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2/20/08 1:31 AM |
John | | San Jose, CA | | | |
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DJC49 wrote: Sidebar: What if they had eaten of the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24) PRIOR to eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Any speculation there? Years ago I wondered the same thing.My "guess"--and that's all it is--is that one of the reasons Satan and his demons are doomed, without the hope of salvation is that they cannot DIE, which is a neccessary component OF salvation. Even God himself had to take human form so he could actually DIE in our place, which was necessary for us to be saved. It almost sounds, from the Biblical text, that if God allowed Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of life before or after they ate the forbidden fruit, they too would be beyond salvation, as Satan and his angels were and are. But again, this is just speculation on my part, which is what you asked for. |
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2/17/08 8:39 PM |
John | | San Jose, CA | | | |
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verity wrote: The book of Revelation has a pedigree which, to say the least, is highly questionable. The book certainly was not written by John the apostle -- as the linguistic style of the Greek demonstrates beyond doubt. And there are other proofs. The book of Revelation is but one of numerous similar apocalyptic documents -- all of them Talmudic Jewish forgeries -- which were circulating in the first century A.D. Not being the work of John the apostle, the book is not canonical, and must be rejected as worthless. So which "John" actually wrote the book of Revelation? Rev 1:9, 21:2, 22:8 |
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2/11/08 7:11 PM |
John | | San Jose, CA | | | |
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'When asked by Time about the period between death and the resurrection of the dead, Wright said: "We know that we will be with God and with Christ, resting and being refreshed. Paul writes that it will be conscious, but compared with being bodily alive, it will be like being asleep.Maybe so, but John in Revelation 6:9-11 makes it sound like such people will be very much awake--at least awake enough to plaintively entreat God by asking "...How long, O Lord...?", and be able to put on "white robes". Since Christ is seated at the right hand of God, and Heaven is where God dwells, then it follows that those who die in Christ go to be with Him where he is at the moment of their deaths--which is Heaven, right? Or is this BRILLIANT theologean seeing something that the rest of us are somehow missing? I doubt it! |
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2/9/08 10:06 AM |
John | | San Jose, CA | | | |
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terry evans wrote: Sorry, are there any examples of torture in the Bible, besides those solders who killed Jesus? "Torture" is a pretty loaded word, which is why I ALSO used the phrase "military coersion", which also sets the context (i.e. wartime, government-level--NOT individual-level application of justice/vengence/reprisal/etc., which Protestant so eloquently dealt with in his comment.euphemisms are good if they can keep people from getting too upset to clearly think through a difficult subject, but they are bad if they downplay any horror that should be dealt with in that subject. It's tough to balance the two, as I am trying to do now. Military coersion in the Bible is probably more common than "torture", but the only passage I can think of at this time is Judges 1:24-25. |
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