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Both I think. Paul definitely speaks of it in terms of re-animation: Eph 2: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Neither one is a good translation of Ephesians 2:8. This verse cannot be translated into English word-for-word. The word translated "saved" is a perfect-participle, and English just doesn't have that as a single word. To get the English equivalent you either need a whole 'nother sentence, or...

In practice that's mostly true. But it could be the case for anyone whose beliefs follow the conservative idea that older-is-better and original-is-best. The first generation Reformers didn't do that. They had five solae that co-existed, and they wanted mostly wanted preserve the authority of...

There are two kinds of slavery. There's the indentured kind, and then there's chattel slavery. Indentured slaves either chose to be such, or were sentenced to do so as a result of debt/crime. In either case, the arrangement is temporary, and the slave receives some compensation for their work...

Go further - no translation is perfect. The act of translating always leaves behind some of the meaning. If you disagree, you've never been a translator.

Or perhaps indicating that one thinks that the Christian faith has suffered great corruption over the years in the hands of the Catholic Church.

I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. How can that...

It's a pretty good stand-alone post, but I don't see how it's related to what I said. Why'd this come in response to me? You didn't address the objection that the verses identify the martyrs as being the recipients of the first resurrection.

On the one hand... the Bible DOES refer to the regeneration of new believers in terms of raising the dead to life. E.g. Ephesians 1-2 On the other... that isn't what Revelation 20 is about. The context demands that it's talking about martyrs, and even with Revelation's visions and symbols...

Seems like a valid concern. Most people seem to go to extremes on one side or the other. It seems like the student was at the extreme where one insists on the Bible being perfectly accurate and free of contradictions. Well, it's better than the other extreme of being hyper-critical of the...

It isn't the most clear-cut passage in the Bible, is it? I read it to say that the first resurrection is only for the martyrs, and that the second resurrection is a general resurrection of everyone - good, bad, or indifferent - with a judgment and rewards/punishments meted out depending on deeds.

I don't know who said so, but I don't think that's a typical amil belief. A quick internet search yields this, which is in line with what I've heard in the past...

Jesus wasn't resurrected alone. Matthew 27: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the...

Was reading a little on this, and found that all the "giants" in the Bible after the flood are not called Nephilim but instead Rephaim... a different word. Different thing?

The Temple? Moses didn't give Israel a Temple. The Law talks only about a Tabernacle and an Assembly. There's a serious theological argument out there that the building of a Temple was an error, which God allowed Israel to commit due to their reprobation. From Acts 7... the words of the...

So He was going to add to it? Or..?

Well, I'm sure there's nothing controversial about this chapter /s

But what does that word mean?

There's a figure of speech in the verse. There's a progression here - (a) liable to judgment, (b) liable to the Council, (c) liable to hell. Note that the three are alike in character - they are all types of judgment. But there is a progression in severity. That progression is a way of...

If you want to give commentary on Genesis, I'd encourage you to start your own thread, rather than taking over mine.