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. ● Gal 5:26 . . Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Webster's defines "conceit" as: excessive self-appreciation of one's own worth or virtue. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with having strong core values and/or believing in yourself, but if you should...

. ● Luke 16:27-31 . . I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment. . . . Abraham replied: They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them. . . . No, father Abraham-- he...

. ● 2Cor 2:9-11 . . If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven-- if there was anything to forgive --I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. One of the opposition's tactics is...

. Something I've been curious about for some time now is why the rich man in Luke's narrative arrived in a place of flame and torment while the poor man was taken to a place of comfort. Well; one thing I strongly suspect is that at the time of the incident recorded in Luke 16:19-31, Christ was...

. ● 2Cor 2:5-10 . . The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him. Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. The cause for which Paul wrote that section...

. The things you ask are all good question; however, they have the potential to hijack the thread and take it off-topic. I'd much rather stay the original course-- What love is: how to recognize it and how to apply it. _

. What was there for everyone to eat when the FLood ended? Well, that was no problem. The olive leaf that a dove had in her beak at Gen 8:10-11 indicates that earth's flora was spared mass extinction by the Flood. The Hebrew word for "plucked-off" is from taraph (taw-rawf') which means...

. ● 1Cor 16:22 . . If anyone love not The Lord, let him be accursed. One's love of The Lord is evidenced by loyalty. ● John 14:15 . . If you love me, you will comply with what I command. ● John 14:21 . .Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. ● John 14:23-24 . ...

. The word for "plucked-off" is from taraph (taw-rawf') which means: recently torn off; viz: fresh. In other words: a taraph leaf is green; it's alive. Old-world olives prefer a Mediterranean climate, which is pretty good empirical evidence that the ark did not come to rest on the top of...

. The Hebrew word for "Ararat" is from 'Ararat (ar-aw-rat') which appears three more times in the Bible: one at 2Kgs 19:36-37, one at Isa 37:36-38, and one at Jer 51:27. Ararat is always the country of Armenia rather than a mountain by the same name. The Hebrew word for "mountains" in Gen 8:4...

. Quite a few of the quarrels that I encounter online are due to honest disagreements over which parts of the Bible are literal, which parts are metaphors, which parts are allusions, which parts are colloquialisms, which parts are reality, and/or which parts are fiction. _

. ● Luke 16:27-30 . . I beg you, Father, that you send Lazarus to my father's house-- for I have five brothers --that he may warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment. You know what can be even worse than going to hell? Your own children following you there: and they trusted you...

. ● 1Cor 16:20 . . Greet one another with a holy kiss. Kissing was a common form of greeting in the old world; and still is in the Middle East and certain parts of Europe; but here in America-- a super-sized racial/cultural/ethnic amalgam of customs from all over the globe --it's wise to...

. I've a pretty strong suspicion that Matt 5:29-30 and Mark 9:43-48 specifically targets Jews rather than just anybody who happens to be looking in because out ahead they will be rounded up from every corner of the globe and assembled in a sort of Ellis Island location to determine which...

. Abraham replied: "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things" (Luke 16:25) I should think that one of the negative aspects of hell is memory. How people down there retain their memories sans the brain cells they left behind with their corpse, I don't know; but they do...

. ● 1Cor 11:33-34 . . My brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for each other. If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment. The command doesn't frown upon things like church banquets, men's' breakfasts, ladies' luncheons...

. People have been filtering into perdition not only since the time of Christ, but since before the Step Pyramid of Djoser, and even before the Flood. I won't speculate how many years that might be, but h.sapiens is thought by some to have achieved full behavioral modernity something like 50,000...

. ● 1Cor 10:32-33 . . Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. The main idea here is courtesy with respect to cultural differences...

. Many years ago-- when I was a young single guy in his early twenties, living alone in a cheap rental --as I was listening to a radio preacher talk about hell, something in my mind took over; and I had the strangest sensation of falling off the earth into an abyss and nobody cared, nor did...

. One of the Church's earliest official proclamations regarding a purgatory was Pope Leo X's Bull of Exurge Domine. In the year 1520 he stated, along with some other things, that death is the termination not of nature but of sin, and this inability to sin makes [purgatorial souls] secure of...