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Hi folks, I have a question about John 12:47-48. “As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will...

Dear friends, In John 13:18 Jesus is predicting his betrayal. "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfil the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me' ... This is a quote from Psalm 41:9. The 'he' in this verse is Judas and...

1) Well, you may think Christ is sitting at the right hand of the Father doing a crossword, but I suggest to you that he is reigning now. Such a view is supported in 1 Cor 15: 25 'He must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet' and this started when he sat down i.e. at the ascension...

Then you are faced with certain difficulties. Why would a temple be built if Christ is already reigning at the right hand of the Father and the temple is a symbol for God’s presence with his people? Since Christ’s ascension He has been reigning and we, the church together with God are the...

If I believe it to be true, why keep it to myself?

This question is discussed in the first few posts of this thread. Ezekiel wrote during the exile. God's promise at this time was that he had not given up on his people, he would gather them from among the nations and they would return to the land he promised. This was hard for Jews to accept...

This is all very well, provided you ignore the entire letter to the Hebrews. The temples were a shadow, Christ was the fulfilment. The temple signifies God living with his people. Now we are the temple, God lives in us. That is the new covenant. There is no need to build any more temples and if...

So long as the translation makes clear what it is doing in the footnotes, there should be no problem. I think modern bibles try to convert to standard SI units, like meters, so that we can visualise what is being described. We think in meters not in reeds. MY NIV says penny and the footnote says...

The bible certainly wants us to believe that the return of Christ is 'at hand' and it seems that if we live with this expectation, then we are more likely to be pleasing to God. But, you are right. Christ may come in 10,000 years! This is why I don't think much about the end times. The main...

Certainly most things in the bible are to be taken literally and we can be sure that on the important things: salvation, the love of God, prayer, faith and our relationship with God, the bible is crystal clear. On the end times, God has chosen apocalyptic language. It certainly leaves room for...

The people I have mentioned take biblical prophecy very seriously and what you call spin, is their best effort to understand God’s revelation. What you call “the relevant scripture” simply undermines your case. To see why you would need to do a little research and clearly this is too much...

It is all too easy to infer that others are fantasising and that you have a monopoly on truth and decorating your text with lines like “there is absolutely no doubt”, “a very clear and unambiguous reference” and “Ezekiel’s temple must await the second coming” but it would seem, obviously, that...

True, but God conveys these literal events in figurative language. For example, in Isaiah 19:1 "see, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt, the idols of Egypt tremble before him and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them" does not mean that the Lord mounts a mighty...

I would like to thank postman and JamOn for your contributions. I took a similar view to both of you, namely that after the destruction of the first temple, God offered a genuine chance to the Israelites to be regathered into their lands and to worship God in a new temple and to make a success...

The last few chapters of Ezekiel describe a temple that was never built. Some suppose that this is the famous third temple or millennial temple and many Christians see the building of this temple as a prerequisite for the return of Christ, thus making the temple a big deal. I have recently been...

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There is a straightforward answer to your second question: No! All this third temple speculation stems from a misunderstanding. The destruction of the second temple in AD70 was a direct fulfilment of Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 24. God was judging the covenant breakers and bringing the old...

Hi folks, As you may know, the Zorostrian religion is an old one that had its origins in Ancient Persoa and was displaced by Islam in the seventh century AD. This religion is credited with the folloing ideas. Monotheism, dualistic cosmology, that is, a struggle between good and evil, messianism...

Thanks for your efforts.

I see what you mean, but there can be properly controlled and documented case studies and testimony from victims and their relatives and of ministers and their experiences. If such evidence is collected from different locations around the world, then it provides a body of evidence. We are...