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(Act 2:39) For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” Peter was saying that the promise was to the men he was talking to and to their descendents - to people far away in distance and in time. Let's look...

Right. So as I said, Peter was urging men to repent and be baptised, not children. I was christened as a baby, which I have no memory of. I was in my thirties when I was baptised. It has to be a personal descision to believe in Jesus and God, and to consecrate yourself to God and serve Him...

Actually the subject we were discussing was not about the asleep saints. You stated, "Oh, so you think Christ is going to gather us to Heaven in the CLOUDS to live! Nah, that is man's fairy tale", and that is what I replied about. Neither you or I mentioned anything about asleep or dead...

Read it more carefully. Those that hold the testimony of Jesus are not symbolically represented by the woman, but by her offspring (what offspring did Mary have?). The offspring of the Israelites/Jews are Christians. (Rev 12:13) When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he...

I don't think so. Who was Peter talking to? Act 2 (WEB): 5) Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky. 6) When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. 14)...

The answer is 'yes': Ezekiel 18:4,20 (WEB): The soul who sins, he shall die. Matthew 10:28 (WEB): Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

What makes you think that I was attempting to list every verse in the Bible that refers to Jesus' return for the Church?! I wasn't. The Zechariah 14 passage is not about Jesus' return for his Church. It is about later events when God fights for Israel after they have been attacked by "all...

That passage is applying to the Israelites only. It is referring to God bringing the Jews back from the nations where He had scattered them. Verse 28 says, "You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God". It is not referring to baptism...

Behold means look, see. It means no more than that. The woman in Revelation 12 is symbolic of Israel, not of Mary. The sun and moon, and the twelve stars is a reference to the dream of Joseph (Genesis 37:9-10), and are symbolic of Israel (Jacob) and his wife, and the twelve sons (tribes) of...

Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (WEB): then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. What Paul is describing is similar to Jesus' ascension (we follow in his footsteps): When he had...

We know what the Bible tells us, that the fate of those referred to as symbolically being thrown into a large (lake sized) fire is that they will perish, i.e. they will be destroyed - which is a second, and permanent, death, and when we die our thoughts perish (Psalms 146:4). The whole Bible is...

Any part of death is death! Fire and brimstone is symbolic of utter destruction - no matter which part of the fire you end up in. "Their part" could also be translated as "their portion", "their share", or "their lot". ‭‭ Yes. Satan is symbolically thrown into the lake of fire, symbolising...

Well 'obviously' neither have you studied Isaiah 25, because it is talking of God ruling from Mount Zion, on the earth, ruling over humans. There is no mention of people being changed into spirit beings. Paul's letter to the Corinthians was addressed to Christians only, not to everyone in the...

No! That's just a fanciful imagination.

Only Christians are promised a resurrection as a new creature in Christ, to be given the divine nature - a spiritual body. Everybody else will be resurrected as humans again. You're relying on a poor translation. A better translation is the WEB: John 5:29) and will come out; those who have...

Yes, I have read it (and all of the Apocrypha, once). Jesus said, "Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth" (John 17:17).

That's not baptism - it's a man made tradition called Christening. To be baptised into Jesus' death you have to believe in Jesus, and believe Jesus. At 16 days old nobody has any knowledge of Jesus or faith in Jesus - that's a gift we receive from God after He has called us. I encourage you...

I don't have access to the original manuscripts! Do your own research. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_John): A Trinitarian gloss (marginal note) known as the Johannine Comma, added to Latin translations of the epistle in the 4th century,[22] was interpolated...

Scriptures that refer to Jesus' brothers: (Mat 12:46) While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. (Mat 13:55) Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and...

Or, to include more of the verse: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: There is no hint in that verse that God is anything more than an individual being. It just implies that God was talking with some other living being who had a similar image and likeness to God...