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The forum used to use that mark-down language for quotes. Now, it has a terrible interface where it replies can easily be put in quote boxes, and it is difficult to properly handle quotes. Was this a 'downdate' in a software (a falsely named update that actually destroys useful functionality)...

@JayWalker Do you think he was lying then? That's your reasoning, bro, not mine. I assume you follow Paul's writings, too. It is extremely unlikely that the Paul was among the Pharisees that Jesus addressed in John 8, or that the Pharisees who were believers in Acts 15 were in that crowd...

Dear Pretribulationists, May I ask you to answer specifically the following questions. These focus on problems I see with the prtribulational stance. If Revelation 20:5 calls the resurrection after Christ’s return the “first resurrection,” how can there be an earlier resurrection at a...

The coming of Christ is the blessed hope, not 'hopless' When there are multiple verses that refer to the coming of the Lord in the singular, the 'default' understanding should be that we are waiting for one coming unless there is scripture to indicate otherwise. If you have any scripture to...

I posted my last question before I saw this one. You are trying to address some aspect of my challenge question a little here. But you don't really address the question of what it is in II Thessalonians 2 that justifies redefining the 'parousia' or 'coming' at which the gathering (rapture)...

@Psalm1 If events that happen simultaneously are written at exactly the same space on the page in scripture, then one set of letters would be written on top of another (like printing twice on the same side of a paper) and we wouldn't be able to read the text. That was your idea not mine. We...

Man is a soul (Genesis 2:7). He has a spirit (Romans 1:9). He has a body (Isaiah 20:2).

Breath, life, self, the individual. In some cases, a word translated 'soul' in one place might refer to a carcass in another.

@JayWalker After Paul had been preaching for years, when he saw the council that was trying him was made up of Saducees and Pharisees, he said, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.' So he still claimed it. And in Acts 15, there were some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, but...

You wrote, "Presedente childishly asks me to prove my point with scripture." I've answered your posts. I'm not playing games. You haven't answered my question. You've just ignored and dodged them. It is not childish for me to ask you to prove your point with scripture. You quote numerous...

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@Psalm1 Could you write your messages a bit shorter with no quotes, or else turn the quotes into quotes? I know the forum got messed up here recently where the quote function isn't automatic, and it puts our posts in a quote box. But you can quote manually using [*quote] before the quote and...

Why would the Lord Jesus make the 'if Satan cast out Satan' argument in Matthew 12 if demons were likely to fake being cast out? I wouldn't say it is impossible. Witchdoctors, I hear, make deals with demons-- stop doing this to the person, then the person gets cancer or makes some kind of...

I don't know why you brought Pentecostals up. I think this might be an area where you feel a bit of discomfort or cognitive dissonance. There are some people who see a problem, a sin or ailment and who think there MUST be a demon behind it that can be cast out. In my experience, this is...

Jesus is able to come with the alive and remaining saints are 'caught up together with them' (the resurrected former dead in Christ) 'to meet the Lord in the air. You act as if Jesus coming with the saints is some kind of problem with the default, straightforward interpretations of either...

I think it is important to actually understand what Jesus said in context. Some people forget what the words on the page actually mean and try to use the topic to plug a hole in their eschatology. Jesus cast out devils through the Spirit of God, but there were Pharisees who accused the...

I hope that calling the Holy Spirit a real force that awakens human consciousness is not blasphemy. I won't even repeat the picture with the actual quote. Is calling Someone a 'force' trying to remove personhood from the Person? Maybe it wasn't intended that way, but it sounds more like...

....and yet the main pillar of your deal is that dead men of the early church with limited revelation, believed in a postrib rapture. Your entire deal is based on men's flawed perspective. BTW, your main advocate of that flawed unbiblical postrib rapture doctrine, Uraneous, believed the wine...

@Psalm1 I take the passage as scripture. I also point out there is nothing in this passage that mentions or hints at a pretribulational rapture. This is speaking of the coming of the Son of Man, set 'after the tribulation.' Matthew 24:30-29-30 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those...