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What does Ecclesiastes 3:21 mean?

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It is impossible to understand the Book of Ecclesiastes unless we realise that the author is pretending, until the last two verses, that we are living without consideration of the influence of God in our present and future lives.  Thus, when he says in Ecclesiastes 1:14, “I have seen everything that is done under the […]

Who or what is the Advocate or Comforter?

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The conventional answer to this question, according to the doctrine of the Trinity, is that the Comforter is the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit. However that is not the view of the the owners of and contributors to this Bible Answers website, and it is also an answer which comes from […]

What is the “Holy Spirit”?

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The word ‘spirit’ The word ‘spirit’ in Hebrew is the same word (ruakh) as  ‘breath’ or ‘wind’. These are the first two uses in the Bible: Genesis 1:2  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering (or blowing) over the […]

What does “born again” mean?

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The term “born again” only occurs three times in the Bible: twice in John 3:3-7 and once in 1 Peter 1:23. When Jesus introduced the term, Nicodemus didn’t understand what he meant. So Jesus explained ““Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of […]

Does our soul or spirit go to heaven?

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There is one verse that describes a spirit going to heaven when we die: … and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) This is an allusion back to Genesis 2:7 and the creation of Adam. He was made from dust and […]