Dasvid,

I believe that the wicked are tormented for ages and ages and then at then end of that sentence they are destroyed. I do not hold that ages and ages is a synonym for eternal as some do. I instead embrace a variation of a Jewish teaching that explains the facts as they are written in Scripture.

The teachings of the church has been…[Read more]

DavidL,

…but this is also why I reject the anti-trinity teaching on this site – it is based on human reasoning; man’s interpretation of Scripture, and NOT what is revealed by the Spirit..

That is not scriptural. It is taught by ignorant and corrupt human beings that find Scripture hard to understand but instead of listening to the Spiri…[Read more]

bodhitharta,

I probably quoted because how I received it than for any other purpose. Now I think about it the evidence was most likely unnecessary as you already knew it.

My point is the way Colossians 3:10 uses image of God is in the sense of bearing his likeness of true holiness and righteousness. Ephesians 4:24 is a paraphrase of the same idea.

Nick,

Hi KW,

Parables are teaching food for those reborn of the Spirit.

They are impossible to understand for natural men.

Spiritual matters need spiritual discernment

Trinitarians claim the same about their teaching as they do not want it tested. So do others.

Nick,

hi davidl,

You think God was playing tricks?

He wanted “intelligent” men to read between the lines rather than take anything at face value?

God prefers the simplicity of children

Where are the wise?

You probably do not want to make the argument you did as God does speak and parables and that could be called “playing tri…[Read more]

Gene,

You claim the soul stops existing when a human dies but Scripture states that humans can only destroy the flesh. If your claim was true then humans also would destroy the soul. Your conclusion reveals that de not believe that humans only have the power to destroy the flesh.

Jesus said that humans only have the power to destroy the…[Read more]

Nick,

Inanimate does not mean dead.

A cloud and a fire are both inanimate things.

Nick,

2 Kings 6:17 does not explicitly say if Elisha ever had his eyes open to see the angels or just knew they were there because of his faith. It is likely his eyes were open to there existence and so he knew they were there before he asked God to reveal to his servant. This would parallel what happened with Baalam and his as.

This passage…[Read more]

Nick,

The only cases of things called messengers that do not look like men is inanimate objects like a “pillar of fire”, “pillar of cloud’, and perhaps others. Those can be non-living things God chose to use as his messengers and so not party of the unity.

There are also living creature but they are not called angels though they are part of…[Read more]

bodhitarta,

Ecclesiastes 7:29Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

This why I said that mankind was created in the image of God and then became corrupted by sin so they no longer bare it. The purpose of the new covenant is to return…[Read more]

Nick,

Hi davidl,

From Pentecost God has fulfilled this promise joining men to himself and His Father in the One Spirit.

John made no such declaration.

Thomas was taught by Jesus in Jn 14

“”If you had known Me you would have known the Father also;from now on you know Him and have seen Him”

So when Thomas said in Jn 20

” My Lord AND my God”…

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Nick,

Proverbs 20:27 is the one I was thinking of but there is at least one more.

To whomever it may concern,

Have you read where God tells Moses his name is Jehovah and that he was not known to Abraham or Isaac by that name? Since he spoke to Moses from the fiery bush it is clear was not then telling Moses that his name was Jehovah. As far as I can tell Abraham knew him by they name El, which is translated to the word God.…[Read more]

Ed,

Hi Nick,

It sounds like you are saying “Jesus” -AND- “The Christ” became one with God in God’s HolySpirit.

But isn’t Jesus “The Christ”? It sounds like you are trying to make God’s own spirit(=HolySpirit)
into “the Christ” also saying “The Christ” a different spirit from Jesus. Is this what you are saying?

If that is what Nick claims…[Read more]

Nick,

The Spirit that he surrendered to God at Calvary is the breath of life that God breath into the nostrils of mankind. Spirit is just a synonym of breath just like breath is a form of wind.

I short you are confusing two different spirits. One is the breath of life that bears witness to our works and the other is the spirit we live by…[Read more]

Nick,

Grace is a given as it is the only way anyone receives anything from God.

t8,

I have started the video at the point that is relevant to what we are discussing (which is near the end).

It’s really just saying what we/some are saying here. The Earth as the abode of men and the Final Judgement comes with a punishment that is based upon the sins committed followed by final destruction of the wicked, and the old h…

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t8,

So a perfect Adam and Eve were told to multiply and then in the new Earth, there is no procreation?

If God is redeeming creation back to the Father, then why the different plan all of a sudden. Does God redeem in a way that will go beyond the original plan? If so, for what reason. Did he not do it perfectly the first time?

I am not…

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Nick,

Hi KW,

You get confused not knowing what is literal and what is not?

I admit if those were the only two passages then I would be confused but since they are not I have more evidence to go on. I am told that the body that Jesus rose up from the dead in was flesh and bone and I am convinced that is true even though it appears he passed…[Read more]

Nick,

Hi KW,

So on the basis of a few examples you are emboldened to teach that men are like angels?

Is the quality of your research so shallow?

There is not much research to it as Scripture states that the angels look like humans and that is not the only case.

So it follows that since angels look like human then humans look like those…[Read more]