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3/27/07 9:33 PM |
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cbcpreacher -Jesus used the city dump to illustrate the fate of the wicked. In the dump, garbage is destroyed -- not tortured eternally. Flames reduce combustible waste to ashes. Maggots feed upon carcasses until they are consumed. No one quenches the flames. Maggots always are to be found, and in that sense alone never come to an end (KJV "die"). The portrayal is that of certain destruction without reprieve. |
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3/27/07 9:16 PM |
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Cindy,Everywhere in the Scripture, the fate of the wicked is portrayed as destruction -- utter annihilation. The notion of "Hell" as a place of torment comes from: (1) failure to understand that the parable of the rich man and Lazarus portrays the Talmudic Jewish view of the "afterlife", (2) failure to understand that Gehenna with its "undying" maggot and unquenchable flame is a garbage dump in which garbage is consumed completely, and (3) failure to understand that the book of Revelation is a Jewish forgery and that the author is NOT John the apostle. |
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3/27/07 6:51 PM |
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To pseudo-Moses:Your arguments are contradicted by the plain declaration of the Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 - 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Read again verses 45, 48, and 49; as was Adam, so are we. P.S. The God of the Scripture, being merciful, neither practices nor condones torture; it is blasphemy to assert that he does. |
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3/27/07 3:46 PM |
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You demonstrate utter contempt for the Scripture by gainsaying the plain declaration found in the Scripture:Genesis 2:7 - And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Man is chemical in nature ("the dust of the ground"); only through the transformation of the resurrection does he become spirit in nature: I Corinthians 15:44 - It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Read it again, from Genesis 2:7: Man does not HAVE a soul; upon impartation of the spirit of life, the lifeless chemical organism BECAME a living soul. |
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3/27/07 1:37 PM |
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Regarding the false notion of "soul sleep":Man does not HAVE a "soul"; rather, man IS a soul. A soul simply is a living creature. Until the resurrection, man is a chemical organism -- flesh -- which is animated by a God-given spirit of life (or "breath of life"). Upon death, the animating spirit returns to the Creator; it is used to animate the resurrection body. The spirit acts as a repository for the character, personality, and memories of man. But the spirit is not the essence of man -- it has no consciousness, nor can it think, hear, see, or feel. |
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3/21/07 7:28 PM |
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The New Covenant -- like the Old -- is exclusive to Israel. Jeremiah 31:31-33 - 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda ... 33 For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. Hebrews 8:8-10 - 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah ... 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. The fact that the "Gentiles" are partakers in the New Covenant demonstrates that the "Gentiles" in reality are Israelites. |
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3/20/07 3:45 PM |
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To the bloke who is impersonating "Paul the Apostle":You are taking out of context the passage which you cite: I Corinthians 10:32 - 11:1 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. Paul here gives instruction concerning both the Church and the Jews and Gentiles who are outside the Church. As previously noted, once an individual becomes a Christian, God views him neither as "Jew" nor as "Gentile". |
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3/20/07 2:48 PM |
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Rome, Spain, Greece -- all these regions to which Paul and the other apostles took the Gospel had been settled long before by the descendants of the so-called "lost tribes" of Israel, which, in accordance with prophecy, had become "as the sand of the seashore" for number.Hosea 1:8-11 - 8 And she weaned Unpitied; and she conceived again, and bore a son. 9 And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God. 11 And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezrael. The regathering is by means of evangelization; the reunification is in the body of Christ Jesus. |
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