The Narrow Path Ministries

No no no, Paidion! Not through but "because of" or "on account of" The Greek... DIA G1223 διά dia; a prim. prep.; through, on account of, because of: - account (4), after (2), afterward (1), always *(2), because (111), between *(1), briefly *(1), charge *(1), constantly (1), continually *(6), durin...

God had thought by examining their minds and hearts, that they would NOT repent,... - and that God got it wrong . That would not be my idea of an all-wise, all-knowing, omnipotent creator of the universe That is because you think the future is knowable. Besides God didn't "get it wrong". He made no...

If it is absolute, and not conditional, doesn’t it then make God’s declaration a lie, since He didn’t follow through? And God doesn’t lie. No, it's not a lie if God had thought by examining their minds and hearts, that they would NOT repent, and thus didn't KNOW (in the absolute sense of KNOWING) t...

Yes, Homer. It reads the same in Greek as the English translation from which you quoted.

I fully agree with the comments you made in the above post.

Did you notice that the article indicated that probably most modern scholars disagree and "in many cases the expression of the 'larger hope' or of doubt as to the endlessness of future punishment is all that can be fairly claimed"? You didn't state precisely that with which they disagree, and thus ...

According to the Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, in the first five or six centuries of Christianity there were six known theological schools. Out of the six, four were universalist: Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, and Edessa. One of the six, Ephesus, accepted conditional immortalit...

What I was trying to say is that there are no indications that the thief was ever baptize and yet he was saved because he accepted Christ. Neither is there any indication that he "accepted Christ". All he did was to indicate to the other thief that they deserved death, but that Jesus did nothing wr...

Side note: to those of you who lean towards the view that when a person dies, they are dead (no intermediate state) until the resurrection, do you believe this applied to Jesus while he was in the tomb? Yes, I believe Jesus was REALLY dead, just like anyone else when he dies. It's hard to believe t...

... one should examine the variants and see if there might be one or more reasonable way to explain how the different variants came into being. In some cases, the apparent explanation may have to do with scribal fallibility: a scribe may have had a dyslexic moment; a scribe may have mistaken one le...