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Seems pretty obvious to me

I've already told you.

I wasn't intending to make a distinction. We neither become angels (automatically, or by our own efforts) nor are turned into them (by God).

If you look at the verse I quoted from I Corinthians, it suggests that after the resurrection we will indeed be "higher" than the angels! Because God will raise us up to reign with Christ over all creation. But that's not the same as being turned into angels.

It's a very popular belief. But the Bible is quite clear that human beings and angels are different categories of being. We were made "a little lower than the angels" (Psalm 8:5), we are served by angels (Hebrews 1:14), and in the age to come we shall judge angels (I Corinthians 6:3) In the age...

This really isn't logical. None of the food we eat has exactly the same "cellular structure" as our own bodies, but animal foods will be a lot closer than anything plant-based. Milk, of all things, has no "cellular structure" anyway. It's a liquid which may have a few odd cells floating around...

That's a very good point!

Only if deciding not to wear make-up was part of your fast when you started. Make-up has nothing to do with witchcraft that I know of. And Jezebel wasn't a witch. There is one reference to her putting on her make-up, just before she was put to death (II Kings 9:30), but that was an act of...

I don't find this logical. The more familiar one is with the Scriptures, surely the less of a problem it is when a phrase or sentence isn't repeated quite so many times. I read God's Word (NIV) a great deal, and I've never found these "missing" bits a problem, because I can still read them in my...

What these lists never tell you is that the vast majority of the "omitted" phrases and verses are actually duplicated elsewhere in the Bible - especially in the Gospels. So you will find them in the newer Bible translations - just not necessarily in all the places where you expect them to be...

Your interpretation is impossible because the word "chosen" (or "elect") is plural. So it can't possibly be referring to Peter; it has to be referring to the expatriates. Greek rules for word order are very different from English. It's not unusual to have two words that actually belong together...

I don't see the problem. What is it to you if I use and memorise a different translation (which I do)? The meaning doesn't change! And nobody that I meet 'in the flesh' uses the KJV anyway!

Sorry, but this is patently untrue. Just choose the translation you want to use, and memorise that one! And with digital bibles, each one comes with its own built-in concordance. I've never met anyone who struggles with the differences between translations. Most people find it useful to compare...

As a general rule, God speaks through the Bible. Anyone can "hear" Him speak in this way. But occasionally He speaks directly and personally. He did so to me, once. It was a few weeks after I became a Christian (at the time, I didn't know that I was a Christian), and He told me to get baptised...

v15 (NIV): "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." Christ has destroyed Satan’s work; but He has also defeated Satan himself, and along with him all the spiritual powers that have held sway over the human race...

Cuneiform is not alphabetic writing but something totally different. There is however NO evidence that the Israelites possessed any written documents (even clay tablets) before the time of Moses. The earliest reference to writing in the Bible is in Exodus 17:14. In all probability, Noah lived...

Your reasoning is broadly correct. However, in Romans 6:4 the main clause is about our baptism, not Jesus' resurrection. The purpose/intention of our baptism is that we should live a new kind of life from then on. When we are baptised (Paul is assuming believer's baptism here), we identify with...

We know that alphabetic writing was invented around about the time of Moses. So Noah couldn't have written anything. The story of the Flood (and all the other stories in Genesis) had been handed down orally until Moses wrote them down. Many of them bear the marks of orally recited stories (e.g...

Nether do I. I wouldn't dismiss anything from the Bible that's factual (the gospels, the historical records). But not everything in the Bible was intended to be factual, and it would be a crude distortion to interpret it that way.

This question only ever seems to arise in certain cultures - I can't imagine it being asked in the UK. Interracial marriage here is completely normal. The reason why Israelites were forbidden to marry 'outside' was religious, not racial (because each nation had its own national god). Converts...