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You are a brave man, JerseyChristian98! You are taking on a subject that most christians, including me, avoid! I usually hate not being able to understand things, but I do recognise that there are certain questions, like this one, that fall into the category of transcendence. What I mean is that...

In Deuteronomy 25 we have the following: 11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. When reading the OT law, it is important to...

Hi folks, Titus 1:2 says ‘resting on the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time.’ So my question is, where is this promise made? Certainly the promise is referred to and the statement repeated several times in the NT: Eph 1:4 for he chose us...

You have made some very interesting connections here, ZMOUTH. I hope you are teaching in a church somewhere and not wasting your talents! But, what do you mean when you say: ‘But of course it has always stood still in the midst of the heaven since the day the heaven and earth was created and...

Guys, can I just say that I wasn’t asking why christ was called the lamb of God, I was asking why he wasn’t called the bull of God or the goat of God, since he was a sin offering and these animals, not lambs, are the substitutes in a sin offering. But, I actually answered my own question a few...

We COULD live as spirits after the resurrection, but God decided that we would have a spiritual body that seems to incorporate both physicality and spirituality. I guess God knows what he is doing! In fact there is no end to the number of things that could be true or possible. God has provided...

When Jesus confronted the religious authorities of his day, this is what he said to them ‘But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.’ Yet earlier in this...

Just start a thread on a subject of your choice and see what happens. If you ask an interesting question, you will get an interesting answer. If the answers are not interesting or miss the point, just ignore them.

Thanks for that. Very interesting!

ok guys. Got the picture. Thanks for your posts!

Perhaps I have not been clear enough! We are told that Jesus is a sin offering, not a guilt offering. By the logic of this, Jesus should be the Bull of God or the Goat of God, although lesser offerings were made if the plaintive was poor i.e. doves, pigeons or even flour. Since Bulls were...

In Rom 8:3 and 2 Cor 5:21 we are told that Jesus is a sin offering. In Leviticus we are told that the sacrifice for sin offerings is goats and bulls. The sacrifice for a guilt offering is a Ram or Lamb. So, why is Jesus called the Lamb of God?

Why would Godly wisdom not be female? God may use masculine pronouns and Jesus was a man, but in the broader scheme, the maleness of christ includes the female. The church is always described as feminine, but clearly the church is made up of men and women. God is bigger than gender. He includes...

I would say that free will is on display everywhere in the bible. The first example is right at the front. Gen 2:17. God tells Adam not to eat from the tree and Adam can choose to obey or disobey this command. He has free will. It is possible to get confused, because the bible sometimes speaks...

I am very glad to hear that you number yourself among the believers and not the ex-believers. As far as I am concerned this forum is just about exchanging ideas. Whether I am right or wrong about any issue is strictly secondary. So long as you are a christian I am delighted. I fight my corner...

Dear LaJolla. Am I missing something? I did read what you wrote and it was encouraging. I also read Isa 28 and have to confess that I didn’t see the connection. I realise that time dilation also involves a contraction of length and perhaps that is what you saw, but I wasn’t certain I has it...

In language a metaphor is a literary device in which, for rhetorical effect, the writer directly refers to one thing as another thing. So, when Jesus refers to John as a ‘son of thunder’ or Shakespeare says ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’ we are using a...

You clearly have had some revelation concerning the relationship between God and light. It is always interesting to hear what another brother has learned. When I read the passages about God being light, I assumed it mean’t light in the moral sense. God is, ultimately a moral person and he deals...