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Thanks Marston, for your question. The term 'all things' is an interesting term. For example, we read in the Bible: "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: " So, it...

Thanks Godsgood, for your question about whether God made man physical or spiritual. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " We learn about God in John chapter 4: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him...

Thanks Wilson411, for your question. First of all, it is important to note that the opposite of this sort of thing that you mention (the occult and so on) is being saved by Jesus. Those who are saved by Jesus are described with the parable word "clean" in the Bible. Jesus said about the...

Thanks Wilson411, for your question. First of all, it is important to note that the opposite of this sort of thing that you mention (the occult and so on) is being saved by Jesus. Those who are saved by Jesus are described with the parable word "clean" in the Bible. Jesus said about the...

Thanks Robertt. For your question about why God created humans. Isaiah tells us that it is for God's glory, and also so that people would know and believe God and understand that he is the only savior: "I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far...

Thanks rrcn, for your mention of Matthew 24:40. Many persons who hold a 'modern view' of a rapture, consider that the one that is taken goes off to be with the Lord forever, whereas the one that is left faces hell and abandonment. However, it seems to me that this may not be the appropriate...

Thanks JesusIsSovereign for your question about how to understand the book of Revelation in the Bible. Chapters 2 and 3 are messages which people have often thought only pertain to individual church groups who existed in certain places (Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira, and so forth, respectively)...

Thanks Beckworth. A good time to ask the Lord if you are unsure. Thanks for chatting, and best wishes.

Thanks Beckworth. You have laid out nicely the approach and reasoning many persons take when thinking of baptism. I appreciate that. I see the word 'water' in the Bible as being a picture of the word of God. So, the word water is talking about God's word and not physical water, in the same way...

Thanks Beckworth, for your kind words. I imagine we have a disagreement about what the word 'baptism' means. It sounds like you are thinking that baptism means to be dunked in physical water or some similar form of physical water expression. I see the term baptism as meaning that someone is...

Thanks Beckworth, for your comments about baptism, and for noticing the diversity associated with it. In my opinion, people can learn from the many descriptions describing a single type of thing. In my opinion, just because the gospel is described using a number of descriptors in the Bible...

Thanks so much greenonions, for pointing out that the Bible is describing spiritual things by the physical descriptions in the surface text (Psalm 78:1-2, Mark 4:34). The book of Ezekiel was written to a rebellious house in hopes that they might hear. The temple is a picture - a picture of...

Thanks LeeLoving for your question. Paul was saying that he received the gospel, meaning he believed the good news and was saved. The good news is that Jesus defeated death. He defeated death for our sakes, so that death will not be our final sentence, but instead we will live (in Christ, and...

Thanks so much Koberstein, for your comments. It gladdens my heart to see someone who recognizes that the Bible is written in a fashion that has the deeper meaning, a parable meaning, for the physical situation given in a surface text. For example, I see the story of a blind man being healed and...

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."