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I've heard a person say that Solomon's prime minister aka Benaiah was given keys in a way similar to Peter. Does anyone familiar with the Talmud etc. know if this is true?

ok I have yet to read revelations in it's entirety so I can't really argue with you. If you see revelations as a chronological story written to mean exactly what it says rather than a cryptic set of letters with hidden meanings to protect them from the Romans who would like to destroy them then...

I realize now you weren't referring to that scroll but I thought you were at first that is why I said that. What makes you say that 1000 year reign will happen after Armageddon?

I think those books have written in them the deeds of those men and the names of those God has given/ not given eternal life to thus they will be judged by them. They don’t contain new rules we already have the fullness of revelation. I thought you were referencing this scroll though "And I...

Yes Jesus forgives us and along with forgiveness comes relief from eternal punishment but it doesn't free us from the temporal. This is obvious if one looks at baptism. Baptism forgives us of the guilt of Original sin in doing so it frees us from then eternal consequences of it (aka gives the...

I agree (Except for your overly literal interpretation of Revelation as far as I'm concerned the scrolls, if I know what you’re taking about, were the Book of Revelation and the 1000 year reign is already taking place.) but that is my point. How can someone completely showered by the grace of...

The freedom to kill is not true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the human being to slavery - Pope Benedict XVI

This was written in the second century before the middle ages. "And after the exhibition, Tryphaena again receives her. For her daughter Falconilla had died, and said to her in a dream: Mother, thou shaft have this stranger Thecla in my place, in order that she may pray concerning me, and that...

so the people who he judges worthy of resurrection will not only have the capability of sin but will also use it. and then when they do they will die again.

Why would God remember someone if he was going to judge them to the second death but still leave some people unremembered if he would do nothing but judge them to the second death too? Why judge some to the second death when not remembering them would just leave them in the same place if he’s...

so what do you consider the "resurrection of judgment"

So are you implying some will be worthy of resurrection purely for the sake of eternal damnation and some won't be worthy of it at all.

Good I just wanted to say that my post wasn't a response to what you wrote but to what truthseeker said that is why I quoted him don't think I was implying anything about you. My original address to you was a compliment nothing more.

you mean :"Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment."

But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and shoes, are fit to worship God in, they will do; will they not? -Henry David Thoreau

I agree that we have ended up in moral decay because we have become familiar with it but I think you assumption that we are in the end time is a little bit of a stretch after all about 1500 years ago the greatest empire in the world fell and it people were thrown in the chaos but they brushed it...

Yes I'd agree that man is made for earth but I'd think that all are resurrected not just those God deems worthy and that in the end heaven and earth will be united.

First off great answer Q It is very logical though. the idea is that there is no sin in heaven yet nearly everyone (some would say everyone) is still attached to their sinful actions when they die. We must be perfect to enter heaven but few (an again some would say none) reach perfection on...

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. - Thomas Merton

From what I understand, Christ's obedience in His death to the will of the Father destroys that disobedience which is in us. "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous." Rom 5:19 Christ's perfect giving of His entirety to God...