I think the promise Jesus made to come again and receive His followers to Himself was not only for the disciples He spoke to at that time, but to all believers since then. That is why we have the Bible, God’s Word preserved through the centuries. According to the scriptures, when Jesus comes to...
Again... Baha'is have no credibility to take something in the gospel of John literally when they don't take anything about the resurrection literally.
If the resurrection is true however, it would destroy the claim that Jesus wouldn't be seen again, because he was... After he was dead for three...
John 16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
a little while, and ye shall see me
I believe Jesus meant that we would see His spirit return in another man who would be the return of Christ.
John 16:10 Of...
I see no period (after "no more") in that sentence:
John 16
16 Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”
He will resurrect them. Remember, he will come to judge the living and the dead?
John 6
52 The Jews then disputed...
Meet the Lord in the air? I consider the belief utterly absurd. That belief comes from the following verses:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort...
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That life is over. Sins replayed and forgiven, reward presented. The soul has left "that life" behind for good.
The Book of Life, aka world school enrollment records. [wink] Think of all God's children going from grade (human life) to grade (human life) until the reach the perfection...
WOW -- I've got some homework ahead of me! LOL I love it! Thank you for the research and thinking challenge. I will surely reply when I have my notes compiled. My scratch pad is already on my chair arm ready to go............
I'm interested in knowing your personal interpretation of the following scriptures. I'm addressing this post specifically to you because I'd like to know your thoughts on them. I decided to address you directly because I'm already aware of how a couple of others in this discussion interpret the...
Interesting that none of these references are from the gospels, and therefore attributable to the recognized head of the Christian church, Christ Jesus. This is one of the reasons I've never been able to accept the "heaven up there" concept.
And perhaps a scriptural interpretation that all Christians might agree on rather than being divided by the Greek Orthodox Bible (with a 79-book canon), the Catholic Bible (with a 73-book canon), and multiple translations of the Protestant Bible (with a 66-book canon). If they could all agree on...
1Thess 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we...
But that is not what it says, it is only what you believe it says, what you interpret it to mean.
1Thessalonians4:13-18
New International Version
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind...
Whether it is said by Jesus or not does not matter. You deny that Jesus said that He will come back (eg John 14:3 etc), so you don't really care if Jesus said it or not.
Apart from that it is good to see that you acknowledge that there is a passage that says "the same Jesus will return as He...
Yokefellow, i was going to reply to all of your original post on this thread, however, after reading through some of the posts above, its pointless.
Whether or not you are willing to accept my criticism or not, your entire theology in this thread is deeply deficient in the presumptions that it...
Hi @InChrist . Good points you posted. I will address...
I disagree of course. :)
The above verse is almost always misinterpreted with a bias towards making it sound like everyone 'has to die' and that it is 'only one time'.
Remember, there is a Second Death as well...
Revelation 21:8
"But...
I believe when there is a long period between incarnations the tendency before people knew about Heaven from Jesus was to sleep. When I die I will not sleep but I will be subject to God's judgment as to what is good for me.
Ok, thank you. I think it is not the same as reincarnation, if people are raised from the death.
And about Ecclesiastes 3:21, I think it is also good to notice that it says:
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
Ecc. 12:7
Hebrews 9:27 isn't the only scripture in the Bible with a claim of what will allegedly happen in the afterlife.
There is also Ecclesiastes 3:21, which asks, "Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?” Then there is Revelation 20:13...
Jesus mentioned the appearance of a ghost in Luke 24:37–39 because his disciples thought he was a ghost. 1 Samuel 28:7–20 mentions the ghost of Samuel communicating with King Saul and warning him that God would deliver both him and Israel into the hands of the Philistines because of his...
I looked at various translatioms of those verses and it's interesting. The idea that their bodies were ejected from the tombs and others reported it makes sense.