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You pretty much avoided answering the question: Will Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob be in the first resurrection?

I think your interpretation is filled with error and assumption, not to mention contradiction. Paul said that the dead in Christ would be resurrected at his return; not some, all: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord...

Hate to hear what you're going though. You do have something to be thankful about, though - you don't live in Florida with its lifetime alimony. Some horror stories: http://floridaalimonyreform.com/pdf/florida_alimony_horror_stories.pdf Exactly. Somebody who posts a thread on marriage and says...

That seems pretty passive to me. Sanctification is actually a lot of work. I think the OP's point was that Christians with an abundance of head knowledge without requisite heart knowledge tend towards self-righteousness, which is a stench in GOD's nostrils. Justin, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Some of it is pretty obvious. Which sentence in particular?

Good point. The debt of mankind has been completely paid. Christ took it all upon himself. That's the good news; no need for any man to perish. There is no man for whom the price paid is not sufficient, for Christ took the judgment for all sin. I don't believe there is any unforgiveness or...

I don't believe that Christ will necessarily return to the Mt of Olives either. He may, but we don't know because the scriptures certainly don't witness of that, even though many people carelessly believe they do. Keep in mind the Mt of Olives is the entire ridge due east of old Jeruaslem, not...

Another way to look at this is that the term son has no meaning outside of human existence on earth. In other words, GOD doesn't beget children in heaven, but has only begotten one on earth through a woman. Therefore, John saying that GOD sent his son into the world could be interpreted as...

Not Malachi. Search Internet for malachy + pope.

I haven't read the article, and I don't intend to, but I will comment that it is very important when discussing this issue to make clear distinctions between partial and full preterists. Partial preterists believe that Christ will come again (the subject title of your post), whereas full (or...

It isn't. Income taxation is a modern idea, not a biblical one. Jesus earned a living as a carpenter, and the disciples by other means, but tithing on those incomes would have been contrary to the law. They were certainly free to give as much as they wanted however they wanted, but the law of...

Are we dealing with an issue of semantics here? Obviously the logos preexisted all creation, and obviously the logos became the son. But the manifestation as flesh implies that the logos was not the son before that point. Doesn't the term son simply refer to the eternal logos' manifestation as...

Welcome on board, meshak.

Not states... states of being, or states or existence just like we have. We have a physical state of being (our body), a spiritual state of being (our spirit), and a mental state of being (or whatever you want to call it, but basically our mind). Each is separate and unique, but all coexist...

I'm more inclined to think of GOD as one individual with three distinct, coexistent states of being (not three modes), much as we are fashioned. The son is not the father, nor vice versa; but the son is the image or visible form of the invisible father through whom the father interacts with and...

I have to agree with that. However, I think there is a tendency with some to go beyond that and say GOD is three separate persons. That's just weird.

It's interesting that you mentioned Matthew 21:44. I had started to say that reality was going to crush his fantasy worldview, but softened my tone.

Abraham didn't pay a tithe; out of the gratitude of his heart he gave the tenth part of his war spoils to honor GOD who gave him the victory. It was not earned income. Also, Jacob promised to give GOD the tenth of anything GOD gave to him (meaning the increase of the field), not 10% of anything...

Yes but, the Muslims weren't threatening Europe at that time. Heck it took them several centuries just to boot the Europeans out of the mid-East, much less invade Europe.

I would like to begin a study on tithing in an attempt to better understand what the tithe really was. Tithe simply means "ten", or "tenth". Whether that means 10%, or the tenth member of a cardinal sequence (e.g., 1, 2, 3, ... 10), or both, remains to be seen. Whatever it was, the tenth was...