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. Most Christians readily attest that Christ is fully God and fully Man when in reality quite a few trinitarians only believe he is some sort of divine hominid rather than a real man; and that's because no real man is divine; not when he's Adam's biological progeny: a non-eternal, created being. _

. Hover your mouse pointer over the reference above and compare the language and grammar of the ASV text that appears with the language and grammar of the VOICE's text below. 21 Then Jesus began to tell the disciples about what would happen to Him. He said He would have to go to Jerusalem...

. No less than eleven passages in the New Testament attest that Jesus' crucified dead body was restored to life during the third day rather than after the third day was completely over and done with. » Matt 16:21 » Matt 20:17-19 » Matt 17:22-23 » Mark 9:31 » Luke 9:22 » Luke 18:31-33 » Luke...

. God is a sentient being with a heart and a soul. He's super intelligent, creative, capable of complex thoughts, fluent in numerous languages, competent in all the known sciences-- e.g. chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, astronomy, biology, ranching, farming, animal...

. Where the text lacks clarification, I prefer to think of evening as any hour between high noon and sunset; just as I prefer to think of morning as any hour between sunrise and high noon, i.e. AM, PM. * According to Luke 23:54 and John 19:31-42 Jesus was buried before sunset. _

. You really ought to be a bit more circumspect with your choice of words lest the hapless day arrives when you are forced to eat them. "I tell you that people will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be innocent...

. I've had no luck in finding a specific Greek word in the New Testament for afternoon. It appears to me that the Greek word for evening suffices for any hour between high noon and sunset. During Passover season in Israel, days and nights are very nearly equal length; with days becoming...

. • Rom 8:9 . .If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. • 1John 5:11-12 . .God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His son. So whoever has God's son has the life; whoever does not have the life, does not have His son. _

. Rabbis of old were a bit perplexed by incidents in the Tanakh where there appears to be a Jehovah on earth speaking for a Jehovah up in heaven. For convenience sake, the rabbis labeled one of them Metatron; a celestial being whose name is his master's. Now take Jesus for an example...

. A number of rules discussed in the 14th chapter of Romans make it okay for folks to attend church on any day of the week that they believe in their hearts is the correct day for it. But I have to object when folks insist that attending on some other day than theirs is hell-worthy. _

. Here's the key phrase in another translation of Matt 27:57 "As evening approached" And in Luke 23:54 it reads: "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on." Morning and Evening in the Bible are somewhat ambiguous. As a rule of thumb: morning consists of any hour between...

. • Luke 23:54-56 . . And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according...

. Although church attendance is oftentimes thought of as worship, in reality it isn't. • John 4:21 . . Jesus declared: Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. * Jerusalem is the Temple site-- the very hub of worship --yet...

. • John 19:31 . . The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, It's commonly assumed that the preparation mentioned in that verse is relative to the routine day of rest, but the confusion is cleared up in another context. • John 19:14 . . And it was the preparation of the Passover, and...

. I suspect that quite a few Christians have allowed the word "sabbath" to become locked down in their thinking as strictly limited to the seventh day of the week; but the Hebrew word doesn't refer to either a number or a sequence. It simply means, in most respects, intermission, i.e. taking a...

. There are at least four sabbaths in the Bible that are totally unrelated to the normal day of rest. The Feast of Trumpets. (Lev 23:23-25) Yom Kippur. (Lev 16:29-34) The first and last days of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread. (Ex 12:16) Those high days float, so although it's...

. I suspect John 19:31 reflects a rabbinical interpretation of Deut 21:23 which says: "If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day. There's...

. That one time was sufficient • Heb 10:1-2 . . For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be...

. • Gen 1:26a . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. The introduction of the plural personal pronouns "us" and "our" into the narrative at this point has given rise to some interesting speculation regarding the identities of the antecedents. But we need not guess...

. • Rev 14:6-7 . . And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people; saying with a loud voice: Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is...