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1- full preterism argues that Satan and his angels/demons have been defeated and bound and are powerless now - is that correct? the question of the presence of evil in the world if satan is defeated, i understand is resolved in that the heart of man is filled with evil and we don't need to...

when i first started reading about the JEDP theory i was agahst... i was convinced that those who accepted this idea dismissed the divine inspiration of the scriptures... but as i read more and contemplated it for awhile i came to realize that God could inspire editors and redactors as well as...

I'm sure that's what he meant, auntie, But to declare that he knows how far away it is implies that he knows where heaven is. Doesn't that strike you as awfully strange? But then again, perhaps i misunderstood what he was trying to say; i was occupied with a couple of other matters...

it looks a bit like the superman logo... other than that it's jesus junk.

The "false staments" found encoded in the text are enough to disprove the codes for me. You wouldn't expect God to inspire even the coded writing of things like, "Jesus is Satan" or "There is no God". But beyond that, code researchers have found statments encoded in other books (i.e. Moby...

Old Testament - largely Hebrew except for some chapters in Daniel which are Aramaic. There are also a number of words that were borrowed from other languges (greek, persian, akkadian) that worked themselves into Hebew use The New Testament was written in Greek, though some parts...

Monday night i was watching good ole' jack van impe on the blessed trinity broadcasting network. I was working on a couple of other things at the same time, so i'm not sure that i got what he said completely right, but.. it sounded like he had found the physical location of heaven in deep...

i prefer expository preaching and use that method most of the time however i often times will include a small portion of topical preaching within an expository sermon. seems to me that its too easy to proove your own point of view with topical rather than finding what's already there.

I'd like to know more about this too. jcarter

i've been told that quite frequently. My wife's grandparents and many of her aunts and uncles are mormon. In fact her grandfater is an approved temple worker - a very special privlidge in the Mormon world... but i digress Doesn't it seem like a whole lot of wasted space to have all the...

verizon1, i want to thank you for your questions. It is good for us who are christians to see ourselves from an outsider's viewpoint. May the One God guide you to truth. jcarter

OT as scripture - yes, agreed but... not the apocrypha (deutero-canonical) books. Those were never fully accepted by Jewish authorities as scripture. They weren't even part of the Hebrew text (Masoretic Text) They were added to the Greek Translation (The Septuagint LXX). The Jewish canon...

The very fact that the planet earth exists (according to modern cosmolgy) is due to some other stars explosion in the universe's distant past. if the kingdom of God is never ending and ever expanding - who's to say that the kingdom is confined to the planet earth? Why not allow for the...

i don't deny that the resurrection (or the idea of a resurrection) can be found in the old testament. I just said that the earliest jewish though had everyone going to sheol. theological concepts weren't delivered fully and completely in one overwhelming blow. they developed and grew over...