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  1. Choir Loft

    What do you think about UFO?

    Sons of Heaven Using Nephilim to explain UFOs is like using Leprechauns to explain lost car keys. They are different manifestations upon the earth not necessarily linked. If reliance upon testimony of scripture and reliable modern witnesses can be used as a benchmark, then we are forced to...
  2. Choir Loft

    What do you think about UFO?

    Keep reading the scripture. Elijah was in Babylon on the river Chebar when he saw the glory of God, misinterpreted by UFO fans as a flying saucer. He later wrote he saw THE SAME object in the temple of God in Jerusalem. So...... unless we suppose that the temple was being used as a hanger...
  3. Choir Loft

    What do you think about UFO?

    The subject of Unidentified Flying Objects has been deliberately confused by Hollywood for profits' sake and ignored by the church, to preserve its rather limited view of the universe and the Bible. The truth lies somewhere in between. According to the Bible, Earth is the only planet in the...
  4. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    It isn't necessary to examine every atom of a fog to know it hides things. Now here is a mystery - an educated person who does not know the meaning of mortality or the simple difference between immortality and that which dies. Once again we are treated to deliberate obfuscation in a vague...
  5. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    Nearly all references above consider the quality of the spiritually regenerate human - one that has been granted the Second Birth. Volumes have been written about that condition. But your post does not address the two key propositions made by the Bible; one of God and the other of spiritually...
  6. Choir Loft

    CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONIES - questionable?

    ok. You asked for nit picking. You get it. no priests in the early church - until Emperor Constantine certified the priestly class no donations/demands for tithe - tithing not mentioned at all in the NT (salvation is said to be free until you join, then you owe a religious tax for the rest of...
  7. Choir Loft

    If endless conscious torments were true, is God a monster?

    Excellent point. Spot on, in fact. A point that will no doubt be lost on the self-appointed ministers of spiritual truth hereabouts. They worship their own words and know not The Word. Romans 1:22 that's me, hollering from the choir loft....
  8. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    FEW will be saved. Jesus said so. The ideology of universal salvation is neither Biblical nor observable. The population of this planet is approximately eight billion people of which slightly less than two billion are professed Christians. That means that the observable FACT is MOST...
  9. Choir Loft

    CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONIES - questionable?

    Washing your hair isn't part of the ceremony......or is it? Leaving church after a ceremony simply means its time to go home. The ceremony is concluded and that's all it means. What is the meaning of ceremony in religion? Can you enlighten me? It's been my experience that ceremonies are...
  10. Choir Loft

    CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONIES - questionable?

    As stated earlier, the use of candles or fire light to enhance a social gathering is ancient. It applies to the church as well as most other religions and secular observances. The particular nature or meaning of candlelight services on Christmas Eve is important ONLY IF religious symbolism...
  11. Choir Loft

    Is manifesting success in your life a new age belief?

    [WARNING] The form of meditation promoted by secular and semi-religious groups is a form of self-hypnosis. As such it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS with regard to its influence upon the mind and spirit. Meditation opens the mind and spirit to influences outside the natural world - demonic forces...
  12. Choir Loft

    Is manifesting success in your life a new age belief?

    You can NOT learn the mind of God or the promise of His blessings by watching youTube or Facebook. READ THE BIBLE. I'm serious. Read God's word. What you see on youTube is an endless tossed salad of philosophy and contentious ideas. It's entertaining, but not efficacious. READ THE BIBLE...
  13. Choir Loft

    CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONIES - questionable?

    Candle lighting ceremonies are held by the religious and the secular alike as a sort of demonstration of unity in the face of some sad event or in observance of some common experience. It's also done by almost every Christian church on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and minor occasions. But...
  14. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    Revelation 21 speaks to the just, since sinners have already been destroyed. Do you leave the door to your home open always? Perhaps not, because sinners abound and doors are meant to keep them out. On the other hand, why don't you just go ahead and leave your doors wide open. Tell us what...
  15. Choir Loft

    If endless conscious torments were true, is God a monster?

    St. Augustine (4th century) adopted the Greco-Roman idea of Hades and the afterlife into his 'Christian' philosophy. The Greeks adapted their pantheon of gods and demigods from the Egyptians who in turn invented the idea of the afterlife and chronicled it in their Book of the Dead. The Bible...
  16. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    What are you trying to say? If your friend is singing a chord that God doesn't want to hear, then he is exercising his talent in a futile direction. He sings in an empty room. He may even be singing his own durge. The purpose of the Bible and the Law within it is to get fallen humanity...
  17. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    I'll try to provide a quick answer. To get a specific notion of what is going on I really believe the reader needs to study the Bible. There is no substitute for it. Q: Was the sacrifice for sin made by the high priest efficacious for all the Israelites? (The Bible does NOT call them the...
  18. Choir Loft

    If God is, and always has been, omniscient, and it is all of Him and none of us that...?

    First of all, you've issued serious accusations based upon faulty presuppositions about God. There is nothing of the Bible in anything you've written. All of it accusatory and none of it based upon truth as revealed in the Bible. For instance, you write that "it is all of Him and none of us...
  19. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    You know not the Law. Consequently your perspective on grace, like most people in the post-modern church, is based on misplaced and incomplete understanding. (Proverbs 16:18) It would be helpful if you had a modicum of faith in the ability of the Bible to instruct. Scholars know that the...
  20. Choir Loft

    Why are so many Christians against annihilation in hell when scripture supports it?

    ECT? Electroconvulsive Therapy? Any argument can be made if scripture is taken out of context. Those that prefer to accept the pagan idea of hell do not consider the context of the entire Bible. They cannot logically explain how a loving God could also enjoy torturing people in a dungeon...