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God hasn’t contradicted himself. Substitutionary atonement was the OT model that pointed to the NT fulfillment. Mercy and justice is the balance. Your argument is the same one my Muslim friend tried to make in our conversations. You‘re reading and interpreting the Bible through an Islamic lens...

* Eve was deceived. Adam wasn’t. If this is “really” what they looked like when Eve took the fruit, what did they look like when Adam took the fruit?

No bodily resurrection of Christ. Where then is the body? What happened to it? The New Testament tells us what the unbelieving Jews said happened to it (Matthew 28:12-15). Jesus of Nazareth was dead. The unbelieving Jews (and the Romans) were convinced of that. So, too, were the believing Jews...

Poetry is a form of literary art. Dreams are mental imagery produced by brain activity when we sleep. Making literary art from dreams could produce some pretty wild poetry! I interpreted your literary art. (What you wrote reminded me of something.) I had a particular conversation in mind...

As presently constituted - that’s the key. Our bodies wear out. The kingdom will last forever. The solution is bodies that won’t wear out. The body that wears out (the corruptible) and is placed in the ground when we die is raised the body that does not wear out (the incorruptible) in the...

My apologetic was aimed squarely at the Baha’i religion but I anticipated that @Pancho Frijoles would very likely appeal to the JW rejection of the bodily resurrection of the human Messiah as part of his defense. I welcome your contribution to the thread. My apology is anti-Baha’i and anti-JW...

It sounds like a simple enough question. Right? “Return.” What does it mean? Is it literal or is it only symbolic? For the Christian: Following his bodily resurrection from the grave, Jesus of Nazareth himself ascended into heaven. Jesus of Nazareth himself will return from heaven to the...

“What we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we most highly value.” - D.A. Carson

* My lips are sealed. *

“Young people, you must pray, for your passions are strong, and your wisdom is little.” - Charles Spurgeon I don’t think the wise janitor would object to adding some additional advice for the graduate. (If he does, he wasn’t as wise as he thought himself to be.)

That’s a good tip. Unfortunately, most of the authors I like are deceased.

Her conversation with Humpty Dumpty, in particular.

I’ve had some bad experiences in the past with pm’s on other forums. I haven’t enabled the function on this forum. I want to be transparent and prefer to speak publicly for anyone to see. If there is a pressing reason to communicate using pm I can make an exception. (Sometimes people seek my...