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I guess it's enough to not refer to them in the third person when you're in front of them. If you talk TO THEM, you will only have to use second person pronouns and not the third person which seems to be problematic from their point of view. If you talk ABOUT THEM use the proper pronoun, but...

I can say something similar about that "concious after-dead soul/ghost/spirit" and what spiritualism/spiritism/witchery teaches. Ecclesiastes is clear enough in what it explains about the condition of dead: Eccl. 9:4 There is hope for whoever is among the living, because a live dog is better...

Antiwitnesses puppets bots is what we can see all over the internet. Some of them are worse programmed than others, but all of them are programmed to spread hate and provoke verbal-hate crimes on the web. They should be de-programed because of their lack of human principles... annihilated in...

The relationship between Annihilationism and Universalism is not necessary at all. One thing does not imply the other. The Bible is clear about people who will be eliminated from existence not only temporarily, but forever. Psal. 69:26 For they pursue the one whom you struck, And they keep...

"Religion" is the same as "form of worship." It is connected to the recognition of God, and formed by a set of intrinsic beliefs and practices. From my point of view, religion existed since the creation of Adam, because he already had a direct relationship with his Creator, because he spoke...

Rom. 12:3 For through the undeserved kindness given to me I tell everyone there among YOU not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think; but to think so as to have a sound mind, each one as God has distributed to him a measure of faith. Your idea about my status before God is just...

All these instructions were given to people who were NOT UNDER the Law of Moses, BUT were under the Law of Jesus: 1 Cor. 4:34 Come to your senses in a righteous way and do not practice sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I am speaking to move you to shame. 2 Cor. 12:21 Perhaps when I come...

I guess you need to re-read the post#10 to understand what it says. According to what Peter said here, Christians in the first century were elected/chosen for something the prophets were not: 1 Pet. 1:10 Concerning this very salvation a diligent inquiry and a careful search were made by the...

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According to 1 Pet. 1:10-12, some election that applied to Christians in the first century didn't applied to prophets of old. Peter made a very clear difference between the prophets and Christians of his own time. Jesus implied the same here: Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were until...

About the OP: the Greek word apokatastasis is used in the NT (Acts 3:21; Mat. 17:11), but it does not say anything about universal salvation. Relating that biblically used word with that other doctrine is fallacious. That Greek word means restoration and a cognate (word with the same root) of...

Talking about Chosen/Elect requires to talk about something else: elect/chosen to what purpose? For example: were the first century Christians chosen for something that the faithful prophets of ancient times were not? That's what Peter tells us here: 1 Pet. 1:10 Concerning this very salvation...

Many believers speak of "the spirit of Jesus" who did not die when his body actually died. But the spirit of Jesus that he entrusted into the hands of his Father is not a who but a what. That spirit in the human Jesus was the life force that allowed him to be alive as a being born biologically...

The story about Jonah does not say that the fish vomited him up in Nineveh. It says: Jon. 2:10 In time Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land. ...and then it says: Jonah 3:1 Then the word of Jehovah came to Jonah a second time, saying: 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh...

There is a difference between "being a sinner", sinning, and practicing sin. We are all sinners in the sense that we have all inherited the defect of not being perfect as a result of the mold in which we were formed: the defective mold of a sinful Adam. That's why we die naturally; If we did...

The concept "afterlife" is of pagan origin; it does not come from the Scriptures. The realm of the dead is obviously the symbolic place where all dead people are: a state of not life ... The term for "afterlife" in the Bible is RESURRECTION: giving life back to who was dead.

No all personal offenses are sins.

I understand a living person as all of these united: body and energy (spirit). The soul is the living being itself. Gen. 2:7 And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust (the body itself) from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person...

Christians can forgive certain offenses (Eph. 4:32; Mat. 5:23, 24; 1 Pet. 4:8). However, the context of John 20:23 suggests that Jesus was referring to more serious sins.

Jesus was nowhere during the three days he was dead. The Scriptures say 1) his body was in the tomb (Acts 13:35-37) 2) his soul was in Hades (Acts 2:24,27) 3) his spirit was in the hands of God (Luke 23:46) ...and yet there was no living Jesus anywhere since "dead" is the opposite of "alive,"...