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Support Israel? OK, which Israel?

...el-of-the-bible/ http://www.daniels70weeks.com/ http://benirwin.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/if-you-think-standing-with-israel-means-never-criticizing-them-youre-going-to-have-to-get-a-new-bible/ http://5ptsalt.com/2011/03/19/jesus-christ-is-israel/  ...

Was there death before the Fall?

...It is often said and believed by many that our souls are immortal - that God gave us a spirit/soul that cannot die when he created us, and that death was not even a concept or reality before Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. Despite this idea being a fairly "recent" concept (in terms of history and theology), and it stemming from Greek philosophy, it's also not supported by the Biblical text - especially in Genesis. Lets look at the creation account in Gen 2:7— then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. The word "being" in that verse, or "sou...

Evidence of the Trinity in the Hebrew Scriptures

...r English bibles. I'm no Hebrew scholar, so rather than try (and probably fail) to explain the language nuances to you, I sought permission to post a copy of the original article here. I hope that the information provided is as helpful to you as it was for me. The original article begins below. Let me know your thoughts in the comments! Jewishness and the Trinity In a recent question-and-answer article, Rabbi Stanley Greenberg of Temple Sinai in Philadelphia wrote: Christians are, of course, entitled to believe in a trinitarian conception of God, but their effort to base this conception on the Hebrew bible must fly in the face of the overwhelming story of...

BOOK REVIEW: Four Views on Hell 2nd edition

...This is a guest post by David Jakubovic. The views are that of the author and don't necessarily reflect the views of That Ancient Faith. A 20 year update of the 1996 book by the same name, this slim volume (211 pages) is a helpful cross-section of current evangelical thought on Final Punishment, sampling Denny Burk on Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT hereafter), John Stackhouse Jr on Conditional immortality (CI hereafter), Robin Parry on Christian Universalism (CU hereafter) and Jerry Walls on (a Protestant) Purgatory. Preston Sprinkle pens both Introduction and Conclusion, plus there are Scripture, Author and Subject indices. The Introduction sets the scene,...

Is The Rapture Biblical?

...tps://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/scofield-reference-notes/1-thessalonians/1-thessalonians-4.html...

The Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

...tps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=prov+8%3A22-31%3B+Sirach+24%3A1-22%3B+Wisdom+7%3A21-27&version=NRSV Matthew J. Ramage, Dark Passages of the bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI & Thomas Aquinas; (The Catholic University of America Press 2013), p. 30 [Footnotes 14 and 15]...