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One could argue that it is gender bias, that in the biblical scheme, the entire human race is characterised as female. We are the bride, Christ is the bridegroom. So all men have to deal with being the wilting damsel. Gender is a big deal on earth, but in heaven it doesn’t even exist. There is...

Big questions! Short answer to your title: Yes. God does not want anyone to perish, but all to come to repentance. 2 Pet 3:9 God grieves for the unrepentant. What did Jesus say? I wanted to gather you all, but you wouldn’t let me! Luke 13:34. God gives man freewill. He calls everyone. His spirit...

Of course if both men and women do their part, then it all works and if they do not, we get problems. Fine so far... BUT some women are leaders. It is not universal that women think from their emotions. Some women do, some do not. In the same way some men think from their emotions. Men were...

Correction: 5. The God of the scribes and pharisees IS the Father Nemely, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (who was himself a jew). The fact that he was not recognised by the scribes and pharisees is irrelavent. Just as Jesus IS the king of the jews (it said so on the cross) whether...

I think you have it right.

I agree with you. I was not saying that ancient Israel was unique in this respect. I would say, however, that social equality is not necessarily 2018 feminism. I hope we can all agree, as brothers in the faith, that women should not be oppressed. The bible has a formula for happy relations...

There is a woman ‘problem’ within christianity. The bible is a joint venture between man and God, with God being the senior partner. We know that God has made a number of concessions to our hard hearts. Jesus himself declared this to be the case in the matter of divorce. The bible was written in...

One can surmise that the original dietary laws were introduced by God to minimise disease. So, because pigs are rather undiscerning about what they eat, the will happily dispose of a human cadaver bones and all, and because we incorporate what we eat into ourselves, God defined the clean and...

It’s a shame the nazis didn’t offer day trips to the gas chambers while they were running. A taste of heaven, surely?

Well, that’s just peachy isn’t it!

Hilarious! So, Let me ask you, would you like to be in Abraham’s bosom? Yes or no? Would the sights and sounds of perpetual torture enhance your heavenly bliss? Or is it fine so long as you don’t see and hear it? If God made Abraham’s bosom the way he did, I am sure that the new heaven will have...

But you take Luke 16:9-31 literally. Not only can those in paradise see the damned, they can talk to them, so obviously, if the lost are burning day and night, you will hear them scream and you will watch them writhe in pain. So, welcome to your paradise! After all, no smoke without fire is there?

You miss the point. Everything belongs to God, including satan and his demons. Returning to God does not mean the human spirit has life in it. Life comes from Christ. The lost are dead: or what does ‘in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die’ Gen 2:17 mean?

An everlasting punishment The second death is eternal separation from God. If I had the potential to be united with God, but reject the offer, I am eternally separated from Him. This is true whether I continue to exist for ever, like a demon or if I do not, like a man. An eternal and everlasting...

Many thanks for this very thought provoking post! But I take issue with your comment here! ‘Spirits don’t die, souls do.’ Certainly you have established that souls die. But in Mt 10:28 the point is made that men cannot kill the soul, only God can (in hell). In the quotations from Ezk 18...

I am not offended. If you are comfortable with people being roasted alive forever, good for you! I am sure your heaven will be lovely, especially with all that screaming come up with the smoke! As for your question, yes, I am certain about what God thinks, since God tells me explicitly in the...

If you think that, you haven’t been following the argument. Do you seriously imagine that I simply haven’t read this scripture?

Grace and peace to you my dear Trofimus! Telling it like it is! Whatever next!

Christians are the Israel of God. The present atheistic jews are no different from other atheists. A jew without Christ is no different from anyone else without Christ. Certainly we have a great deal to thank the jews for. We can hope and pray that they will be converted and we should do so. We...

Dear Ahwatukee, You are restating your position, not advancing the argument. Whether a text is a parable or not is defined by the context, one does not need an explicit statement: this is a parable. The fact that a parable assigns a name to a character (Lazarus) does not invalidate it as a...