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Thanks. What do you think will happen to those who are judged and then thrown into the lake of fire?

Thank you. That’s compatible with universalism but incompatible with the teaching of the Bible. Just acknowledging that I‘ve read your interpretation of the passages you selected. Do you also interpret passages from the holy books of other religions? If so, do you see them all as being...

Yes. I don’t believe the Bible teaches that people go to heaven. The kingdom of God will be established on the earth when Jesus returns. Those who belong to him will be either resurrected to immortal life when he returns or, for those who are still living when he returns, changed in an instant...

@Poncho Frijoles does Baha’i doctrine teach that everyone will be saved?

Her persistence wasn’t divorced from her theology, nor from his.

He would either have expected his fellow Jew to know the correct answer or become persuaded of it through his teaching. I think Jesus is more subtle than you believe him to be. The words which Jesus spoke are spirit and life. To believe in Jesus is to believe what he taught, what he...

Thanks. He probably didn’t expect the right answer, but he got it: Jesus is the lord, Son of David -> the Messiah. The theology test is obvious to me. He didn’t grant her request immediately. That the woman passed the test is also obvious from the final response of Jesus.

That’s right, but that‘s a metaphorical application of death. We might say that they are, to use a figure of speech, “dead men walking.” They have no future unless they repent. They will literally be cut off from God. Are they literally cut off from God now? I don’t think so. God still cares...

A theological question and a theological answer. It is connected with Jesus’ messianic claim. There are consequences for those who refuse to believe and acknowledge that Jesus is God’s anointed one.

You skipped over Jesus not being able to perform many miracles because of their unbelief. Their nelief in what? That’s a theological question. What happens when they don’t listen to Jesus? Agreed.

Once again, the ultimate separation from God is to no longer exist. A person reduced to smoke and ashes no longer has any connection whatsoever to God. Adam is dead and in the grave. He is sleeping in the dust of the earth, awaiting resurrection. The Messiah will decide whether or not he will...

How much more separated from God can a wicked person get than being consumed in the lake of fire? No longer in existence is the ultimate separation from God.

You asked a very good question. A third example: Jesus and the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21-28).

Let’s look at a second example: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.“ (Luke 18:19).

Matthew 13:58 comes to mind. Also the voice from the cloud commanding, “Listen to him!” (Luke 9:35). The only way to God is through the Messiah.

Yes. The one foremost in my mind is “Who do you say that I am?”

You make some very good points but I disagree that he did not test with theological questions.

“When talking with someone, it is helpful to know what type of conversation you are in. You can do so based on a conversation’s direction of communication (a one-way or two-way street) and its tone / purpose (competitive or cooperative.) If you are in a one-way conversation, you are talking at...