And guess what planet you dwell on. So the text is a trap, and believers thinking they are in some dreamscape instead of earth have been fooled.
The text means nothing. How believers interpret the text is irrelevant. Believers are on planet earth and accountable to laws and social contract...
According to Revelation 13, those "who dwell on the earth" are deceived and follow the "dragon"/devil. Those who are "deceived" include the "Christians", who follow the beast of Revelation 13:11, Constantine, the establisher of the Roman church. They constitute the "many" who follow false...
Jesus being the Son of God isn't a reference to the virgin birth.
What do you think it means that everything was created through Jesus? It still insinuates that Jesus is the Creator.
Jesus being the son of God is a reference to his Sonship in the Trinity. Jesus as the Son of God
Jesus...
Various Words Translated Slave And Their Meaning
The Hebrew word evedh can mean a person owned by a fellow man (Genesis 12:16 / Exodus 20:17), subjects of a king (2 Samuel 11:21 / 2 Chronicles 10:7), subjugated people who paid tribute (2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:6), and persons in royal service...
Sorry, but I can't buy into slavery, even if Jehovah and Jesus support it. And some of us are slack-jawed at seeing Christians defending it.
The thread is entitled, "Why will our lives be better if there was no Religion." Your religion teaches you to think this way. You don't see the...
Where is the slave-trade business supported in Scripture. Those nations involved in the slave-trade business did deal ruthlessly whereas Leviticus 25:46 does Not allow for ruthless dealings.
God freed the Israelite captives according to Joel 3:1
Those who captured the Israelites were doing...
1“For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, (1967?)
2I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom...
Babylon is Babylon. It has nothing to do with Rome, the EU, or America. You can make Hitler look like a saint the way most people interpret bible prophecy!
America is indeed the last representative of the Roman empire. It is pictured in the bible as modern Babylon to represent the northern empire that oppressed Judah in the past. It is also pictured as modern Egypt to represent the southern empire that oppressed Judah in the past.Eze17. This leads...