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I also knew that my former wife and I would be separated in some way, but I didn't know it would be through divorce. I've always dreamt of things that could happen, but I've found that I could alter my choices and sometimes alter the outcomes of the dreams.

Do you realize that you've separated out a gentile church in your previous post and combined the Jews and Gentiles in this one as one church? Your reasoning on this subject is compromised as you've just disagreed with yourself. The Old Testament saints looked forward to Christ's first appearing...

Supposition, not biblical truth.

You have a very vivid imagination, but the imagination of man is only evil from his youth. Where exactly have I mentioned Satan?

This is what is known as inverted logic from a false supposition. You are arguing from things that I haven't said as opposed to arguing from things that I have which makes your argument against your own fantasies of what I mean by what I haven't said. It's a child's game. What biblical proof do...

This is not entirely accurate. Peter was an Apostle to the Jews and the RCC is proof that Jewish traditions persisted in the Roman church. The Ethiopian church even continued practices normally associated with the ark of the covenant and animal sacrifice. The Ethiopians still use the ancient...

I appreciate your explanation, but every doctrine of significance to the church, right down to the order of service, was explicitly taught in the New Testament, including the nature of the resurrection and the difference between a resurrected body and a natural body. Yet somehow there is no...

OK, which church was Jesus talking about in Matthew 16:18? It's absurd to think that Paul knew more about the church than God Himself.

Again, Thessalonians chapter 4 is about the first resurrection, not a pre-tribulation rapture, and specifically says that this won't occur until after the son of perdition is revealed. I've already forgotten which verse you mentioned in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, but that chapter goes into great...

I'm unsure of the translations but I was told Abraham means Father of many nations. I might have benefitted from studying the original languages, but when I was young I didn't see any point in studying languages that were no longer spoken. My mom had dreams of angelic visitation, but she was a...

No, he never mentioned a rapture, only the event at the first resurrection. The English word rapture has a broader meaning than being physically removed from the Earth, but being "caught up" is consistent with the gathering of the saints to the judgment and the kingdom prepared by God. There is...

I'm not convinced that the saints will ever reside in heaven (but I really don't know.) In the book of Joshua there are examples of stones that were white washed as memorials, but I can't quite make the connection and Jesus also used the term in a derogatory way. Maybe there's no connection...

You can, but the hope of the Jews was the resurrection. The resurrection was the reason Pharisees existed. The Sadducees didn't believe in a resurrection. The first resurrection is described in the book of the Revelation as happening when Christ returns. Those who live and reign with Him are...

Yes, when I was born " Michael " was the most popular name for newborns and there are thousands if not millions of Michaels born in that year. Yet names typically have meaning. My mom claimed that she named me after the Archangel and the name "Michael" is an exclamatory question of praise...

Sure, but as I suggested in my previous post, who would you evangelize in the resurrection?

I was thinking more along these lines: Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:19 Paul has been frequently...

No argument there, but I don't know if my resurrected body would still have a tattoo and I get tired of my own artwork on the wall eventually. If it were there, I assume that there it would stay.

Yes and this is concurrent with the 1st resurrection. The return of Christ is associated with "the last trump." There can only be one last of anything.

Yes and Paul means little (or least. );)

Well, I can't see why anyone other than God would want to give you a new name, but I appreciate your honesty. Did you see something of yourself reflected in that new name? I'm not asking for the name, but I can see myself in the name He gave me and am wondering if you see some truth in what you...