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When the only alternative is to force the beings He created to live with Him against their wills, the lake of fire is the only reasonable solution. It's neither madness nor stupidity. It's merciful and loving. So that they could interact with the physical world, since the intent was that man...

Far as I can tell, no one here has said it does, I find this article from John Piper back in the 70s helpful when discussing this topic: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/is-faith-meritorious The answer is no, of course, it is not. Faith does not save you, but it is required to be saved...

Lon, the entire article was about panentheism. If you think otherwise, you either didn't read it, or you weren't paying enough attention to the words on the page.

The way I do it is I type the tags in manually. This is selected, so every time I start a reply to someone, it's just plain text, and not formatted. I then use (some of) the formatting tags from the BB Codes page. (Click on "Help" at the bottom of the page, then click on "BB codes", it has a...

Don't be afraid to experiment with the text editor. We're talking about the Greek manuscripts, are we not? From the New Testament? The Old Testament manuscripts are all in Hebrew. The New Testament ones are mostly in Greek, with a smattering of Aramaic mixed in in places. The only Greek Old...

The language of scholars at the time was Greek. The language of the scriptures Jesus used was Greek (He quoted from the Septuagint). All of the manuscripts of the New Testament we have are in Greek, and only parts of them are in Aramaic. None of them are in Hebrew, and there is no evidence...

Paul talks about the "unsolicited" in Romans 2.

You don't need politicians to run a country. Democracy is one of the tools of Marxism. Democracy is mob rule, slightly slowed. A republic is a democracy, slightly slowed. In them, "politics" and "politicians" are used as perjoratives.

I don't agree with everything the woman being interviewed says, but I think she gives a good answer regarding the reason God doesn't intervene:

Truck drivers have some pretty crazy theology sometimes... I speak from experience! ;D

I asked ChatGPT to summarize the article (I have a subscription to the NYT, but I won't post the article itself due to it being paid content) and this is what it said (do note that the author of the article is very clearly an "Opinion Columnist" who very clearly supports the "trans movement")...

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Saying it doesn't make it so. No one has said otherwise. If the text says one thing, and this secret "cryptic secret" says another, then one is true, and the other is false. The Bible is true, at face value. Therefore your "secret message" is false, because your "secret message" says...

The passage limits the scope of "all things" to what is defined in context. To try to argue that it means anything more than that is to go beyond what the text says. Thank you for conceding the entire discussion, and for admitting Let's stick to what Scripture says. Not what we want it to...

The problem is that, as with any language, including ancient Hebrew and KOINE Greek, any given word has a sphere of meaning. It cannot mean something that it does not mean. When strung together to form sentences, those sentences can only be translated a limited number of ways. And when...

I won't deny the possibility of some demonic activity. But I think what Bob Enyart always said holds more water than demonic activity: Stupid doesn't make you sin, but sin makes you stupid. And these people are sinners wallowing in their sin, in need of a Savior but rejecting Him.

Oh, and this is called "begging the question."