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Since it says that “All things were created through Him and for Him”….how is something done “through” someone? We all understand agency, don’t we? Every actor in Hollywood has an agent….All things that the actor does is by means of his agent, who is employed for that purpose, conducting his...

What is “his eternal purpose” O2Q? Tell us where we find that information? Nonsense. Where do we see God giving satan anything but incarceration so that his “eternal purpose” can be achieved without satanic or demonic interference. It’s not “time out” in order to repent because we know what God...

Funny how this doctrine is from Roman Catholicism, like the veneration of Mary, purgatory, transubstantiation and idolatry….but you cannot see that all false doctrines come from the same source…. Christendom is founded on the doctrines of the RCC. Jesus identifies himself as “the beginning of...

Who was Jehovah talking to? Not himself. Paul gives us a clear picture in Col 1:15-17….speaking of God’s “firstborn”…..he says…. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16  because by means of him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things...

Babies are just as mortal as their parents…..mortal means that they can die….and in the beginning it meant living forever on earth in mortal flesh, God provided the means for them to do so….all they had to do was obey his command concerning the TKGE. “The tree of life” was right there in the...

I am puzzled by your reference to “the creators“ (plural) as the Bible tells us that there is only one Creator. A person’s character is never “undisclosed” to God. He knows what we think, what our motivations are, and every thought and intention of our heart. He does not wait for us to repent...

All humans are born with the stain of sin in their DNA. This imperfection is not something we asked for, and not something that God wants to punish us for….he “does not desire any to PERISH, but desires all to attain to repentance”. (2 Peter 3:9) The word translated “perish” here is “apollymi”...

Yet the whole of the Bible’s narrative hinges on the fall of man and how God regains control of the human race. There was an alienation that occurred by the misuse of free will…first in the spirit realm, and then it transferred over to the physical world. A rebel spirit described in the Bible as...

You did not explain why the beggar was in the arms of Abraham and not God…..

Again, from the Jewish perspective, the “soul” is the whole person as you said….the body, whilst its lungs and heart pump oxygen into every cell in the body, it is a living soul…..looking at Genesis we see that with “the breath (spirit) of life“, the body of Adam was animated to become a “soul”...

“Abraham’s bosom” seems to have been given a meaning it never had…..what did it mean to a Jew? Being in the “bosom” of someone, alludes to one’s reclining in front of another person on the same couch at a meal. Guests reclined on their left side with a pillow supporting their left elbow...

You didn’t answer my question…..why was it necessary in the first place to subject the human race to such tragedy, pain and suffering, if he was only going to make it all right, and save anyone anyway? Make some sense of that for me….

The very first scripture in your copied and pasted list refutes all the rest… The “soul” is “destroyed” in Gehenna. (“Hell”)…not tormented. Those in Gehenna are ‘imprisoned’ figuratively, in death. One can only suffer torment if one is alive….the dead are not alive…..and the torment occurs in...

Not here on the forums StS……but here on the Earth as a creation of God? Why did God put us here if we were just going to heaven anyway?…..seems pointless to subject the human race to such suffering if it wasn’t necessary and all were going to be saved in the end anyway….?

He told Christ to teach us (humans) to “love our enemies”….but what “love” is this? Is it the kind that makes us want to embrace them? NO! This is “agape”….a love that is based on principle, not emotion…..because we are sinful humans and need to curb our emotions with regard to who is an actual...

Who are they “reigning” over?

Do you have scriptural backing for that belief…? What is a “soul” in the Bible? It is not a disembodied spirit….a “soul“ is a living, breathing creature…..animals and humans are called “souls” without distinction. (Eccl 3:19-20) There is no “soul” that leaves the body at death….no scripture says...

Scriptural backing for that assertion? One word answers are hardly a discussion….

Can we examine this parable in context…..? First of all, why mention Tartarus here? This word is used only once in all of Scripture, but it is a prison-like, abased condition into which God cast disobedient angels in Noah’s day. There are no human souls in “tartarus”. A 2 Peter 2:4, the apostle...

There is no endless torture…..”hell” is a place where the dead “sleep”. There are no conscious souls in hades. Jesus does not forsake anyone who comes to him in sincerity…..only the willfully wicked will merit “Gehenna”….which is eternal death…..never to see life again. God does not need to...