This thread is called: “The Gospel–What to preach”I would like to ask the question: The Gospel (good news)–How to preach?

Scripture seeker,With regard to your cut and chop encyclopedias and dictionaries on the meaning of “stauros,” if you were to look at the complete quotations of those definitions, you would find that Greek dictionaries, lexicons and other study books declare the primary meaning of stauros to be an upright pale, pole or stake. The SECONDARY MEANING…[Read more]

Hey Seeking Truth,You said:Quote David,I agree 100% with you on not setting up the cross as something to be worshiped or even adored (it's what was accomplished on it that matters). However I do not have a problem with it as a symbol (an icon if you will). But is it a Christian symbol?The Encyclopædia Britannica: “From its simplicity of form, th…[Read more]

On your quotes about Staruos meaning Cross, I will quote this:The book The Non-Christian Cross, by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896), adds: “There is not a single sentence in any of the numerous writings forming the New Testament, which, in the original Greek, bears even indirect evidence to the effect that the stauros used in the case of Jesus was o…[Read more]

Quote David the New Catholic Encyclopedia is not infallibleAgreed.Quote the Pope . . .is a sinner!Agreed.Quote I was not raised a CatholicWell I was. And one thing I've learned from watching my parents, grandparents, and with speaking with hundreds of Catholics while preaching from door to door, is that in the end, it doesn't really matter to…[Read more]

Hi seekingtruth,Quote From a practical standpoint the easiest way to hang someone would be to nail them to a beam on the ground (hands only) now you have something ridged to lift up into a notched (permanent) upright beam, if slightly tapered you would need only drop it in. The raising could be assisted by ropes over the top of the upright beam or…[Read more]

Someone raised this point to me:“I understand the holiday thing (Easter, Christmas, Birthday…)but I address that with Romans 14: let those who celebrate those days unto the Lord do it as unto the Lord and those that don't for the Lord's sake, not do it. Am I missing something?”You may have missed this verse:ROMANS 14:21“It is well not to eat f…[Read more]

Quote why is it so hard to believe that humans can possess a spirit body?I don't disbelieve it at all. I do believe that spirit beings reside in the spirit realm, as that is their “proper dwelling place,” (Jude)I believe human bodies of flesh were made for the earth and the earth for humans.Again, I don't disbelieve that some will be transformed…[Read more]

Something else that bothers me, is that when people think of Jesus, when people picture him, they seem to picture him in two ways. During the Christmas season, as a helpless babe in a manger. The rest of the year as a man dying in agony on a cross.Jesus is neither of these things now. He is a mighty king. He has been given great authority and…[Read more]

Veneration of the cross?New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The representation of Christ’s redemptive death on Golgotha does not occur in the symbolic art of the first Christian centuries. The early Christians, influenced by the Old Testament prohibition of graven images, were reluctant to depict even the instrument of the Lord’s Passi…[Read more]

“Various objects, dating from periods long anterior to the Christian era, have been found, marked with crosses of different designs, in almost every part of the old world. India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples . . . The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times and among non-Christian peoples may p…[Read more]

Quote but the true Son of Yah( Psalms 68:4) was nailed on an upright stake.I actually agree with Eliyah on something.The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions is stau·ros´. In classical Greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a crosspiece. The Imper…[Read more]

Quote I think that what Cubes said was good. She suggested Cubes is a girl?

Quote I think that what Cubes said was good. She suggested Cubes is a girl?

Quote I think that what Cubes said was good. She suggested Cubes is a girl?

Quote David it is not in anyone's interest to design a God according to our human sensitivities. Are not we made in God's image? Is not God love? Any love we show is a mere reflection of His love. If a human parent who loves a child wouldn't put her child in a fire when he sinned, would we expect so from God, and to do so for all time?It is…[Read more]

Quote Since those with those bodies will be rulers over those without they will be material and visible.Since those with those bodies (spirit bodies???) will be rulers over those without (spirit bodies???) they (who is “they”) will be material and visible.Can you clarify, please.

Are you still struggling with your one parable and fighting the rest of the Bible?I am simply adding something else that they don't believe Nick. They don't believe that a God who “is love” tortures people for all time because of what they do or don't do while on earth for a few years. You did list things they don't believe and then said: “Who…[Read more]

Quote We live on earth and earth is our inheritance with God and the Lamb. Nick, quick question:Do you believe those who live on earth will have spirit bodies? And do you believe Adam and Eve had they not disobeyed, had they chosen to listen to God, would they eventually have been given spirit bodies?

Evidently, he was transferred through earth’s atmosphere and placed on a different part of the globe. Elijah was still on earth years later, for he wrote a letter to King Jehoram of Judah. (2 Chronicles 21:1, 12-15) That Elijah did not ascend to the spiritual abode of Jehovah God was later confirmed by Jesus Christ, who declared: “No man has asc…[Read more]