Jas 3.1

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I'm a born-again Christian, active member of the body of Christ, husband and father, and Bible teacher. I love to study Scripture, and firmly believe it is the only credible standard for truth.

Aside from my devotion to God, His people, and His word, I don't really have any loyalty to a particular doctrine or creed.

(The guy in the picture is Zhuge Liang from the movie Red Cliff.)

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1d	comment	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection This also doesn't answer my question about age, etc. Also, will a 500 lb man be raised in his old 500 lb body? Will a body builder still look freakishly over-muscled? Or is there some idealized age, weight, build, etc. that (part of) their old atoms will be redesigned into?
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1d	comment	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection I don't understand... it seems like you are giving me three different answers here. Are you saying the physical atoms that used to be a part of the person's body will come out of the dirt, air, water, etc. and recollect to form their old body again? Or that they form a different (new) body? Will there be additional atoms? If so, where do they come from? Or will the new body be made of something different? And what does "transformed" mean? I'm looking for an explanation of the view that our old body will literally be raised from the grave, not a defense of the "new body" view.
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May 13	comment	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection (-1) Great verse, and I agree with your interpretation, but this is not an answer to my question. This is more of a defense of the "new body" view, not an explanation of the "old body resurrected" view, which is what I was asking about.
May 13	comment	Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood? @RyanFrame I edited the answer -- let me know if it is more clear now.
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May 13	comment	Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood? @RyanFrame As I was saying, it is similar to asking why God didn't just send Jesus to be the Passover Lamb instead of having the Israelites sacrifice an actual lamb; Jesus is the true Passover Lamb, but that only makes sense to us because there was an actual passover lamb first. Likewise, Jesus is the true Noah, whose family will be spared from the destruction of the world, but that only makes sense to us because there was an actual Noah first. By giving us Noah, God helped mankind understand Jesus. Without Noah, Jesus wouldn't make as much sense to us. That's why we needed Noah first.
May 12	comment	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection Related: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/1646/…
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May 12	revised	Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood? added 200 characters in body
May 12	answered	Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood?
May 11	answered	How can Heaven exist if we know that people in Hell will suffer?
May 11	comment	Are the souls in heaven conscious of their previous earthly existence? @AffableGeek With that said, there is disagreement over whether our current bodies will be raised imperishable, or whether we will receive new bodies of some sort... and of what sort that might be. So, I still think Dan's request to specify a denomination and context is warranted.
May 8	comment	How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? @MattWhite The problem is that it doesn't look 13.75 billion years old at all... and yet somehow that continues to be the accepted model. There are a whole slew of examples, some of which make it look much, much, much older if you go with a big-bang model (e.g. horizon problem), and others which make it look much younger (e.g. spiral galaxies.)
May 7	comment	Does the Bible give us any indication of why God created such a vast universe with so much stuff in it? @RexKerr I think these passages do address the vastness. (1) Could it be that when God created 29 gigaparsecs worth of stars, He needed that many "for a sign"? Or to distinguish light from darkness? We wouldn't know how big the universe was if we couldn't see stars out there! (2) Also, as our technology continues to advance, what we see continues to give us a sense of awe at the greatness of God's works, and a sense of our own smallness relative to God. (3) And "innumerable" continues to mean "innumerable" as we see farther and farther into space.
May 7	comment	Does the Bible give us any indication of why God created such a vast universe with so much stuff in it? @RexKerr From your comments, though, I get the sense that you wouldn't be satisfied with an answer unless it explained the existence of every last bit of material in the universe. I think that is unrealistic.
May 7	comment	Does the Bible give us any indication of why God created such a vast universe with so much stuff in it? @RexKerr Let me draw an analogy. Suppose someone asked "Does Scripture give us any indication as to how God created the universe?" The answer would be "yes" because Scripture does give us some indication. That does not mean that Scripture gives us every detail of every part of the creation of the universe -- just that it gives us some direction in answering the question. Since the OP wanted to know why there is so much stuff out there besides the sun and moon, all I needed to show was that Scripture gives us some indication of why He created stars.