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I think a complete and utter end to sin and sinners, death and evil, pain and suffering, isn't something we all ought not just to be hoping for, but grateful for.

Indeed. I totally get a very squishy queazy feeling in the pit of my stomach when I consider the virulence and passion that Christians display in trying to defend their hypothesis that God has so little mercy, and takes steps to ensure that those in heaven can still enjoy themselves despite mum...

Oh dear. The worms are escaping.

Are you sure? That would strongly suggest OSAS. In the OT the blood of the sacrifices were taken into the sanctuary. The sacrifice and death of the victim was but the first step. To what purpose was the blood sprinkled before the veil? To wipe the debt clear... Or record it?

The above quotes speak for themselves. Christ paid the debt for every man on Calvary. Without exception. We have been forgiven. The requirement or criteria, at least one of them, or in the end benefiting from that precious grace, is that we forgive others. Yes, of anyone goes to destruction in...

Everyone recognizes that death is a separation. Let us assume that the outer darkness is in fact the lake of fire, that sinners do indeed suffer according to the evil they committed, (many of few stripes) and that getting out of that predicament, escaping the suffering, is the second death?

Without attempting to equate our mind precisely as God thinks, I would suggest that scripture does support the idea of having the mind of Christ... Recreated in the image of God, which is why we are horrified regarding abortion, tyranny, persecution, and other equally appalling atrocities such...

Bad enough to cost the Son of God His life, and to risk His own eternal existence to redeem us.

Who is Christ reigning over now? Does reigning with Him necessarily mean there are others involved, being subservient?

The Bible says God is love. If we use that as the foundation and criteria for every doctrine and belief we formulate as we read scripture, we cannot go wrong. If we understand that God exists for the sake of others... That He is utterly and completely unselfish in everything He does and...

Please explain information in above post #135

Very few realize that the word "Sabbath" and the concept of resting from work on the seventh day of the week (Saturday) is common to most of the ancient and modern languages of the world. This is evidence totally independent of the Scriptures that confirms the Biblical teaching that God's...

Because maybe you aren't listening? As QT said, marriage was instituted in Eden as a holy relationship between a man and a woman. The Sabbath was instituted the day after as a holy relationship between man and God. Both before the fall.

I believe that many are terrified of actually obeying a commandment for fear of being labeled as one who is attempting to earn their salvation by obedience to the law. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. How can any unsaved person, one not having the Spirit of God guiding, leading...

It could become bashing when we suggest that one particular mother has been responsible for the propagation of the doctrine of eternal torment, and all her children have inherited the habit.

I was thinking of it more in context with Ephesians 5:27 as pertaining to the final state of the church at the second coming. Yet there are different levels it seems to me of hagios. As it pertains to God personally, as it pertains to people, and as it pertains to things. For the church, her...

No-one has yet established that during the millennium there are living people on the planet. Such a belief compounds the confusion.

The more one considers this, the more vile the doctrine appears.

Yet we wouldn't suggest that the doctrines of the church of Satan don't affect the behaviors and moral mindsets of it's members. At what stage are we to believe that doctrines cease to have that effect?

A separation from what? God, certainly. Would not separation from God also mean separation from life seeing God is the sustainer of life?