Recent content by Lon

Yes, but we aren't talking about a best guess, we are talking about prophecy in which Jesus couldn't be wrong. No. It just doesn't make sense to even entertain the idea. 3 times and a rooster crowing. Can God 'make' that happen? Sure, but we aren't given that as anywhere near evident...

Remember again, that was after His resurrection.

This is a contrast between those with the Spirit and those without, He continues "this should not be!"

Do you reckon He knows it now? Realized He divested Himself of deity to take on a human body. ...at that time. Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Others have expressed the Jesus immediately gave them the signs leading up...

Sorry, Clete said "whishy washy' and so it forced a strong stance at that venture, but it is good in the sense that it has brought up a stark need for discussion. I understood why I was put on ignore and appreciate it. 🆙 "Before the rooster crows, you will have denied me (exactly) three...

It is VERY hard to not see omniscience in Peter and Jesus' dialogue without a very hard song and dance (gently, but firmly): Matthew 26:33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. 34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto...

Are we comparing fruit? Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Long-suffering, and Self-control? Are they not all of the same 'tree?'

Rather, it was the breaking. They weren't 'free' to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The act and eating of the fruit of the tree were one and the same: knowledge and 'freedom' of good and evil. It was always a trading of masters. We were always owned. "Free" is a...

Of course, wherefore would the Serpent have lied? It isn't a bad suggestion. We either see the serpent as Satan, possessed, or a wicked animal? Creation can be good. The book of Job tells us Satan had access and conversation with God. If the serpent were kept in a cage, it'd have saved...

I cannot say, such is a matter between Savior and soul. I'd reckon that one is in grave territory. In a sense, we could bring up Papal abuses: Were those priests God's? I don't know. If fruit was enough, we'd reckon not. Else we would all be lost. As such, I reckon we deal with...

More than, created in His image to do so. However, sin broke that: "Not that we loved God, but that He loved us..." It is why I believe we are born in sin. The passage says we didn't/couldn't love God until He saved us. Perhaps you had a 'choice' at one time in your life to 'not love'...

The thrust of the verse isn't about 'cut down' but rather about God's desire, patience, and long suffering without seeing fruit. I'd reckon crab apples the next season would be at least something.

A game is completely known by a game programmer. There is absolutely nothing you can do in it that wouldn't be already known. There is absolutely nothing (nothing) that you have seen or done that isn't done in His creation. He is the programmer by analogy of all we experience. Then, by...

In short: Only Indians are allowed to draw Indians, only blacks are allowed to draw and use blacks. Only whites are allowed to draw whites? "No, that is okay, we aren't 'thin skinned.' 🤔 The problem with 'bleeding hearts' is no critical thinking skills or ability to follow ideas to...

Selective reading on point. It starts with Jesus, 'Was He God?" "Did He exist." Agnostics and critics miss "critical steps" in analysis, purposeful obtusion for secular obvious reasons. Your universalism is showing. Ideology is mutually exclusive. Attempts to blend are simply pick and...