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1) I think it is covered under, "Everything is permitted but not everything is beneficial". We should take care of our bodies as well as we can--that we owe it, out of gratitude, to the One who created it. 2) I have often seen 1 Corinthians 3:17 quoted in regard to smoking but I really don't...

Yes, I mentioned that in my post--that Jesus needed to willingly choose to give His life as a ransom for many and that God knew exactly--every detail--of the plan of salvation. Yes--from the foundation of the world.

Note that the passages you cite are all from the OT. The Hebrews were accustomed to thinking that their relationship with God INCLUDED physical salvation from danger, foes and calamity--IN THIS LIFE. When it didn't happen, it was usually because of sin among them. They were promised that...

Yes, I would say that SIN put the Messiah--the Lamb of God--on the Cross. Satan can only do what he is permitted to do (we find that out when we read the Book of Job). Because Satan is a cruel murderer, it undoubtedly gave him pleasure to destroy Jesus' body in a very wicked way, but he could...

Yes, Jesus as the Living Word brings us fresh manna every day, as we read and study the word of God. He said, in Matthew 4:4 (as a restatement of Deuteronomy 8:3) "People do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Many immoral "liberation" movements were hatched in order to split the Church from God's word.

Statistics from Israel. A large portion of Israelis (54%) describe themselves as "non-religious" and 13% are atheists.

I know what it means, but I'm sure I don't know your reason for that cryptic comment.

Most Jews today do not know the Tanakh--nor do they see a need to read and study it.

Often, Christians have more knowledge of the Tanakh (our Old Testament) than Jews do. I know several Messianic Jews who witness to their people about Jesus. One of them told me that he is always startled by the total ignorance that many Jews display when he brings up points of Scripture from...

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Stalin said, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." The communists would often fabricate crimes against those who they wanted to eliminate. Solzhenitsyn gave a famous speech (at Harvard, I think) where he warned that communist oppression would...

Reading and studying the word of God is "childish"??? :eek: "Jesus replied, 'Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God'." (Matthew 22:29}

I agree that the majority of Israelis are clueless about what the Talmud teaches and they know even less about Kabbalism and the Zohar. I also agree that David will rule over Israel in the Millennial Kingdom. Jesus will rule over the entire earth as the King of Kings (a title for an Emperor)...

There are actually two Talmuds. The Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi) and the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli). They were developed during the same period (from about the third to the fifth centuries A.D.) and named after the two major centers of rabbinic Judaism (the Jerusalem Talmud was...

Meg church pastor, Andy Stanley, says that Christians need to "unhitch their faith from the Old Testament"! This isn't the first outrageous statement that he has made but it is one likely to do the most damage to the faith of his parishioners.

Jerry Lucas once claimed to have memorized the entire Bible. Unless one is Jerry, we still need it written down for us. But even Jerry had to have the Bible in order to memorize it.

You may be right--Ezekiel chapter 8 details occult practices going on right inside the Temple! I agree that those men are only thought of as "Jewish" because they claim ancestry going back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Judah.

Umm-no. Daniel 9:26 says that the Messiah would be "cut-off" (violently killed) after 62 weeks "appearing to have accomplished nothing." He then goes on to say that "a ruler [TITUS] will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple."--in 70 A.D. Then this passage in Daniel spins...

For sure. A pastor friend once told me that it only happens with Christians and his theory is that those people who look so familiar will be our neighbors in heaven. I see nothing in Scripture that would cover this theory but isn't it a nice thought? ;)

That's socialism for sure. Ultimately, they resort to violent oppression. It is then that it has crossed over to communism--and that is happening today, in Venezuela, under the Marxist, Maduro. Lenin said that "...the goal of socialism, is communism" and that the "ends justify the...