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I fully agree the Rich Man represents the Jews...but Lazarus doesn't represent any Jew, but Gentiles. How? If you remember that time when Jesus went up North, there was a Syro-Phoenician woman there that begged Him to heal her daughter...and finally, when Jesus said, "It's not meet...

Then why to you teach Jesuit eschatology? There is no "trinity" which says "God is one being". The KJV describes the "Godhead" as 3 Beings/1 God, just as ice/water/steam is all H2O. "There are Three that bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One". -...

You don't care about hermeneutical consistency. If the Rich Man and Lazarus and Abraham have bodies after they're dead but before the resurrection, Jesus is a liar as well as Paul, because Paul only describes TWO kinds of bodies, and Jesus said that when the whole body is cast into hellfire...

What, you running away without answering my question? Typical. We SDAs NEVER cut and run and leave a challenged unanswered.

What questions have I refused to address? None. It's YOU who can't answer why it is that God wants us to "hate without a shred of love" our parents (though He said honor them) but we're to "love without any hate whatsoever" pagan "non-brethren" strangers - which you claim is what the Bible...

Man, you just reminded me that I've got a very short work week this week! Thanks man and Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

The "gates of hell" simply means "the state of being dead". Jesus is simply saying dearly departed saints will not be dead forever, but will rise in the resurrection. Yes, "death" is a place of "darkness" and "silence" and "no praise for God" - because those who pass from life to death no...

You mean, facts that are "closer" to errors? Because Paul said there were "many" in his day who worked to "corrupt the Word of God" - right or wrong? It has EVERYTHING to do with catholics and their war on the Bible. Again, there's far more to consider than MSS that is "closer" to the...

Says who? "Who but those with Roman catholic sympathies could ever be pleased with the notion that God preserved the true NT text in secret for almost 1,000 years and then finally handed it over to the Roman Pontiff for safe-keeping?" - Les Garrett, 1982 Which Bible Can We Trust? Any "Bible...

The only doctrine we share with JWs is that the soul is mortal, and I'm sure a closer inspection would reveal a not so commonality. Yes, we also teach "Michael the Archangel is Jesus" - but that's where the similarity ends. They totally twist this once widely accepted Bible doctrine into an...

Why would you ask "please show where comparative language is used" after already claiming it's "not there"? Objective scholars don't pass judgment before the evidence has a chance to speak: "There was a certain rich man..." in Luke 16 is comparative language to other parables which also use...

Since you can't point to a specific text prohibiting the use of specific names or places in a parable, your claim is purely subjective and may by safely discarded. And, there's a perfectly good reason why Jesus used those names - as for "spiritual location" He used none. If by "soul" you mean...

If a Christian doesn't practice sound hermeneutics ("Biblical interpretation"), rely on credible MSS ("Peshitta", "Textus Receptus", anything beside those filthy Western or Alexandrian MSS families), have knowledge of languages, time period, culture, circumstances, and context, he has no...

Truth welcomes the opportunity to stand the test of scrutiny - it doesn't ignore it.

Your frustration is not with me, but with your inability to disprove my position. Paul clearly says he'd "rather" to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord" in his resurrection body so that he wouldn't be "naked" and "unclothed" dead in the grave. Is there any other...

I'm not JW. I've shown you that the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus uses the very comparative terms you speak of. It's no secret that Hellenized Jews were confused about many things, including the subject of what happens when we die. So, Jesus drew from their thinking elements for use in...

"My" concept? It's from Genesis 2:7 KJV, not me. As for "God has a soul" - I already dealt with that. "Soul" not only means "whole person" but also means "life" - it doesn't mean what you and paganism say it means.

May God grant you the healing you need, my friend.

The only way to obtain God's intended message is through accurate hermeneutics.

How can inaccurate hermeneutics result anything but inaccurate messages? "Judas went and hanged himself". "Go and do likewise". We can find a message in there, but it's not Biblical by a longshot.