Wildswanderer You are wrong... You have been taught lies; it was the Protestors in the 17th century that taught there is NO sanctification after death!
Christians have ALWAYS believed in sanctification after death! On tomb stones in the catacombs of the first century Christians is written "Pray...
First purgatory isn't real. It's nowhere in the Bible.
Purgatory after death flies in the face of many clear statements in the Bible that there are only two places that one will end up in after death: either in heaven with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians1:21-23; 1 Thessalonians...
Do you find it weird that at one point Paul is talking about out of body experiences in 2 Corinthians 12:1-5.And in 1 Corinthians 5:1-5.It sounds like he might be talking of out of body experiences through Jesus in 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 too?:confused:
Also in Philippians1:21-24.He is talking...
Philippians1:21-24
King James Version
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far...
The Greek Exegetical Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:6 on Atonement
In just one place in the New Testament is the hapax legomenon singular accusative noun αντιλυτρον combined for an intriguing emphasis joined with the Greek preposition υπερ, at 1 Timothy 2:6 - “Who gave himself a [vicarious] ransom...
Here is all the passages from above.From BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8
King James Version
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk...
Dr. Walter Martin complains that the NWT falsely renders Philippians1:21-23.
"The rendering, `but what I do desire is the releasing ...,' particularly the last word, is a gross imposition upon the principles of Greek exegesis because the untutored [Jehovah's Witnesses] have rendered the first...
I am not referring to the resurrection of the body which the scriptures you've listed above refer to, but to the soul/spirit which lives on either with the Lord or separated after death until the resurrection....
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh...
Jollybear,
I asked you where in scripture does it say we go to heaven as a holding tank then come down to earth. You gave me Philipians 1 as an example
"21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall...
Philipians 1 is an example
"21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; 24but...
No he didn't, but the scripture I gave you in Matthew 13:34-35 indicated that illustrations were his prime method of teaching, so when you pick out one particular illustration among so many others because you think it supports a favoured belief, is not really taking scripture for why it was...
Not everything Jesus said was a parable though.
The vision of moses and elijah, how could a vision in the way you describe it, talk with Jesus?
Paul was not anticipating his soul would depart from his body? Philipians 1:21:24
"21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22If I am to...
That's good, but it's their belief of death too, and that's what I was commenting about.
No witness will answer this question, maybe you will,
If we cease to exist, "sleep" when we die, we know nothing, have no conscious thoughts, why would this writer make this statement?
Philippians1:21-23...
Back during the early part of the Old Testament, people were largely ignorant of what awaited them after death. Some thought as the atheists do, that we die and we're just gone. As we see with the Sadduccees, there were large numbers of Jews who believed that there is no afterlife and no...
Here are some more technical, legal, theological or philosophical reasons to condemn the claim that God is evil.
1. It has been claimed God is evil. Then why are you or anyone alive to claim that. The few examples you have given that are ambiguous or just wrong to begin with must be balanced...
Yeah, gods and Christ.
Also, a Christian would say, "Life is Christ" not because of Him (Philippians1:21, John 14:6).
It sounds like you're trying to assert a position that Christianity plagiarized the Aztecs.
First, we didn't even know the Aztecs existed until the late 13th century.
It's...
Correct, Paul's thoughts on the matter his own life/death situation, as he was in prison facing execution "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" Philippians1:21
"Jump for joy" is not an apt description, for Christians, there is a tension at the death of a brother or sister in...
Two groups of Humanity
Hebrews 9:27: Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
Philippians1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain