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    Thinking about Noah's ark

    ============================================================================================== Post #37 (Arsenios): I always liked the question: "Were the fish drowned too?" On a scale of 1 to 10, where should we rate that comment? Of course, someone could always try to tell a tail (tale)...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== In Post #21, atpollard tendered the passage often referred to as “Lazarus and the Rich Man”. It is found in Luke 16:19-31. Jesus recounts that a person named “whom God helps” is taken to Abraham’s...
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    Thinking about Noah's ark

    ============================================================================================== Post #11 (MoreCoffee): What is your original thinking on the subject of Noah's ark? Post #12 (MennoSota): Noah built it. God brought the animals. God brought a worldwide flood. Noah and his family...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== And here is something else that is conveniently and consistently swept under the carpet. (And one could say with a foot firmly placed on the carpet to keep it from lifting.) The Nicene Creeds of both...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== Post #14: Using obviously symbolic Scripture as though it were literal, to support personally important beliefs, is definitely manipulation...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    ============================================================================================== Arsenios, Post #23 [emphasis added[: That may well depend on the definition of “human hypostasis” given in the Bible (if there is one – maybe it is a purely human concept, and therefore pagan)...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    ============================================================================================== In Post #2, the Poster presented some Scripture and added a comment, thus: Perhaps, as others choose to do, he overlooked something. Was Paul writing to people who were already in Heaven? Because...
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    Christian Universalism and Universalism

    ============================================================================================== Post #8: Or maybe it could be like in the fellowship I frequented as a teenager. There was a pushy (domineering) girl there surnamed Suzer. People tended to bow the knee to her, too. Could that...
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    Thinking about Noah's ark

    How did he know where I live?
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== Watching people paint themselves into a corner is so much fun. It always happens when post-Apostolic doctrines are put under the microscope. Look at the way two posters have twisted the totally valid...
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    Why don't Muslims believe Jesus died on the cross?

    ============================================================================================== Post #1: Because it’s against their religion to believe that. That’s why. It is that simple. Just like it’s against the religion of those who believe in Believer’s Baptism to accept Infant Baptism...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== It’s amazing the straw-clutching that people will indulge in, to try and find support for cherished doctrines that are not actually based on Scripture. And much can be learned by taking note of the...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== Post #7 does an exceptionally good job of demonstrating why Thayer felt the need to insert theological statements into his Greek-English lexicon (translation dictionary) regarding the word translated...
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    Proverbs 26:4-5

    ============================================================================================== Post #6: Post #7: Yet both spoke.;) ============================================================================================== Post #5: The Septuagint (LXX) does express the homily of...
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    The Soul Survives Death

    ============================================================================================== Definitions are interesting things. They are powerful things. They can encapsulate truth, or they can promote gross untruth. Mental conditioning is also a powerful tool. Within the realm of Middle...
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    Paul's description of salvation "in Christ"

    ============================================================================================== Albion (Post #16): So, MennoSota was correct when he said: The Spirit of God does a wonderful job of immersing (baptizing) us into Christ so that we are entirely immersed into Him. And Arsenios was...
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    Paul's description of salvation "in Christ"

    ============================================================================================== Arsenios (Post #10): The Bible (1 Corinthians 12:13): ==============================================================================================
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    OT post flood genealogy off a tad according to original hebrew text

    ============================================================================================== Andrew (Post #3): Most definitely so. No problem. I think people will have noted by now, that I offer (from my perspective, jaundiced or otherwise as it may be), acknowledgement of things that I...
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    work out your own salvation Php 2:12

    ============================================================================================== MennoSota (Post #66): What an interesting question. Was it asked because I have found the vast majority of video links over the years to be strongly biased and therefore unhelpful and demoralising...
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    OT post flood genealogy off a tad according to original hebrew text

    ============================================================================================== Once again I have ignored my own advice to myself about not watching linked videos. I did so because I detected a possibility of scholarship versus the drum beating and sermonising I had been exposed...
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