4- God's Only Begotten Son

Note: This post summarizes what is written in this entire section.   A.    Introduction If Jesus is not God, who was he? A random man who became perfect? I believe Scripture shows both that reincarnation is biblical and that Jesus was the reincarnation of Adam and David. Reincarnation also relates to universal salvation, as if reincarnation is biblical, universal salvation becomes intellectually possible as even those who died without hearing the gospel and being saved could

Section 3 of my blog, Universal Salvation, shows that universal salvation is biblical. God will make it happen. One way God has made it happen is through Jesus preaching to the imprisoned spirits in 1 Peter 3:19-20 and 4:6 for their salvation. While these verses are an amazing example of God’s grace and love towards all, even towards those who died in the flood whose every thought was inclined towards evil (Genesis 6:5), Peter seems to indicate that Jesus’ preaching in these

While Christians universally agree that sanctification, or holiness, is one of the goals of the Christian life, and that a Christian’s eternal state will be sinless, there are varying perspectives on how a Christian will become sinless. Protestants generally believe that upon death, a Christian, regardless of if they are “perfected” or “sinless”, goes straight to heaven and enters God’s presence. Catholics believe that when a person dies, God immediately judges them and deter

There is an intermediate state between death and the final resurrection when Jesus returns. This is shown in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). In “Hades”, this intermediate state, Lazarus and Abraham are comforted and the sinful rich man is tormented. There is memory of the past for those in this parable. This state also involves fellowship with Christ, as Paul wants to be there with Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:8, Philippians 1:23) as that is where Christ is

Helpful Background on Reincarnation 1.              The definition of reincarnation is: the rebirth of “the aspect of an individual that persists after bodily death” (sometimes referred to as soul or spirit) in another body (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2024). The Bible distinguishes between the soul and the spirit (Hebrews 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:23). The “soul” is who a person is, and it is that aspect that reincarnates if reincarnation is real. Adam, for example

A.        Reincarnation is unbiblical because people are destined to die once, and after that face judgment. Hebrews 9:24-28 “For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had t

Note: While the commentary is mine, I owe many of the Scripture references to the ideas of Kevin Williams in his book, "Nothing Merciful Than Reincarnation" (2019). A.             John 9:1-3 “ As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi,  who sinned,  this man or his parents, that he was born blind ?’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him .’” If reincarnatio

A.    Malachi 4:5  “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet   before  the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” If God meant He would send someone LIKE Elijah before the day of the Lord, why didn’t He say so? Why did He simply say He will send Elijah? If this is best to not interpret literally, why not? Maybe John the Baptist is literally Elijah. (Williams, 2019a) B.    Luke 1:17 “…and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah,  to turn the hearts of the

A.        Micah 5:2 “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” Jesus is “from of old, from ancient days." He clearly existed before his birth in Bethlehem. John 1:29-30 “The next day he [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he

Is there biblical evidence that Jesus had any other past lives? A.    Was Jesus God’s “only” son? John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son , that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” “Only”, of course, means “exclusively” – the only one. How can this be true if God called others His “son” in Scripture? What made Jesus unique – the “only Son”? For example, in psalm 2:7 David says, “I will tell of the decree: the Lord s

How was Jesus able to be a perfect sacrifice for the world? How did he have the strength to accomplish what he did on the cross? 1.     David was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14, Act 13:22). Unlike in the life of Adam, we see in the life of David the foundations of the kind of man who could be Christ: one who sought the Lord with all of his heart, repented when confronted with sin (Psalm 51), and desired God above all else (Psalm 27:4). David loved and worshipped

1.     The type of reincarnation believed in Hindu, Buddhist, and other religions is decidedly unbiblical. However, reincarnation is biblical and a means by which God sanctifies His people as shown most notably in the person of Jesus, similar to the Catholic doctrine of purgatory. Universal reincarnation exists. The gospel message of grace and justification by faith does not change. The New Testament is clear that any Christian, upon death, goes to be immediately with Jesus i

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