@942767,

Technically all human are not born of the union of a male and female gamete. One of a set of identical twins is born of binary fission (mitosis) and not of the fusion of the male and female gametes.

Scripture ignores that technicality.

@942767,

We are saved by faith. When we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that God raised him from the dead, and that we can be reconciled to God through him because he is the propitiation for our sins, then we repent and are baptized

That is a misused passage as demons believe in their heart that Jesus was raised from the dead.…[Read more]

@942767,

We are saved by faith. When we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that God raised him from the dead, and that we can be reconciled to God through him because he is the propitiation for our sins, then we repent and are baptized

That is a misused passage as demons believe in their heart that Jesus was raised from the dead.…[Read more]

Jesus Christ has been the Word since the Word became flesh.

Nick,

Scripture does not say angels do not have spirits and yet you do. I assume you do so in order to support your own doctrine.

Spirit calls angels ministering spirits thus revealing that they do indeed have spirits. If you choose not to believe Scripture then that is on you.

Nick,

What happened to the Sons of Sceva?

Kathy,

I have always taken the phrase of Rachel crying as figurative but perhaps it is literal. If so then the dead may cry about lives cut short.

Kathy,

There is sorrow in heaven. The angels are saddened by those that take a wrong path as are both Jesus Christ and God. After all there is great rejoicing when a sinner repents.

Kathy,

The dead are only a shadow of themselves as they do not have the body and there their full function. It is only when they are resurrected that they will regain full access to those things.

I know that the wicked are tormented and the righteous feel pleasure but beyond that I know little. I doubt they have anything to feel sorrow about…[Read more]

Nick,

Can an unbeliever do anything in Jesus’ name?

@942767,

Also, John is the greatest of men born of woman from the sperm of man, Jesus was indeed born of a woman, but not of the sperm of man, but conceived of the Spirit of the Living God.

He is speaking in terms of flesh is born of flesh and spirit is born of Spirit. The Spirit supersedes the flesh.

Nick,

Do not realize you accuse me of being ignorant? You do not seem to realize what you are saying. If a man declares water is wed then he also means it is not dry. You are attempting to create a middle state between humility and pride which does not exist. If Cain had any opinion of his own importance then he was a proud spirit but if he…[Read more]

Nick,

God created animals out of earth as well. I have heard some claim he created his messengers out of air and his servants out of fire.

Nick,

Where did I claim that Cain had a humble spirit?

You made the claim he had a proud spirit and when asked to show evidence could not do so and tried a diversion.

They are opposites so denial of one is the same thing as claiming the opposite. So your lack of belief that Cain has a proud spirit means you believe he has a humble one.…[Read more]

Kathy,

The souls of the dead go to the land of the dead where there is a place of a wicked and a place for the righteous. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus takes place within the netherworld.

Some teach it is in the third heaven but I do not know if that teaching is based on the word of God or is derived from the imaginations of…[Read more]

Nick,

Of course though angels have appeared in fleshlike form and eaten with men few would claim that was their normal form.

There are spiritual creatures that do not bear the likeness of men but as far as I know messenger angels do bear the likeness of men in most if not all cases. There are some case where Scripture is unclear because…[Read more]

Nick,

Hebrews 1:14Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

This is not evidence that angels are spirits as it can be interpreted more than one way in English.

In another place it is written:

Proverbs 11:13 International Standard…

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Nick,

What I hear is that you do not want to give up your traditions or cherished ideas no matter what Scripture says.

Among Gill’s first word in his commentaries about Psalms 104:4 are:

The angels are spirits, or spiritual substances, yet created ones; and so differ from God, who is a spirit, and from the Holy Spirit of God, who are Creators…

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Nick,

What I hear is that you do not want to give up your traditions or cherished ideas no matter what Scripture says.

Among Gill’s first word in his commentaries about Psalms 104:4 are:

The angels are spirits, or spiritual substances, yet created ones; and so differ from God, who is a spirit, and from the Holy Spirit of God, who are Creators…

[Read more]