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Which is the whole earth (Matthew 5:5). God is making all ~ all things ~ things new (Revelation 21:5). Grace and peace to you.

:) Well, the whole earth, which the meek will inherit (Matthew 5:5), is better (greater) than... the sliver of land on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea (lesser). :) Agree! :) Grace and peace to you.

Better in the sense that they are of a more excellent or effective type or quality. The blood of unblemished lambs never made anything perfect, but the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God... :) Just before your quote from Hebrews 8 here, we read in Hebrews 7:18-19, "For on the one hand, a former...

Your statement above presents conflict. Inadvertently ~ I know you don't mean it to be conflicting, but it is. Ritajanice gets it... :) Right, but not yet fully; that will come when Christ returns. Using Peter's words in 1 Peter 1:3-5, We are both saved ~ "born again to a living hope...

Yes, but His promises were not new in the sense that He had never made them before. We know that God is unchanging. So, His promises were new in the sense that they were fully realized ~ in their greater sense ~ in the New Testament. They are what they always were, even in the Old Testament...

Sure. I have agreed many times, and still do, and always will... :) It's not about "wanting" anything. :) It's about the innate inability, in and of ourselves, to resist. And Jesus, in His humanness, had that, but also had, in His Godliness, the innate ability, in and of Himself, to resist...

Right, well, like I said, it is what it is. Amen, and amen. Grace and peace to you.

Well, yes, but not yet completely. Otherwise we would now be sinless also (instead of, for now, no longer being condemned for our sin... because our our having been imputed the righteousness of Christ. Right? He was fully God... and fully man. I will fully and absolutely agree with you that...

Okay, well, I disagree. I say that while He walked the earth, He was fully man... but also fully God. No, those two things are not congruent. The sin nature speaks of our propensity to sin. In other words, since we have this sinful nature from birth, the fact ~ the inevitability, because of...

LOL! Noah was not removed from the flood. He floated... in a big boat, of course... through it... and in... more than a foot of water. His life was preserved. LOL! Jonah's story is similar to Noah's in several ways, although he was voluntarily thrown into the water, and God used...

The coming of the Son of Man will be very sudden. Disagree. In Revelation 7, the 144,000 of the first half of the chapter and the innumerable multitude of the last half of the chapter are the same group of people, but showing different things about that group, the first half the true...

Agree. But, because He was also God, He remained uncorrupted. Not... solely. As God, he also had an anti-sin nature. :) No, it was because He also had the full nature of God. Yes, He could have sinned, and in His humanness was prone to do so as we are. But in His Godliness, he was able...

I'd agree with this in one sense, but disagree in the other. Jesus had a dual nature, He was both God and man. So He was both of God ~ 100% God ~ and of man ~ 100% man. So I would disagree with what you say in the latter sense. Expounding on that: Jesus was tempted in every way we are, yet...

Adam said nothing, but went along with his wife in her deception. The point is, Adam knew very well what God told him in Genesis 2:17, that if he partook of the fruit of the forbidden tree, he would surely, in that very day, die. And he had related this to Eve at some point, which we know...

Ugh... :) Yet again. Wonder how long this one will go? :) Christ's millennial reign is from heaven, seated at the right hand of God. So, since His ascension and even up to now. :) Jesus Christ is our King. Now. :) One day, and maybe very soon even from our perspective ~ because...

No idea what you're saying here. I'm... not with EQW on... quite a bit of stuff. :) I mean... people are going to disagree on just about anything... :) Okay, good. :) What makes you think Jesus is not present? I would say He is... I would say the second coming ~ though not explicit ~ is...

"The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth" (Genesis 7:17). Hey, I have a question. It's rhetorical, really; no answer necessary... :) Actually, two, maybe... :) So the waters increased over the course of the...

One last thing with regard to the original subject: When we see "new song," we should not really that the song is "new" or that it is different, really, than it used to be, but we should think "Gospel." :) Grace and peace to all.

Was Jesus not buried after "giving up His spirit"? He was... in the tomb. His body was in the tomb. Well, that's because it's the right one. :) And this is why we call it 'orthodox.' :) Hmm, well, do you understand the 'emptying' (related by Paul in Philippians 2) to mean that Jesus...

Sure, but the point I'm making, and you seem to be voicing agreement with ~ is that, for someone who sees a lot of symbolism in a writing (in this case Revelation), they are not making it into an allegory, so the characterization of it as such is wrong. Well, the ideas can be abstract, but in...