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- The tragedy of the second death is that there are no more lifes after that because according to Dan 12:2, John 5:29, and Rev 20:5-6 there is but one resurrection allotted per person; which is very serious because according to Rom 6:23, the wages of sin is death. Let's say that somebody...

- 30) Rom 12:17a . . Never reciprocate evil with evil to anyone. I've participated on nearly thirty Christian internet forums beginning in 1997, and one of the things I've noticed is that too many people wearing the Christian label have forgotten all about turning the other cheek. Oh m' gosh...

- 26) Rom 12:15 . .When others are happy, be happy with them. If they are sad, share their sorrow. When you're blue about something, the last thing you need is for somebody to come along and tell you: Don't be that way; snap out of it! Well; it's not too hard to figure out where their loyalties...

- †. Rom 3:4 . .Though everyone else in the world is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say, "He will be proved right in what He says, and He will win His case in court." Quite a number of Atheists that I encounter online are convinced that the Bible's God doesn't know what He's talking...

- 20) Rom 12:11 . . Never be halfhearted in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically. Webster's defines 'halfhearted" as feeling or showing a lack of interest. The koinë Greek word for "work" is spoude (spoo-day') which refers to speed; viz: velocity. In other words; item #20 is talking...

- 17) Rom 12:9c . . Stand on the side of the good. Christian CEOs on the boards of multi-national corporations have my sympathy. Good luck complying with item #17. I recently watched a very interesting documentary on NetFlix that analyzed corporations; and they found that corporations, as a...

- 7) Rom 12:3 . . Be honest in your estimate of yourselves, measuring your value by how much faith God has given you. Christians of little faith have little value; while Christians of great faith have great value; but should be careful not to let their great value go to their heads; if you know...

- It was important to the plan of salvation that humanity be created susceptible to sin and death because Christ was already assigned the task of giving his life for the sins of the world before there even was a world (1Pet 1:20, Rev 13:8). In other words: humanity's susceptibility to sin and...

- If there's no objection; I'd like to begin a daily posting of the Lord's wishes that I found in the New Testament as per post #2. 1) Acts 15:19-20 . . Abstain from food tainted by idols, from promiscuity, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. The meat of a strangled animal is...

- †. 1Cor 14:37 . . If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of The Lord. †. 1Ths 4:1-2 . .We beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to...

- According to Siddhartha Gautama, there is no personal "soul" that continues to exist beyond the demise of one's organic body; viz: one's original self no longer exists after death. Q: So then in Buddhist rebirth; what is reborn if not the person? A: Buddhist rebirth is not a resurrection...

Does Jews For Jesus count? I've been a continuous recipient of their newsletter since 1994. Also; I'm going on 71 years old, and have been a conscientious Bible student since 1968; following the likes of J.Vernon McGee every day on the radio since 1972. How long have you been a conscientious...

Your reaction doesn't surprise me; but what does surprise me is the number of Jews that I encounter online who seem unaware that the covenant to which their ancestors agreed with God as per Deut 29:5-9 is a legal contract containing provisions with which both they and God are obligated to...

The people of Israel were under the heel of Roman domination when Jesus was here-- a situation that would not have been had Yhvh's people, as a people, been in compliance with the covenant that their ancestors agreed upon with God as per Deut 29:9-5. †. Deut 29:1-2 . . And it will be if you...

- A popular Jewish interpretation of Isa 53:11 is that 49:1-3 identifies the servant as the corporate people of Israel. Christians have to accept that there's a kernel of truth in the Jewish interpretation because Christ testified that salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22). However the Jews of...

- †. Acts 1:1-3 . .The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive, after His suffering, by many...

- I once heard President Obama reply to criticism with the words "right back atcha" viz: he didn't deny the truth of the criticism, but instead employed the age-old tactic of accusing his critic of the very same things; which, I guess in his mind; somehow mitigated his own culpability; but the...

Were people merely to start all over again from scratch; they'd be no better off than before because they'd still be flesh; which is unacceptable. "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit...

- Along about the same time back in 1968 when I was considering the difficulty of staying in heaven, it occurred to me that it would be a lot easier to please God if complying with His wishes came as naturally to me as it does to Him; in other words: if God and I were cut from the same cloth; so...

The book of Jonah may be a fictional story to you; but it is not a fictional story to me. The whole time? No, not the whole time. In point of fact, if his testimony is studied with care, its readily seen that Jonah had drowned before the fish found him. According to Matt 12:40, Jesus was in...