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  1. MerriestHouse

    What happens when we die?

    At the Cross, Christ purchased our salvation. By His resurrection, He gave believers the victory over death and the grave. John 11:24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who...
  2. MerriestHouse

    Can there be ADULTERY without sexual intercourse?

    <Staff Edit> Joseph removed himself from the situation. Quickly. People in the OT that were unfaithful to God set their affections on other gods. Did they have sex with other gods/idols? No. Were they married to God? Yes. Were they unfaithful to God? Yes. Did God say they committed...
  3. MerriestHouse

    Can there be ADULTERY without sexual intercourse?

    I didn't answer your question. I was just putting the passage in question in context. Kissing and/or touching a person that's married to another for fifteen minutes? Read Genesis 39 about Joseph and Potiphar's wife.
  4. MerriestHouse

    Can there be ADULTERY without sexual intercourse?

    There is the Biblical word laciveousness - excessive lusts of the flesh. We have no instructions about any levels of fornication or adultery. I would say that we should use temperance and follow our conscience. "To the pure, all things are pure." We cannot answer for each other. "You...
  5. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    None of what you said is in the Bible. IOW, it is not inspired. It is your opinion, well yours and those who you read after and have faith in what they say. I don't think you came up with all that information on your on. You are trying to tell me who I am and what I believe. "Strong...
  6. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    Will you be a floating ghost until your spirit is reunited with your body?
  7. MerriestHouse

    Who is truly Christian?

    I totally agree! I like that second group. :)
  8. MerriestHouse

    Who is truly Christian?

    When Jesus said "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" He was teaching and performing miracles to create faith that He was the Son of God. He said: "I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am He,"...... that he was...
  9. MerriestHouse

    How should we read Paul?

    Paul saw himself as especially called for his mission. He said "even from my mother's womb," in Galatians 1:15, so that "I might preach Christ among the Gentiles," verse 16. In 2 Corinthians 1:1, he said he was convinced that it was "by the will of God" that he was called to his mission...
  10. MerriestHouse

    How should we read Paul?

    Matthew 10:5 "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." About eight years after the gospel was preached to the Jews, it was...
  11. MerriestHouse

    How should we read Paul?

    Jesus only taught Jews. God sent Him to the "lost sheep of the house of Israel." When Jesus sent out His 12 Apostles, he instructed them to preach the gospel to Jews. They were not to preach to the Gentile nations. Later Peter was chosen to take the gospel to the Gentile nations (in a...
  12. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    Use your Ninja focus. Hymenaeus and Philetus were upsetting the faith of some disciples by teaching that the resurrection was past already in their time. How could they get away with such teaching? Refutation of their claim would have been simple. Just take those two fellows to a tomb and...
  13. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    What are your thoughts on 2 Timothy 2:17 "Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have wandered away from the truth They say that the resurrection has already taken place and they destroy the faith of some." Evidently what these two men said was persuasive, but how could those men have...
  14. MerriestHouse

    The second coming of Jesus Christ is LITERAL, not figurative, metaphoric, nor private

    The Jews were also looking for an earthly kingdom 2,000 years ago just like men are today. 2,000 years is a third of the 6,000 years "time for mankind." Why are you still "gazing up into heaven?" John 16:16 "A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will...
  15. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    If the rapture is in Matthew 24, where is the second coming? Why would Paul compare Jesus' coming to being like a pregnant woman in 1 Thessalonians 5:3? Does a pregnant woman know the "day or hour" of giving birth? Would she understand it would happen within nine months? Does that mean they...
  16. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    This is in the "comment section" below Gary North's lies that you quoted.
  17. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    Do you feel better now? LOL That is a bunch of bull. Whoever wrote this doesn't know the first thing about Preterism, but you are free to believe every word of it.
  18. MerriestHouse

    Who is truly Christian?

    John 8:36 "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." The truth that disciples would know was that Jesus was the Son of God. That is the truth that makes us free. Galatians 6:2 "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." The law of Christ: Matthew 22:37...
  19. MerriestHouse

    Women preachers or pastors

    Acts 22 "I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women." What were the women being persecuted for? Men built the pulpit, not God. They built it to be a domain of men, which separated men from women, and the laity from the clergy in the family of...
  20. MerriestHouse

    Is the Church raptured? OR do we FLEE to a place of safety!? Find out!

    Preterism is Covenant Eschatology. Our God is a God of Covenants. Preterism is not something that can be taught to others. . A Preterist view is something that a person holds after they personally study the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. That is why many Bible Scholars in the past have...