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Agree, to this point. :) The battle is spiritual ~ which many seem to think lessens its magnitude, but the reality is quite the opposite. And it is now, although it will be very much ramped up near the end... after Israel is complete ~ the fullness of the Gentiles brought in and the partial...

No, I did not, but you can certainly think what you like. It bothers me not. Well, I did laugh, because some of the things you said in that last post were funny... to me, anyway... :) I do confess to trolling you a bit there at the end, but your comments were very deserving of that. :)...

We know next to nothing about Jonah, except that he didn't want to go preach to the Ninevites, and even resented them. But God had ordained for it to happen... and had ordained the success of Jonah's preaching as a means of bringing the Ninevites whom he had chosen unto Himself. What we should...

It certainly did. That's what sunken boats/ships naturally do. It may take a while, like it did in the case of the Titanic, but they go under the water's surface and descend further and further underwater until they... hit the bottom. Yes. LOL! The Titanic actually broke in half, roughly ~...

By natural or man-made means, sure. Agreed. By very natural means, he "left the earth." :) What you have made it out to be is the issue. :) Well, there are some things in this "conversation" that are certainly baffling, for sure. :) Wow indeed. Grace and peace to you.

LOL! I mean, any of us can jump up and down continuously (for a short time anyway) and thereby "leave the earth" over and over and over again... LOL! I don't know about "insane," but this idea about Noah "leaving the earth" ~ as if he and his family and the animals were somehow "removed" or...

They died when the boat sank. The people drowned or froze to death. Are you really serious with this "left the earth" thing? Because if you are, you have yourself fooled beyond belief. LOL! Oh, so floating in the air... on a cloud, maybe... LOL!!! No, floating on the water... And above...

"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" (Jesus, John 5:28-29). And the Greek for the English 'to destroy,' as...

And I will watch you ~ from a distance, at least ~ continue to grope and poke in the dark. :) You know, I read a book once about fishermen in the north Atlantic who would get caught at sea in a storm, and they would be out on deck at night and they would look up and see what they thought were...

Well, not just today, 2000-plus years after he wrote of what he was shown. And nobody here disagrees with you regarding the literal fulfillments that, then, were still to come. As has been said here many times, the very definition of symbolism is the use of words or images to symbolize literal...

I wouldn't call it "the opposite," really ~ and certainly not "cloudy," but it can obviously seem that way to many ~ but just not false and baseless, as wooden literalism often is, and in the case of John's Revelation very, very often ~ mostly, actually ~ is. :) Well, sure, and this is why we...

Which is personified as ~ portrayed in the form of ~ a beautiful, desirable woman in Proverbs, and is a gift of the Holy Spirit, according to Paul in 1 Corinthians 12. But wisdom, of course, is not a literal woman. :) Grace and peace to all.

Noah... left the ground... floated above the ground actually, in this wooden structure he built that nowadays we commonly call a boat. :) He was kept on/in the boat by this really weird natural phenomenon that, since the days of Isaac Newton, we call gravity. :) Hey, question for you. :)...

Which is the whole earth (Matthew 5:5). God is making all ~ all things ~ things new (Revelation 21:5). Grace and peace to you.

:) Well, the whole earth, which the meek will inherit (Matthew 5:5), is better (greater) than... the sliver of land on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea (lesser). :) Agree! :) Grace and peace to you.

Better in the sense that they are of a more excellent or effective type or quality. The blood of unblemished lambs never made anything perfect, but the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God... :) Just before your quote from Hebrews 8 here, we read in Hebrews 7:18-19, "For on the one hand, a former...

Your statement above presents conflict. Inadvertently ~ I know you don't mean it to be conflicting, but it is. Ritajanice gets it... :) Right, but not yet fully; that will come when Christ returns. Using Peter's words in 1 Peter 1:3-5, We are both saved ~ "born again to a living hope...

Yes, but His promises were not new in the sense that He had never made them before. We know that God is unchanging. So, His promises were new in the sense that they were fully realized ~ in their greater sense ~ in the New Testament. They are what they always were, even in the Old Testament...

Sure. I have agreed many times, and still do, and always will... :) It's not about "wanting" anything. :) It's about the innate inability, in and of ourselves, to resist. And Jesus, in His humanness, had that, but also had, in His Godliness, the innate ability, in and of Himself, to resist...

Right, well, like I said, it is what it is. Amen, and amen. Grace and peace to you.