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- †. 1John 4:17 . . as He is, so also are we in this world. That verse appears to contradict the one below. †. 1John 3:2 . . Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him just...

- †. John 5:24 . . I assure you: those who listen to my message, and believe in God who sent me, have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. Q: What happens to born-again Christians who stop listening to the Lord's message...

According to Rev 20:11-15, their resurrected body will be burned to death by immersion in a flaming substance, after which their corpse will be preserved as perpetual food for a curious species of fire-proof worm. †. Isa 66:22-24 . . All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and...

- I often encounter rational people out and about who have come to the logical conclusion-- quite correctly --that God has set the bar so high; that He's made it humanly impossible to attain heaven; so what's the point of even trying. And there are others who have decided that as bad as hell...

- Back in 1968 I was a young 24 year-old welder just starting out in the metals trades. One of the first real welding jobs I landed was with a manufacturer located in one of the buildings that were at one time used for knocking together liberty ships in the old WW2 Kaiser shipyard on a...

- †. Jude 1:7 . . Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, gave themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh The koiné Greek word for "fornication" in Jude's statement is ekporneuo (ek porn-yoo'-o) which means: to be utterly unchaste. A lack...

- Objection: There is a lake of fire depicted at Rev 20:11-15. Sorry; but it's impossible to liquefy flame. Response: According to Rev 20:10, the lake consists of not only fire; but also a non-metallic substance called brimstone; which Webster's defines as sulfur. Sulfur melts at 232.36º F and...

- Lord, save me! Those three words are reputed to be the shortest prayer in the Bible. It's located at Mtt 14:30. You know; it's a good thing that the length of one's prayer is unimportant seeing as how Peter might have been ten feet under before he finished reciting even one Our Father and/or...

- †. Gen 2:7 . .Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. That almost appears to be through-the-nose artificial respiration; but even if it was, the attempt would have been futile. Pumping air into a...

- †. Gen 2:16-17 . . And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die. That passage has always been an embarrassment for...

- †. Eph 1:15-18 . . I do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened...

- †. Gen 2:8-9 . .The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, and placed there the man whom He had formed. And from the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, The tree of life doesn't give...

- The only hell fueled by sulfur is the fiery impoundment described by John at Rev 20:11-15. The chemistry of the material fueling the hell depicted at Luke 16:19-31 isn't stated. However, it appears that the rich man isn't afloat in an impoundment; but rather, warehoused in something more like...

- †. Ecc 1:2-4 . . Meaningless! Futile! complains the Teacher. Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. What does a man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The earth is dumber than a spatula; yet...

- There are no people buried in cemeteries; only people's remains. We call a corpse "remains" because it's no more sentient than a bikini-clad Barbie doll. Corpses look like human persons; and that's because at one time they were human persons; but that's over. Once the breath of life is gone...

- It's ironic that many of North America's Indian tribes, whom European missionaries sought to convert to Christianity, were already believing in the existence of a creator before the Europeans arrived. You know why? Well; that's very easy. North America's Natives were far more in tune with...

- Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, a.k.a. the Milwaukee Cannibal (May 21, 1960 November 28, 1994) murdered upwards of 18 males. I won't go into the grisly details of those incidents other than to say that he cannibalized, lobotomized, dismembered, beheaded, eviscerated, and performed unspeakable acts of...

- †. Rev 21:8 . . But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. The koiné Greek word for "brimstone" is theion (thi'-on) -- which...

- Human life is fragile; so much so that even something as thin as the air can snuff it out. †. Isa 40:6-7 . . All flesh is grass, and all its kindness is like the blossom of the field. The grass shall dry out, the blossom shall wilt, for a wind from the Lord has blown upon it; behold the...

- Were I to recommend a so-called fifth gospel, I would pick the one that the Bible labels "eternal". †. Rev 14:6-7 . . And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; and he...