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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Important question about Bible verse.

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0Hi Bruce,02br 02br 00The "forgiving" won't occur in either this world or the next. 02br 02br 00Two reasons: Neither in this world, neither in the world to come is closer to the the forgiving than to the speaketh-ing. 0-

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  • 0Hi Bruce,02br 02br 00The "forgiving" won't occur in either this world or the next.
  • 02br 02br 00Two reasons: Neither in this world, neither in the world to come is closer to the the forgiving than to the speaketh-ing.
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0Hi Bruce,02br
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00The "forgiving" won't occur in either this world or the next. The sin is assumed to take place in this world.02br
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00Two reasons: Neither in this world, neither in the world to come is closer to the the forgiving than to the speaketh-ing. And logically, it's not likley we'll be doing much speaketh-ing in the next world.02br
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0 The interpretation of texts written nearly 2000 years ago and translated through two or three different languages before finally reaching English is tricky, to put it mildly, but in this case I'm fairly confident that your interpretation is correct regarding the duration of the 'unforgiveness': It's forever.02br
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0Thanks very very much to both of you! So, this means that 1 John 1:9 is not a conflict which was written after the death of Jesus Christ and after the blashpemy against the Holy Spirit. And, ALL sins can be forgiven today!02br
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0Here are St Thomas Aquinas' thoughts on that particular verse:02br
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0 And here are my thoughts on it:02br
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00I may be prejudiced, but I like my version better. So much more succinct, I think. 05002br
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0First, I want to say "Everybody" goes to heaven is an interesting perspective! I wish that were true. 05002br
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00Second, it will take me a couple five times to understand the link that 01font01b00MrPedantic 02b02font00posted. (I'm not that smart.)02br
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0Perhaps this belongs in another section in the forum, but because you are anonymous, you would not get an e-mail saying it has moved. If you reply again, so I know you've read this, I'll move it to "Topic of the Moment," where a religious discussion (rather than a grammatical one) is more appropriate.0-
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00"Everybody" goes to heaven is an interesting perspective! I wish that were true.12blockquote
10All you need is faith. Don't you have any control over what you have faith in?02br
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