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. ● Rev 21:3-4 . . Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has...

. 496) 1Pet 3:6 . . . Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; and you have become her daughters if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. Sarah's submission to Abraham was voluntary, i.e. she was neither coerced nor intimidated. Abraham didn't have to break Sarah's spirit by...

. 495) 1Pet 3:3-5 . . Wives, let not your adornment be merely external-- braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses --but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. Some of...

I'm not entirely against Christian baptism; in point of fact I had it done on myself back around 1978, and I highly recommend that folks not yet baptized get it done and get it over with lest they find themselves marked with a scarlet letter, so to speak. However, I have suspected for a number...

The new covenant wasn't ratified until Jesus died, and Mark 16:15-16 didn't become a standing order till after his resurrection. Eph 4:5 says there is one faith and one baptism. If God were to start making exceptions He'd have to offer the world two faiths instead of the one, plus give folks a...

. Back in the decade of the 1960s, while still a young guy in his twenties, I came to the realization that even if I managed to live a pious enough life to make the cut for Heaven, I was pretty sure I couldn't keep up the good work forever. Sooner or later I'd show my true colors and get thrown...

Multiplied thousands of people were imprisoned in Nazi camps like Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald during WW2. Well, It's my guess that a percentage of them were believing Christians who did what they could to share the gospel with unbelieving prisoners. The thing is: those folks had scarcely...

That would be a useful verse were it not for the fact that the whole thing, word for word, is an editorial fantasy, viz: it's not in the available Greek manuscripts. _

. 494) 1Pet 3:1-2 . . In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. Peter began his instructions with the...

. Incarnation According to the Bible; the Word is, at the very least, a divine being. (John 1:1-3) In point of fact, a divine being who is also an eternal life. (1John 1:1-2) Well, the thing is: eternal life is an indestructible kind of life, viz: it cannot die, it cannot get old, it cannot...

. 492) 1Pet 2:17c . . fear God, honor the king. There are times when it isn't possible to honor both God and king. When that happens-- and it does --take the high road, i.e. honor God above the king because God is superior to everyone there is, and to every name that can be named. This...

. ● Luke 17:20 . . And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation The Greek word translated "observation" basically has to do with anticipating calendar events, for example: ● Acts 1:6-7...

. To us run of the mill Christians unified with Christ, he's not a vine, rather, he's a shepherd; in point of fact the good shepherd. (John 10) Jesus has been tasked with managing a number of special sheep. ● John 10:29 . . My sheep . . my Father gave them to me Jesus' Father expects His son...

. 491) 1Pet 2:17b . . love the brotherhood The Greek word translated "brotherhood" appears in only two places in the entire new testament; both are in the apostle Peter's epistles: one here and the other in 1Pet 5:9. It's a curious word because it doesn't specifically refer to "the church...

The Greek word translated "observation" basically has to do with anticipating calendar events, for example: ● Acts 1:6-7 . . So when they met together, they asked him: Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them: It is not for you to know the times or...

To some people's thinking, the flames of everlasting fire are not supposed to go out, viz: they're supposed to be perpetual and impossible to extinguish. Nor is everlasting fire supposed to totally obliterate all with which it comes in contact, for example Isa 66:23-24 which says: "All humanity...

. When Jesus' flesh and blood are properly consumed, they endow the diners with eternal life. ● John 6:53-54 . . I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, Note the...

. Everlasting fire is a bit of a mystery. Jude 1:7 says the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by everlasting fire, but the flames are out and the communities are gone. _

. The way I understand it; Hell isn't only about retribution. It's also a containment utilized for quarantine. In other words: the supreme being doesn't want folks around Him that are capable of theft any more than folks capable of dishonesty. Books to be opened at the great white throne event...

. 490) 1Pet 2:17a . . Honor all men. Right after the Flood, God outlawed taking human life; and the reason given for the ban was not because killing people is necessarily wrong, but because people were made in the likeness of God. (Gen 9:5-6) In other words: animal life is expendable whereas...