michael17

@Reg You are correct. We do not have souls  as it’s been defined in art, literature and mainstream Christianity. The Greek word that has been rendered soul is nepresh has no spiritual connotation let alone separate from the body. It simply means having the breath of life from God that returns to God. Even plants and animals have the breath of li…[Read more]

@Dave, We hear what you are saying     in art, literature and mainstream Christian beliefs but it does not jive with the original manuscript. Let’s do a thought experiment, what does this verse mean to you:

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hel…[Read more]

Well gentlemen you have a conundrum. There are artificial structures on the moon, including buildings, glass domes and towers. Concrete evidence that your paradigm may be wrong. I can’t even make heads or tails out of it. Was there an advance race on earth billions of years in the past collaborating. the anomalous archaeological artifacts that h…[Read more]

@Reg

• As Christ says, souls are destroyed in Hell so I don’t consider it and eternity. But to your question. The possibility of the new birth and seeing creation and heavens through the Fathers eyes makes me feel elation. Living for eternity makes me feel likewise

@Reg

To receive the new birth is a blessing, but I have not received it. So far, I’ll have to stand on Judgement Day, like everyone else. “The books were open and the dead were judged”

Only how my life broadcasts my belief can be evidence for mercy since all men have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Parochial authorities (Rome) have…[Read more]

Presurrection to Judgement.
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might

2 Thessalonians 1:9

This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be…

[Read more]

• @Reg

Twinkling of an eye means being dead you did not sense the immense passage of time.It is like suspended animation 0r cryogenic travel to a distant star. Yes we are all gods but only the father of gods shoul be worshipped. Yet we are all his creations. But Christ was born of God and we can receive the new birth.  As a member of his body…[Read more]

@Davis

Well the pagan interpretation of hell is as such. Scripture speaks of the second death after the resurrection to Judgement.

Reg. God uses poets and minstrels to allude to the truth, thanks for sharing. Oblivion from the  dead’s perspective is a blinking of an eye in duration since they have loss the faculty to register time. They arrive instantly to judgement day where “God stands in the congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods.”-Psalms. We will see God by…[Read more]

Reg. He calls us all gods including angels. The Trinity is questionable doctrine assumed from the baptismal proclaimation.

We a simply talking about the three ways God manifests himself to man.

@Reg

“You say: The foreboding implication does not get lost on eschatologist.

I hear: The conspiracy theorists will be in a frenzy with this fresh shot of confirmation bias.”

Well I bet they trembled in their seats when Hitler came to power. But the scary part is that it can happen again.

Trump is being celebrated in Israel as King Cyrus or Artaxerxes though he may be more synonymous  with King Herod under the Roman Empire, the Empire that the Third Reich is modeled under. The foreboding implication does not get lost on eschatologist .

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Michael…….you might like this book I just found.

it looks interesting

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

OK Michael. When I asked earlier for a definition of your God the first line of your reply was that he can raise the dead. Now you are saying you have no evidence for this. So I take it that you don’t know that your God can do this. You are just assuming so. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

-As I…

[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

How many times do we have to ask you to furnish us with examples of your God raising the dead? Give us locations, names, dates and times.

Reread the post , there was a typo. “The bus has not arrived yet” : That is precisely what I’m looking for.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

-Why this god? Because only the one true god can raise the dead… Again Michael – how do you know this as you also just stated that –Yes on faith I accept the testimony of the men of God? You cannot claim as factual that your God is the only true god if you accept it all on faith. -I believe the eyewitness testi…

[Read more]

@michael, If you told a Martian (that understood English!!) “God is he that can raise the dead”, do you think he would believe you or know what you even mean. “Yes, he who cures the blind also created the universe and will make you immortal right now”. “Please Earthling, get off my planet and wipe the red sand from…[Read more]