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A biker walked into a church on Sunday morning. He looked the part, long hair, beard, black leather vest, jeans, leather boots. He sat down and the "good folk" of the church edged away from him. After the service the pastor stopped him as the door and said, "If you come back to this church you...

John 12:32 (32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. According to followers of Universal Reconciliation [UR] this verse really means "Christ will forcibly drag all men to Himself," implying kicking and screaming if necessary. This assumption is made because...

Some members @ CF claim that עולם/olam never means eternal. In response , I reviewed every occurrence of olam in the OT. I found 47 forty-seven vss. which define/describe olam as eternal/everlasting by juxtaposition with adjectives or descriptive phrases. Here are 10 of the 47 verses. [1]...

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I started linking to previous posts which have detailed responses to repetitive controversial theology posts to avoid getting in trouble for spamming. In new system when I posted a link, as I had done previously, the link did not appear but first post on the page was quoted where the link should...

My ¢¢ My feelings have been hardened in eyeball to eyeball armed conflict with communist forces. In Vietnam I flew helicopters and was shot down 5 times and injured once. I will not turn tail and run. Below are quotes from three Jewish sources; the 1917 Jewish Encyclopedia, 1972 Encyclopedia...

I do not believe that there is mercy beyond the grave. I would like to see the primary, clearest verses which proponents of Universal Reconciliation [UR] believe support their beliefs. Here are three vss. which I believe totally refute UR. Matthew 7:21-23 (21) Not every one that saith unto me...

A church I was attending in Orange county CA '95ish every year had a living last supper. 13 men of the church dressed in period costumes would be seated in the last supper tableau as the members began to arrive. They held the pose for some minutes until the sanctuary was settled. One by one the...

This is taken from another thread where it would be off topic. The Sabbath is a commandment of God. Exodus 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Exodus...

From 1983 to 2008 I worked as a civilian for the Department of Defense. I was a safety and security specialist and investigator for the Defense Commissary Agency, the military's supermarket. I spent 14.5 years in Korea and 7 years in California. I heard this on Christian radio in California...

Reposting this. Whenever the discussion of which day was Jesus crucified and which day He rose comes up there are arguments asserting there were two Sabbaths in passion week. The arguments claim that the first day of unleavened bread was a Sabbath and in passion week it fell on the day before...

Whenever the discussion of which day was Jesus crucified and which day He rose comes up there are arguments asserting there were two Sabbaths in passion week. The arguments claim that the first day of unleavened bread was a Sabbath and in passion week it fell on the day before the weekly...

Some religious groups argue that "aionos" never means eternal, everlasting, unending etc. it means age during." And they argue that "'Aion" never means eternity, it means 'age.'" “aionios” occurs 72x in the N.T. “aionios” is translated world only 5 times in the N.T. “……….”….”………eternal 42 times...

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“aionios” occurs 72x in the N.T. “aionios” is translated world only 5 times in the N.T. “……….”….”………eternal 42 times in the N.T. “……….”….”………everlasting 25 times in the N.T. Jesus used “aionios” 28 times Jesus never uses “aionios” to refer something ordinary/mundane which was not/could not be...

I can't remember the last time I started a thread. This may or may not be "controversial." I heard this on Christian radio in California about 25 years ago while driving home from work. I did not believe it so as soon as I got home I pulled out my big green Strong's and started checking. Gen 5:1...

Many discussions in this forum get bogged down due to arguments about the meaning of Aionios and Aion. …..Some people claim that “aion/aionios” never means eternity/eternal because they sometimes refer to things which are not eternal. But neither word is ever defined/described, by other...

Costello:Abbot, teach me some Hebrew. Abbot: Ok remember some Hebrew words will sound like English words but mean somehing different. Costello: Got some Hebrew words sound like English word but mean something different. Let's start already. Abbot:In Hebrew "me" is "Who." Costello: You is Abbot...

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In another thread a discussion came up about the correct pronunciation of the divine tetragrammaton יהוה. Is the proper pronunciation Yahweh or something else? My position is that the proper pronunciation is Yahweh based on the "Names of God" article in the Jewish Encyclopedia. Jewish...