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But scripture says that it was the mark God put on Cain that would prevent people from killing him. It says nothing about Cain being a nomadic herder or traveling with a standing army.

How could a mark that was a prohibition of farming cause avengers to not kill Cain?

I am not focused on the sensual, I am interpreting words according to how they are used. In the Bible, there are literal items and other things are spiritual. You err by trying to turn literal, physical items into metaphors and symbols. Jesus fed the 5,000 with literal bread and fish. You may...

A cloud receiving Jesus does not mean Jesus did not ascend into heaven in a physical body. Jesus did not teach that people born of the spirit are not visible. Paul, Peter, John, Matthew, all the apostles were visible. You speak foolishly. You are teaching doctrines that are wrong and...

You are the one going down a rabbit hole if you consent to receiving a physical mark to enable you to buy and sell. This may be why you persist in thinking the mark of the beast is just an attitude that you assume you can resist adopting. You perhaps want to keep being able to buy and sell...

Just because idioms and metaphors exist in language, you cannot arbitrarily decide to label a word in the Bible as symbolic and not literal. Charagma (ápayua) is an ancient Greek word meaning a stamp, an imprinted mark, an etching, or a carved sculpture. In the New Testament, it most famously...

Read your Bible. Jesus rose from the dead in a resurrected physical body and ascended up into heaven in that body, not “spiritually”. Luke 24 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and...

You should consider the existence of charismatic con artists and charming scammers. These people can successfully conceal their true attitude and approach. But to have a mark that enables you to buy and sell, that mark would have to be more than just an attitude. And the technology now exists...

Eternal life is living forever in heaven.

But how can a person “not believe in Jesus”, if they never heard of Him? John 9:35,36,37,38 Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when He had found him, He said unto him, “Dost thou believe in the Son of God?” He answered and said, “Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?” And...

I have been saying that the mark of the beast could be something like an RFID tattoo, bar code, or computer chip implant. The technology now exists for putting a biometric mark on people, with surveillance by AI data centers. People are experimenting with chips in hands to engage in financial...

The European pioneers were not genocided. Look around. They survived, dominated, and their offspring are still here. Some Native American tribes attacked other tribes, but none were genocided. I do not hate America. I hate the crimes that have been committed in America and in other countries.

Genocide against Native Americans.

Ever heard of an RFID tattoo? It doesn’t need to be visibly seen, so long as it is scannable.

The majority of the world reads the 73 books of the Catholic Bible. Catholics are 1.3 billion. Protestants are 800 million. Eastern Orthodox are 220 million.

I agree to some extent. But I have found books in the Eastern Orthodox Bible, like Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) and Wisdom of Solomon to be very edifying.

Thanks for pondering this issue! The Bible does not say Lamech killed Cain. That story, as you indicated, comes from the non-canonical book of Jasher. Lamech says he killed a young man, so it could not have been Cain. Lamech was in the 7th generation from Adam, so Cain would have been very...

Sin was already on Cain the moment he was angry with Abel and killed him. Probably everyone in the small population of the world at that time knew of Cain’s crime. “And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.” —> this sounds like it was a visible mark that people...

I agree that the person who worships the beast will take the mark of the beast. It is error to think you have to do both to be damned into the lake of fire. That’s looking for a loophole, like if you take the mark so you can buy and sell, but do not worship the beast, you’ll be okay and not go...

We can know now that we have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-13 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe...