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Here is how I have come to understand the relationship between the Father and Jesus as well as Jesus' divine and human natures, @MatthewG and @DavidB. The Bible says that, in the beginning of creation (Genesis 1:1), the divine Person called the Word by John was God and was with God (John 1:1)...

@St. SteVen, doctrine is unbiblical if it comes from human presuppositions that are devised outside of Scripture and then imposed on Bible verses that are taken out of their contexts in order to prove the person's previous idea. The most glaring examples are the Mormon and Jehovah Witness...

Jesus is our fully-human high priest, whom the writer describes in contrast to human high priests. Yes, @Hiddenthings, he is. But I will show you that he is also fully-God, a theme throughout the Gospel of John, which starts out to highlight that spiritual fact: Joh 1:1 In the beginning was...

@Davidpt, where did you get the idea that Mary "is the most exalted of all creatures," if you are anti-Catholic? It seems to me that their beliefs and tradition about Mary have rubbed off on you, since you make that comment. What Bible verses say that she is? If Mary is "a perfect example of...

@Zao is life, that KJV translation, which is also in a Creed, is one of the few times that the translators got it wrong, because there are two almost-identical participles in Greek, one of which means "born" or "begotten" (in the older English), while the other one means "unique." Again, it's a...

@Spiritual Israelite, the answer to your question is in the verses around the one to which you refer (the context). At the end of the previous chapter (you realize, of course, that there were no chapter divisions in the original Greek), God shows John that the nations will be all believers: Rev...

Yes, @grafted branch, you're right that we already have one foot in heaven and one on the earth, so to speak. That's the already/not yet of the gospel. For example, Paul describes both of those aspects in Colossians 3:1-14: Col 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that...

Yes, @grafted branch, Revelation 22 is symbolic, but its fulfillment is yet future. The new Jerusalem, symbolizing the completed Old and New Testament church, hasn't come down out of heaven yet to the new earth. In chapter 21, the following verses following John's glimpse of the new universe...

I agree with you here, @Spiritual Israelite, that Revelation is very symbolic, because it fits into many writings of that time that are apocalyptic literature, though it is a series of inspired, figurative visions that point to spiritual reality about the time between Jesus' first and second...

@IndianaRob, you're adding meaning the analogy that Paul doesn't add. His point is that the seed is the perishable, temporary, earthy body and that it ends up being an imperishable, eternal, spiritual (Spirit-endowed) body. His illustration shows that these imperfect bodies will become our...

@grafted branch, in the context, God the Father with Jesus, the Lamb, occupy the new Jerusalem; lifelong rebels are excluded from the city; and the nations have to be believers who are not kept out of the city. Notice that the verb "were" is in the past tense. It had already happened in the...

Mat 27:52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, Mat 27:53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. @IndianaRob, these resurrections are just like others that Jesus raised from...

Okay, @WPM, I have asked IndianaRob what he believes about the end time events, and I'll see what he says. That last verse is very convincing.

@IndianaRob, do you deny that Jesus will visibly come again to judge the living and the dead on the clouds of heaven, as the Bible clearly says? Someone on the forum told me that you are a Full Preterist and that, therefore, you don't believe in Jesus' visible second coming. I thought I'd ask you.

The final judgment will include all humans, including believers. The difference will be in that public setting, God will declare believers, who will have their resurrection bodies after being raised from the dead, "not guilty"; but unbelievers will sadly be declared "guilty" because of their...

@IndianaRob, I'm surprised that you didn't try to deal with the fact that Jesus refers to our bodily resurrection in the previous verses, which tell us his meaning in 2 Corinthians 5 as a result.

First, @WPM, I don't know where it's required, but a forum member told me about it, when I wasn't doing it, and I thought that I would pass that insight on to you. I find it handy, because I get several emails from the Forum about people's responses. When I click on the link, it takes me to that...

We who will have been made perfect in our resurrection bodies will be judged after the second coming and as believers will be declared "not guilty" in that judgment, even though our sins will be exposed in that judgment. Sadly, unbelievers will have the "guilty" verdict. Look at Matthew 25:31-34...

First, I just looked back at your post, and you didn't put his name and @ in the text of your message, so that's why I said what I said. Second, what Christian bodies recognize preterism as a heresy. If they do, they are wrong. It is another interpretation that's different from the majority's...