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Who says that spirits have no gender? Not the Bible.

David's hometown of Bethlehem is less than 10 miles from Jerusalem. The road home led to the larger city first.

This isn't surprising. Biden has THE worst foreign policy of any president the U.S. has ever had. One of our generals said before he was elected that he had consistently been on the wrong side of EVERY foreign policy decision for 4 decades. Just turrible.

No, no, no... judgment and justice are opposites. Two sides of the same coin, but "justice" is when the judge rules in your favor, and "judgment" is when he rules against you. Those are Biblical definitions; not modern English. It's the primary definition of the word. You posted it yourself...

Shall we look at it? 28 μὴ θαυμάζετε τοῦτο ὅτι ἔρχεται ὥρα ἐν ᾗ πάντες οἱ ἐν τοῖς μνημείοις ἀκούσονται τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ 28 Not wonder at-this because is-coming hour in which each that in the graves shall-hear the voice of-him 29 καὶ ἐκπορεύσονται...

The highlighted bit (above) seems wrong. The verse you cited in support literally says it IS about what they've done in the past: Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the...

God can do what He wants, but it appears that what He wants is to work THROUGH people, not around them.

God works through people. How would it be untouched by man, when using men is HOW God gave it?

Thanks - I looked up those references. They're solid support for the idea of continuing soul-sleep. I think perhaps my bickering with Aunty has obscured my position - which is that I-don't-know. There are certainly verses that support soul-sleep, but there are also verses that seem to...

The fact that 5 different ecumenical councils felt the need to address the canon of Scripture points out that this wasn't quite as well-established as your sources are saying. There are many letters we still have between bishops of the early church arguing which books should and shouldn't be...

Yes, He does. The Sadducees are specifically and separately called out for the non-belief in angels and the resurrection. Also, the Jewish people are enjoined to obey the Pharisees due to their positions of authority. No such instruction is given with regard to the Pharisees.

Yes, I am proposing an interpretation. The Bible does not lay out 'what-happens-between-death-and-the-judgment' very clearly. All the positions are based on someone's interpretation of the text. I agree with you on this point and was not suggesting otherwise. Phaedo is the name of Plato's...

I am somewhere in the middle... The New Covenant still requires the Law. God defines the New Covenant in terms of "putting the Law in their inward parts" or hearts. That requires one to know the Law. But the question here seems to bely the wrong mindset... we don't KEEP the Law by following...

They are sometimes lumped together in blanket condemnations, but there's a difference between the two groups that is more about position than doctrine. "If you read the Scriptures" carefully, you'll see that the Jews historically had TWO anointed leaders - one spiritual and one secular, the...

I can see one parallel - that these are both records of traditions. But... The catechism is NOT based on the Talmuds. The Jews and Catholics view them VERY differently. The catechism of the Roman Catholic Church is held up as a standard against which doctrines and behavior are judged. They...

The "rich man" of the parable seems to be a real person - Caiaphas. He has 5 brothers... and Caiaphas had 5 famous brothers. They all served as high priests. Their father - Annas - was the real power behind the priesthood, and both served in that capacity himself and then managed to get all...

I don't have a dogmatic position about soul-sleep, but I wanted to bring up a possibility that I haven't seen mentioned. What if... there was such a thing as soul-sleep, but it was abolished at the cross? Scripture shows that Jesus, after dying, went to Hades and set the captives free. And...

Only the first minute or so. The question is answerable in a couple paragraphs. I didn't see that it needed 37 minutes worth of explanation.

Here is how I understand ancient Hebrew words in a nutshell... Each Hebrew word represents a picture. When written, the word can take on any meaning related to that picture. For example, the word qadesh pictures the ritual animal sacrifice. Put it in a sentence, and it might refer to the...

The phrase "Mystery, Babylon the Great" occurs just once, in Revelation 17. Here, the word "mystery" signals that we are meant to interpret "Babylon the Great" - it isn't the literal Babylon. I think it refers to Judea. We can tell this is so because in the verse she is "drunk with the blood...