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To me I am seeing the 1st heaven is the sky , where eagles fly above the clouds , where humans find it harder to breath to a point we cannot go beyond unless in an aeroplane...
Anyway , I believe the earth is the foundation and the heavens are above
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To me I am seeing the 1st heaven is the sky , where eagles fly above the clouds , where humans find it harder to breath to a point we cannot go beyond unless in an aeroplane...
Anyway , I believe the earth is the foundation and the heavens are above
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Yes Bill, the Bible talks about 3 Heavens.
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 (ESV)
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
3 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
File those verses in your head, it is how I prove to knuckleheads, that do not want to Believe that when JESUS told the Thief on the Cross, "Today you will be with me in PARADISE", that HE really meant it is the same as the Third Heaven, with GOD's Throne Room is.
Third Heaven = Throne Room in Heaven. Rev. 4:2
Second Heaven = Star of the Universe. 1 Ch. 27:23
First Heaven = Where the Birds Fly. Gen. 1:20
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There were not two different messages one for Jews and one for the Gentiles, nor a separate offer to the Jews first, if that is what underlies all your thinking.
"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead" (Acts 17:30, 31).
"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead" (Acts 17:30, 31).
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Acts 17 has moved us into the age of grace after the resurrection. Let me ask you, what exactly was the message before the cross that the disciples were preaching? It couldn’t have been the d,b,r for sins (our gospel) since they had no clue about the cross.
Mark 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Can you imagine today a preacher who does not know what the rising of the dead should mean?
Mark 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Can you imagine today a preacher who does not know what the rising of the dead should mean?
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If there are two gospels then why is Luke addressing a gentile? This would be a Greek name no?
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word have handed them down to us, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus
Luke 1 1:3
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They preached what Jesus told them to preach does not mean it was a different Gospel.
You seem to forget that God looks at the heart and even people who did not fully understand who Jesus was were moved by his presence.
To the Centurion...
"I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith" (Luke 7:9).
You seem to forget that God looks at the heart and even people who did not fully understand who Jesus was were moved by his presence.
To the Centurion...
"I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith" (Luke 7:9).
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Deal with these verses then.......
This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
Hebrews 2:3-4
3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
1 Timothy 6:3
This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
Hebrews 2:3-4
3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
1 Timothy 6:3
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