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Hi and appreciate your input, which completely parallels mine! Blessings!

It's never God's "desire that any should perish" (2Pet 3:9)--but that "all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth (1Tim 2:4). Though God knew most would choose evil (Mat 7:13, 14), He did it for those He knew would choose Him (Luke 15:7, 10). If even one results in such a...

I agree that our understanding about omniscience is different and so it's completely acceptable that we need not debate it. Thanks for your input, and God bless your Family!

Hi, and appreciate your reply and interesting comments! I believe God's omniscience answers a lot of questions, so wouldn't it be more inquiring to ponder why God chose to orchestrate everything the way they are transpiring? It's not like He created man and hoped he wouldn't choose to sin, for...

The first stage of the believer’s life is to “desire the sincere milk of the Word that he may grow thereby” (1Pet 2:2); and as he grows, he is conscious of a new ability, and that is to fly. When you fly you enter on the second stage of spiritual development. Here you acquire for yourself, you...

No, I suspected you just meant God could appear as an angel, not be an angel. Blessings!

Hi, and I like your comments and appreciate your input! Myself, I never attribute any of the Deities (Trinity) to an angelic being because of what Paul revealed (Heb 1:4-7, 13, 14).

Sounds good! God bless, and God be blessed!!

Hi, and I like that you use the Word as much as you can, you don't see much of that today in Christendom. True, the new body is not a natural body but a spiritual body. Natural means of this world, and spiritual means not of this world, but both involve a physical body. We know that is was the...

Hi and thanks for your reply and input! I agree, if you're referring to the spiritual man, who is a believer in Christ. The natural man is never referred to as a child of God. Those who continue to choose not to believe (which has always been the majority of mankind - Mat 7:13, 14) are just part...

Hi Brother, and thanks for your input! Yes, there can be no comparing godliness to humanity. Just a couple mentions, godliness for the believer in the new heaven will not require anything for the new body to eternally exist, and of course the most significant is being in the Trinity, and the...

Hi, and thanks for your applicable replies! I think both man and angel have God's appearance for the sake of it being part of what glorifies (manifests) Him. Blessings!

Myself, I think the Bible is about 30% symbolic, which is mostly expressed by hyperbolic language, esp. concerning spiritual growth truths within the Pauline Epistles; and I think they are for requiring us to seek God more for the understanding.

Hi and thanks for your reply and comments! There's surely nothing in Scripture that states one should only perceive God as looking like man, but I find it most likely that since we look like Him (in His image; resemble Him), He looks like us. If you think "image" may not mean "looks like," what...

Various could be the imaginations of what man’s life might have been without the fall, but I believe one concept may be fairly certain. Man would not have known, nor partaken of God’s Son and Spirit in the presently needed capacity. There would be no need of being one in spirit with the Trinity...

For a saint to have solitude is of the deepest importance, because it is then the heart renews its acquaintance with the Lord Jesus, who only has entrance into our most solitary retreats. When we are thoroughly alone and apart, He loves being our sole companion; it is, so to speak, the time for...

True,and thanks Far! Blessings!

The most confirming evidence in my life that “the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom 8:16), is seeing the ever-present desire in me to please God. If this is not always what means the most to you, it’s most likely you have yet to be reborn, for in...

Do they have the correct reading at 2Sam 21:19?

I don't think I'll be able to trust most of the modern versions because nearly all contain the errant reading in 2Sam 21:19 that Elhanan killed Goliath, but it's suppose to read David killed Goliath.