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I like this! I would add not only must we KNOW the Word, it is also imperative that the WORD (Christ) also knows us.

That's how I believe the passage should be discerned. Those graves that were opened after Christ's resurrection are those who ascend as spiritual body of believers with Christ to heaven are these same Old Covenant faithful Jews who, being under the blood of Christ (under the altar, according to...

Perhaps not in this thread but in another thread "Seeing salvation again" you said: "The idea that born of water is a reference to physical birth is simply ludicrous." Isn't being born of physical water pointing to physical and not spiritual re-birth?

You seem to be arguing against what you earlier said: "The idea that born of water is a reference to physical birth is simply ludicrous." Why not address how being baptized in water is only capable of cleansing a man outwardly but has not ability to make one clean within?

Marty, wouldn't they have been killed for being witnesses for Jesus if they were killed in the first century AD? John makes no mention of them being witnesses for Jesus. I think 30 or so years gives us the same problem as those who believe this is prophecy that shall come at the end of this...

The way I would answer the question: This must be a future event to fit a particular doctrine brought to the passage. How long is a little season? That seems to me to be the crux of the passage. Then we need to discern who are "their fellow servants and also their brethren"? It's also...

Amigo or friend of Christ for we who only speak English, your excitement and enthusiasm for the Lord is a blessing to behold! Much love amigo!

How can you say this since I believe you know for man to have salvation unto eternal life, they MUST be born again? Have you not said of Jo 3 that John does not mean physical water when he writes you must be born of water and Spirit to know and enter the Kingdom of God?

Believing what is not based on truth? This is a strange reply to my post. Where in my above reply do I say or even imply man is eternally saved by water baptism? Since I am not Catholic, who exactly are you posting to? When you quote another poster, it is assumed you either reply in kind...

I really don't think it need be complicated. When John writes "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" it means that man is born again not through physical water that comes through natural birth, but by the "Living Water" the Word of God, the...

Would you agree the two together "water and spirit" is saying Gospel and Spirit or Word and Spirit? The necessary elements to be born again is first to know Christ through His Gospel, for He is the pure/true water that comes down from heaven to give us eternal life, and Christ's Spirit through...

You arrive at your doctrine by selective reading only those verses that support your preconceived doctrine. How do you justify your error when reading not only in context, but also by reconciling ALL of Scripture that there cannot contain contradiction? It is in doing this that I have blessed...

What is written in the books that give accounting of the dead? Is it not what they have done according to the flesh while they were physically alive? The atonement was indeed for ALL sin. However there is a caveat, Christ's atoning blood will NOT cleanse the sins of those who die in unbelief...

Yes, John says "the dead" are the ones who shall be judged before God according to what is written in the books and the book of life. Those who are alive in Christ though physically dead are not judged among the dead, because they died in Christ who has already made atonement for their sin and...

But don't you think Paul is referring to their ethnicity? I believe Paul is making a distinction because he wants them to know being a Jew from the line of Abraham is not what will save them. Even those ethnic Jews of faith are not of faith because they are Jews, but because they are of faith...

Exactly! The only thing I would not agree with here is Gentiles being true Jews. I see all people of faith being Israel of God who are neither Jew nor Gentiles but whosoever is of faith in Christ. I view Jew as representing ethnicity, where Israel of God representing faithful saints. So even...

David you seem not to know that Israel of Old was the church as it existed then. Acts 7:37-38 (KJV) This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he, that was in the...

You're the one limiting "great tribulation" to a onetime event. Scripture doesn't. The Bible does not say 'the' great tribulation or even 'a' great tribulation, but many often assume that. The prophecy speaks of great and repeated great tribulation that shall come upon the earth as the Gospel...

Yes, there is only one great tribulation, with dual fulfillment! Great tribulation is associated with the Gospel being preached unto all the nations of the world. Though it isn't clear in Matthew, Luke helps us to see how "great tribulation" associated with the Gospel proclaimed also came upon...

You believe the first resurrection is physical because of how you view end of days prophecy. I believe the first resurrection is also physical, but it is the resurrection of Christ we must have part in before we physically die to have eternal life through Him. Look carefully at what John...