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  1. Lazarus Short

    Bible Versions Depicted as Star Wars Characters

    I'll just leave this, as they say, right here.
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    Does the Doctrine of Hell and ECT Hold up to Scrutiny?

    Does the Hell/ECT Doctrine Hold Up to Scrutiny? Most folks listen to their priest/preacher/minister and also read their Bibles, and most of the time they hear or see “Hell” mentioned, and accept it as a given, in a prima facie sense. I ask you, however, is it so? Does this word and concept...
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    Godfire - a Word Study

    Keep in mind that the following was written as a book chapter... GODFIRE I keep coming up against fire in the Bible as being part of God’s plan and even of His essence, so this chapter will be a word study on fire and related words: fire, firebrand, firebrands, firepans, fires, flame, burn...
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    Overcomers, the Second Death & Lake of Fire

    I was reading in the Revelation the letters to the seven churches. The second letter, to Smyrna, said, "He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." (2:11) I checked Strong's - it is the first mention of the Second Death. Later, in chapters 20 and 21, we see it in sharper focus...
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    Grammar/Bar Jokes

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    A Question About Ressurection Versus Instant Glorification

    This has been nagging at me for some time, and it really did not gel in my mind until I was halfway through the thread title. My sister-in-law died this morning. That made me think of every comment you commonly hear at funerals and the like: They're in a better place...or with the Lord...or...
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    ISO 8601 and Sunday

    For my SDA friends - another shoe has fallen, as ISO 8601 mandates Sunday as the last day of the week. It is not official in the USA...yet.
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    Not Lawful for the Jews to Kill...?

    I was reading in the Gospel of John this morning, and came up short on this: Pilate, therefore, said to them, 'Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, 'It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;' -John 18:31, YLT It wasn't the YLT I was...
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    QUERY

    A query is a hole in the ground, from which we derive questions.
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    For those who know what a "RoundTUIT" is...

    Question: If you took your "RoundTUIT," and turned it over, would that be the back to it (BackTUIT)?
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    The Spread of Species Across the Globe

    Somebody's post on another www forum got me to thinking about this again: Now if Noah's Ark came to rest in the mountains of Ararat, keep in mind that the place is near the center of the planet's land mass. It would have been a GREAT place from which to re-populate the earth with animals. God...
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    Advice on Getting a Copyright

    I have a 200+ page manuscript in book form, but I am unsure how/where to apply for a copyright. I know it can be cheap or very expensive, so does anyone here know how to proceed?
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    Translation on the Other Foot

    For years I've been reading of efforts of liberal and left-leaning groups to influence or to even sponsor new translations of the Bible. This came to me mostly in the context of more conservative churches, but I now find that the pendulum swings the other way too. Sorry folks, the message of...
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    The Shroud Date - Updated

    Science seems to have moved beyond flawed carbon-dating (at least there are those who disagree with the medieval date announced in 1988. New methods have yielded a MUCH earlier date: Shroud of Turin - evidence it is authentic; the real shroud of Jesus Christ
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    Hell is a 404

    I have spent the last two years digging into my KJV to see if the Hell theory holds up or not. I am a former atheist, raised in a damnationist church, a former member of an annihilationist denomination, and am now a proponent of universal reconciliation. So you see, I have seen this subject...
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    able AND willing

    In the course of my delving into God's Word, I wondered, finding that He is willing, if He was able as well. This is my simple conclusion: God is both willing AND able to save all. See Psalm 49:15, 86:13, 103:8-14, 136, Isaiah 1:18, 6:7, 25:7-8, 26:19, 33:24, 43:25, 44:22, 45:8, 55:8-9...
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    A Rose for Ecclesiastes

    I read this story when I was a teenage atheist, and never forgot it. When I became a Christian, I approached Ecclesiastes with some trepidation, because of this story, but now I know that both are life-affirming. Christian Science Fiction is just too rare not to share - read it here...
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    "If Only We Had Taller Been" by Ray Bradbury

    This poem leans toward works, but is beautifully expressed. It's just too rare to see Christian science-fiction poetry... The fence we walked between the years Did balance us serene It was a place half in the sky where In the green of leaf and promising of peach We'd reach our hands to touch...
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    Chicken Soup Explained

    Picture in your mind a soup factory with a great hot vat of broth, noodles, peas, carrots, whatever. The "main" ingredient has yet to be added... A worker ties a long cord to the leg of a young chicken, throws the chicken overhand to the far side of the vat, and pulls the chicken back as fast...
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    Call Me Laz

    About me: raised a Baptist ex-Athiest ex-Randian ex-Libertarian ex-SDA ex-Damnationist I'm now a Christian Universalist (not a UU), a "Tentie," a No-Heller. I'm finishing up a book-length manuscript reviewing the KJV and weighing the evidence for the existence of Hell. I found none. The KJV...
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