Genesis 2:7....Prior to this event where was Adam? If you've read Chapter 1, you will know where Adam was! He didn't exist as yet, on the 6th day God created Him out of dust and then Eve out of Adam's rib! Gen. 1:26,27 is informing us that God said to Jesus (Who was with Him in the beginning) for the Bible teaches God created and Jesus created, so God is the first person, Jesus is the second and the Holy Spirit, 3 persons but only One God, let us make man in our image and Adam was created on the 6th day of creation and then on the 7th God rested!
Actually I believe you are mocking and testing me which may not be but that is the way it seems to me! In the beginning God created Heaven and earth and all there is for before this God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit existed but the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep! God said let there be light and there was light, for what He spoke was done by His Holy Spirit! Nothing was created without God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit! God was, is and always will be....how He became to be I do not know, as far as I know Almighty God, the Creator of everything was and is forever the Everlasting Father Whom loved us so much when the world became too sinful and needed a Savior, He sent His only, begotten Son, born of a virgin by the overshadowing of her womb by His Holy Spirit and she conceived Jesus, Who is our Savior and Lord when we believe in and accept His life, death and resurrection from the tomb for He lived again and He is alive today and lives in the hearts of true believers who serve Him, faithfully! IS 9:6....Tells about Jesus and Who He is: For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Child is given: and the government will be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace! Births foretold...MT 1:18-25! By the way, Joseph knew not Mary (have intimate relations with her) until after she birthed her first born son, JESUS! She had more children as Jesus had brothers and sisters! Jesus is also the first begotten of the dead, for after His mortal death He arose up into heaven on clouds of glory by which He will return to gather up His own to take them Home to where He is! Rev. 1.5, MT 26: 32; 1 CO: 15: 13, 20; COL 3:1
God is Love 1 John 4: 16 and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth with God and God in him (Born again Christians) verse 19, We love Him because He first loved us! John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only, begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life! Eternal life with Jesus for where He is there we shall also be! Amen!
God is a God of Wrath! IS. 13: 9 Wrath of God cometh....Ep. 5: 6; Col 3: 6 RE 6:16, RE 11: 18, RE 12:12; RE 14:8, 18:3; Re 14:19, 19:15; Re 15:1, Re 16. 19
The Book of Revelation tells the ending and what will be before the end of the age is finalized and it's meaning is reality and not symbolic! It goes along with what the Israelites suffered under Egyptian rule for 400 years plus and what happened to them before they were finally let go after all the plagues which the last one was death to all the first born and the first born of the animals! The Israelites escaped the deaths of their first born by sprinkling blood above and on their doorposts for the death angel to pass by! Also, when there was complete blackness in Egypt where they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces, the Israelites where they lived in the land of Goshen had light. The plagues of Egypt go along almost like the plagues on the ungodly in the Book of Revelation! It is like the Bible goes from the happenings in the Old Testament and to the same happenings in the New Testament! Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament by dying and then living again to give us the New Testament with God's will being done through the New Testament, for a person must die to leave a will to his/her inheritors and that is what God has done for us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, His Son! We can't inherit anything from our parents unless they die first and that is what our own Savior did by giving us the New Testament on how to live and inherit the Beautiful Kingdom of God, His Father, with Him, when He is our Heavenly Father!
Rev. 21: is not symbolic at all but a warning in the last days before the coming of Christ to get ourselves ready for His return and to stay ready and faithful to Him! Verse 7-8! He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his/her God and he/she shall be my sons/daughters! God is no respecter of person and will save whosoever will believe and serve Him faithfully! But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death! The first death is when our breath of life goes out of our mortal body. Our souls and minds live forever and will never die although our bodies go back into the ground and turn to dust from which the first man Adam was made! The body has no memory in the grave for our spirits are with God and our souls remain alive! MT 7:23...Jesus will cast out those who say they've cast out devils and served Him, but did not and even fooled themselves, that He never knew them and cast them away from Him and into outer darkness with the gnashing of teeth, because that is how terrible it will be to be denied by Jesus in Whom we must have true and sincere faith in His all-forgiving love! I wouldn't be able to give you all the scripture pertaining to your questions, if I lived to 100 as my eyes are failing me and this little space I have for my Computer and to be able to type well is too small and, therefore, I hit a lot of wrong keys and have to reread and retype too many times and often lose what I have typed because of hitting the wrong keys!
I need a regular Computer desk but right now with limited space I just don't have one so my keyboard is level with my Desktop Monitor which makes typing more difficult! Not an excuse...just the facts and I can't remember like I used to as this Christian lady will soon be 80 yrs young and when unhealthy that interferes, too! Will try to answer more from your posts when I am stronger as I can hardly see right now! Love in Christ! God Bless! Ma Betty
. It's totally out of character. I mean would you who have children and claim to love them, lets say they continually do something over and over, burn your child? Would you pour gas on them and ignite the flame? How fast would you end up in prison for such a sick twisted deed? Remember the Jordanian military pilot that they were searching for earlier in the year? He was put in a cage doused with gas and burned to death. Remember the reaction you personally felt towards the persons that committed this act? Now let's put this on a much larger scale. A person lives for 70-80 years and dies. 70-80/years is not a very long time. Does it seem just that a supreme being would burn someone for all eternity for living 70-80 years? Where's the justice? Would that not be the ultimate act of terrorism? Wouldn't that make God the ultimate terrorist? Remember the Bible says God is love. The book of Revelation was given in signs. See Revelation 1:1. So the lake of fire must be symbolic.