The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side
Dylan: With God On Our Side
Not necessarily the right question.
Here is the tax revenue picture. As will be seen, revenues are up a touch as has been happening for several years now.
Here is the historical debt picture. It starts at 1929 so scroll way down. The first column after the year is the deficit - the difference...
First Gulf War. Unlike most wars, it had very specific and limited material objectives. The military side was expertly planned and executed, satisfying the stated objectives, and the war was over a lot faster than most wars.
There were already limits to allowable Federal deductions in the higher income brackets. Anyone with $50K/year in mortgage payments and the same sum in property taxes probably did not get to use much of that as deductions to begin with. That is, the tax changes concerning deductions meant little...
As I said earlier, parables employ concepts familiar to the audience. Luke 16 portrays reward and punishment immediately after death. If that were not familiar to the audience – both disciples and Pharisees – the story would fall flat and no one would be able to make heads or tails out of it...
9 And he answered me, and said to me: “These three places where made, in order that they might separate the spirits of the dead. And thus the souls of the righteous have been separated; this is the spring of water, and on it the light.
(Revelation 14:13), (John 4:14), (John 7:38), (Revelation...
Job did not contradict himself. He would have wanted a resurrection but he knew it was not going to happen. God destroys that hope and prevails against man forever. This is the belief system found in those parts of the NT written prior to the 3rd century. After that we see a belief in life after...
In the quote from 1 Enoch above you will see that the sinners have three possible fates. At the time of the judgment they may be released from their torment, or they may continue in it forever or they may be annihilated. Rabbinic discussions in the Talmud discuss these possibilities and...
There is nothing in Ecclesiastes that hints that there is anything for man other than what there is under the sun. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
On the contrary I did highlight the important points. But let us revisit Job 14.
Job 14
7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down...
Ecclesiastes 9 seems to suggest that death is permanent, forever with no more reward.
Ecclesiastes 9
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already...
The Greek in Luke 23:46 translates directly as “Father, into the hands of you I shall be placing the spirit of me. and saying this he expires”. It simply sounds that Jesus realizes he is dying right now, that is, the body is giving up the spirit. Complicated issues like permanent death, soul...