A scripture that will probably come up later:1 JOHN 2:17“Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.”

Like all other created things, the earth was brought into existence because of Jehovah’s will (“pleasure,” KJ). (Re 4:11) It was created to remain forever. (Ps 78:69; 104:5; 119:90; Ec 1:4) God speaks of himself as a God of purpose and declares that his purposes are certain to come to fruition. (Isa 46:10; 55:11) He made his purpose for the earth…[Read more]

2 PETER 3:7“But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.””the HEAVENS and the earth that are now” are stored up for fire.If you are to take that this is literal, what effect would fire have on the heavens? Will God himself des…[Read more]

Theological grammar books acknowledge that where an expression of past time appears in the sentence, the present tense verb can sometimes be translated as if it has begun in past time and continues up to the present. (See References below) This is also true in French and it is true in Latin. Hence, if this verse were tanslated as: “I have been”…[Read more]

Sorry, Liljon, I forgot some translations have that “I Am” thing at John 8:58, as though that were a title, and that's what you were referring to.John 8:58:RS reads: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am .’” (NE, KJ, TEV, JB, NAB all read “I am,” some even using capital letters to convey the idea of a title. Th…[Read more]

Elijah, your responces are often very long and somewhat confusing for me. So I tend to skim them. I just came across a question you asked a few pages back.I'm from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.We call it Toon Town, which goes along nicely with our Loonies (1 dollar coin with a loon) and twoonies (2 dollar coin). We're CRAZZZZY.It's hard to…[Read more]

Elijah: “Jehovah is God.” (Ps 100:3)Expressions we find in the Bible:Jehovah God–50 timesthe God Jehovah–4 timesJehovah their God–39 timesJehovah the God–8 times.Jehovah is in truth God–1 timeJehovah is God–1 timeJehovah is my God–1 timeJehovah is our God–1 timeJehovah your God–455 timesJehovah our…[Read more]

John 1:3. I forgot.All things came into existence through him.JOHN 1:10“He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him.”1 CORINTHIANS 8:6“there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are,…[Read more]

Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.The “beginning” of creation, right? Jehovah, the God of the Bible, does not have a beginning, does he. He was around, eons before this “beginning” we're talking about. eons of eons. A google plex times inifinity. A really really long time. This “beginning” is therefore a really…[Read more]

Right, I'm also wondering what the people of this forum think of God's Kingdom we are told to pray for. This Kingdom will be the instrument by which much of that prayer will be answered.But, maybe my question wasn't really clear. I'm actually wondering what people think the future of the earth is.I'm wondering what people think of the fortold…[Read more]

Sorry, I didn't really finish that though, and I was expecting the topic to be: Let your will take place as in heaven, also upon earth.Important things to pray for:God's name being sanctifiedGod's kingdom comingGod's will taking place as in heaven, ALSO UPON EARTH.Then, we're told to pray for our daily needsPeople have been saying this prayer for…[Read more]

I just felt like adding this scripture for no reason:James remarked during a conference of the elders at Jerusalem: “Symeon has related thoroughly how God for the first time turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name. And with this the words of the Prophets agree.” (Acts 15:14, 15) T

“Jesus…existed with the Father always. John 1:1, 8:58″As for John 8:58, yes, of course Jesus existed before Abraham.Let's look at John 1:1″In the Beginning the Word was with God.” The beginning of what? God didn't have a beginning did he? He is the King of Eternity. So, the beginning of what? Look at the first verse of the Bible. “In the…[Read more]

I'm a little slow. I'm not really sure what Elijah is saying about god=gad=gawd. Based on what Nick said in responce, it seems to me that Elijah is saying we shouldn't call Jehovah God. Is this what you're saying Elijah?I again ask for you to sum up all these paragraphs into one concise easy to understand sentence.

It seems to me that the Israelites having fallen away did believe they were serving Jehovah while also being invovled in Baal worship. It's not an unusual thing. When the golden calf was made, they had a party and called it a “festival to Jehovah” if memory serves me. So it is today with most holidays, most traditions and most religious…[Read more]

I predict Elijah's last question will mysteriously disappear.Just kidding NickGood question though.

Sorry Elijah, I meant to write this in the Baal forum.David

Well Elijah, I'll be calling you Elijah, since I speak English, much like I use the names Jehovah and Jesus rather than Yahweh and Yeshua (or Yehoshua).QUESTION:I was wondering if you could summarize what you've just said in one or two sentences. If what you said is true, than it should be easily explainable with just a scripture or two. I…[Read more]

(Ba´al) .LET'S LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER AT WHAT THE WORD “BAAL” MEANS IN THE BIBLE.first, let's mention the things that don't apply and get them out of the way:1. The fourth-listed son of Jeiel, a Benjamite.—1Ch 8:29, 30; 9:35, 36.2. A Reubenite whose son Beerah was among those taken captive by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III.—1Ch 5:5, 6, 26.3…[Read more]

what does Eliyah mean?