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The Gospel of a resurrected Jesus blows fiction out of the water.....sooo, is fiction necessary?

such insight!

The picture Romans 5 gives is quiet different

All are in Adam, no choice of their own and they cannot oft out. All are in Jesus by no choice of their own however, they can opt out by rejecting what is already theirs.

The Atonement: What did it REALLY Accomplish? At one ment. One with humanity .....he carried our burdens....he knew what it was like to be hungry and thirsty and tired. He knew what it was like to want privacy, to feel lonely, to want friendship. There was joy when the downtrodden were...

Those who want in on their conditions and dictate to others those conditions set themselves at odds with Grace.

Don't swim in this lake in China? oky, I won't tell you to jump in the lake!

hmmmm, reported! hmmmm. Rita, it makes for scary individuals who report to authorities because others disagree with their way of seeing. hmmmm

No peace? 'Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid'....Jesus. John 14:27 Something is wrong when those claiming Jesus as their Saviour have no peace. Peace is the fundamental gift to those who...

ILLITERATE SOCIOLOGISTS HATE JEWS Can a Sociologist be illiterate?

@Ritajanice It's no joke. The confusion is basic; people cannot tell the difference between the good news and good advice. The responsibility is shuffled off onto the various selectively quoted texts. John the Baptist preached a message of good advice....repent and be baptised. This appears...

so the good news is giving good advice?

I think you've made it far too complicated Joe.

Christ Saved Us... What Do Good Works Do? They make it easy for others to malign you......but the question is, how are good works qualified?

Interpretation is tricky when a faulty paradigm is assumed as a correct one. The Jews in Jesus time had a faulty paradigm, even the disciples. It wasn't definitively corrected for the disciples till they saw the resurrected Jesus. Incidentally, have you wondered why Jesus never revealed...

I think they are both Joe. Rightly dividing would in this case be appropriate. For example, when Paul spoke about how things will transpire at the return of Jesus (1 Thess. 4:16-17, 1 Cor. 15:50-54) he was talking about a physical reality. The New Earth is also a physical reality.

I don't think you understood the post.

Babylon and Jerusalem are figurative for a counterfeit system/ understanding/ worship of God and a bone-fide understanding and worship, respectively. There is a bewitching in process that lulls people into false worship. People are called to come out of Babylon (a corrupted understanding of...

John the Baptist qualifies the idea of 'Abraham and his descendants' in Matthew 3:9 'And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.' He was of course speaking to those who thought they had...

You say 'it makes as much sense'. I would say, you say, it makes this much sense to you because there are factors you don't yet understand.