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Thanks for sharing. I believe scripture supports this too. I think the human spirit and soul are distinct. But after the new birth, the spirit aspires towards heavenly things and responds to the impulses of the Holy Spirit. While the s…
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Only God is eternal. Adam never was. He might have had "everlasting life" had he not sinned, but not eternal life without beginning or end. So even if Adam had not sinned, we would have only his imputed human righteousness. But in the wi…
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One major reason Jesus must be God on the cross is if he was human only, then we have finate human righteousness imputed to us. Finate is not eternal. But since Jesus was God acting in our behalf, we have the infinite righteousness of …
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I think the problem is in how we understand the nature of Christ's death on the cross. I think you believe if Jesus is God and God cannot die, then he could not die on the cross and we are lost. But this involves an unscriptural view of Christ's …
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Thanks for your replies. I spent some time looking for 1 person called Antichrist. Even though John said there were already many in his day. But Paul's "man of sin" who seemed to have the same definition as Daniel's "little horn" and John's "anti…
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Thanks for the reply. I'm wondering though if our spirit is distinct from our soul. Paul describes the battle of flesh and spirit as a daily routine. And we can isolate our spirit, that wants to do good, from our flesh, that wants to d…
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I cannot find direct mention of infant baptism in the NT. But I find lots of references to believer's baptism. And that by dipping in water.
I believe infant baptism came about along with the concept of the visible institutional church. M…
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I believe Romans 11 shows that the Jews who believed in Jesus remained as Israel. And those who rejected him were broken off. Then God began adding believing gentiles to Israel in the place of the unbelievers.
But since biblical Israel is…
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I think we can safely judge people by their actions. But I think we judge ourselves when we assume people have the same motives we would have if we were to do the same.
That is, since I'm not a bigot, I do not see this as a first choice o…
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How does one arrive at the correct understanding in a situation where the NT does not provide an interpretation. Or pose as a guideline for understanding the passage from a NT perspective?
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I had this same thing happen. The spam filter held the posts back and I kept re-posting. When Jan added my name to the spam approval list, all of the posts showed up at once. But it should not happen once a name is approved.
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I agree.
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I think the Big Bang explains much of the thread that runs through the bible. IF you acknowledge God's infinite intelligence and design running through it. Just as Einstein and Schopenhauer said something like "our every thought and act stems fro…
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Interesting...Thanks! I struggle with forced literalism. That is, reading scripture as you would a cookbook. Heeding Paul's words,"the letter kills but the Spirit gives life". But this doesn't mean forced spiritual interpretation is g…
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I see some of the NT interpretations as radically different from the original face value meaning of the OT passage. So this makes me unsure of trusting a face value interpretation in any passage not addressed in the New. But I can speculate that …
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Thanks CM. This is why I tempered my original post with God building death into the creation preemptively based on the certainty of Adam's sin. That is, God designed sharks and other carnivores around this principle. Even if they didn't kill befo…
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Thanks for the poem. It reminds me of the wise man and the fool at the close of the Sermon on the mount. They both heard the word but only one, the wise man acted on it.
Thanks for the reply. I'm still YEC but try to accommodate science into this model. I was considering how time changes throughout space. Toying with the idea that God created the universe in 6 literal days. But its expansion is dragging those ori…
(Quote)This is a difficult question. Because we can make almost anything we like out of God from nature and the scriptures. The bible is full of examples where people did that in their worship of idols. Even making a calf to represent the God…
(Quote)I believe the New Covenant takes from the Old and defines those passages for us. And regardless of the details of refinement arrived at, the New determines the meaning. Paul gives Timothy a word of advise saying: “Remind people of thes…
(Quote)I believe the NT deals with the essentials of the New Covenant understanding of the Old. Especially in the prophetic passages.
Robert Whitelaw writes:
"... we find that the few remaining O. T. prophetic passages not cit…
(Quote)I believe the NT interprets the OT in a way that does no allow for twisting when read at face value. A case in point that violates this would be "dual fulfillment". Where some acknowledge the face value reading, but say the original re…
I use the protestant 66 as my safe zone. But if something outside of that augments the core of my doctrinal beliefs I use it.
(Quote)Great stuff! Great musicianship! I translated the lyrics and joined in...
(Quote)The way I understand this is we are body, soul, and spirit. The soul or mind is part of the body and dies and goes to the grave. But the spirit lives on in either heaven or hell, depending on God's appointment. “and the dust returns to…
No matter how we struggle trying to figure out the original meaning of an OT passage, the NT interpretation of it solves the riddle.
What is so hard about that?
I always liked the growling bass on 9' concert grand pianos, no matter the music. Especially Rachmaninoff. And then I read this:
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“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;” (Colossians 2:13)
“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” (Ephesi…
(Quote)Scripture teaches spiritual death for all in Adam. But this is not cessation of being. It is a change in relationship to God. From being blessed by God's love to incurring his hatred. But people do not cease to exist, just as Adam did …
