Hi Gene,

Your dogma that the dirt body just has life added limits your growth.

Your dogma makes no room even for your beloved intellect.

Hi Gene,

Having opposed the teaching of Jesus you now spread your wings and oppose all scripture?

Where does scripture say men and animals all received His Spirit?

LIFE giving INTELLECT? Nonsense.

Hi Gene,

You limit the power of God to your weak understanding.

So God blew into the dust of earth and man became a living soul.

So where did the mind and heart and understanding of men come from?

Did these things come from the dust of earth or from the breath of the Living God?

To take away life is to remove all history, all growth, all love…[Read more]

Hi Tc,

Yes.

But the human spirit does not emanate from the mind.

It is of the breath of God given to Adam that has been passed on through the generations.

It return to God at death as happened with Jesus on Calvary.

Hi Gene,

You say God put evil in a bottomless pit for 1000 years.

But the scriptures written by the Spirit through men say,

And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for 1000 years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it he over him, so that he could not deceive the…[Read more]

Hi Gene,

The Baha’i faith teaches that Satan is just a metaphor.

They do not respect Jesus Christ as the anointed teacher appointed by God.

Hi,

Heb 9.27

And inasmuch as it is appointed to man to die once and after this comes judgement.

Jas 2.26

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works in dead.

So death comes when the spirit returns to God at death.

The outer man perishes and returns to dust as before.

But judgement does not immediately…[Read more]

Hi T8,

Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God.

Jesus, the messiah, has come in the flesh.

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

What do you not understand?

Hi T8,

So you do understand that Christ means anointed.

But because you can’t grasp prophecy you assume he was born anointed.

When did this previous anointing occur – was it after his conception in Mary like with John the Baptist?

Is it written?

Hi Gene,

Satan is a metaphor?

Satan does not have a kingdom?

Why do you deny the teachings of Jesus Christ?

Are you stronger than the God Who inspired his teachings?

Start again.

Hi TC,

I note your quotes from Gary Zeolla.

His site seems to focus on him, his health history, and his achievements including writing many books.

Is he established in the Lord?

Knowledge can be a vanity.

Hi TC,

Do not complicate the simple meanings of scripture with Greek intellectualism.

Scripture is spiritual and not according to the understanding of men.

Hi LU,

Even his name glorifies the works of his Father.

Yeshua.

God saves.

Hi T8,

Your ongoing deep seated bitter antagonism and accusations against some here is the elephant in the room.

Can you never accept the views of others without such a reaction?

Hi TC,

God chooses to define man in two ways.

He was made in the image of God by the breath of God-inner man.

But remember man that thou art dust and unto dust and unto dust thou shalt return.-outer man.

Outer man has no future as flesh cannot enter the kingdom so is replaced by the new body.

The human spirit returns to God Who gave…[Read more]

Hi T8

Amen.

You need the Spirit to understand scripture.

Seek and you will find.

Hi TC,

Of course the BREATH of God is not the SPIRIT of God.

Men and animals were not born of the Spirit of God.

And you forgot to include Eccl 3.21 in your quote when you compared the fate of animals and men.

Hi TC,

I do not read long treatises written by theological experts so if you can tell us yourself from scripture it would be better.

We do not follow theologians and they will not be there to help us when we meet the Lord.

Be brave, seek and find truth for yourself I suggest.

Hi T8,

So you are saying you can only find the truth in yourself and we should ignore what others say?

That does make sense for you, as your traditional roots are exposed.

Hi Ed and t8,

You think the Spirit of Christ is the spirit of the man, Jesus?

Then what was his human spirit doing in the prophets?

1Peter 1.10

As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was…[Read more]