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Athanasius was bishop of Alexandria. This fact will not change based on my "own reasons" or yours. Stop maligning a city based on the fact that a heretic lived there when the bishop of that city addressed it at the time. Edit - And Athanasius is interpreted as referring to 1 John 5:7, and...

What doesn't sit well with me is that you brought up the city of Alexandria but then swerve to "we were not there" and start trying to redirect the conversation to what your own personal perception of me is. Athanasius was still Bishop of Alexandria, whether we were there or not.

St Athanasius was literally the bishop of Alexandria so what you're really saying is that the manuscript comes from a city that was under the authority of the man who most strongly opposed Arianism.

Looking at the last one first - Death - I would say to be prepared to die. Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:27 Our inheritance is in heaven. It would be nice to die peacefully in our sleep, but we are going to die regardless. That might be by famine...

How does that work in practice if they want to convert to Christianity?

That is good advice, thank you :)

Thanks for that, I'll take a look :)

Interestingly, the "simulation theory" is growing more popular and mainstream, so you may see those people who left Christianity for science trying to come up with a "scientific" version of creation to try to fill the gaps. Simulation theory opens, from a secular and relativistic perspective...

I don't think it's possible to give a blanket yes or no answer to this question, but I do think it raises a lot of other questions. The most obvious - if one person believes that humanity was created in the image of God, according to His likeness, and one person does not believe that, do those...

Then God said, “Let Us make man [adam] in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 Genesis 1:26 Interlinear: And...

The Hebrew word for “humans” is “adam”. For example - And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. - Genesis 7:21. That English word “man” is “adam” in Hebrew. Genesis 7:21 Hebrew Text Analysis

I haven't yet met a single person who I wouldn't want God to have mercy on. I haven't yet met a single person who was worse than myself before Christ had mercy on me. I hope you rest well.

I think there is a disconnect between people who believe that we, humans, were created in the image of God, and people who believe that humanity is a product of natural selection.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Matthew 5:7

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” - Acts 7:60.

Lord, have mercy.

This is what I meant when I said that believing everyone could be saved would not make Christ's death meaningless, because if everyone believed at the moment of death, everyone could be saved, but they would be saved the same way we are, through Christ's incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection...

But for the man or woman who believes at the moment of death, they wouldn't be able to show any fruit of that belief in this lifetime. I have seen criteria written - "he who believes and is baptised," "he who confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in his heart that God has...

It doesn't really depend on how I'm interpreting it, I paraphrased directly from the scriptures, changing only "I" to "you" and other grammatical things like that. No added interpretation.

I probably didn't explain it well. We are baptised into Christ's death, which is what saves us, as we die to ourselves, and our body will die, and as we have died with Christ, we will be raised with Him. Then - the question would be - can a person be saved in the resurrection if they were...