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Thanks, I enjoyed reading your post there.

2 Samuel 24 (the same tale is told in 1 Chronicles 21). David falls to the sin of pride and insists that Joab (his general) take a census of Israel's warriors, even though Joab warns him that it is a sin. God pronounces punishment on David through the prophet, Gad. Three days of plague on...

Nah, Jesus told His disciples on the night that He died that He was going to "prepare a place" for them. That place is more than likely, the New Jerusalem. The Jewish marriage symbolism is very strong in that section of the Gospel of John (chapter 14). The custom in Jesus' day was to have a...

The Israelite priests served God day and night in His Temple, but that doesn't mean that they didn't have a life outside of their Temple duties. The father of John the Baptist was a priest but he had a wife and children. You have also taken note of the Millennial Kingdom, which precedes the...

Do you think of yourself being "entombed" in your house? No one said that the inhabitants of the New Jerusalem would be unable to visit other places--maybe even other planets?

Yep. Zechariah 12:10

Yep. Zechariah 12:10

You forgot to add this: :D at the end. I have to admit that you had me going for a moment. Made me LOL.

Indeed so. We know that David went to Paradise because the Lord said that He will raise up David to preside over the Millennial Kingdom under the King of Kings, Jesus. (Ezekiel 37:24)

Says who? For centuries, funeral attenders have agreed to pastoral statements that, "...the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" without regard for the status of the dearly departed. All Christians have been declared innocent of sin against God. Do you agree? You can't have it both ways...

Okay. :)

No, we rest in His arms. I am speaking of faithful followers of Yahweh, like Abraham. We are the spiritual children of Abraham. Jesus said, "Abraham delighted to see my day."

No argument from me on that one.

She was already under Satan's influence before that. She lied when she exaggerated the command of God--she said that God had told them they weren't even to TOUCH the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He never said that, He merely said that they were not to eat of it. Our...

I never denied that "saved people sin". The original point of yours which I took exception to was the idea that our bodies are "saturated with sin" when, in fact, the Scripture shows that sin originates in the soul which is, in every human except One, tainted with sinful desires since the Fall.

It is actually helpful to use a more modern translation: "So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I...

The "flesh" does not refer to the body but evil desires. The war is NOT between the body and the spirit. It is between the soul and the spirit. The body is simply the container.

No, sin does NOT originate in the body--it originates in the soul. James 1:14 "But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust." Mark 7:18-20-- "Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him...

We are told that Enoch and Elijah did not die. Where is that in Scripture--that our bodies are "saturated with sin"? All humans since the Fall have died as the warned consequence of the contagion of sin loosed on the earth by Adam and Eve, not because "our bodies are saturated with sin"...

You are too earthly-minded. If God decides to take someone from the earth, it can never be a "murder". Only humans murder. Paul wasn't at all concerned about the mode of his death, he was merely looking forward to being with the Lord.