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- Producing enough piety during one's lifetime in order to get to heaven would be difficult enough. But people who make it to heaven don't face a lifetime; no, they're facing eternity. Producing piety for that long has to be even harder. According to Rom 6:23, the wages of sin is death. Well...

- 420) Heb 13:22-23 . . I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly. The letter to Hebrews doesn't seem brief to me, but according to the author it's a concise version of his thoughts, i.e. to the point; free of elaboration and/or unnecessary...

- The apostle Paul said that things written in the past, were written for our instruction (Rom 15:4). Here's a case in point. ● Gen 28:20-21 . . Jacob then made a vow, saying: If God remains with me, if He protects me on this journey that I am making, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to...

- Human life consists of three components: body, soul, and spirit. (1Ths 5:23 and Heb 4:12) The body is easy to kill, but the soul; not so much. (Matt 10:28) But even after people's body and soul are terminated, there's still the spirit component to consider. According to Gen 2:7 and Jas...

- One of the Roman 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...

- Human life consists of three components: body, soul, and spirit. (1Ths 5:23 and Heb 4:12) The body is easy to kill, but the soul; not so much. (Matt 10:28) But even after people's body and soul are terminated, there's still the spirit component to consider. According to Gen 2:7 and Jas...

- If perchance people in heaven retained their human nature, I would have to answer with a yes to the OP's question. But seeing as how Col 2:11 and 2Pet 1:2-4 testify that people in heaven have shed their human nature in exchange for divine nature; then I think it's pretty safe to answer with a...

- ● Mark 14:35-36 . . He advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass by him. He said; “Abba, Father" The bulk of the New Testament is translated from manuscripts penned in koiné Greek. But the word "abba" isn't translated from Greek: in...

- Genesis 25:23b-26b ● Gen 25:26c . . Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. Isaac married Rebecca at forty (Gen 25:20). If Becky was 18 at her wedding, she would have been 38. Imagine waiting twenty years to have your first child? Quite a few modern marriages end long before then. ●...

- ● Luke 11:1-2 . . He was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: yada, yada, yada, etc." When I was a little boy, just about every night at bedtime...

- POSIT: The Hail Mary (a.k.a. Ave Maria) is a biblical prayer. God gave it to us. It's in the Bible in black and white. RESPONSE: Some co-workers of mine who soldiered in Viet Nam during the decade of the 70's, related to me how they were detailed to go out into the jungle and tally the number...

- POSIT: It's impossible to know for sure who's going to hell. RESPONSE: Though it's impossible to know for sure who's going to hell; it's not all that difficult to know who's on track for hell. ● John 3:14-18 . . Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be...

- 418) Heb 13:16 . . And do not neglect doing good and sharing; for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Doing good and sharing are bloodless sacrifices; and in point of fact are far more likely to be accepted by God than the death of birds and beasts. In the first chapter of the book of...

- Genesis 25:23b-26b ● Gen 25:23b . . One people shall be mightier than the other, and the older shall serve the younger. Esau will come out first; therefore, chronologically, he's the eldest son. However, the right of primogeniture was taken from him and given to Jacob. That was God's...

- ● Luke 2:8-11 . . And in the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields, and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of The Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of The Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. . . . And the angel...

- The wrath of God is interesting. For example: ● Isa 13:9 . . Behold, the day of Christ comes-- cruel; with both wrath and fierce anger The Hebrew word for "wrath" in that statement is 'ebrah (eb-raw') which indicates an outburst of passion. In other words: the wrath of God won't be weeping...

- 417) Heb 13:9 . . Do not be carried away by strange and varied teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace rather than foods, through which those who were thus occupied were not benefited. The words "carried away" weren't translated from Greek words. They're arbitrary...

- Misandry and feminism aren't joined at the hip; viz: not all feminists hate men. Feminism is typically objective and political while misandry is typically emotional and personal. /

- Genesis 25:23a ● Gen 25:23a . . and the Lord answered her: Two nations are in your womb, two separate peoples shall issue from your body; The Hebrew word for "nations" is from gowy (go'-ee); or the short version goy (go'-ee) which means: (in the sense of massing) a foreign nation; hence...