Posted on 05/21/2016 8:38:01 AM PDT by Salvation
“It has to be millennial if there is mortality.”
Well, considering that Isaiah 65:17, 18 and 19 all refer to the new heavens, new earth and new Jerusalem, I find it extraordinarily doubtful that Isaiah 65:20 would somehow NOT refer to that period. It seems much more likely that people are misinterpreting 65:20 if their interpretation creates such a blatant contradiction.
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>> “Do you wonder how people found God before the Bible was written?” <<
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Very few people found Yehova before he delivered his Torah at Mount Sinai.
Even then only a handful of Israel truly believed. (read about that in Hebrews Ch 3 and 4)
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>> “The thread is about the rapture, ealgeone did a great job of hijacking it to push his agenda about Mary.” <<
The false ‘Mary’ spirit has led millions to eternal damnation. Informing Yehova’s sheep about that demonic hazard is hardly a hijacking.
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You may not but my posts on this and other topics are also for the casual reader who doesn’t post. Christians are called to point out false teachings and the Marian dogmas of Catholicism fit that category.
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Isaiah 65: 20-25 are clearly speaking of biological life, not incorruptible spirit bodies. The verses prior are predictive of NHNE, but not treating it as existing.
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I’ll have to understand your background a bit more before I can answer your question.
Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.Perhaps a hint of what we will be like in the resurrection.
Topic be darned, go for the agenda and false accusations. Heck of M.O. you got going there. I guess this means I am free to post about the idolatry non-Catholics engage in on any thread I feel like.
Recall you interjected Mary into the conversation.
This is Free Republic.
I certainly hope you do a better job in the future than you have here. But from your prior postings my expectations for that will be very low.
There’s no hint of division between Isaiah 65:17-19 and the rest of the chapter, so I think you’re just grasping at straws to say the prior verses do not precede the latter verses. That’s the only thing that could save your interpretation, but there is nothing in the text to suggest that, so why should we believe it unless we are already committed to your interpretation?
But it will always be much better than yours. You might consider getting used to that.
Your post 46 indicates otherwise.
You should try stand up. Still waiting on your Greek rendering of Luke 1:34 to explain how Mary made a vow of perpetual virginity.
Verse 17 looks beyond the kingdom-age to the new heavens and the new earth (see refs. at "create"), but verses 18-25 describe the kingdom-age itself. Longevity is restored, but death, the "last enemy" 1Cor 15:26 is not destroyed till after Satan's rebellion at the end of the thousand years. Rev 20:7-14.
The Plymouth Brethren?
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I did explain it and it seems that only the non-Catholics failed to understand. Like I suggested you might want to see about a different (Catholic) Seminary, or getting a refund.
We will revisit that thread to confirm. Better run out there and post something so you won’t be proven incorrect again.
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