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Bible translators often mistranslate the Greek word gennao as 'born' when it should be 'begotten'. The single Greek word is used for both begotten and born, so the context should determine which way to translate it. 1 John 3:9 should be (ASV): (9) Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin...

If you make up different meanings to words to suit yourself, then you're a fool and nobody can communicate with you to help you! You're typing nonsense! "Being eternally separated from the Lord" is not what the word destroyed means. You're typing more nonsense! It's not a viewpoint, it's...

You consider that a gift! The devil is not rewarded - he is punished. Everyone's destiny is either eternal death or eternal life. Romans 6:23 (WEB): (23) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Satan is going to be destroyed, i.e...

Angels cannot be immortal (meaning they cannot die) because the Scriptures say that currently only God and Jesus are immortal: 1 Timothy 6:16 (WEB): (16) who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen...

Could you rephrase that? I don't understand what you mean. :confused:

You have misunderstood the Scriptures. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), not an eternal life of torment. "the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). God only gives good gifts, not bad: Matthew 7:11 (WEB): (11) If you then, being evil, know how to...

I quoted Revelation 2:26 (WEB): (26) He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. or, for different punctuation, MKJV: (26) And he who overcomes and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations. because it...

I think you misunderstood my reply. Salvation is being saved from the penalty of death due to our sins. Our works cannot save us from that; only Jesus' sacrifice saves us and allows for the resurrection of everyone to life again. From the resurrection onwards, it is our works, how people...

Revelation 2:26 (WEB): (26) He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. If we suffer from such deterioration of our minds and bodies at the end of our lives, then I guess we just have to trust God's judgement that He will not blame us...

Only Christians are currently saved, as long as they remain faithful until their death. Everyone else is unsaved - they will be saved during Christ's 1,000 years reign. Christians will have the honour and pleasure of sharing Christ's reign, helping to restore everyone back to human perfection...

It's in harmony with what I wrote. Romans 5 (WEB): (12) Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned. (15) But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more...

Being thrown into the "lake of fire" is symbolic of being destroyed - it's not an actual fire. Death is symbolically speaking thrown into the fire, i.e. destroyed, hence "Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more" (Revelation 21:4). Just as there...

I'll just say it one last time. It is not hell that is prepared for the devil and his angels. Eternal fire is. Eternal fire is not the same thing as hell. Matthew 25:41 (WEB): (41) Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is...

If you mean that there's a contradiction of claiming that Jesus's sacrifice redeems all mankind, and then saying that many of mankind are destined for the "second death", then that is not a contradiction, just a misunderstanding of the Scriptures. Adam and Eve failed their first trial for...

If you have the correct understanding of the Scriptures then there will be no apparant contradictions. 2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV): (16) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: WEB: (16) Every...

I had said that the "everlasting fire" is "prepared for the devil and his angels", not hell (sheol/hades) as you had claimed. You then saying that "The lake of fire is forever" is irrelevant to whether it is "everlasting fire" or hell that was prepared for the devil and his angels. (It's...

Whether or not the fire lasts forever is irrelevant - Revelation 20:14 (KJV): (14) And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. If hell will be cast into the lake of fire, then the lake of fire cannot be hell. As Matthew 25:41 (KJV) says: (41) Then shall he...

Christians will be changed in the resurrection, and will no longer be human, just as Jesus is no longer human. Therefore it will not be men judging angels, it will be members of a new creation - Jesus and his bride/body: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (WEB): (51) Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will...

They do have free will - how else could they have chosen to obey God or disobey God? We do not have any knowledge of what laws God gave to the angels, or what punishments were promised for disobedience to those laws. All we know is that there was a war/battle in heaven and the disobedient...

The Genesis account in which God said, "Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26), is a passage about God creating living beings on the earth. It has nothing to do with the creation of angels, so we cannot make any deductions about them from the Genesis account. Of all...