Originally posted by JesusServant
Well, at least you've toned down your judgments a little. Thanks for that. Okay, I'll bite...
Parousia70: Contrary to your assertion, Death will never be abolished for unbelievers.
JS: (Revelation 9:6) And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
LOLLOLOL....oh...forgive me JS but I had to laugh out loud for that one!!
THIS is your "proof text" to show how Unbelievers achieve VICTORY over Death?!
THIS is your scripture of choice to prove how the whole world will one day be free from the curse of death?!
OK, suit yourself, but good luck finding even one scholar who agrees with you on this.
(Revelation 1:7) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Ouch, Parousia, hard for the entire world to see something 2000 years ago and have all the texts, historical documents and carvings we have from that era today, yet none show and/or write about an event that the entire world saw and mourned over, pretty odd.
Not this again....I have explained this from the get go, but I see I'll have to again.
JS, Increase the size of your font all you want, it won't change the fact that you are choosing to apply an interpratation of this NT language which is in DIRECT CONFLICT with the precident set for it's interpratation found in the OT.
Without rhyme or reason, you are choosing to interprate this NT language in polar opposite fashion to the way you yourself interprate the SAME LANGUAGE in the OT.
For Example (again):
Isaiah 52:10
The Lord hath made bare His Holy Arm in the
eyes of all nations.
JS, why don't you find it equally "ODD" that with all the texts, historical documents and carvings we have from that era, that nobody besides Isaiah recorded such a monumental
GLOBAL event as God making His actual arm
VISIBLE to every eye of every person of every nation?
Why aren't you complaining about this with the same furver?
And I'll point out "AGAIN", that if we apply your NT interpratation to the SAME LANGUAGE found in Isaiah 13 for example, then you and I are not having this conversation because, according to your stated interpratation of this type of language, the WORLD ENDED IN 539BC!!
Ouch indeed!