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by truth
Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:46 am
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: Are Jesus and the Father the same being?
Replies: 8
Views: 24150

Re: Are Jesus and the Father the same being?

jesus also said'', ‘I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.’”
by truth
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: what is the difference between salvation and eternal life?
Replies: 2
Views: 10878

Re: what is the difference between salvation and eternal lif

5 “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.
so much for eternal life in heaven. life means your alive ,just as you are now ,here on earth
by truth
Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:47 pm
Forum: Holy Spirit, Apostles, and Miracles
Topic: Opening Closed Minds
Replies: 1
Views: 6821

Re: Opening Closed Minds

its more likely its you that has the closed mind, some bigotries to. do you really feel its appropriate to bash a religious faith ?
by truth
Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:39 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: Jesus is Jehovah !
Replies: 2
Views: 6797

Re: Jesus is Jehovah !

odd that any one would say Jesus is Jehovah when Jesus gave no indications to the claim that was made. in fact just the opposite was said by Jesus
by truth
Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:57 pm
Forum: Hermeneutics and Bible Authority
Topic: Where is the command authorizing singing in 4-part harmony?
Replies: 4
Views: 11188

Re: Where is the command authorizing singing in 4-part harmo

were is the command condemning singing in 4-part harmony?
by truth
Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:46 am
Forum: The Church
Topic: Deacons- Husband of One Wife
Replies: 1
Views: 7641

Re: Deacons- Husband of One Wife

1 Timothy 3 Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons 1 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkennes...
by truth
Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:02 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

best friends ??? only if you were Jewish
by truth
Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:53 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: Repentance, Murder, and Restitution
Replies: 4
Views: 11352

Re: Repentance, Murder, and Restitution

William wrote:
An eye for an eye solves nothing.

William
and yet it was a law jesus lived by,it being part of the law . :)
by truth
Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:49 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: Repentance, Murder, and Restitution
Replies: 4
Views: 11352

ex 21:23-25 But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 branding for branding, wound for wound, blow for blow.
by truth
Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:15 am
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

some times the truth is rude ,.......................especially if its not what you want to hear . thing is you will go off tickling your own ears, believing the things you want to, and not things from scripture for no better reason than thats what you want, to believe in. their is one little fact t...
by truth
Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:48 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

Rapture Definition: The belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the Lord “in the air.” The word “rapture” is understood by some persons, but not by all, to be the meaning of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word “rapture” d...
by truth
Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:05 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

you used the words "eternal hell" and ''rapture'', are these some things that you think i believe in? I do admit those were truly assumptions on my part and if I was wrong to assume such, I heartily apologiize. Actually, I know very little about you or your faith and all that I have manifested is m...
by truth
Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:56 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

you used the words "eternal hell" and ''rapture'', are these some things that you think i believe in?
by truth
Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:22 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

William do you have any ideas that are bible based ? so far it looks as though your making it up as you go .
by truth
Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:18 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

[quote=" How can perfection create anything "imperfect"? this is one question that i hate , the long answer is very involved and will take some study for you to fully comprehend,the short answer is he didn't . Let me explain it for you if you don’t mind. We are perfect, we just don’t know how perfe...
by truth
Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:38 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

i suspect your problem does not come from the idea of there being different bibles but from the fact there are so many different so called '' Christian religions '' even as there is in fact one true god there is logically only one true religion . the problem is you have yet to find it or should i s...
by truth
Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:41 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

i suspect your problem does not come from the idea of there being different bibles but from the fact there are so many different so called '' Christian religions '' even as there is in fact one true god there is logically only one true religion . the problem is you have yet to find it or should i sa...
by truth
Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:09 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

well now this is all very interesting you come on here preaching about god and you dont even know which god your promoting ? yeah you say the god of the bible yet there are many gods spoken of in the bible . have you read the bible ? it would seam you think its not very important. you say to think o...
by truth
Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:51 am
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

WOW!! '' who is you god '' is a tougher question than i thought it was , do you want to try again ? all I'm looking for is a name.
by truth
Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:45 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

William
what god do you claim to honer ? who is your god ?
by truth
Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:18 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

to your ""The soul as if it had a life of it's own". The Soul According to the Bible “The man came to be a living soul.”—GENESIS 2:7. AS WE have seen, beliefs about the soul are many and varied. Even among those who claim to base their beliefs on the Bible, there are differing ideas about what the s...
by truth
Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:52 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

william you speak of the soul as if ha a life of its own how ever Eze 18 : 4 Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die. Eze 18 : 20 The soul that is sinning—it itself will die a dead...
by truth
Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:08 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: The meaning of life - divinity now
Replies: 42
Views: 56102

you say your looking for truth ,how would you know it if you found it ?
by truth
Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:16 am
Forum: Morality
Topic: Divorce and remarriage
Replies: 15
Views: 35181

with out a doubt this is a subject of debate. it has all so been noted we are not under the Mosaic law ,were Jesus spoke in the book of Matthew 5 he was speaking as a Jew living under law, he was not implementing new law ,he was not tiring to replace the law ,he knew the law was being adulterated an...
by truth
Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:23 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

it would seam this one who calls him self Journey is in fact an apostate
little if ant thing that he says can be trusted , as the truth is not in him.
by truth
Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:50 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

Who Will Be Resurrected? "The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear [Jesus'] voice and come out," said Jesus. (John 5:28, 29) According to this promise, those in the memorial tombs-those who are in Jehovah's memory-will be resurrected. The question, then, is, Of all those...
by truth
Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:15 am
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

i must admit , i do have problem with the KJV of the bible . one has to be so aware of were the problems are, what the problems are , and then be able to explain why or how it should be different .with that ,its easy to see why people have gotten so confused . on the other hand, i have a great deal ...
by truth
Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:32 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

Solomon is not talking about what happens to your soul when you die. Solomon is merely telling you that what you can do as a living soul here on the earth under the sun, DO. The day is coming when you will die and you can not come back and change anything that you have done here on earth "under the ...
by truth
Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:22 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

The King James reading of Matthew 28:9 appears on the face of it to look like a flat contradiction of what Jehovah's witnesses teach, but, of course, the King James Bible translators would naturally want to support their trinitarian view by rendering the Greek word here into English as "worshipped."...
by truth
Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:13 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

JSM17 you've made a bit of an error when you assumed that Jesus was worship , yes i under stand that your bible does say worship,how ever you are using a bible that is not as accurate as it should be . for instance the word worship , it may come to be a surprise to you that the word "worship" is not...
by truth
Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:55 am
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

First of all we know that Jesus all ways spoke with illustrations .The Bible gives two noteworthy reasons why Jesus used illustrations. First, his doing so fulfilled prophecy. The apostle Matthew wrote: "Jesus spoke to the crowds by illustrations. Indeed, without an illustration he would not speak t...
by truth
Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:57 am
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

I do dispute the fact that Jesus has the power that only a god can have, he raised the dead , removed blindness,cured every disease, he even walked on water. the thing that i want you to under stand is that power was given to him .yes, given to him, that same power Jesus gave to the apostles and the...
by truth
Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:50 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

I'm going to test my understanding of your conclusion by repeating it in my own words as simply as I can. You are asserting that the scene Jesus speaks of in Matt 25:34-46 is speaking of the present day action of alive people on earth in the presence of God? it is a well know fact that Jesus used il...
by truth
Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:07 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

So what does equal mean? Jesus taught his disciples to pray: "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." Our heavenly Father, whose name is Jehovah, is described in the Bible as being superior to his Son. For example, Jehovah is "from everlasting to everlasting." But the Bible says that ...
by truth
Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:33 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

Can I ask a confirmation on what you're saying here? Are you concluding that Jesus is god with a little "g" and not God with a big "G", yes as in Jesus being equal no not equal and of the exact same nature as God the Father, Jehovah? in that he Jesus , is made of spirit stuff ,yes.tho i wonder what ...
by truth
Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:47 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

sledford said "My previous observations regarding the Rich Man and Lazarus story about being a literal story have not been addressed. Are you going to respond to this harmonization problem?" I'm sorry I thought that i answered that in the post with ABSURDITIES Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:56 am sledf...
by truth
Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:33 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

Though there are many things about death that we do not know (and the unknown can be somewhat frightening), the inspired word of God does afford enough information that we may take courage at the prospect of dying. Indeed, by faith, we know that for the faithful child of Jehovah, death will be an ab...
by truth
Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:36 am
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

(Psalm 82:6) "I myself have said, 'YOU are gods, And all of YOU are sons of the Most High. john 10:34 Jesus answered them: "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said: "YOU are gods"'? 35 If he called 'gods' those against whom the word of God came, and yet the Scripture cannot be nullified, 36 do YOU sa...
by truth
Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:50 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

the first thing to ask and to call into question is your line of thinking contradict scripture in any way shape or form? for insentience i can show scripture which says the soul dies , that the dead know nothing(psalm 146:4), that it is to be better to be a living dog then to be a dead lion(Ecclesia...
by truth
Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:52 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] thi...
by truth
Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:56 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is an interesting statement that you ended with, you take about the blood of Christ, do you even believe that Jesus is God? is Jesus god no and neither do you believe ...
by truth
Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:02 pm
Forum: Jesus and God
Topic: The Deity of Jesus and the Trinity
Replies: 44
Views: 90759

i would like to ask question to SimplyAStudent or to any with his line of thinking. what dose the first born of creation mean? the Common Bible: "He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, w...
by truth
Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:53 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

Romans 5:12 "12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.." continuing to verse 17 where we learn what type of death occurred to Adam upon sinning: "17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigne...
by truth
Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:08 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

spiritual death is some thing completely different, than the physical death of the body(soul). Adam was told not to do something , he was told that if he did what he was told not to do that he would die. he did eat, from that time on his prospects of living on and on ended. he was not dead spiritual...
by truth
Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:43 am
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

I am not sure what school of reasoning that you and "E-mail" have gone to, but your both out there in left field on this one. Not only are the thoughts speculative, there un reasonable, and you have no scripture to back it up all you have is a thought and some hope about a candle and a flame, in wh...
by truth
Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:41 am
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: no hell? no eternal punishment?
Replies: 33
Views: 65350

no ................email nailed it. all the ideas of living on after death came from paganism,Satan is the one that backs up them kind of ideas. the bible shows that when your dead your dead.you can only be tormented if your alive and death is one of the worst tormentors there is . you know is comin...
by truth
Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:03 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: What is Hades?
Replies: 14
Views: 33190

So you think the spirit is like the flame on a candle, when it burns out it goes nowhere? I am not sure if your analogy is sufficient for the purpose of describing what happens to the spirit of man or by any means the spirit of Christ when they die. I will opt to at least use srcipture to make the c...
by truth
Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:12 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: What is Hades?
Replies: 14
Views: 33190

JSM17 if i may ask please ,do you believe the is going to be a resurrection of the dead ? Rev. 20:13, says, "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hades delivered up the dead which were in them; , "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; I'm sure you've herd that men ha...
by truth
Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:07 pm
Forum: Sin and Salvation
Topic: What is Hades?
Replies: 14
Views: 33190

What is Hades, is it hell, is it paradise? the word hades translates into the word hell and Hades refers to the common grave of mankind. not to be confused with gehena ( something completely different) Did Christ decend into hell like some denominations (Lutherans) teach? only in so much as he was p...
by truth
Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: Evidences and Apologetics
Topic: Was the Lord Jesus bodily resurrected?
Replies: 7
Views: 22551

were ever possible ,i use logic. 1 Corinthians 15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised up in power. 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 It is even so writt...