Was Revelation written about the distant future?
December 9, 2013 by Ian Paul
Both popular and academic readings of Revelation still suffer from a need to find some future supposed reference to various features of the text. This is despite considerable evidence that the text would have made good sense to its first-century readers, and that many w…[Read more]

For Sis Karmarie…..

Hi Adam.

I believe Revelations includes today. But it is a mystery, and too many people take it literally.

Hi Sis Karmarie, it’s off the topic. As a Skeptic I negate all those Christian views of Jesus’ Parousia, The Anti-Christ, the Mark of Beast. These Apocalyptic writers including Paul meant their so called predictions for their immediate…[Read more]

I ate meat for the first time last week at my son’s house (crockpot slowly cooking all day smelt so good!). First dish of meat I’d eaten in about three years. I ate it fine (didn’t think I could). If we have to go bush due to homelessness, due to mandatory vaccines then I might have to eat meat. Haven’t eaten it since but at least I know I can do…

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Hi gadam.

Is that relevant to John 1:1?

I am sorry I think most of the posts have already deviated from the topic. I was just replying to Mike on resurrection and afterlife. It’s good remind.

Mike and Proclaimer

You do not understand Hebrews 1:13
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, 
 

Person

hupostasis
hoop-os’-tas-is
from a compound of upo – hupo 5259 and isthmi – histemi 2476; a setting under (support), i.e. (figuratively) concretely, essence, or abstractly, assurance (objectively or subject…[Read more]

Hé To all

Daily meditation

23 Aug 2021

FOR US, CHRIST HAS ENDURED THE CROSS

Having found himself in the position of a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient unto death, death on the cross. (Philippians 2.7-9)

FOR THE JOY that awaited him, he suffered the torment of the cross, despised ignominy and sat forever at the right hand of the…[Read more]

Hi Miia, this is Adam and I got both doses of Vaccine.

What vaccine did you get gadam?

Good question.

It always amazed me that the virus came from Wuhan and there was a Virology Lab called Wuhan and you weren’t allowed to connect the dots because that was racist.

Such stupidity in the world these days.

Hi gadam.

Is that relevant to John 1:1?

Hi Miia,

Do you now believe Covid 19 came from a lab?

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God bless
Ed J

Seems I got my answer in the very next post you made to Gene.  Okay… so no everlasting life.  How then can God’s servant David rule forever?

Hi Mike, thanks again for your replies to my posts. In fact the Jews believe lot of things like eternal life, immortality of souls, resurrection…so on and so forth. But I am not interested in such news…[Read more]

Gene: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 

This is the only TRUE GOD that is important to consider along with the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the same as before Gene… an emphatic statement.  It’s just like this one from Paul…

1 Cor 8:5-6…  For though there be tho…[Read more]

Berean:  Mike

WHAT THE FATHER IS, IN THE BIGINNING
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON WAS ALSO

WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND THIS VERY SIMPLE THING?

I do understand it.  The Father is a spirit being.  The Son he created in the beginning is also a spirit being.  The sons God created after that first one are also spirit beings.

But you try to take it farther tha…[Read more]

Mike. Thete is a difference between being created and being begotten.

No eternal life will certainly be the case for some people.

Berean:  Yes but Satan does not have IN HIM THE ETERNAL POWER TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE, HE IS A DEPENDENT CREATURE ON GOD FOR HIS SURVIVAL.

Jesus doesn’t have that power independent of his God either.  Jesus is also a creature who is dependent on his God for survival.

Berean: IN THE BIGINNING, CHRIST HIM WAS GOD OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE OF GOD THE F…

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Adam: So where does these Christian concepts of the so called mythical eternal life or eternal salvation stand? These strange ideas of the NT writers no where visible in the Hebrew Bible.

Seems I got my answer in the very next post you made to Gene.  Okay… so no everlasting life.  How then can God’s servant David rule forever?

Adam:  The concept of (individual) resurrection was not developed in the Torah but it is visible in the Tanakh especially in the later books like Daniel.

Thanks for those four scriptures.  It’s interesting to note that the concept was not in the Torah.  But that leads me back to the question of God’s servant David, who will rule forever.  The con…[Read more]

On day 1, God created the earth with the sole intent that it would be inhabited by his crowning jewel of creation: mankind. On day 4, God created the sun as one of many lights that He placed in the firmament.

There are two options that you are not considering. Planets wander through the universe and then get caught up in gravitational fields.…[Read more]