We enter the world of conjecture with an inevitable next question: If animals are spiritual, do they go to heaven? Perhaps the question should be rephrased: did God create intentionally expendable creatures, creatures to be destroyed when their usefulness is over? Those who follow some sort of evolutionary theory, where the lower animals are disposable […]
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“And it shall be, in that day,” says Jehovah, “that you will call Me ‘My Husband’ and no longer call Me ‘My Master’” [Hosea 2:16] In a 1987 (12/21) Newsweek article, a woman was being tried in a court of law for conspiring on three separate occasions to have her husband murdered. Wanting the $200,000
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“Spirit” and “soul” – which, either or both, marks the difference between humans and animals? As mentioned in “Bumblebees, Cherries, and Trinities, both Divine and Human – Trinity Sunday,” the elusive “Life Principle” makes the chemistry of the cell aim in a completely different direction than the way the cell will operate without it –
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Choices – we make them all the time. Most notable is the athlete, who chooses to be inconvenienced and, even worse, to suffer for the sake of his goal. But there are also those who have become handicapped by an accident or disease, who struggle against the hardship and pain, determined to walk again, or
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Over these last few days, I have been revisiting the concept of “Life” in its relationship to “Soul” and “Spirit.” My intention was to develop in more detail the ramifications of how these concepts apply to both humans and animals, which I will be doing. However, I ran into a problem. The problem is when
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This Jesus God raised up, of which we are all witnesses. Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He poured Him out – which you now see and hear. [Acts 2:32-33] Probably you have seen something like this, or heard something like this
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In the previous post on suffering, concerning Barabbas, there is the idea of the innocent taking on the suffering of another person, particularly the penalty that the other person deserves. With Job there is the idea of an innocent person suffering because it is the platform upon which God is accomplishing a greater task. Yet
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When you heard the Voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with Fire, … you said: ‘Surely Jehovah our God has shown us His Glory and His greatness, and we have heard His Voice from the midst of the Fire. … Now therefore, why should we die? For this great
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