Nick,Isn't the love of darkness the love of the things of the world?Consider these words from Scripture and tell me what you hear.Romans 9:10-15Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB)10 And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac11 (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the…[Read more]

Nick,God gives his grace in many ways one of those ways is in creating us. My original question is did God create the part of us that either loves the light or loves the dark?

Nick,It does not actually say anything about God's Spirit contending with man as that is the interpretation of certain translators. Instead is states the Spirit will no longer judge with man as he is also flesh. The “also” is in the Hebrew. So what is man but flesh?What does “judge” mean in the Scripture as it is spoken of in the book of judges…[Read more]

Nick,I did not say Paul did not immerse believers in water. I stated that was not the end which is clear since it was written of those that were immersed in water and spirit that the should be saved, Acts 2:47.God makes them mature just as he makes the body of a man mature but those who chose not to live by faith perish.Jesus came to save each…[Read more]

Nick,Are you relating this to Genesis 6:3?

Nick,That is what many translators seem to believe as when Rachel was dying it was stated her soul left her body, Genesis 35:16-18.

Nick,Those are true but how do they relate to our conversation?

Nick,Baptism in water and spirit is in the beginning of the process and not as the end. A person that goes through it is a neonatal as has yet to grow fully mature. Satan is determined to make sure they do not and if and when they do to cause them to fall just as he strove to make Jesus fall. Paul spoke against those who put too much emphasis…[Read more]

Nick,I would not say it that way but I would say the love of darkness prevents a person from making good a pledge of a clear conscious before God while the hunger and thirst of righteousness compels a person to make good on their pledge of a clear conscious before God.

Nick,The Spirit judges the soul as Samuel judged the children of Israel. The soul and the spirit of a man are both the inward man.

Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 14 2014,04:04)Hi KW. Life is in the blood.Souls can be under the altar in heavenNick,The souls of certain dead are prophetically under the altar but Scripture when literally translated from Hebrew states the soul is in the blood of the living.Genesis 9:4Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB)4 But flesh with the soul (or life) thereof,…[Read more]

Mike,Quote Human beings are natural beings, originally made FROM the elements of the earth. We were never “spiritual” beings like angels.God spoke to the angels and stated “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness …”

Nick,The physical body is merely physical it is without soul.The natural body is a physical body but it is more that merely physical as it has a soul in the blood, Genesis 9:4.The spiritual body is a physical body and it also has the soul in the blood but it has the Spirit in it judges(governs) the body, Genesis 6:3, so it is neither merely…[Read more]

Nick,There is perhaps truth in what you say but Jesus speaks of those that love darkness and states the will not come out into the light while he also speaks of those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and states they will be filled. We know God created them both.

Nick,I agree. The flesh is out of the earth. The inward man is not out of the earth. He is the breath of life that came from heaven.

Nick,There is truth to what you wrote but it does not answer my question. Jesus spoke of those love darkness in his speech to Nicodemus and from his words there and other places it seems clear there are those that love the light. My question is these types and the creation of man.

Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 14 2014,02:46)Hi KW, You say'flesh and blood being an idiom in our culture' There is nothing more real here to men than the physical nature of our earthly bodiesNick,What does the physical nature of our bodies have to do with the natural body or the Spiritual body. Both are physical in nature as the story of creation…[Read more]

T8,Some interesting graphic design choices. Some points to think on but some of that would have been stated commonly among the people of that time who were not as lacking in knowledge as we of this age like too assume.

Mike,Quote 1.  What was God's original intention for the earth?  Wasn't it to fill the earth with FLESH beings, humans included?You should know my answer to this one already.  I am convinced this is so.  God declared human beings were a very good creation so I do not see him changing his mind though I believe he would have liked things to go in…[Read more]

To whomever is concerned,2 Corinthians 4:16-18Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 while we look not at the things…[Read more]