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@Edward429451, I believe that the 1,000-year period in Revelation 20 is symbolic. Let me explain. The context is important. Revelation is divided into several visions, each one starting with details pointing to Jesus' first coming and ending with his second coming. As a result, the 19th chapter...

I agree, @Edward429451, but there are Christian universities out there that teach the biblical perspective primarily.

What do you mean, @Holy999?

Oh, no, @MrE, I made a mistake. I meant "of all humans." It's wet noodle time. :) I'm sorry, folks!

I think that Christian preaching and teaching has swung like a pendulum too far to emphasize God's love and mercy too much compared to his perfect justice. What do you think about his justice and his love?

@WandererAtHeart, I think the key to understanding the verses is "knowledge of the truth." Knowing the truth about God, Jesus, and the Bible doesn't make a person a true Christian. Only God knows people's hearts, but being a Christian involves knowing God personally with a commitment to follow...

The world is so evil, @Holy999, because when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they became self-centered instead being God-centered and passed that selfish evil down to all the generations that followed.

Ah, okay, @Lamb.

No, @Holy999, we will be like the angels in heaven, single and loving God alone. Mat_22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

I've just been in contexts where there were many professing Christians and choices of churches. If people who stop going to any church expressed that they had turned atheist, they would be looked down on. It shouldn't happen, because we need to love everyone, and such a person would be an...

Dictionary.com says the following: Theology., principalities, an order of angels. supramundane powers often in conflict with God. Ephesians 6:12. Supramundane apparently supernatural.

I call that constant search for pleasure hedonism, which follows Satan's "fun-god." It is rampant in our world. How can we overcome it for ourselves? God's Word commands us in 1 Corinthians 10:31, "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." In other words, we...

Here are some relevant Scripture verses for your edification: Luk_24:51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. Act_1:11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same...

Enoch and Elijah had to have been translated into their spiritual bodies, that is, their physical bodies filled and fitted by the Holy Spirit, like the ones we will have in our resurrection, when God took them into heaven: 1Co 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is...

@Frankj, yes, your reasoning is true to Scripture.

@Lamb, these posts are on-topic as criteria that we can use to determine whether a pastor is a good one who is faithful to the Bible's teachings, in this case, the creation of the universe.

The Bible mentions heaven as our destination when we die and God’s creation of the new earth. Are we going to stay in heaven when Jesus returns, or are we going to live on the new earth forever? What do you think the Bible teaches?

I believe that Genesis 1 & 2 are literal, not metaphorical. Why? Because the rest of Scripture affirms the fact that God has created everything and everyone. However, how he creates humanity and the universe is open to discussion. Scientific FACT, not theories like evolution, can help us gain...

I agree with your main premise that we must reason to arrive at true doctrine, @VeritatisVerba, but I want an example of a doctrine that may have "internal inconsistencies" for more specific discussion. What I find in pastors and churches that have strayed from the truth as well as the cults is...