Everyone has denied Christ, all are guilty. Part of the process is understanding your position.
This defines us well as humans, spiritually speaking.
Rev 3:17
You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor...
You can not insist on being evil nor can you insist on being good. You can only do what your made to do and set to do. Mankind always ignores the fact that we are not in control, but since he makes choices he thinks he has a will that is free. But the act of making choices does not mean a man is...
The scriptures that were quoted are clear, it is not a JW thinking thing, nor do I belong to that group. Your correct that sheol is not connected with "hell." This "hell" is not in scripture! Your being fooled by translations and the idea that was attached to that word "hell." Where now do you...
Once again your using the word "hell" and it is not used ever in the scriptures. "Hell" is a word and a doctrine was attached to it.
Fire used in scriptures is not the same as the idea that is attached to "hell" The scriptures do not teach that.
Look at this translation of the Young's...
Do you think it has a ultimate good purpose? Have you seen this scripture?
Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive
If you understand these scriptures you then realize it doesn't have to do with any sort of real wife as in many people may think. It would be like taking the verse where he says" Who is my mother and brothers" and saying Jesus also suffered from Alzheimer's.
46 While Jesus was still talking...
I don't believe in the God that is presented to me. But God can still be. I heard of a master teaching two young students how to draw a straight line, the master showed one student a line that was zig zag and told him it was straight. The other student was shown a straight line and told it was...
Didn't the gospel get spread to all the world of THAT time? It appears that this was (if taken literal) a specific time frame event of THAT time. If taken spiritually then these are actions done inside a person (washing away sins/baptism, healing of defects/serpents, taking in of unholy things/...
That is what I was wondering. Maybe this has nothing to do with being buried at all! It seems to be more about dealing with hardship while alive. It seems maybe some were to quick to think "heart of the earth" means dead and buried?? :run:
The event that they (modern day Christians) assume is this "rapture" already took place. It was an actual historic event, an actual war in 70 A.D, it is recorded and is history fact.
Luke 21:20
(20) And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof...