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@Clete likes to go think about hard questions after he says goodbye. Don't give up on him.

@Clete If this 3-way choice doctrine is true, it seems to me that it would be an extremely important Christian doctrine. And yet in my...

Some appreciate it, not because it is true (surely you would appreciate it if it were truth), but because it makes you question your...

Sin is not an attribute. Sin is a thought that generally leads to an action.

Is sin not outside of God?

Might I suggest that the comment is unpleasant because it exposed a flaw in your beliefs. Instead of the knee-jerk reaction, you should...

I don't think it says that anywhere. Please cite if you can find it. Not that I think you are wrong that He was looking for repentance...

You may be over thinking it. If God is everywhere, which doesn't really have direct scriptural support, then He wouldn't need to go down...

You'll have to explain that one to me, as I don't see it in Matt 28.

If these people are not saved, but believed in Christ, were baptized and received the Holy Spirit, how could any of us trust that our...

Unlikely does not mean impossible. Rare does not mean non-existent. God is not a magician and is not capable of forcing someone to want...

We've been over that in this thread already, and have determined that the wording could work with either interpretation without doing...

It could be that such a person is non-existent because of the way God works in each person toward his sanctification--that the result at...