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and you feel you are exempt?

Now here is something that you will never get your head around with the rational you employ AJ .....Jesus resurrects himself. John 10:17-18 ...The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I...

Jesus is God's word. Any printed matter whether it be the bible or other that does not line up with God's revelation of himself in Jesus does not qualify as God's word. This becomes obvious when we read Jesus saying things like 'you have heard said .....but I say unto you'. The 'but' trumps...

Hello Anne

Without factoring Hebrew idiom one inevitably violates the character of God. God is presented as doing unspeakably evil things. If the English expression 'get off your high horse' is used, it is neither talking about horses or their height......and so it is with idiomatic expressions used by...

Are the wicked going to be carcasses or are they being tormented? .....or are carcasses conscious of torment?

of a truth, the concept of eternal torture does not emanate from the heart of God......it is born in the heart of evil.

Jesus crafted the story of the Prodigal Son so that we get a view into the heart of the Father. Luke 15:11-32

Quiet contrary to the picture Jesus gave of the Father in his crafted story known as that of the Prodigal Son. Luke 15:11-32

We assume God creates a lake of fire because scripture is interpreted through the lens of human revenge......not the revelation of God in Jesus. Have you considered the lake of fire which embraces the whole world at the given time is man made? Revelation 20:7-10 speaks of an attempt to take...

God does not need the death of Jesus or anybody to forgive. God forgives because that is what love does. Jesus came to reveal God's nature/character and we couldn't bear it....we killed him......and God knew it was going to happen but he came anyway. He even told us ahead of time through the...

You are so sure of what you read yet do not understand how you read.

It's how one reads, not what one reads. How one hears/reads determines everything. It was not for no reason Jesus repeatedly stated 'if you have ears to hear then hear'

A misunderstanding of God's intentions....just as the Jews misunderstood God's intentions to the point of killing the very one promised to deliver them.

What Satan is achieving is a miserable picture of God. He paints God with his own attributes and uses scripture to that end. A hell which burns unendingly where people are tortured unendingly is one such projection. In general he has painted God as itching to get revenge who attempts to coerce...

isn't that the argument every heretic uses?

lets continue the blame game....it keeps our egos stroked!

burn them at the stake? :eek:

The Hebrews didn't know of a devil as we understand today. They knew of the Shatan which we today call Satan. The Shatan however was not seen as the evil one; he was seen as a prosecutor the same way we see a prosecutor in court. His role was to bring out the truth. The Shatan translated Satan...

The lens!...yes the lens. I have learned that unless the lens through which Jesus saw the scriptures.....unless we see those same scriptures through the same lens, one will inevitably end up on a deviation. But what does it mean to understand the scriptures through the lens Jesus did?