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The Feast of First Fruits is not itself a sabbath day. Thursday was Passover (which began Wednesday night at nightfall. Friday was a...

Yep. I didn't know what the festival or Fat Tuesday was before a few years ago.

My choice? Not if the choice was known ("determined") prior to my existence. Then it was someone else's choice. Open Theism is the only...

So, I was watching a movie several evenings ago and the main character was reading the last of a list of 100 books that everyone should...

Do you think, though, that the idea of Mardi Gras is a perverse way to start a festival of sacrifice?

James is indeed talking about justification but he isn't implying that the readers themselves are necessarily unsaved but he is talking...

I love it when you do such a good post. I don't agree with all you said, but yours is a post-of-the-day imo.

Did you read my whole post? Those two statements refer to the two different ways if interpreting what James wrote. Please go back and...

It seems like you have been leaning that way for awhile. And maybe you are, but I wonder how long you will stay. You are correct, of...

You are proposing, if I understand you correctly, that James is telling his audience how to be saved. If that is the case, then they are...

That's not true. You can start and stop playing the game whenever you wish. The developers don't determine whether you play or when. If...

Your theological view of 'sovereignty' leads to the same conclusions Calvin had and you cannot logically stop short of a God that makes...

And? Why is that a problem?