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Do you understand that heaven was never open to humans in the first place? God created humans to live on earth….it was to be our permanent home….Adam’s sin took that away from us….Jesus’ sacrifice gives it back. No one needed to go to heaven at all when God first put humankind here, to take care...

Did you, or did you not, suggest that any disagreement with what you stated would be me being dishonest? This was your statement….. ”And now that you know this, you will be being dishonest if you use this argument in the future.” Now, is telling the truth being dishonest? Was your statement...

Do you even know what a “soul” is in the Bible? Do you know what Jews believed about the soul? Jesus was Jewish after all…. Do you understand that the “soul“ and the “spirit” are two different things and that neither are disembodied conscious entities.…? Your Catholic indoctrination has led...

It is interesting indeed that when quoting Scripture you yourself can ignore what is plainly written. Are you now being dishonest…or are you clutching at straws to defend what you want to believe? There are no immortal souls in the Bible, therefore there is no part of human beings that live...

I believe that Paul argues with this idea…. Romans 7:14-25…. ”For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate. 16 However, if I do what I do not wish, I agree that the...

I believe that your reasoning on the matter is accurate. No one went to heaven before Jesus (John 3:13) so where would disembodies souls go until Christ opened the way to heaven with his own death and resurrection? This is where “the church” got creative, once the pagan concept of an immortal...

It’s what Jesus did…except he didn’t have as many competitors as we do…. Truth will triumph in the end, but who will believe it? All marketing principles are based on Christianity….or did you not realize that? You sell your own product on the basis that the other fellow’s product is bad for...

Jesus actually had this conversation with the Pharisees….. Matt 22:41-45… ”And while the Pharisees were gathered Jesus put the question to them 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? whose son is he to be?” They said to him “David’s.” 43 He said to them “How is it then that David in the Spirit...

This is not about the transfiguration but about his identity after his resurrection. His apostles knew that Jesus had died, and now here he was presenting himself to them, not as a spirit but as a human being…and not always in the same body! Was there something new Scripturally about spirit...

No, he did not, otherwise he could not have paid the ransom demanded for the price of redemption. Why did Jesus need to come from outside the flawed human race to provide the price of redemption? Mary was, for all intents and purposes, the woman who gave birth to him…in those days, no one knew...

Jesus is called a “redeemer” in the Bible….he is not called our representative…..he is his Father’s representative. A Redeemer must pay back what is owing on a debt. The payment was set when the debt was incurred. One for one….”an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life”…that is...

Do you do anything but criticize Jehovah’s Witnesses? Have you got nothing better to do? Who has ever heard of your faith? Who even knows what you believe? As Jesus said that the “good news of the Kingdom” had to “be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations” before...

That disagrees with the whole concept of redemption. Jesus had to offer the same life that Adam lost in order to restore what Adam took away from his children. Redemption had a price…and a fallen nature was NOT the price Jesus paid…..it was a perfect sinless life given in exchange for a...

Yes they are consistent…..because Jesus was in his tomb for three days before God resurrected him. He was not a spirit for those three days travelling between realms..…he was dead. He was confined in the heart of the earth as Jonah was confined in the belly of the whale. (Matt 12:40) Jesus was...

If you hold the view that Christ was “like us, under the weight of generations of damaged humanity”, you have completely missed the reason why he is called our “Redeemer”…and why he is also called “ the last Adam”. What did the first Adam lose that the “last Adam” reclaimed for his children...

The Scriptures plainly show that Elijah did not die…nor was his transfer from one part of the earth to another, a symbol of anything to do with Jesus. Only John the Baptist is said to symbolize the work of Elijah. If we look up the Hebrew word translated “heavens” we will see that it is not...

If we go by the beliefs of the ones to whom the Hebrew Scriptures were written, then there is no dilemma. Since the dead are in an unconscious state (Eccl 9:5, 10) until their resurrection, (not Christ’s resurrection) so all the pre-Christian servants of God looked forward to the rule of...

The NIV is not exactly the best translation to base anything on…..”Sheol” is “the realm of the dead”…the place where ALL dead people end up..…asleep….knowing nothing….unable to think or to engage in any activity. In the grave, there is only silence. (Psalm 115:17) In the Jewish Tanakh, Eccl...

If humans were given free will then their choices are theirs alone. To accuse God of being the author of sin and death is blasphemous! He went to great lengths to make sure that the knowledge he wanted kept to himself would never harm his children, but free will also meant that he could not...

According to the beliefs of both Moses and Elijah, (and taught by Jesus himself), where were the dead after they died? Jewish belief did not support the existence of immortal souls because the dead were not alive somewhere else (Eccl 9:5, 10).…the dead slept in “Sheol” (translated as “the grave”...