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The Latin word for soul is anima... ...which is also the etymological root of our word animal. This question doesn't seem all that complicated.

Doesn't seem like we have an agreement. Let me try to persuade you... In Acts 2, on the Day of Pentecost, Peter, freshly filled with the Holy Ghost, delivers a sermon. In that sermon, he quotes from Psalm 16 at some length, and then pronounces that David was a prophet. The problem is that...

The Greek Old Testament prefers the phrase εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα to translate the Hebrew לְעֹלָֽם. עֹלָֽם (olam) properly means something like "beyond seeing" and the Greek translation means "through the age" which is the same idea once one understands that most prophecies have a limited scope. These...

It walked through the front door with a great big grin, glad-handed the brethren, and donated generously to the collection plate.

Not a lot. I would like to extend the criteria to include all the books of prophecy. What do you think?

Oh, I'm a mess. I grew up in a charismatic church that was mostly #5, but went to a reformed school that was strongly #1, and then minored in Political Philosophy and read a lot of stuff by guys who were #4. So some combination of those. I'm not big on tradition, and I'm not invested the...

Ooh.. I want a crack at that one, too. It's only Protestants whose cornerstone is the Bible, and that has only been the case since the Reformation. Catholics and Orthodox have the Church as their foundation, and the Bible's credibility is inherited from the Church. For Messianic Jews...

Wikipedia says that there are fragments of the gospels from the 2nd century, but the earliest complete copies date to the 4th century.

Me, too. I had the 1st two. Learned later that they don't actually stop you from getting the virus or transmitting it to others, it just nerfs your symptoms. Well, my whole reason for getting it was so that I wouldn't get others sick, and it doesn't do that, so... why get it? edit: also got...

I think so, too. Most people equate the snake in Genesis 3 with satan, but I don't think that's right. I think he's one of the cherubim placed at the east of the Garden of Eden to guard against re-entry.

Haha why yes we have! Quite a bit.

Hello. Nice to meet you. Can you explain to me how you came to that conclusion? While this is clearly an evil, I don't see this equated with the unpardonable sin, at least in the Bible. Yes! The commandment is against false prophecy. Does salvation pertain to this life or the next one? If...

As nearly as I can tell, the Bible says that Jesus is returning. Not doing a drive-by.

The question is a little strange. It hints that the person asking it doesn't correctly understand the words they're using. Salvation is a state-of-being that a person enters when they order their actions according to faith. You can't misplace salvation or even throw it away, because it isn't...

This is succinct and coherent. But I think there's something wrong with it. If a body doesn't have a spirit in it, it can't be alive. If you've stopped breathing, you're a corpse. The New Testament talks about people being dead in a figurative manner, sometimes. But figurative is not the...

On this issue? If so it's because they followed a Jewish tradition. In other places, they are quite bold, inserting their own theology into the text. :confused: They were in the 1st century AD. The Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrate it beyond a shadow of a doubt. God's name is not written in...

Saved is weird terminology, anyway. It really only occurs in Eph 2, and even there it isn't clear that it should be in past-tense. It's probably more theologically correct to say that one has been re-generated (past tense) and that he shall be saved (future tense). But there's no stopping the...

I think you're mistaken on this one, John. The Jews, since ancient times, do not say the name of God, and are reluctant even to write it. So, instead, they substitute other words... the two most common are lord and heaven. It looks like Matthew, a good Jewish lad, did this in his gospel...

"Born Again" is used twice in John 3, and once in 1st Peter. It isn't just a Protestant Evangelical term.