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What evidence do you have to support that idea? What does this mean? Jesus was responding to what the thief requested him to do. Yes, and He specifically told him that he would be with Him in paradise that day. You seem to ignore or overlook that for some reason. Why is that?

Yes, it is that simple. You don't believe that Jesus is God? He can't be God unless He always existed and He created the heavens and the earth because those things are true about God. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the...

Let's cut to the chase here. How exactly do you interpret this passage: Luke 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. 44 And it was about the sixth hour, and...

Christ's bodily resurrection ensured the bodily resurrection and bodily redemption of the dead in Christ. What does that have to do with one's spirit going to heaven or not? The spirits of believers were already separated from the spirits of unbelievers before that, so why does it matter that...

And I'm not offended that you disagree and are confident in your view. Why are you offended by my confidence?

Sure. He certainly does do that.

What are you talking about? Jesus was God before Mary gave birth to Him (see John 1), so how could Mary be the Mother of God? No, she was only the mother of His humanity, not His deity.

Are you being serious here? It seems that you are digging deeper and deeper all the time to try to find arguments to refute Amil. You've dug all the way to the bottom for this one. Why does someone's soul in heaven need to communicate with anyone on earth in order to be a priest of God and of...

Mary is not the Mother of God. That is blasphemous. God has no mother. She was the mother of Jesus the man. Jesus is both God and man and Mary was only the mother of His human side, not His deity side.

Well, I guess you have at least one issue with it then, right? That it doesn't teach about the Bible in its schools. That's really amazing that a school that is supposed to be based on the Bible doesn't even teach about the Bible. Wow. The thing that you need to know about that is that it isn't...

Yes, there are a lot of compromising churches out there afraid to offend people by talking about sin. Goodness sakes! That is the first thing they should be talking about, that people need to repent. But, these churches never preach repentance. Just make sure you don't offend anyone and welcome...

I don't deny that, but that doesn't really prove one way or another how we should interpret John 14:1-3 since He just as easily could have been talking about preparing a place for us that He would bring to us at His second coming that is fit for those with immortal bodies to dwell. Or are you...

Of course I do. But, you don't like that I'm confident about my opinions for some reason. There is nothing wrong with confidence. My confidence comes not from myself, but from my belief that when I ask God for wisdom He then gives it to me because James said if we lack wisdom we can ask God for...

Why do you say it only proves that? Jesus told the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in paradise that day that He died. That proves nothing about where the spirit of Jesus and of the thief on the cross would go that day? I'd say it does.

It's not your job to tell me that I'm supposedly ignoring something, either. I'm not ignoring anything. Obviously, I believe that our souls and spirits go to heaven when we die, so it's not as if I'm denying that. But, do you not believe that Jesus will be bringing heaven to us after we've been...

Of course we are sharing our opinions here. That goes without saying, doesn't it? What is the point of calling someone's opinion an "unprovable assertion"? At least we are backing up our view with scripture. Jesus specifically told the thief on the cross that he would be with Him that very day...

Agree. Only 3 verses later it shows Jesus committing His spirit to the Father (Luke 23:46). Where is the Father? In heaven (the third heaven, paradise). So, that is where Christ's spirit went when He died and he took the spirit of the thief on the cross and all of the spirits in Abraham's bosom...

Are you not arguing that John 14:1-3 is about Jesus coming to someone to bring his or her soul and spirit to heaven when they die? Are you using this verse to support that interpretation? If so, this verse you quoted here is not in relation to Jesus coming to us when we die and bringing us to...

Otherwise known as Satan's little season. It is upon us. Look at the moral decay going on all over. This is likely the time Jesus talked about when He talked about many turning away from the faith, increased deception and increased wickedness in Matthew 24:9-13. Paul talked about this in 2...

We're talking about souls and spirits here, not bodies. Why is this so difficult for you to believe? How did Jesus's spirit get to heaven? Did He need someone to bring it there? The fact of the matters is that it doesn't say specifically how one's soul and spirit gets to heaven, so what you...