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All these instructions were given to people who were NOT UNDER the Law of Moses, BUT were under the Law of Jesus: 1 Cor. 4:34 Come to your senses in a righteous way and do not practice sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I am speaking to move you to shame. 2 Cor. 12:21 Perhaps when I come...

I guess you need to re-read the post#10 to understand what it says. According to what Peter said here, Christians in the first century were elected/chosen for something the prophets were not: 1 Pet. 1:10 Concerning this very salvation a diligent inquiry and a careful search were made by the...

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According to 1 Pet. 1:10-12, some election that applied to Christians in the first century didn't applied to prophets of old. Peter made a very clear difference between the prophets and Christians of his own time. Jesus implied the same here: Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were until...

About the OP: the Greek word apokatastasis is used in the NT (Acts 3:21; Mat. 17:11), but it does not say anything about universal salvation. Relating that biblically used word with that other doctrine is fallacious. That Greek word means restoration and a cognate (word with the same root) of...

Talking about Chosen/Elect requires to talk about something else: elect/chosen to what purpose? For example: were the first century Christians chosen for something that the faithful prophets of ancient times were not? That's what Peter tells us here: 1 Pet. 1:10 Concerning this very salvation...

Many believers speak of "the spirit of Jesus" who did not die when his body actually died. But the spirit of Jesus that he entrusted into the hands of his Father is not a who but a what. That spirit in the human Jesus was the life force that allowed him to be alive as a being born biologically...

The story about Jonah does not say that the fish vomited him up in Nineveh. It says: Jon. 2:10 In time Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land. ...and then it says: Jonah 3:1 Then the word of Jehovah came to Jonah a second time, saying: 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh...

There is a difference between "being a sinner", sinning, and practicing sin. We are all sinners in the sense that we have all inherited the defect of not being perfect as a result of the mold in which we were formed: the defective mold of a sinful Adam. That's why we die naturally; If we did...

The concept "afterlife" is of pagan origin; it does not come from the Scriptures. The realm of the dead is obviously the symbolic place where all dead people are: a state of not life ... The term for "afterlife" in the Bible is RESURRECTION: giving life back to who was dead.

No all personal offenses are sins.

I understand a living person as all of these united: body and energy (spirit). The soul is the living being itself. Gen. 2:7 And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust (the body itself) from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person...

Christians can forgive certain offenses (Eph. 4:32; Mat. 5:23, 24; 1 Pet. 4:8). However, the context of John 20:23 suggests that Jesus was referring to more serious sins.

Jesus was nowhere during the three days he was dead. The Scriptures say 1) his body was in the tomb (Acts 13:35-37) 2) his soul was in Hades (Acts 2:24,27) 3) his spirit was in the hands of God (Luke 23:46) ...and yet there was no living Jesus anywhere since "dead" is the opposite of "alive,"...

Forgiveness for sins is only possible through the sacrifice of Jesus, and the person involved has to show sincere repentance for it in order to obtain it. The words of John 20:22 were addressed exclusively to the apostles of Jesus, and referred to that after their anointing (which would occur...

Jesus' "preaching" to the fallen angels followed his resurrection. The message was about his victory in dying faithfully, providing the means of salvation to humans, and gaining his right to kingship. 1 Tim. 3:16 Indeed, the sacred secret of this godly devotion is admittedly great: ‘He was made...

A man asked Jesus if those who would be saved would be few. Jesus' response is key to understanding that salvation requires effort: Luke 13:23 Now a man said to him: “Lord, are those being saved few?” He said to them: 24 “Exert yourselves vigorously to get in through the narrow door, because...

The Hebrew word for land is ʼEʹrets. That same word is also used in the Bible to refer to: (1) earth, as opposed to heaven, or sky (Ge 1:2); (2) land, country, territory (Ge 10:10); (3) ground, surface of the ground (Ge 1:26); But the same word can be used in the Bible to refer to: (4)...

The reason to believe that the Deluge occurred over the whole planet is this: the Bible says it. Gen. 7:23 So He wiped every living thing from the surface of the earth, including man, animals, creeping animals, and the flying creatures of the sky. They were all wiped off the earth; only Noah...

The heavenly kings and priests, after going with Jesus to heavens, will not return to live on earth but will be with him in the heavenly realms forever: 1 Thess. 4:17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and...