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I wrote about my dad here, and asked the same "why" questions. Near the end, he was as worse off as anyone I've ever seen. I don't think we will fully understand why some things happen the way they do on this side of eternity. But I keep coming back to what Paul said: "For this light momentary...

Not true. Missionary can be dangerous work. There's been plenty of missionaries that have been killed.

I don't know about the arguments for atheism, but the argument posed presumes that God may not have good reasons for making Himself obscure. It seems to me there is no better test of character than seeing how someone behaves when they don't think God or anyone else is looking. And maybe it's not...

I didn't say it was the only prerequisite. How about not rewarding state-sponsored terrorism?

I'm not sure what they think a Palestinian state would solve. There are reasons why it has never come to fruition even though it has been proposed many times. Nor why they think they are deserving of one. Getting along with your neighbors should be a major prerequisite of statehood.

Have you read my post I referenced? I make the case why I think Jesus' return is dependent on them acknowledging their offense. It would explain why the Jews have been so heavily persecuted throughout history and why there is so much anti-Semitism in the world even now. There is a spiritual...

I believe that too. In fact, Jesus' return seems to be on the condition that they acknowledge their offense of rejecting Him as the Messiah. I wrote a post about it HERE.

Yes, their physical bodies were buried but not their spirit. Christ was the first to get a resurrected body, but the rest of us won't get one until He returns at the Second Coming. I think that puts the questions you posed of Hebrews 11 in proper context. My position is that when the body...

I've heard NDEs describe it as more real than our own world. That is hard to conceptualize because this world is all we've ever known. We have no other reference point.

No, I haven't, Mark. What does he say?

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Thanks for the comment. I haven't focused on the allegory or symbolism of light but in understanding the mechanics of heaven and how it all works. I do find it interesting that light is often associated with heaven, God, and angels. Even in near-death experiences, light is a central theme...

So, you believe in soul sleep, I take it?

Where do you think the pre-Christian saints went when they died? The Greek words for "hades" and "tartarus" are literally in the New Testament, wouldn't that then make the bible false? Here's another idea, the New Testament writers would have used language that the culture of their day...

It's been about two months now since my father passed, and I wanted to write about it. My father had always been healthy and robust except for the last 2 years of his life. It was then his health began to decline rapidly. He started eating less and less and losing a lot of weight. Then he...

Where was Jesus and what was he doing during the three days after he died on the cross, prior to his resurrection? Scriptures tell us: He descended to the lowest parts of the earth (Eph 4:8-10) He went to the heart of the earth (Mat 12:40) He went to paradise (Luk 23:43) He preached to the...

You see what you want to see. Israel has become your mythical bogeyman, you're just too blind to see it. I'm done trying to reason with you.

Give it a rest dude, not everything is about the Joooos and Israel. Go on his YouTube, all his videos are pro-Israel. And even if his position did become nuanced on the issue, and I don't know that it did, it's a big stretch to believe Israel killed him over it. It's far more believable that...

I'd say it has a higher probability of being a parable than the Rich Man and Lazarus. If the latter were a parable, it would be the only parable in the Bible to use specific names, two of which we know were actual historical people. It would also be the only parable to mention the afterlife.

Why do you presume it's a parable? When it's a parable, it will say so. Jesus doesn't preface the story of the rich man and Lazarus by saying it's a parable. Moreover, parables don't use specific names.