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If you think If you think about it logically, The only way to be kept out of the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth, is to not be on the earth during that hour. The time of temptation comes upon the entire world. We're not...

Just a simple return to Romans 10:9-10 confirms for us that "saved" is used for the individual: Romans 10:9-10 LITV (9) Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (10) For with the heart one believes...

Hi veteran, You know nothing about me, and yet you know so much!! It is certainly easier to argue against me than my view, I realize. However, I have no interest in responding to this sort of hostility beyond what I've just said. Love in Christ, Mark

Hi Logabe, I'm very interested in what you've said here. Would you help me out with a couple of questions? Where in the Bible was Israel remarried after her divorce from God? If Jesus' intent is to say you have to give a writ of divorcement (interestingly, apostasiou in the LXX), and not...

Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV (1) Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? (2) All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to...

For me, a good working definition of Christian Love (apapeo) toward our fellow man is . . . To be committed and devoted to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of others. I think this is easier to do if we can learn to not count people's wrongdoing against them. We can...

2 Corinthians 5:19-20 NLT (19) For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others. (20) We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though...

Hi Netchaplain, Yes, I think this is the right idea for that passage. Not that God can's see, rather, that He does not approve. Myself, I read this as evil in general, and iniquity in general. The prophet is seeking to understand God's actions on his knowledge of God's nature, not realizing...

Hi JLB, Thank you for your simple answers. However, I didn't really understand if you agree or disagree on the two questions above. Would you agree are disagree with these conclusions on those particular verses? [b] I'm sorry, I have not said that the Return of Jesus Christ will be...

Hi veteran, So then the latest in a series of ad hominems is to ascribe to me intentional deception. This is becoming very tedious indeed! However, whether your intent towards is for good or for ill, I have no compunction against taking away any benefit I may receive. So I am pasting below...

Hi veteran, Compare what I've written with the passage I'm referencing. 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 LITV (9) because God has not appointed us to wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (10) He dying on our behalf, so that whether we watch or we sleep, we may live...

And for all of that, it does not address what I've asserted, with a very simple presentation. Though you continue to not address my points, yet I will again do as you ask. Perhaps we can get somewhere if I break it down better, as you are asking me to do. I will list all of my steps in...

Hi veteran, JLB has expressed the desire to debate with me over the rapture of the church. He began with wanting to establish an hermaneutic rule based on a passage in John. But then he did not want to discuss that. He asked me whether I agreed that his three passages all described the same...

Hi JLB, My discussion topic is the catching away of the church (harpazo). I've already presented to you my answer, I do not know why you do not want to interact with my assertions. However . . . you are asserting that in Matthew 24, Jesus is speaking of the resurrection of the "dead in...

In Colossians 3, Paul wrote that if you have been raised with Christ, having died with Him, then you will appear with Him in glory. This is prophetic. If it does not come true for you than Scripture would be broken. Whoever you are who has died, been raised with Christ. See Romans 6 for a...

Then I may consider the matter closed in this thread? Love in Christ, Mark

Hi Episkopos, Trying not for a OSAS debate . . . If you have been raised with Christ, having died with Him, you will appear with Him in glory, according to Colossians 3. This is not only didactic, it is also prophetic. It will happen. Perhaps, if you wish to discuss the permanence or...

Remember . . . atonement is the OT concept of temporarily covering sins. We look to His propitiation, a satisfactory substitutionary sacrifice. I don't think that its as if God could not see Jesus. But He did tell the people, their sins separated them from God. When Jesus bore our sins . . ...

Hi JLB, Yes, there are trumpets . . . However, do you have no comment to make on what I've said? There are exclusionary facts given in Scripture that prohibit the gathering in Matthew 24:31 from being the rapture. So while there are similarities in what is said, and what will happen, they...

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