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Recent content by tours

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    What does it mean to take the Bible literally?

    There are some things in the Bible that can be taken literally, and others that cannot. I don't think you can make a blanket statement about how the entire bible should be interpreted. Try reading Matthew 13. There are some who do not understand scripture. "Therefore I speak to them in...
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    Before there is a new heavens and a new earth Jesus will return and the saints will be resurrected and they will reign with him literally 1000 years. revelation 20:4-4 "And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand...
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    Knowing Jesus

    ephesians 2:8 "and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. romans 10:17 faith comes by hearing and 1 corinthians 3:6-7 "but God who gives the increase."
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    revelation 20:10 "they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." It is hard to say what will happen to people when they are cast into the lake of fire with certainty, but such a thing as eternal punishment does exist. all these verses about fire not being quenched are referring to the...
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    Knowing Jesus

    it is important to notice what comes at the end of matthew 11:27 in nkjv it says "and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him" (the Father). so then the Father can be revealed to whoever Jesus wills it. But if Jesus wills it, then so does the Father since "I (Jesus) am in the Father, and...
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    Look at daniel 12:2 and Matthew 25:46 Daniel 12:1 states that those written in the Book (of life) (revelation 20:15) will be delivered. Some will arise to everlasting life some to everlasting shame and contempt. The contempt, or abhorrence, spoken of in isaiah 66:24.
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    no, it says the fire will not be quenched. you omitted the word "be." or in the kjv it says "the fire is not quenched." not "the fire does not quench" mark 9:44 . Isaiah 66:24 to quench a fire. for example: Seawater rushed in through rents in her hull opened by the explosion and helped...
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    I think the meaning of Isaiah 47 is that the fire will be much more intense than a coal or a fire to be warmed by -- it will be torment. that is an interesting verse from malachi 4. It is hard to understand the context of that verse, and of isaiah 66:24. though certainly the fire that is not...
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    Will Jesus Christ reign 1000 years before End of the World?

    I always took it to mean that He would be ruling with a rod of iron during the thousand years and forever and ever thereafter. only it won't just be Jesus, it will be the Saints as well: revelation 2:27 . I think that right now He is waiting for His enemies to be put under His feet. hebrews...
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    Capital Punishment

    I don't think we should assume that there weren't adequate witnesses to condemn the woman caught in adultery. The scribes and pharisees said she was caught in the very act. The scribes and pharisees (plural) were acting as witnesses (John 8:4). There could have been multiple people that...
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    Capital Punishment

    How should we as christians address the issue of capital punishment? Is it right? Is it wrong? Should we even have an opinion about it at all? So let me start out with some stuff from the old testament. After the great flood God said to Noah (Genesis 9:6): ""Whoever sheds man's blood, By...
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    Revelation 12:12

    I take it quite literally. The devil is filled with wrath because he has just been cast out of heaven and he knows that is the beginning of the end -- and it is going to be hard for the inhabitants of the earth because he has been cast down to them.