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The standard given to us for determining truth vs error for events was at least two "witnesses". That includes the internal consistency part, but it also presupposes humans.

Verifying today what happened 400 years ago almost always relies on the testimony of witnesses. So it would be with levitating Christians. So it is with Jesus’ miracles, birth, death, resurrection, and ascension. We trust the gospel accounts because the writers were either eyewitnesses or...

What did he have to say? Was it biblical?

Here's a similar scenario: Revelation 11:7-12 KJV — And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which...

If you see death as an impediment to ascension into heaven (remember that Jesus first rose from the dead before He ascended into heaven), then you can see that all others need to first rise before ascending. But such doesn't help with your time gap question. I think it is probably still...

Those that are unable to explain and use the deficiency of the hearer as an excuse are not even useful in the discussion.

@7djengo7 If Revelation 20 details the full gamut of resurrection events post-Christ's, and the BOC's resurrection must be the first of the two, then it seems like the church will go through the tribulation. If instead, the BOC does not go through the tribulation, we must be looking at a third...

Agreed. They would have missed the "moment" and would be relegated to the next available resurrection, the one at the end of the Millennium. Although, depending on how you read Revelation, it seems like the "first" resurrection might be split into multiple episodes. 👍 I see a way for the...

Interesting idea. Might it even be a testimony to those who are not participating? And if so, wouldn't there also be new believers because of it? I think that is unlikely to be a problem, because "we who are alive and remain" would likely already have been changed, as Paul mentions here: 1...

Hardly. Else many who reject Christ by faith in something untrustworthy would be justified.

Of course Paul, not having said "alone", left room for the other things required for our justification, like: Romans 5:9 KJV — Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. And: Romans 3:24 KJV — Being justified freely by his grace through the...

Only Enoch didn't actually make the cut: Ezekiel 14:14 KJV — Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. John at least doubted. Noah got drunk and didn't stop his son from "seeing his nakedness"...

But a good vine sometimes produces branches that need to be pruned or cast off and tossed in the fire. John 15:6 KJV — If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Lifetime congressmen don't actually have coworkers.

https://www.ranker.com/list/us-presidents-by-iq/lauren-slocum What is funny is the last entry: 45th and last is Joe Biden, 'alleged IQ unknown"