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I am convinced it is crucially important that Jesus' crucified dead body returned to life in its natural condition for two reasons. 1» That's the norm in the Bible. 2» The prediction at John 2:19-22 requires that his body be restored to life in its natural condition. * It's remarkable to me...

. • 1Cor 15:35 . . How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? All that we know of in the cosmos-- all life, matter, and energy --is constructed with elements listed on the so-called periodic table. (There was a time when every one of those elements were indigenous, but...

. The verse below is deliberately misquoted in order to emphasize a point. Watch for the revision. "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spirit body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spirit body." (1 Cor 15:44) There are of course spirit bodies, e.g. angels and demons. However...

. The Greek word translated "spiritual" is ambiguous. It doesn't necessarily refer to the characteristics of thin air. Below is a list of spiritual things that bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the bodily chemistry of an angel or a demon. Spiritual gifts (Rom 1:11) Spiritual law (Rom...

. • Matt 16:18 . . I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The Greek word translated "hell" is haides (a.k.a. hades) which is a mythological afterlife facility for detaining all the dead regardless of age, race, gender, and/or religious preference. The Greek...

. God's biological progeny is 100% sinless. (1John 3:9) Born-again Christians are not 100% sinless. (1John 1:8-10) So then, born-again Christians are not God's biological progeny. Although born-again Christians are God's posterity (1John 3:1-2) they are not His direct descendants because thus...

. • Gen 28:15 . . Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Hardly any of those promises were fulfilled in Jacob's lifetime. So how could God say: "I will not leave you until...

. That's likely telling of classified information, i.e. top secret. I'm guessing that before that guy was allowed to return to the world, he was required to take an oath of secrecy. _

. Personally, I have no interest in Heaven; it's an alien world and a whole other way of life with which I am totally unfamiliar. It's going to be quite an adjustment; and I dread it. _

. • Ex 10:21 . .The Lord said to Moses: Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt. The Hebrew word translated "felt" basically refers to groping, e.g. caressing, petting, and touching. Now, I have no clue how it's...

. Many of Gustave Dorés paintings for Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost are very dim and gloomy and because there's no daylight. Well; I think Doré got it right. Man; if people are prone to cabin fever up north in the winter due to the long nights, just wait till they land in the...

. The five girls went shopping after midnight? I'm surprised that in an era prior to artificial lighting any merchants at all would be open for business that late.

. It's commonly proposed that the five unwise girls were stupid for not bringing along enough oil for their light sources. That may be true, but I rather feel that their stupidity was scarcely related to the oil and mostly related to abandoning their posts. Had they stuck to their guns (so to...

. Most folks are reasonably comfortable discussing Hell in a bull session that never gets to the bottom of anything, but it's different when we start putting faces and names on folks down there. That's a bit too much reality for some. For example: While preparing for a new world tour, Michael...

. Re: Outer Darkness Famed rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen passed away in October of 2020. He was a Roman Catholic. I was one myself for 24 years, so I can say from personal experience, that it's not easy to get into heaven via that version of Christianity. Well; if perchance Eddie failed to...

. Re: Outer Darkness One of the advantages I anticipate most in heaven is education as I suspect that God is keeping a massive, fully comprehensive library that can satisfy all my curiosity-- an archive of information far exceeding the contents of the great library of Alexandria. For example...

. Re: Outer Darkness • Ps 115:17-18 . .The dead do not praise The Lord, nor do any who go down into silence. But as for us, we will bless The Lord from this time forth and forever. The "dead" in that verse are different than a corpse. It pertains to folks who prefer self importance over the...

. In the beginning; humanity was created with a conscience patterned after its maker's conscience. "And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." (Gen 1:26-27) Then...

. • Ps 115:17-18 . .The dead do not praise The Lord, nor do any who go down into silence. "any who go down into silence" tells about people who have lost all meaningful contact with God, i.e. He no longer lends them His ear; they're permanently cut off from His benevolence, viz: The Lord has no...

. "Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us." "On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." "The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic...