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. Greetings; and welcome to Noah's Hydrology 101. †. Gen 7:11a . . In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month (Chabad.org) The Flood isn't dated according to a calendar; but rather, relative to Noah's life. In other words: let's say that...

. 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...

. Many years ago— when I was a young single guy in my 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 anybody...

How often? I ask because there's a difference between drunk and drunkenness; for example: †. 1Sam 1:12-14 . . It happened, as she continued praying before Yhvh, that Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought...

. Although Enoch is the first man in the Old Testament said to walk with God; the real Noah is the first man to be labeled righteous. (Gen 6:9, Gen 7:1) The real Noah is one of the top three righteous men in the Old Testament; surpassing even Moses. (Ezk 14:12-20) The real Noah not only...

. Of all the comments I've ever composed about hell over the years, this one is perhaps the most disturbing; so if there are underage children present, you might want to shoo them out of the room before continuing. Lorena Bobbitt made news in 1993 by amputating her husband's manhood with a...

. †. Isa 14:12-17 . . For you said to yourself; I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God's stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High. . . . But instead, you will be brought down to the place...

. I was once challenged by an Atheist that if I believed so strongly in the existence of a hell; then what was I doing for people down there. Well; I had to tell the Atheist that although it isn't God's wishes that people suffer in hell, it is His wishes that people in hell suffer. So that even...

. Ernest T. Bass said: Those things they were doing they were doing without Chris't's authority. They may have been prophesying, but prophesying false things, not authorized, sanctioned by Christ. I see from time to time some of these "TV evangelists" who claim that what they are saying and...

. Q: According to Luke 23:39-43, Jesus went to paradise on the very day of his death. If that's true, then why did he tell Mary Magdalene at John 20:17 that he had not yet ascended to the Father? A: For two really good reasons. (1) According to Matt 12:39-40 and Acts 2:24-32, the paradise that...

. Jesus said "he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" will enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus called the works these people did "iniquity" in verse 23. Well; that's just it. I'm having trouble seeing evil in what those people do. How is it iniquity to prophesy in Jesus' name...

. †. Matt 7:22-23 . . Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Master, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them: I never knew you. Depart from me, you that work iniquity. The Lord's...

Q: Ever consider the fact that the Bible nowhere mentions that people go to heaven or hell at the moment of death? A: I am unaware of the "fact" to which that inquiry refers, which in reality, is not a fact at all, but rather, simply a deficiency in someone's own personal knowledge of the...

. Objection: The idea of a hell didn't originate in either the Jewish or Christian religion. So in that objector's judicious estimation: since the Bible wasn't the first to talk about a hell; then the Bible's hell is eo ipso a false revelation because somebody else thought of it first...

. Q: What sane father would condemn His own children, the work of His creation, to eternal punishment simply because they don't agree with him? A: While true that the God of Genesis manufactured everybody, that does not eo ipso make everybody His children; for example just because Eli Whitney...

. †. Heb 10:26-28 . . If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. If you know the Bible, then you're aware that God...

. As if hell isn't bad enough, people are in it as their selves; viz: they are never going to be free from their own personalities-- their phobias, their hang-ups, their inner conflicts, their memories, their rivalries, their prejudice, their bias,their resentments, their regrets, their...

. Q: Doesn't Acts 2:24-33 teach that Jesus went to hell at his death? A: It's a very common misconception that the Lord went to hell after his execution. No; according to Acts 2:24-32 he actually went to haides (a.k.a. hades) which is an ambiguous koiné Greek word for the netherworld-- an...

. †. Jer 31:31-32 . .The time is coming-- declares Yhvh --when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, The covenant Yhvh made with the...

. †. Ex 20:5 . . I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me. Q: how is that fair? holding children responsible for what their parents do? A: Ex 20:5-- along with Ex 34:7, Num 14:18...