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Thanks Carry_Your-Name. The eagle being a deliverer does sound better. The familiar verse about those who hope in the Lord renewing their strength and mounting up with wings as eagles could be looked at somewhat in that light. It could also be emphasizing how God raises a person up to be renewed...

The Ezekiel 1 scripture shows that the four living creatures are associated with the Lord and are a picture of the Lord in his people : "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an...

Thanks Runningman. To me it looks like all of the scriptures you mention are about spiritual death.

Thanks Runningman for the excellent scriptures you placed here. Keep in mind that scriptures about death and the dead are primarily talking about those who are spiritually dead. They are not addressing physical death. Similarly 'life' is addressing spiritual life, that which never dies in...

Thanks for your question Amanuensis, concerning this scripture: "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison...

Thanks FreeGrace2 for your comments. I am happy to hear of another person who looks at this the same way. Your comment about Mark 16 having part of a verse missing in the older manuscripts is interesting and something of which I was not aware. I tend to just accept that the King James Version is...

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." This verse from Mark shows 2 things necessary to be saved. Most people can understand what is meant by the term "believeth", which is the first thing. Of course, "believeth" means to believe on the...

We find that the Old Testament was written to instruct new testament believers: "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:" That is why Jesus said: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the...

Thanks for your question. The 'sons of God' in the Bible are true believers. True believers marry non-believers in this case. The non-believers are referred to as the daughters of men. This can pose a problem as true believers will be on a different spiritual path and this can be polluted if...

Hi JeffA. Thanks for your post. I enjoyed that you pointed out that horses have a heavenly spirits meaning in the Bible in Zech 6. Take a look at Zech 10:3 which further explains horses: "for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in...

There is not a special set of super Christians who are elect, whilst other Christians are not elect. All Christians are spoken of in the Bible as 'the elect'. They are called that because God's choice was for them to be saved. He elected them to be saved. That is his business. He is in control...

Thanks know1 for your question. In order to form a true believer (birds of the air) the word of God (water) is sown on good ground (such persons as hear the word and receive it). Mark chapter 4 explains the ground part. Of course, in order to accept this explanation you would have to believe God...

Thanks Carry_Your_Name for your comment. The term angel in the Bible means messenger. God's messengers are people, his true believers. That is why angels are spoken of as being men in the Bible. Jesus himself is referred to as the chief messenger, and we find Jesus called an angel in Gen 48:16...

Thanks Nehemiah6 for posting Gen 1:20. "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." 'Waters' in the Bible can refer to God's word (Ephesian 5:26) and to people who are of the...

Thanks 2ndTimothyGroup for your question. 'Baptism by fire' in your question is apparently referring to Biblical baptism by fire and not to the common expression referring to learning something new when thrown into a new situation that is frought with great difficulty. Biblical baptism by fire...

Thanks dlw for your question about whether the Bible is history. One thing that is clear to me, is that the Bible is written in parable fashion. We read that fact in the Bible itself, but a lot of persons are not aware of it or outright reject it when God says it. We read in Mark 4, for...

Thank RR for your post. Some have claimed that salvation comes to all mankind thanks to Christ, but the Bible does have scriptures which seem to indicate that some will be saved, while others will not be. Those who are saved will be saved not by their own works but by God's own choice and...

The KJV : "And God called the firmament Heaven " If the firmament is heaven why do people keep thinking it is the expanse of the sky or upper atmosphere. Heaven, the Bible says, is God's throne. KJV: "Heaven is my throne " And who is in the midst of God's throne? KJV: " in the midst of the...

The light is Christ, so in a sense this is a correct observation. However, you may be looking at Genesis as a surface text. Many people read Genesis, and the rest of the Bible as well, and do not know that the Bible is written in parable form, meaning the words have an interpreted spiritual...