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Saturday, June 27, 2010, a 6-month-old baby girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when the pair were struck by a falling tree branch in New York City's Central Park Zoo. The girl's father was taking their picture near the sea lion exhibit when a branch above them suddenly snapped...
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Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall,
stealing through the dark of the night.
Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor
checking to the left and the right.
Picking up the pieces, putting them away;
something doesn't feel quite right.
Help me someone, let me out of here...
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Here in the USA, even the worst among the worst have the right to an attorney, and if they can't afford one, the system will appoint a public defender for them.
Well; according to 1Tim 2:5, Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and Man; which is a mediator to which all of Christ's...
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● Matt 13:42 . . there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I was baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church; and was eventually enrolled in catechism where I completed First Holy Communion and Confirmation. Although catechism did a good job of instilling within me the reality of...
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People have been filtering into perdition not only since the time of Christ, but since before the Step Pyramid of Djoser, and even before the Flood. I won't speculate how many years that might be, but h.sapiens is thought by some to have achieved full behavioral modernity something like 50,000...
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Personally I believe that for some people, hell would be the better choice than heaven because heaven is a place of peace.
There are some people in this world who are simply implacable. They're indignant over everything, For them rivalry, conflict, revenge, retaliation, quarrelling, and...
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Through me; the way to the eternal city.
Through me; the way to eternal sadness.
Through me; the way to lost people.
Justice moved my supreme maker:
I was shaped by divine power,
By highest wisdom, and by primal love.
Before me, nothing was created
That is not eternal: and eternally I...
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● 2Tim 3:16-17 . . All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Though all scripture is inspired; not all scripture is...
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The passage below is deliberately misquoted. Watch for it.
● Ps 146:3-4 . . Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day he ceases to exist.
The actual passage says "his thoughts perish"...
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Christian Bible students are often baffled as to why Solomon's remarks in the book of Ecclesiastes sometimes contradict Jesus' teachings in the New Testament. Well; the answer to that is actually pretty simple.
Solomon wasn't inspired to record his observations from the perspective of an...
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Watch for the deliberate misquote in the passage below.
● 1Cor 15:42-44 . . So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is...
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Two Hebrew words in the Old Testament commonly translated "grave" are she'owl (sheh-ole') and sheol (sheh-ole').
Their equivalent in the New Testament is haides (hah'-dace) a.k.a. hades.
Sheol includes the grave but that's only half the picture.
According to the prophet Jonah, a portion of...
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According to Jesus Christ's testimony as a credible expert witness in all matters pertaining to the afterlife; most of the world's responsible souls haven't been making it to safety when they cross over to the other side.
● Luke 13:22-24 . . And he went through the cities and villages...
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● 1 Thess 5:8 . . Since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
The hope of salvation speaks of a specific element of the overall plan.
● Acts 23:6-7 . .Then Paul, knowing that some of them were...
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Yes; in very example of a resurrection in the Bible, it's people's remains that are restored to life; no exceptions.
Human remains are likened to seeds (1Cor 15:35-53) which would be quite useless were they to be thrown away.
Q: What about the remains of people whose bodies are no longer...
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● 1Pet 3:18 . . For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.
The translation of 1Pet 3:18 below contains a deliberate error to bring out a point. Watch for it...
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The church is depicted as Jesus' body. (Eph 1:22-23, Eph 5:30)
The question then becomes: Which of his bodies? The body that was crucified? Or the body that he has now?
Well; given the option, my personal selection would be his crucified body because that would get me out of hot water with...
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● Jonah 1:17 . . And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
Q: Was Jonah alive in the fish?
A: Yes. (Jonah 2:1)
Q: The whole time?
A: No.
At some point in his nautical adventure Jonah went to a place called...
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It's sometimes objected that a truly loving, sensitive, kind-hearted god would never leave innocent children behind to go thru the calamitous events depicted in the book of Revelation.
It's a reasonable objection; however faith is supposed to believe what's revealed to it rather than what...
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It's basically an evacuation; viz: God wants Christ's church out of here, and off of here, before the dreadful events depicted in the book of Revelation begin to take place.
●1Thess 1:10 . .Wait for His son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead-- Jesus, who rescues us from the coming...