has that got to do with us…? We accept either name….as Jehovah does. You think he doesn’t know we are talking to him? There are no “J” names in Hebrew…..would you like us to change all the other Bible’s to suit your views?

Admit? What is to admit? Has God had a change of name? or was it always Yahweh? (or as it was pronounced by all the writers of the Hebrew Scriptures) Since there is no “J” in the Hebrew alphabet, that means that all “J”names in the Bible were translated from another name. Why was that? Try...

Since those who would enjoy Kingdom rule as either rulers or subjects, God chooses both. (John 6:44; 65) I trust his judgment.

Did Isaiah have a different belief about death than what was contained in Hebrew Scripture? Figurative language was also quite common…..this is an example. In the Jewish Tanakh, it is rendered..… ”Gehinnom from beneath quaked for you, toward your arrival; it aroused for you the giants, all the...

The Jewish Tanakh renders “Sheol” as “the grave”. The grave is “the realm of the dead“ since it is where all life ends……Sheol’s Greek equivalent is hades….so hades is also the grave. We all go there….and it is from the grave that the resurrection takes place. (John 5:28-29) You cannot resurrect...

Yes….they had the opportunity for all the prophesies concerning the Messiah’s kingdom to include the whole nation, but through their continued disobedience, they lost their inheritance and God founded a new nation to take their place….”the Israel of God” (Gal 6:16) were no longer exclusively...

Yes…what about “Sheol”? What did the Jews believe about death from their Scripture, rather than what their corrupt religious leaders taught in Jesus’ day? Eccl 9:5-6; 10 is pretty straight forward…. ”For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any...

That is entirely up to the judge, not me. But we could ask….’did those people get a witness as to their bad behavior?’….an opportunity to see and correct their own wickedness? Peter calls Noah “a preacher of righteousness”… ”For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into...

I’m sure that this happy dance has filled you with joy….joy: So what are we to discern from your own version of Christianity that denies everything except what Paul taught? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? Is Paul your savior? Did Paul teach things that the 12 did not, or was he simply...

That is just the point, David…..these do not get “a second chance to believe” if they never got a chance to believe in the first place…..it’s their second chance at life, by a merciful God who ‘does not desire ANY to be destroyed, but for all to attain repentance’. John 5:28-29….ESV… ”Do not...

I’m not saying it…Jesus is…. John 5:28-29… ”Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.” (ESV) If those who died...

What point is there is rehashing things….you won’t change my mind nor will I change yours…..but the truth is the truth regardless of what anyone believes…..believing something won’t make it true if it isn’t. There are going to many who will receive a shock when Jesus rejects them…(Matt 7:21-23)...

The fact that you believe that being “born again” is something that takes place “on earth”, tells me that you have no idea what it is, or what it means. It isn’t some mystical personal experience…it is a supernatural transformation that happens upon resurrection…..necessary because mortal human...

And I told you in some detail how I became a Christian….hearing the truth and responding to it like the first century Jews did who believed Jesus to be the Messiah…..it took real courage to step out of the accepted national religion and to adopt what was seen by the majority as apostasy!…..yet...

It is what Jesus said would happen and the pattern followed by Christendom, is exactly the one taken by Judaism. Matt 13:24-30…. “He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his...

Let me just address this one point….. Your last sentence there is what I wanted to concentrate on…..was the church expected to grow?…or to remain small and insignificant? Was the relatively local religion of the first century Christians going to spread out into the whole world? (Acts 1:8) Rom...

John 17:6; 26 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.“ “I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them...

No one said they could pay for their own sins..…you see how your lens is so narrow that you cannot see the forest for the trees? The blood of Christ is what rescues all mankind from their graves….all have died in Adam so “all in Christ” will be made alive…..this is the resurrection of the...

Just for clarity….I’ll respond to these points…. You believe that you have the Holy Spirit, just like a multitude of others who do not share your beliefs are also convinced of this. You do realize that the devil masquerades as an “angel of light” and his ministers portray themselves as...