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Beloved57 Just checking to see who is still around. I've been away for about 14 years! Probably don't remember me ... but would like to post again when life grants me time.

Keiw1 had said this: "He is right. Jesus is the image of God -- the bible teaches that fact. Every christian as well teaches that fact then. An image is NEVER the real thing." I agree in this way: Jesus bore the image belonging to God. Here is my view which I hope brings some agreement from...

Hello tieman55, Jumping in and going back to your original post. Very interesting read, but may I suggest my thoughts of Gen. 1:6? I read a KJV Bible and instead of dome it uses the word firmament. It's first meaning in the Strong's Concordance is "expanse." Siri told me it is "an area" ...

I apologize that my replies are so lengthy. I will try to focus on the question and be more concise.

Let me give a try to explain what I think life is: First God is LIFE. He gives it in measures to human beings; therefore, there is a living spirit and a living body and when the two were joined then man became a living soul. For a human to totally die, the body and the soul would have to be...

Perhaps personal experiences do not validate things for other people, but if a person has ever had them it is very meaningful to that person. Personally I will say they have taught me things and opened my eyes to scripture and I can't deny them. I believe God is real, knows what is going on in...

LOL. Well, Clete, I haven't left yet... Clete wrote: If I engaged the lunatic, who doesn't think that prolific, public and repeated false prophecies doesn't falsify a religion even when the religion itself doesn't even try to distance itself from those false prophets, then he'd keep going...

Clete, I replied to two of your quotes from me today, Sunday, June 16,2024. I get busy with life. and am very much involved in the lives of my two youngest grandchildren ages 7 and 8 and the life of my 100 year old mother-in-law. She was a Rosie-the-Riveter at Bell Bombers in Georgia during...

I disagree that God is not here. The curtain has been torn into. When Jesus died the curtain separating humanity from God was ripped apart. We were promised the Spirit to come to us/believers. We are now the body of Christ our Savior, who was God. Isaiah 43:11 I, God, even I, AM the LORD and...

I'm here to share my ideas. If anyone wants to discuss an issue I will read and give my best for a response. I just don't want to waste time arguing when people don't like my ideas. They can take or leave them. If you are not interested then just leave them. Oh not at all! The spirit of mankind...

I do take a look at symbolism because I think the Bible is full of it. It is just another level of understanding. It usually does not negate the more direct teachings that many have and do understand. I can agree with this, but for me understanding how God brought death into the world is quite...

I agree ... I'd rather rely on what the Lord teaches me. But many believers like to see there is support for points of view. I agree. I understand poetry has lots of figurative language in it, but who ever said that literal truth can't be determined from it. The whole bible uses figurative...

We obviously disagree here. I will not get in a debate or argue. I do believe the Spiritual God mentioned / described in Genesis 1 is in all and all things are in him. If God was with me telling me I would be in a car accident then he is with me at all times... bed room,auto, shopping, working...

My reply: I base his omnipresence on these things: 1. Theologians much smarter than me have said he is. 2. References in scripture. One search I just did said that there are100s of passages which speak of the ways he is all and in all. One author suggested his top ten: My favorites among them...

Remember, what I will write will be what I believe is the correct interpretation regarding symbolism we can find used through out the Bible. I will start with this concept: Gen. 2 The LORD formed man a body out of the ground [the elements from which the world was made]. Yet, before he started...

My thoughts: If God is omni-present, then if there is a created place by definition he is there! I also believe God did not create things out of nothing. That statement doesn't even make sense if we say he is omni-present. God created all things within his infinite self. He called forth...

Wow, what a thorough response. I will try to give my take on things as briefly as possible. Remember I am not here to debate but merely to share how I see things. You are welcome to disagree. Derf wondered: The bible says "He" was buried, not "His body" was buried. 1. My reply: Well, who was...

Hello Clete, Thank you for speaking to me. I get some of my thoughts from this statement, which Jesus made to a man who wanted to be his disciple, "Let the dead bury their dead." My original question: Weren't the living burying the dead? Explanation: There is a spiritual death as well as a...

NEW REPLY BEGINS HERE: Seems we agree and disagree. Pretty typical of Bible discussions. First about In Gen 3:14-19..”And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust...

LOL, I always say A LOT! Hard to know where to start with a question. Sorry. Let's see if I can do better. I will do my best to explain another point which may clear up how I look at life and death and spirit body and soul. I'm a little out of the box; so, I hope you will understand my ideas...