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Fair enough. But John didn't quote that until he was in his 80s or 90s... did he believe Jesus was pre-existent before the incarnation during the time Jesus was walking with them? I'm not so sure. Peter certainly wasn't converted until after Jesus spoke with him after the resurrection.

I don't agree that tattoos are not mentioned in the NT. “1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same...

You said the above in response to... Isaiah 49:16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me. I would like to suggest that the Lord stating He has inscribed our names on the palms of His hand is perhaps an allusion to the nail printed scars from...

I read that link, and agree with a little of what he said, eg. the 3 horns that were uprooted as depicted in Daniel 7, the Heruli, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths. Beyond that, I have a very different view which I can explain more fully if we look at Daniel 7. But first, let's finish Daniel 2.

But what is the clay?

Again, I can't disagree with what you are saying.... except i believe the analogy falls short as i believe there is more to resurrected life than simple "proof of the efficacy of the drug".... but certainly, without the shedding of blood there is no remission. The cross cannot be bypassed. Let...

What all you guys are saying is true. But I'm trying to encourage you to look deeper. Let me take you back to what Paul said, and as I quoted earlier... Paul is being unequivocal here. If Jesus did not come forth from the grave, everyone would "be yet in their sins". Therefore, despite what...

Let's start at the beginning, Daniel 2. It is recognized by most able Bible scholars that Daniel 2 forms a skeleton or foundation for the prophecies that come after... Daniel 7,8,11. All those visions/ dreams are expansions of the previous prophecies, adding more detail and identifiers, but all...

Is it merely about our believing in Christ's resurrection, or is there something intrinsically vital to our salvation that wasn't finished at the cross, but necessitated the resurrection and what followed, in order to complete the atonement?

Even though i have his book stored on my tech somewhere, I haven't read it through, as I got bored with, as you said, all the minutiae. However, there are certain truths in the historical connections linking Babylon, pagan Rome, and papal Rome that magnify the minutiae into credible evidence...

I believe we all receive the holy Spirit when we are born again. The baptism of the holy Spirit comes when we are completely surrendered to His working in our lives. The sealing however, that's a different kettle of fish altogether. I believe the sealing comes as a condition before the...

...that "something" was finished at the cross. However, Paul, inspired by the holy Spirit, said, “And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. ” 1 Corinthians 15:17 KJV Unfeigned Bible Many take Christ's declaration at the cross , "it is finished", as their...

You have all correctly recognized that forsaking sin and iniquity in this life is essential for salvation, and as @quietthinker noted, we shall be judged by our works, whether they be good or bad. Interesting dichotomy isn't it, which many don't quite get their minds around. We are not saved...

The firstbegotten and firstfruits in particular, are a direct reference and antitype to the feast of firstfruits from the OT, and is in context connected to the resurrection. Not His beginnings. “20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For...

Which denies the entire concept of Father and Son, makes it a metaphorical idea and loses the meaning of the word begotten , used exclusively in the sense of generating.

I think about that also. I do believe that at some stage in eternity, (surely there are points of time in eternity where part and future are differentiated?) the Son was begotten. I liken it to Daniel 2:45 where the rock, (which is Christ at the second coming) is "cut out of the mountain...

Personally I believe there may be genuine born again Christians in every denomination, house church, institution. But not every denomination has the full approval of God. Some, despite having Christians as members, are actually working at cross purposes in some ways with regard God's plans...

The Son of God is the seed. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. ” Genesis 3:15 KJV Unfeigned Bible That seed grew into a vine, and we are the branches. As you quoted... “Now to Abraham...

You don't think the Lord has an institutional church, however faulty it may be, that He had raised up for His own purpose?

What particular institutional church?