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SkyWriting

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Yes, we are in sync. I didn't have your insights on the formula though. Yours is short & sweet. Another guy has about 3 pages of text to say the same thing. He say's it's about us being living bricks in the wall of Zion. Stuff I'm not familiar with yet.
 
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Not to mention the tiny matter of God not being able to lie.

Different set of Laws. You have to take the prevailing conditions into account.
All scientists understand that.
 
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Actually, he's correct. Eternity is only available to the sinless. He's assuming that sinners don't spend eternity in Hell. A matter of debate. I'm on the fence on that one.

So his formula is very condensed, but correct.
 
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As did the "First" man.

<< 1 Corinthians 15:47 >>
The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
Is Jesus The Second Adam

It's ok. You just forgot.
I think you'll have to unpack this a bit more. How exactly does it invalidate shernren's argument?
 
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Actually, he's correct. Eternity is only available to the sinless. He's assuming that sinners don't spend eternity in Hell. A matter of debate. I'm on the fence on that one.

So his formula is very condensed, but correct.
By 'his formula is condensed' you mean it is missing parts? I don't think that even helps. Of course you can construct true statements containing the words 'time' 'sin' and 'eternity'. When we are washed from the Sins we committed during Time, we will spend Eternity with God. Assuming eternity is outside time, which is possible, but another matter of debate. But that does not boil down to Time minus sin = Eternity
 
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Different set of Laws. You have to take the prevailing conditions into account.

So...that makes it ok for God to lie? Don't think so.

All scientists understand that.

All scientists know pulling explanations out of thin air without justification is dumb. Too bad for some....
 
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I mean, what does God say about the new heaven and the new earth?

&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.

&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it
the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.

&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
(Isa 65:18-20, ESV)

Woohoo! Looks like Isaiah's idea of "forever" is pretty different from ikester's.
 
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A brilliant mind here.
 
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I haven't seen the thread but if he is not interested let me know, I would be.
 
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