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... if you believe in God. I don't have the first clue about how to direct anything at something I don't believe in.
That was exactly my point.
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... if you believe in God. I don't have the first clue about how to direct anything at something I don't believe in.
I thought Christians believed they would be raised from the dead in the second coming of Christ, can't ever seem to get that straight.
At what's referred to as the second coming, or rather raised or awakened from the sleeping dead on resurrection morning, so to speak, during Jesus millennial-long day of Peace on Earth.
See Daniel 12:2,13.
Remember Jesus ransom covers: 'many' as Matt 20:28 also says.
So with the exception of Matthew 12:32 includes those of Hebrews 6:4 to 6.
Please also keep in mind not just Christians are resurrected. Romans 6:7 applies to all that have Not committed the unforgivable sin.
For those of us alive on earth at the time of Jesus 'glory' [Matt 25:31,32] the ones Jesus judges as righteous can remain alive or keep on living right into the start of Jesus 1000-year rule over earth. Those judged as wicked will be destroyed with No resurrection anywhere heaven or earth- just annihilation.
Psalm 92:7; Isaiah 11:4; Rev 19:11,15; 2 Thess 1:9.
At what's referred to as the second coming, or rather raised or awakened from the sleeping dead on resurrection morning, so to speak, during Jesus millennial-long day of Peace on Earth.
See Daniel 12:2,13.
Remember Jesus ransom covers: 'many' as Matt 20:28 also says.
So with the exception of Matthew 12:32 includes those of Hebrews 6:4 to 6.
Please also keep in mind not just Christians are resurrected. Romans 6:7 applies to all that have Not committed the unforgivable sin.
For those of us alive on earth at the time of Jesus 'glory' [Matt 25:31,32] the ones Jesus judges as righteous can remain alive or keep on living right into the start of Jesus 1000-year rule over earth. Those judged as wicked will be destroyed with No resurrection anywhere heaven or earth- just annihilation.
Psalm 92:7; Isaiah 11:4; Rev 19:11,15; 2 Thess 1:9; Jeremiah 25:31-33.
I hereby renounce the holy spirit, I deny it's existence and were I find that it did exist, I would do what I could to destroy it..
RE: Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as out guidelines.
According to Scripture the 'infancy' of our intelligence began with Adam. Adam let his religion not fade away, but 'adopted' people rule over God's Golden Rule.
Mankind in general can trace its religions infancy all the way back to ancient Babylon.
As the pagan peoples migrated away from Mesopotamia they took with them their infant pagan religious beliefs and ideas and spread them world wide into a greater religious Babylon or Babylon the Great. That is why we see woven into the fabric of the world's religions such similar threads of beliefs.
That is how 1st-century Christianity got corrupted. Pagan ideas and practices were adopted after the 1st century ended by the religious clergy classes. Basically what the churches teach are traditions or customs outside of Scripture and have now reached the point that the world's religions have run afoul playing false to Scripture.
The world's religions feel secure as some sort of religious 'queen' because she has furthered her own agenda, which is often political, she thinks the political 'kings' or political world will continue to have a spiritual affair with her.
There will be No fading away of religion, but rather an abrupt end to her because the political sees that religion is getting no longer useful to them but has created a dangerous religious climate brewing in the world today. With backing the United Nations can be strengthened to turn on troublesome religion.
In past Bible history God used a 'political or military ax' to get rid of what was spiritually unclean. Since the world's religions play false to God, again God will have the political or military ax surprisingly turn on the world's religious sector bringing it to an end.
Science has adopted its doom-and-gloom Doom's Day Clock with its hands close to striking the dark midnight hour for mankind, whereas what the Bible really teaches is that there will be divine intervention into mankind's affairs removing wickedness from earth and all men of goodwill can continue to live into a thousand years of Peace on Earth.
That peace includes that all families of the earth will be blessed, and all nations of the earth will be blessed as promise to Abraham.
Genesis 12:3; 22:17,18; Rev. 17:2; 18:7; 19:15; 21:4,5; Isaiah 11:4; Acts 20:29,30;Micah 4:3,4.
If a sin is unforgivable, then the supposed Christ died for nothing.
If a sin is unforgivable, then the supposed Christ died for nothing.
"Many" "Many'" "Many"
Repeatedly Scripture says Christ death covers "many" [Matt 20:28].
Jesus died for all, but since all do not want to be humble meek and rather practice wickedness [Psalm 92:7], there reaches a cut off point so that is why Scriptures say many and not all. It does not say nothing or no one.
2nd Peter 3:9 b says God does not want any to perish, but all to repent.
Aye, only the righteous themselves will possess the earth and they will indeed reside forever upon it.
Can you deny the holy spirit and still be righteous?
Jesus [Isaiah 11:3] will be the judge of who makes up those of Matthew 12:32; and Hebrews 6:4-6.
By the end of Jesus 1000-year rule over earth, all living at that time will be judged as righteous ones, so wouldn't that mean they do Not fall under Matthew 12:32; or Hebrews 6:4-6?
So its a matter of interpretation? Imagine why we have so many christ based sects of religion.
Is your position the bible is true only with a true interpretation then?
Jesus based his true interpretation by reasoning on Scripture.
The Bible has corresponding or parallel verses or passages
that show its internal harmony among its writers.
By comparing one can see what Jesus and Scripture is conveying.
We have so many Christ-based sects [denominations ] because as foretold at Acts 20:29,30 false wolf-like religious clergy in sheep's clothing would fleece the flocks for their own profit. That is why Jesus said that the Wheat and Weeds [genuine and false] would grow together until the harvest, or our time frame, before they are separated as in Jesus illustration at Matt 25:32.
Matthew chapter 7 Jesus told 'many' would come in his name but prove false.
So short answer: Yes. Most interpretations are false but there is one true one. And it happened 2010 years ago give or take. Given that Mitochondrial DNA and fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago Jesus waited a 198,000 years to show up.
Indicates and conclusive?
Jesus could have shown up anytime from Genesis 3:15 onward.
The conditions were right 2000 years ago for fulfillment of prophecy.
Jesus, of course, believed his interpretation was the true one tracing his teachings back to the beginning of Genesis.
From ancient Babylon it was the pagan people that migrated and populated the world with their similar pagan religious concepts, not Scripture, and spread them world wide into a greater religious Babylon or Babylon the great.
After first-century Christianity ended there was a blending of those pagan religious ideas mixing with what Jesus taught. That fusion of beliefs has ended up with modern day religious Babylonians. This includes so-called Christians that keep those pagan holiday traditions and pagan customs outside of Scripture as being Scripture. Those are really false interpretations of Scripture, when in actuality they are true interpretations of pagan religious roots.
That is why Jesus believed his way was the only true way to follow. The rest are all influenced by vestiges from pagan religious sources. So, in a way, Jesus teachings are a reversal of what transpired back in ancient Babylon.
Good Old Jesus said:He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.
Either church and school are right or the Bible is.
As you can discern I have concluded that what the Bible really teaches is true.