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. They say God is omniscient; which suggests to me that He knew full well in advance that the majority of the world's people would end up on the wrong side of things down at the end, yet He went ahead and created them all in that danger anyway. Somebody explain to me how that that is sane...

. Few is less than most. For example Rev 7:9 tells of a multitude that no man can number. Well; regardless of how many noses constitute that crowd, their number will be smaller than the number of folk who fail to make the cut. _

. It would be interesting to know how many Catholics arrive in Hell every day thinking at first they've arrived in Purgatory. Can you just imagine their disappointment? And then the socialists show up mocking and teasing; requesting the Catholics something like this: Hello Christians! How's...

. In the distant past it was deemed nigh unto impossible to graduate from purgatory because every new sin committed while there added time to the penitent's sentence. So: In the year 1520, Pope Leo X's Bull of Exsurge Domine was written to state, along with some other things, that death is the...

. It's not easy to make the cut for purgatory because if a Catholic leaves this life with just one un-absolved mortal sin on the books, just one, they go straight to Hell --it's a direct flight, so to speak --no stopover in a halfway house. _

. • John 11:25 . . I am the resurrection. People who make the cut for a bodily Christian resurrection will be immortal. (1Cor 15:51-54) However; at the time Jesus made that statement, he wasn't yet risen from the dead, i.e. Jesus wasn't immortal. We can be sure of that because had he been...

. • Gen 3:15 . . And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. Most everyone on both sides of the aisle agrees that prophesy refers to Christ. Now, the question we must resolve is the origin of Eve's...

. Even if Joseph's wife had been conceived free of original sin, it would've failed to protect baby Jesus from contracting the fallen nature because according to Gen 3:6-7, it isn't transmitted by parents. That's backwards. According to Gen 3:6, he consented with her, i.e. Eve was the first...

. In a nutshell: the so-called fallen nature is a preference for unobstructed, unrestrained, self rule; i.e. deciding for one's self what determines right and wrong and/or what determines good and evil. In that respect, the fallen nature tends to be its own God and resists cooperating with the...

. The original sin was committed by the first man (Adam) relative to a certain forbidden fruit. (Gen 2:8-17 and Gen 3:6) It is commonly believed among a pretty large number of Christians that accountability for Adam's eating the forbidden fruit is transmitted to children by means of their...

. • Rev 22:16 . . I am the offspring of David The Greek word translated "offspring" is genos (ghen'-os) which basically refers to kin, viz: one's relatives. Christ's kinship with David is quite a bit more specific in Rom 1:1-3 where it says: "Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed...

. • John 11:25 . . I am the resurrection. People who make the cut for a bodily Christian resurrection will be immortal. (1Cor 15:51-54) However; at the time Jesus made that statement, he wasn't yet risen from the dead, i.e. Jesus wasn't immortal. We can be sure of that because had he been...

. God's free will trumps everybody else's free will. • Ps 16:11 . . Be still and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth. • Isa 45:22 . . I am God, and there is none else. _

. Not much is revealed about the Ark's structural design and construction; especially it's window, which was likely not intended for traffic; rather for light and ventilation. Noah couldn't see the ground from the window, and it's dimensions were such that he couldn't climb out. I know that...

. Noah's ark had only one door; which also served as a boarding ramp for the crew and critters. Large animals like Hippos, Rhinos, and Elephants are very heavy so the boarding ramp had to be built very stout to support their weight. The door wasn't built to be opened and/or closed from the...

. The Roman Catholic Church sometimes portrays itself as a Noah's ark. But if the RCC were truly a model of the Ark; then not one single Catholic soul would ever be in the slightest danger of the wrath of God because nobody aboard the Ark perished in the Flood; all survived. Jesus said as...

. • Matt 28:20 . . And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. I would've expected Jesus to say "I will be with you" but "I am with you" is better because it assured Jesus' men that his departure forty days later would not cause an interruption in their association, viz: Jesus'...

. • 1Cor 7:12-13 . . If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. It's very common for marriages to start off...

. • Matt 3:9 . . Do not presume to say to yourselves "We have Abraham as our father." For I tell you: God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. People made from stones would be even more miraculous than Jesus, viz: they would have no biological parents at all-- neither father nor...

. According to the language and grammar of Rom 5:12-21, original sin isn't transmitted by one's parents; it was transmitted to everyone long, long ago as a one-time event by one solo man working alone, and no others; not even his wife even though she had a role in the caper. _