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Not interchangeably. God's spirit/breath made the dust come to life. Man's soul didn't exist prior to God's breathing, but God's breath surely did. So as long as you "know" something, the rest of us can just take your word for it? I guess we will see the resolution of every disagreement in...

So you say. Yet "spirit" and "soul" are both used in Genesis 2:7. "נְשָׁמָה" (breath) is sometimes translated "spirit". And I should trust that reference? Why?

You are "truly" alive?

God didn't "give" man a soul, according to your reference. God did give His spirit when he breathed into Adam the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. If God's breath is required to make a man live, then that breath can return to God when man dies. But if man can die, he's not...

Welcome to the forum, Soul. But not omnipotent, omniscient or omnipresent? Why not? And if not, how can you be sure of the "immortal" part, especially when God said they could die? Doesn't "immortal" mean you either can't or won't ever die? Therefore, if immortality was part of God's image in...

Who gave man such a terrible nature?

Or that God would willingly cause someone to reject him and then send them to hell.

And thus you reveal your own Dark Theology.

I know some quite well, and your assessment is not accurate. Like all of us, they get bogged down in some of their theology, but many are doing good work for Christ.

Some are worse than others. They just seem to shut off their brains when someone points out the inconsistencies.

You seem to be saying that the "good news" is that some people will be damned to eternal torment because God wanted them to be.

SO I HAVE SPOKEN, SO LET IT BE DONE!!

Then Christ's sacrifice is not sufficient for their salvation. You are adding to the gospel.

I appreciate the clarification, and it is in keeping with most Christian orthodoxy. But the limited atonement you normally speak of is not what is spoken of in the Bible. God desires all people to repent, not just some. If there are any he does not desire to repent, that means he desires for...

If he actually saved them when he died, then no "elect" person afterward was ever dead in their trespasses and sin. Every elect person born after Christ died was not saved from sin, because they had no sin to be saved from--Christ had already saved them from it before they existed.

Meaning, "If scripture doesn't agree with me, then you must be interpreting it incorrectly."

If human, and if alive, then created equal and has right to life.

Did you go back and read the Ai story? The Israelites, at God's command, faked running away from the army of Ai to allow the city to be taken. If that's not deceptive, what is it? I applaud your desire to maintain God's moral character, but somehow the story of Ai needs to fit into that...

Why is it ok for God to deceive the people of Ai, but not Judas? Didn't he have it coming to him?

Thanks for sharing that, ffree. But you can see that the ambush tactic God told them to use was a deception, right?