Pierre,I am stating that God among other things is the actual emotion of love as he intends us to love, 1 John 4:16.   Since he is love he cannot not love or even be tempted not to love. To love others as yourself in the way God intends you to is right because if you always love then you do all that is right.

To all,Do ghosts, aka phantasms, have spiritual bodies?If so are their bodies like the bodies of other spiritual beings?

Pierre,Is all of creation born again through Jesus, Romans 8:18-21?

Pierre,I agree that marriage by definition is a commitment. I was instead speaking of the fruit of that commitment to Ed J. and Worshipping Jesus.

Pierre,God is the love that obeys the command to love your neighbor as yourself. If you obey that command then you have God but if you do not then you do not have God. If it is possible for an unbeliever to love as God commands then they have God when they do. I am not sure it is possible.The sum of the righteous requirements of the law is Love.

Pierre,I understand you to say that one is a new creation when they are born again in the Holy Spirit. What about creation as a whole?

Adam,Scripture is written so that it is only understood by those that share God’s point of view.  Even during the days of Jesus there were those that disagreed over what it stated.  For instance the Sadducees believed there was no resurrection of the dead while the Pharisees believed the dead would be resurrected.   Since the misi…[Read more]

Ed J. Worshipping Jesus;Thank you.  I still believe that is refering to the idea of the church being the body and Christ being the head.  I believe Paul makes the point that when one suffers we all suffer with him.

To all,My description of flesh was too limited as each partner in a marriage is to treat the other as themselves. If your spouse is ill then it as if you, yourself is ill. If your spouse rejoices then you too rejoice.Mike Boll,Is that the same as stating when you have sex with someone then you have sex with all their partners? If not then could…[Read more]

Worshipping Jesus.Could you please refresh my memory on where scripture calls the union between man and woman a mystery.

Pierre,Do you believe that those who put the old man to death are a new creation?

WorshippingJesus,When a man and woman marry two family lines become one and thus they become one flesh.

Ed J.I am not as I am convinced the sons of God are the sons of Seth and the sons of Man are the sons of Cain.  Like the Jews the act of marriage between the people of God and those who are not the people of God was forbidden.  The violation by mankind was a symptom of the evil deed of the people of that time.Interpreting it that way removes the n…[Read more]

T8,It may have been something on my end since it was alright when I looked at it later.

WorshipingJesus,Is not 1 Corinthians 10:5-9 speaking of those that choose not to drink from the teachings of the Spirit and so rebel against God? Does their rebellion not show that they are unbelievers, As in Jude 1:4-5, as they reject the word of God?

Pierre,Isn't Romans 6:1-14 teaching us about being born again?

To all,I have heard of three books of Enoch.  From the way it is described 1 Enoch appears to be a corrupted version since there are differences between Jude's quote and the parallel writing from 1 Enoch and Jesus claims Angels are not given in marriage nor do they marry in contradiction to the claims of 1 Enoch.On the other hand the writers of…[Read more]

Pierre,How does Jesus' teaching on being born again in John 3:1-21 relate to the new creation.

WorshipingJesus,It is my understanding that God used Moses as a proxy through the spirit to lead the children of Israel to the promised land.  Do you agree with that idea?  The people of that time were all right as long as they drank from his teachings.

Adam,I am still learning to understand the writers of the New Testament as they wrote to those who hear and see from a spiritual point of view and my viewpoint is yet tainted by worldliness. I hope and pray to God who gives good things to those that seek him that he will cleanse me of unrighteousness.I speak of what I have discovered is true as…[Read more]