Daniel 12:10 is with respect to the "wicked" will have no understanding. As for the gospel of the "kingdom" (Mt 13:10-14) those without ears to hear, the wicked, will not "understand". As for "knowledge", without "understanding", it is kind of lame. People can memorize the bible and have great...
Christians take the word of God as inspired. the point of your statement is not event relevant...a childish i dont like that spat doesnt even apply here.
do you have a dictionary???
In Christianity, annihilationism is the belief that after the Last Judgment, all damned humans and fallen angels...
The importance is to put things in God's hands even if it's hard to do the freewill put things in God hands no matter what. Even we say now in our modern times putting our hands is that we are happy and thankful for what happens and faithful. Did people back in the old put thier ahnds in God...
I find at Ecclesiastes2:16; 9:5 that there is No lasting memory of either the wise or the un-wise.
So, what we need is to be remembered in God's Book of Life. Have our names written in His Book.
Because our names can be blotted out of God's Book of Remembrance, we need to do our obedient part...
Hobby: an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
So much to define!
I was going to say, sleeping, but that is necessary so it doesn't qualify as leisure time.
I used to say, walking, hiking, but I am old and it hurts so it doesn't qualify because it hurts and myself...
you need this to be that way, it seems. Otherwise your "contradictions" desintegate quickly.
according to you.
This was what I was going to ask you:
If the tree was really about moral awareness, what's so immoral about going around naked? I mean for an atheist?
Christians have the Bible telling...
I disagree with you that Eve secured the knowledge of morality for humankind and that God withheld it. For bad motives even.
See below:
according to you.
However, you have nothing to back your hypothesis up that it could not potentially be good and evil in a sense of adversity.
This is what the...
ok.
But that was not the question.
Evil in what sense?
What kind of knowledge you could get from the tree?
The knowledge conerning "right and wrong" (evil in the sense of wrong) or concerning "good and bad" /evil in the sense of bad).
That was the point we are debating here, Blü.
Citing from...
Ecclesiastes2:1
New International Version
Pleasures Are Meaningless
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.
Is there any reason to think that we aren't actually robots following programming and whatever we do is what our programming and various influences led us to do based on our programming?
That we desire not to suffer, does that really indicate that we weren't "meant" to? Some people desire to...
We humans seem to be obsessed with the idea of living in paradise....or as close to it as our income will allow. Even for a short vacation, we will pay a lot of money for a taste of it. Just coincidence? Why are we collectively drawn to paradise?
Why do we hate getting sick or old? Why do we...
Since you have directed this to Christians (mostly,) my study of the Bible reveals only two entities in existence who desire humans to worship them. One is the true God and the other is a pretender....a clever con artist.
The pretender does not care who you worship as long as its not the true...
Good, I want to look at this word "tree" a bit, ok, and show that it too in the natural, and in scripture shows the "cross":
The “tree”, as a whole itself, is made up of “sticks” [Hebrew: H6086, same as the word “tree” in Deuteronomy 21:22,23], see Numbers 15:32,33:
Numbers 15:32 - And while...
Yet that type of education is required for doctors, lawyers, creating computer technology, creating cars and archeaologists, which JW's use to their advantage. So yeah, higher education does mean quite a bit to God, especially now that video production and the JW.org Website, originally created...
Choice. Everything is about choice. You choose to live or not, and everything branches out from there. Does life have meaning? Yes, if you choose to live; but no if you choose not to. If you choose to live, then from there life has value. Even if your sense of living is just to help...
Perhaps this is the verse you are alluding to:
‘A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.’ (Eccles 7:1).
John Wesley writes:
‘Of death – Seeing this life is so full of vanity, and vexation, and misery, it is more desirable for a man to go...
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...
Indeed, Solomon could not see how God's purpose would change what till then, had always been. He could not see how it was no more beneficial to be human than an animal if death was the end of it all. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)
He worked hard and had so much to show for his life and wealth, but it...
If God will not save sinners while they do not want saved (thus preserving their freewill), He has no alternative to punishing them for their sins, if He is truly just, while they reject being pardoned. The only alternative to being set free is staying imprisoned.
The gift is the freedom from...
The reward is for work. The word translated "reward" means "wages". It isn't talking about being rewarded with everlasting life in the new earth. The memory of them being forgotten is in the same sense that your great, great prandparents will not be remembered by you. (Ecclesiastes2:16)
Verse...