http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/ Learning how to fly! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:37:25 +0000 http://bloghi.com/ http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/img_ch.hi?id=2541 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/ http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/08/21/another-new-book.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/08/21/another-new-book.html#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:06:26 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/08/21/another-new-book.html This one is available for the cost of shipping as well as downloadable on the website.  Excellent!  www.hopebeyondhell.net http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/08/21/another-new-book.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/03/17/matthew-25-46.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/03/17/matthew-25-46.html#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:57:26 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/03/17/matthew-25-46.html This passage merits some clear explanation on two points. 1. If eternal (aion) means "age" or "period of time" then is eternal life ongoing or also of limited duration?  2. What is the meaning of "punishment" in this passage.  ... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/03/17/matthew-25-46.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/01/15/the-16th-century-roots-of-the-word-eternal-in-scripture.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/01/15/the-16th-century-roots-of-the-word-eternal-in-scripture.html#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:18:17 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/01/15/the-16th-century-roots-of-the-word-eternal-in-scripture.html It is more than just a little interesting that the word aion was never translated "eternal" or "unending" in any writings prior to the 16th Century.  In fact it is extemely rare for a word to have two meanings that are opposite, in this... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2007/01/15/the-16th-century-roots-of-the-word-eternal-in-scripture.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/30/new-website.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/30/new-website.html#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:47:08 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/30/new-website.html ...things have graduated into a 'real' website....many of these articles have been moved to www.LordofAll.net http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/30/new-website.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/08/universalism-the-prevailing-doctrine-of-the-first-500-years-of-christianity.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/08/universalism-the-prevailing-doctrine-of-the-first-500-years-of-christianity.html#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:46:33 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/08/universalism-the-prevailing-doctrine-of-the-first-500-years-of-christianity.html The following is the final summary from the book by J.W. Hansen in 1899.  You can read the entire book here.   Summary of Conclusions.    A few of the many points established in the foregoing pages may here be... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/06/08/universalism-the-prevailing-doctrine-of-the-first-500-years-of-christianity.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/05/31/good-news.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/05/31/good-news.html#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:55 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/05/31/good-news.html A guy using the pen name Gregory MacDonald, (kinda interesting) wrote a book called "The Evangelical Universalist".  Check it out!  http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/05/31/good-news.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/18/aidios-again.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/18/aidios-again.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:59:40 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/18/aidios-again.html J. W. Hanson does a great job of clarifying the difference between aion and aidios and explains the use of these words by classical writers.  Well worth the read if you are still wondering whether or not Jesus taught "eternal" punishment. ... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/18/aidios-again.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/11/more-on-forever-eternal-and-everlasting-aidios-aion-olam.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/11/more-on-forever-eternal-and-everlasting-aidios-aion-olam.html#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:51:26 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/11/more-on-forever-eternal-and-everlasting-aidios-aion-olam.html The following is quoted from Andrew Jukes' book "The Restoration of all Things" Chapter 8 in which he quotes also quotes J.W. Hanson who wrote "The Bible Hell". Without a doubt, the single most important interpretive aspect of the... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2006/01/11/more-on-forever-eternal-and-everlasting-aidios-aion-olam.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/what-is-the-gospel.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/what-is-the-gospel.html#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:59:08 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/what-is-the-gospel.html Ephesians 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/what-is-the-gospel.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/repent-for-the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-at-hand.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/repent-for-the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-at-hand.html#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:38:11 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/repent-for-the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-at-hand.html “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” NKJV `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,' Young's Literal Matt 3: 11"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/16/repent-for-the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-at-hand.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/14/he-answered-i-was-sent-only-to-the-lost-sheep-of-israel.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/14/he-answered-i-was-sent-only-to-the-lost-sheep-of-israel.html#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:09:05 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/14/he-answered-i-was-sent-only-to-the-lost-sheep-of-israel.html Matt 15: 22 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." 23... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/14/he-answered-i-was-sent-only-to-the-lost-sheep-of-israel.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/11/be-still.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/11/be-still.html#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:43:25 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/11/be-still.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/11/be-still.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/05/is-the-head-of-the-house-at-home.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/05/is-the-head-of-the-house-at-home.html#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:31:24 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/05/is-the-head-of-the-house-at-home.html Excellent article by Joe Trull: In order to interpret Paul's domestic teachings correctly, an understanding of family roles and relationships in the first-century world is absolutely essential.  Although Jewish women occupied a position of... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/05/is-the-head-of-the-house-at-home.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/bible-translations-that-have-eliminated-the-pagan-word-hell.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/bible-translations-that-have-eliminated-the-pagan-word-hell.html#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:03:52 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/bible-translations-that-have-eliminated-the-pagan-word-hell.html The following is an updated list of translations that do NOT include the world 'hell': Complete Bible Young's Literal Translation (1891) Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (reprinted, 1902) Fenton's Holy Bible in Modern English (1903) New... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/bible-translations-that-have-eliminated-the-pagan-word-hell.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/temporarily-forever.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/temporarily-forever.html#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:27:27 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/temporarily-forever.html The following is a list of some of the many passages where "forever", "everlasting", "perpetual", etc. have been mistranslated in the KJV.  Most versions contain many mistranslations of this word.  Scripture itself verifies the... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/12/01/temporarily-forever.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/30/thoughts-from-thinkers.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/30/thoughts-from-thinkers.html#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:18:04 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/30/thoughts-from-thinkers.html God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That's not free will. It's like a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I will track you down and blow your... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/30/thoughts-from-thinkers.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/29/history-lesson-did-the-early-church-believe-in-eternal-punishment.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/29/history-lesson-did-the-early-church-believe-in-eternal-punishment.html#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:27:04 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/29/history-lesson-did-the-early-church-believe-in-eternal-punishment.html Even though scripture says it clearly enough this is just too good not to copy here.  Written by Andrew Jukes in 1867 this is a compilation of early church history.  This is chapter 15 of his book The Restitution of all... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/29/history-lesson-did-the-early-church-believe-in-eternal-punishment.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/28/aidios-the-greek-word-that-does-mean-eternal.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/28/aidios-the-greek-word-that-does-mean-eternal.html#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/28/aidios-the-greek-word-that-does-mean-eternal.html Previously I have discussed the words "aion" and it's adjective "aionios" which have been translated in most of our bibles as "eternal", "forever", "everlasting" and other such words, sometimes in passages that just cannot support the meaning... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/11/28/aidios-the-greek-word-that-does-mean-eternal.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/10/06/on-death-and-destruction.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/10/06/on-death-and-destruction.html#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:35:18 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/10/06/on-death-and-destruction.html To be honest I am getting tired of writing on foundational things...yet the foundation needs to be laid, so I have chosen to post this excellent article that explains the words death, destruction, and perishing.  A careful reading... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/10/06/on-death-and-destruction.html#comments http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/09/27/governing-principles.html http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/09/27/governing-principles.html#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:31:49 +0000 http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/09/27/governing-principles.html 1. Consequences: A man reaps what he sows. 2. Authority: If you can be trusted in the small stuff you will be trusted with big stuff. 3. Generosity: Give and it will be given to you. 4. Freedom: When one turns to the Lord one finds freedom... http://flyinabove.bloghi.com/2005/09/27/governing-principles.html#comments