Hello everyone,
Let me start this by saying for the past 2 months I have been on another discussion forum with a person we have been discussion the "True Vine" (John 15) and currently the Book Of Life. I did not want to post this in the "blotted out" topic because it looked like it had a life of its own there and I did not want to interupt that discussion.
Anyway the discussion has gone to the point of "your interuptuting scripture wrong" What I would like to do is below I am going to paste our last 2 posts over there and would love for everyone to give me their thoughts on this.
The Red text is Ruht's posts and the Blue is my posts
Let me start this by saying for the past 2 months I have been on another discussion forum with a person we have been discussion the "True Vine" (John 15) and currently the Book Of Life. I did not want to post this in the "blotted out" topic because it looked like it had a life of its own there and I did not want to interupt that discussion.
Anyway the discussion has gone to the point of "your interuptuting scripture wrong" What I would like to do is below I am going to paste our last 2 posts over there and would love for everyone to give me their thoughts on this.
The Red text is Ruht's posts and the Blue is my posts
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The book of life is not necessarily the book of eternal life. The book of life is simply a book of the names of the living. Those who have eternal life will obviously always have their names written in the book of life, for they will never die. Those who do not have eternal life and will never be saved will not have their names written forever in the book of life.
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Ok then if the Book Of Life may not be a book of eternal life then is it importain that our names are in it to begin with?
But then your responce Ruht gets slightly confusing when you state; "Those who have eternal life will obviously always have their names written in the book of life, for they will never die." Then are you saying the Book Of Life is a book of eternal life? I am sorry if I am not reading your post correctly but it seems to me that you are contradicting yourself in that responce. Can you do a follow-up to make it alittle clearer?
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The writer of Revelation wrote in detail what he meant in Revelation 13:8, then he referred to it again in Revelation 17:8, but in a 'rougher text'. One should read Revelation 13:8 in order to properly understand what Revelation 17:8 is referring to.
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Ruht why do you believe John would have changed his writting style? Do we see this happen elsewhere in the bible, where the writter changes his writting style in a letter?
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No, it doesn't, rather you are simply misinterpreting Revelation 17:8.
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-- New King James
Revelation 13:8 And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
-- New King James
Revelation 17:8 "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
I'm sorry Ruht but both verses up there do say "not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world" so can you please then explain how I misinterputed this scripture when I asked what about these people who's names were never written in the book of life yet they did live and dwelled on the earth.
Thanks again Ruht and God Bless
Chuck
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