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One chapter earlier, John speaking to the Little Children (believing Jews): But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1John.2.20&version=NKJV

Shouldn't we be calling them "hostesses"?

Just another slow news day, it seems!

Whom does God want to show mercy? Those who call on Him in repentance and believe. How shall they call if they haven't believed? How shall they believe if they haven't heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? No one denies that. The problem is that faith is not God's action, it's...

I'm really not. Reward bad behavior, and punish good behavior. And not because he is completely incapable of doing so, but because He refuses to do so, because doing so would be unjust. Supra. It's important to note the difference between the definition I gave, and the "classical" (read...

Doesn't what? Again, you're missing the forest for the trees. The ENTIRE "COLUMN" was laid down by the Flood. Every single layer. All of the creatures found in the mile-deep of sedimentary layers are of their own "kinds." Evolution didn't happen. The layers were "sorted" during the flood...

That's nice. Yes, and sometimes those uses of "gods" plural are referring to angels or men. Indeed. Hence the rest of my argument. Saying it doesn't make it so. *"God" God is not cruel, despite your accusations to that effect. God is indeed a jealous God. If you think God is...

Unfortunately, sometimes people are silly, and say God can. I was just covering my bases. Noted! And this is why I said the above. Because "nothing is beyond capability" includes, but is not limited to, the irrational. Hence the disclaimer. I mean, He can't force someone to love Him...

Yes. That discomfort is a result of the cognitive dissonance between reality and what you believe. Keep digging for the truth. Right, God could, at any point, simply send all sinners to Hell, and be done with humanity, and be FULLY justified in doing so, because He is a righteous God. But...

Sure. God cannot do the irrational. He cannot count the number of hairs on the boogeyman's head, nor make a sphere-shaped square, nor can He know what a married bachelor is. Why? Because God is not irrational. He is reason itself. (Which is not to say that reason is God.)

@Dougcho This is exactly what I'm talking about. Such a doctrine does not paint God as loving. It paints Him as capricious, arbitrary, and spiteful, and gives opportunity to the wicked to mock not only you, but God.

If not everyone can be saved, then that just makes God out to be a liar. Because no rational person could easily understand that if only some people are saved, and not others, based on nothing but a unilateral decision on God's part, that God is therefore not worthy of love. Again, you give...

The answer is within Scripture, Ben. ‘None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the Lord. The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. The...

I'll be answering these as a fundamentalist, Open Theist, and Mid-Acts Dispensationalist, of course. Everything that happens is allowed by God to happen. However, that doesn't mean that God wants it to happen, or is okay with it happening. God has certain things that He wants to accomplish...

What hope is there if you hear the gospel, but aren't one of the elect? Wouldn't that just be a false hope? If those who are elect are going to be saved anyways, why bother preaching? Why wouldn't God just tell the saved who is going to be saved, and save them then, instead of casting a wide...

Thanks! How can they be called, must less chosen if they haven't heard the gospel? Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? She was a seller of purple (dye/clothing, etc) from Thyatira. According to your beliefs (presuming you are a calvinist), the unregenerate do not worship God...

Because you say so? It even applies to angels and men. But that's not what happened... God made man, gave him life, and placed him in the garden. He then gave only one law to man. That law was "Do not partake of the Tree." The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a symbol of the law...

I already told you that Christianity is not a monolithic group. It doesn't mean that two Christians who believe differently on some things can't agree on other things. No, I don't agree with that part of the article. But instead of focusing on the part that I do agree with, and with the point...