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The Bible teaches that our final destination is not to be disembodied spirits, but to be resurrected beings in a new creation of a new heaven and a new earth. Whatever soul existence there may be between death and resurrection, it is not the final destiny of human beings. Jesus demonstrated...

If this were a modern translation, I would suspect that the translators here thought that the "spirit" here is a power or influence from God rather than the Third Person of the Trinity. That would not necessarily mean that they themselves were not Trinitarians, but that they did not think this...

It is my understanding that an observant Jewish family should light the candles shortly before sunset, say Kiddush, and have a meal that evening. But then there are the evening services to attend, and it seems that the Orthodox requirement is to have an early evening service rather than a late...

dsa, Any of the "big name" churches will do. It might be Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, etc. Havent' you noticed, for example, the ongoing controversy between conservatives and liberals within the same Episcopal Church? You would be looking for the liberal wing of any particular...

You'll need to decide how close to orthodoxy you want to get. Any form of liberal Christianity would probably allow you to be universalist, and you would have no problem associating with the liberal wing of a mainline denomination (regardless of what their formal creed or confession might...

To what are you referring to when you say that God has a body of flesh and bone - to Jesus' resurrection body? Or are you saying that God would have such a body even if he had not become man in Jesus Christ? You say that "a" is the definite article, but this is not the case. In English...

I think you will find that frequently, when you can find the same event reported in Matthew, Mark and Luke, you will not find it in John - and information given in John will not appear in the same form in the first three Gospels. This is why Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the "synoptic"...

The Nicolaitanes were the followers of a man named Nicholas. That is all we can know for sure, and this is based on the most fundamental understanding of the messages to the seven churches - that they were messages to seven churches existing in Asia Minor at the time John wrote the Revelation...

Another possibility is that Jesus was referring to church discipline - the authority which the church has to expel a member for serious and scandalous sin, and then take that person back into fellowship if later repentant. Such sin would be not only against God, but against the community of...

Phillip, If adherence to the Nicene Creed is required for posting to this message board, then the policy must apply to those who espouse a "modalist" Christology as well as Arians. Those of you who know church history know what I'm talking about. I'm tired of seeing modalism tacitly tolerated...

You are correct that there are no direct references to this in Scripture. What has become a popular conception is that there was a war in heaven, and Satan was cast out by the archangel Michael. This is based on Revelation 12:7-9, but the context indicates that this does not refer to Satan's...

We are caught up into the divine life of the Holy Trinity. Through Jesus Christ we are adopted as children of God (the Father) in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, as the Word, is the only-begotten Son of God. He is God's natural son, but we become sons and daughters of God through...

We need to look at these stories through the eyes of the liberated slaves, not those of the Egyptians or an impartial observer.

I've noticed that Messianic Jews use the form "Mashiach," which I agree is correct if we go strictly by the Tanach (eg., both the king of Israel and the High Priest [Kohane Gadole] were the Lord's anointed). But other Jews - not all of them - use the form Moshiach when referring to the King...