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a figure of speech because no physical death is permanent. every creature will be resurrected

exactly, yes. it has to be understood that when scripture talks about life and death, there is more than one thing called death, and more than one thing called life. He speaks to us of spiritual things, but often in an earthly, human way, so we can understand.

He called Lazarus "dead" only when the apostles failed to understand what He meant by saying he was asleep. to God those who have life, never die. He gives them life, and no one can snatch out of His hand.

this passage is clearly not teaching salvation by works. that's not worth entertaining. but to me one of most important things is that it tells us scripture is meant to be understood as not just historical fact but also allegory. the two wives are literal women and they are also two covenants...

the Law is authored by God, and every work James encourages is in the Law.

you might have those chapters but do you not understand them? the law was not until 430 years after Abraham. the will and effort of mankind under the law cannot save, nor can the will and effort or mankind outside of the law. Salvation is the work of God and God alone. not you.

not of works, lest any man should boast.

it wouldn't be written down if we didn't need to read it :)

no one who truly loves their husband never does a single act of kindness towards Him. with many humans, one has to look beyond the surface to see their love - and with many also, the surface appears loving but underneath it is spiteful. man looks at the outside of the cup; God looks within...

yet just as Christ spoke in John 5, these are dead by the way man speaks, but alive by the way God speaks: Revelation 6:9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with...

every knee will bow, and every tongue confess :) John 5:25-29 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in...

@Beckworth hoping you are still saved today! apparently you can become damned at any moment, since it depends not on the work of God but on human will and exertion according to your gospel, and this being the case, in your worldview, given the nature of humankind, it's rather an inevitability...

it is really something quite amazing to learn that Romans 4 is not in your Bible?!?

if they do not grow, it may be the soil, it may be the lack of water, it may be the birds that eat it - it's not necessarily that the seed was not good

Abraham was justified before God by his faith, and before men by his actions. James is talking about being justified before men. all his examples are about their witness in front of others: feeding the poor, clothing the naked, receiving the messengers - and the sin he accuses of them of...

James talks about neglecting to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, which are not 'repentance'

soul-nostrils, hmm... :coffee::unsure:

that right there tells you your personhood is in your nonphysical component, not your physical body.

a soul which inhabits a body. in the resurrection that body will be raised, and glorified, and we will be reunited with it.