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I agree. For Paul, it was actually a healing - the restoration of his sight.

It's easy to be confused because Paul uses the words differently from everyone else. On the whole, when most Biblical authors use the word "soul," they just mean "person." You are a soul, you have a body and a spirit.

What about this one?

Christian forums are full of Christians arguing with other Christians, all of us trying to reconcile our beliefs. We don't always exercise a good amount of grace towards each other here in an anonymous Internet setting. You might receive more help at an actual brick-and-mortar church. Call...

Are we talking about leaving God or leaving the church? Even if the church was wrong about absolutely everything... (it isn't nearly that bad, but for the sake of argument) God would still be God. I would still believe in a God, a first cause, an omniscience, a collective conscience of...

Onan was meant to provide an heir for his deceased brother by impregnating his sister-in-law. By intentionally not getting her pregnant, he was essentially ending his brother's clan permanently. And also providing a reason to go on having sex with the sister-in-law. This is rape/genocide... a...

Disappointment. It is VERY disheartening to discover that what your church has been teaching you for years is wrong in major ways. Particularly if that church has been a major focus of your life. It's also discouraging when you find that your church, other churches, THE church perhaps...

The video is very funny, and he isn't wrong. All that you need to know about Biblical Chronology is... that it isn't chronological.

If he didn't sin, why would he have a penalty to pay for himself? Some are justified (by faith), and others are redeemed after they are judged. A sacrifice doesn't justify, it redeems.

I like Irenaeus. I read almost all of Against Heresies. But is his source Josephus? And what was Josephus source? (I doubt we know that)

No. Abstaining from something is not an action. It's an inaction. That's what I said.

The thing about marriages in that period - they were mostly treaties. If Moses, as the head of Israel at the time, was married more than once, that would have meant Israel had a treaty with... someone. And that probably would have been notable enough to have been recorded.

Interesting read. It also has Moses commanding Egyptian armies and conquering Kush. Josephus does a lot of embellishing, so I'm not sure I trust him.

I view it as a matter of position. Christ puts us in a safe spot. We don't have to do something, but we do have to NOT do something - we can't leave that spot.

Hebrews 6:4-6 4 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto...

I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. In at least one other place in the Bible, Midian and Cush are equated: Hab 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Also, these terms have more than one meaning. Cushite doesn't just mean...

I don't think the idea of soul sleep is even a Jewish tradition? I know in the 1st century at least, the Sadducees didn't believe in an afterlife AT ALL, while most of the rest believed in an underworld where the dead lived in captivity (hades), and some believed in another place for the...

Muhammed was illiterate. It was his followers that wrote down his "revelation" after his death.

Did you actually read what I wrote? Yes - Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ALL inform us when God speaks to Moses, or delivers a message through him. Why doesn't Genesis? Nobody tries to answer that question, and its obvious why.

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