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"There is a time for everything..." (Ecclesiastes 3) Following Jesus can't be reduced to simply obeying rules. We are given rules that appear to conflict (best example: Proverbs 26:4,5) because some situations demand that we act in one way and other situations that we do what is apparently the...

And I responded by demonstrating that your interpretation of those verses is grammatically impossible. So you haven't proved anything. Not a straw man argument at all. The context of Paul's statement "you are a temple of the Holy Spirit" makes clear he is referring to Christians, not to...

Except that it isn't. I'm starting to wonder if you and I are inhabiting the same planet and reading the same Bible. But he was writing a letter (I Corinthians) to Christians at the time. Your beliefs are so unorthodox... perhaps you should set them out in another thread. Then I might have a...

That may be what some annihilationist cults believe (perhaps when it goes together with belief in soul sleep), but it's not essential to the doctrine as held by orthodox Christians, which I've studied. I agree with the rest of your post.

This is from the first letter to Timothy, so it's not Jesus but Paul. Paul is arguing against those who would "order people to abstain from certain foods" (I Timothy 4:3) (Doesn't that remind you of someone...) "Everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with...

Nobody is claiming that it is. Jesus is declaring all foods clean. WRONG. Wasn't it you who mentioned, earlier on, that the sewer was in the accusative case? As is the stomach also. This: And only believers 'house' the Holy Spirit in their bodies.

Where's the problem with annihilation and the parable of the rich man and Lazarus? If annihilation is correct, it takes place after the final judgement. The rich man's family are still alive on earth, so final judgement cannot have happened yet. Annihilationism does not exclude torment after...

"It's the food being cleansed here, not the body. What we call "purging" is cleansing of the body (or the bowel, to be more specific), not the food" You are completely ignoring the fact that the text says, "cleansing all foods" and that I said, purging was "cleansing the body". Neither the body...

Well, that's all of us!

When lost, the wise traveller asks for directions… “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Jeremiah 6:16) ‘Old’ is not necessarily good (for the paths of wickedness are also venerable and...

Please explain how Christ's nullification of one set of laws makes all God's laws arbitrary? Where have I said that it does? And how that gives us the right to tear up any law we happen not to like? The Jews certainly didn't have the right to nullify the dietary laws before Christ's coming...

You keep repeating this assertion, but haven't proven it. No. It's the food being cleansed here, not the body. What we call "purging" is cleansing of the body (or the bowel, to be more specific), not the food No. If 'katharizon' was agreeing with 'aphedrona' they would have to be in the same...

Nothing gets cleansed by being passed through the digestive system, so surely it should be obvious that this isn't what Jesus meant? 'Foods' is the object of the verb 'cleanse'. The subject isn't made explicit, but is masculine singular. So it can't be the process of digestion previously being...

Sorry - it's the text itself that states "cleansing all foods". 'Foods' is the object of the verb; it can't possibly apply to anything else! Good grief - do you really believe that ceremonial 'uncleanness' is the only reason for not eating something? 1) It's not "my" doctrine - it's been the...

Thanks, but if that's what you're thinking, then where's the problem?

Why would the New Testament be uninspired if it was originally written in Hebrew? I don't understand that. Jesus presumably taught in Aramaic (the 'everyday' language of the Jews at that time), so all His words have been translated into Greek anyway. All the OT Scriptures quoted in the NT are...

I don't. It applies to the food, not to the waste. (Watch that you're not being misled by the modern English meaning of 'purge'. It doesn't have that connotation in Greek)

It was originally written in Greek. There is a word-play in chapter 9 (the word translated covenant/will/testament) that is central to the writer's argument and only works in Greek. On the authorship of Hebrews: If it was important for us to know, the author's name would have been included...

Where do you get the idea that it's the faeces that are 'purged' or 'declared clean'? (I agree with you - that would be asinine) The Greek text says (literally) "katharizon all the foods". Not what comes out, but what goes in. Hence the KJV translates it as "purging all meats", but "declaring...

Many churches hold short communion-only services (often midweek, in the daytime) that are very popular with elderly people.