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Recent content by BobRyan

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    The authority of Ellen White...

    It's a fundamental question asked by people in every age any time they are dealing with someone making the claim of receiving messages from God. Whether that person is a false prophet, or a Bible writer or someone like Aggabus in the book of Acts who writes no scripture at all but has prophetic...
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    Is purgatory a Biblical or extra biblical teaching?

    Even the Catholic church claims this is a doctrine from tradition and not scripture. 1 Cor 3 makes no mention at all of a "person" being purged or burned. It talks about the teaching of a person being purged away (from the church) if that teaching is found to be incorrect.
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    Is purgatory a Biblical or extra biblical teaching?

    in any case they do not speak of someone who is destined for heaven but is in a temporary holding area burning off , purging off, their un met debt and then to be sent on their way to heaven
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    Is purgatory a Biblical or extra biblical teaching?

    1. The book of 2 Mac is not in the pre-NT scriptures of the Jews or the NT scriptures of the Christians 2. Even 2 Mac 12 flatly denies any benefit at all being realized by the dead, apart from the resurrection. 3. The whole point of the popular purgatory doctrine is the immense benefit realized...
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    Is purgatory a Biblical or extra biblical teaching?

    No it is not in scripture. The idea that saved people go to purgatory to work off debt, suffer for debt, become more fitted for heaven, and then go do heaven is not in scripture. What is more Catholic sources declare that purgatory suffering is far worse then any suffering humans endure on...
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    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    Good point. Just because one symbol exists, or because one parable exists does not mean we can declare open season on all of scripture and then bend and wrench the text to any preference that atheistm or evolutionism or ... may wish.
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    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    there is no "Was destroyed" language at all in Genesis 1 prior to day one. Not according to Genesis 6 and 7. In the actual Bible the flood is a consequence of mankind's rebellion on Earth against the Law of God Genesis 1 shows the transition from "not habitable" to "habitable" Earth
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    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    Some assume that our Creator God knows nothing about origins, spoke nothing about it but instead prefers myth, legend and various forms of untruth. But Christ Himself stated "I AM the way the TRUTH and the Life" in John 14, rather than "the untruth" the "myth", non-accurate-legend. Scripture...
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    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    Looking at literal legal code in Ex 20:8-11 appealing to the very Bible details belief in evolutionism needs to ignore. the decision is pretty easy. true. So that is not even in the column of debated things. neither do people think the real Jesus in Matt 23 had wings, but still Jesus was...
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    Why Christianity

    Read the Bible Start with Genesis 1-3 Then John 1-4 You can find a Bible here https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=NASB1995
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    Do you believe in Creationism or Evolutionism?

    True enough. Atheists have argued that for a long time. Belief in evolutionism as the "creator" needs no god at all As noted in Gen 2 it is "The account" of the creation of Earth. It is an accurate historic account according to the text. We do get that a lot from our atheist friends but we...
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    Post-tribulation Rapture Believers Safe House

    from "one end of the SKY to the other" has nothing about "local only" "ALL nations will see" has nothing in it about "Local only" 1 Thess 4:13-18 is just like Matt 24 , it does not explicitly say "end up in heaven" but we know that is exactly what happens at the rapture. The saints are taken to...
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    Post-tribulation Rapture Believers Safe House

    Matt 24 makes no mention at all of a future 7 year tribulation Armageddon is in Rev 16, Rev 19 and Rev 20 with Gog and Magog gathered against the Holy City in Rev 21. That is not mentioned at all in Matt 24. So then just sticking with what we have in Matt 24 since it so explicitly puts the...
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    AND WHAT IS THE ONLY APOSTLE TO. THE GENTILES. MEAN IN. GAL 6:16. ??

    context; Blessings vs Curses. You are right we see the fulfillment of the curses but the blessed path is missing. To this very day we do not have a nation of Israel accepting the Messiah, accepting the Gospel. Following God's direction. Deut blessings vs curses. Two possible futures for Israel...
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    Post-tribulation Rapture Believers Safe House

    it is a verbatim quote in NASB. 30 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet...