I agree that the point of Peter's message here is that David is dead, so David surely wasn't talking about himself. He was talking about the coming Messiah. I don't see how this precludes the idea that our spirits go to the Lord when we die. I don't think Peter is saying "Jesus is the Messiah...
I think so also. Thank you.
Well sure! Sometimes we have to use our imagination and then test it with the scriptures to see whether our idea is consistent with what the Bible teaches. I hope I wasn't giving the impression that I am trying to do somethings else besides that. Or that I have a...
There is no war in Iran nor in the USA. We are basically just bombing Iran whenever we want to and they are doing nothing to us (as far as that is concerned, it is as it should be).
OK!
Do you agree with me that:
What God breathed into us, was something that originated from outside of our physical bodies. That it was something which existed apart from our bodies.
Yes, our current "us" is like an imprint on our spirit, of our interactions and the things we wondered about...
Good morning!
I have never heard Young's Literal Translation. I've just looked it up on Wiki and found this:
"The Literal Translation is, as the name implies, a very literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states:
If a translation gives a...
I see what you are saying, but Gen 2:7 isn't a poem.
To me it seems poetry in the Bible often better informs us of the way of certain things.
Gen 2:7 is one dimensional. Though it almost reads exactly the same as Job 33:4, in Job it has an extra dimension, a parallelism. A bit of...
Sure. When I die, my spirit will leave my body. Part of my spirit has already left my body when I was saved. Jesus circumcised my flesh from that part of my spirit. We can't see it, But Paul knew it. So he is telling us that that is what happened. So I might even take it a step further and say...
Here's a cool interview Sal Cordova did with Dr. Snoke. Snoke gives an interesting perspective on "God of the Gaps" arguments and I love how he defines materialism in the video, saying;
"Materialism is a philosophical position that says impersonal, undirected forces plus randomness will...
Well sure. Just as Genesis describes God breathing the breath of life in to Adam when He created man.
I believe Job 33:4, likely the oldest book in the Bible, tells us what this breath of life is.
(Elihu is speaking)
"The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me...
As promised, I have been thinking about your post. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I still think it makes more sense if we take Paul literally here. Let me try to explain why:
We must give God the final say in who is dead and who isn't. Afterall He is the one who made us alive. In Gen 2:17 God...
Sure. That is how I see it.
Well if there is fire in heaven, or in the spirit realm, then it is real fire. The fire here in the physical realm only resembles the real spirit fire in some way....maybe?
The same might also be true with water. The Bible talks a lot about water. About the water...