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Translation: I can't defend my beliefs and so I'm going to straw-man my opponent and not even try to defend my beliefs.

Uh, no, it's not.

Also, you didn't answer my questions. Please answer the questions I asked: Was it wrong for the US army in World War 2 to use inflatable tanks, sound effects, and radio trickery to fool the Nazis? Was it evil? Was it wrong for God to trick the enemy army at Ai into an ambush? Was it evil?

Again, there is an entire thread on the topic of lying.

This is called begging the question. It's a logical fallacy for a reason. It's also not what I said. I said that God will manipulate Satan into defeat. He tells us as much in Revelation. Do you deny that God will bring about His own victory in the end?

I would argue that God is better at manipulation than the devil is, because He will manipulate him into defeat. God is definitely a better chess player than the devil. Lying and deception are not quite the same thing. You're equivocating. On this and on manipulation. You're talking about...

Manipulation != temptation

Or your understanding of what scripture says is in error...

You seem to have lost the point of your argument, or at the very least, forgotten the point Steko made. We in the Body of Christ are saved, past tense, the moment we believed. Our hope, our confidence, is in God, that He will not cast us into the lake of fire on judgement day, because He...

Again, I believe the entire Bible, from Moses to John. No, except in the original manuscripts. What does that have to do with anything in this thread? Of the Jews under the New Covenant. Are you a Jew under the New Covenant? What tribe are you from? I did. You ignored it. You keep...

The idea is that the promises God makes are as good as fulfilled. Or are you saying that God can't deliver on His promises when He promises something? Our hope is in Him. We fully expect that we are saved when we place our trust in Him. The fact is that He promised to save us if we placed our...

No. Jews who believe that Jesus was the promised Messiah who came to establish His eternal Kingdom. I'm not talking about Christians. Two. Two. None. Don't try to turn this around on me. It's not going to work. I believe the ENTIRE Bible. You don't, because: I asked: "Why do you...

Jews and proselytes under the New Covenant. The phrase you're looking for is "raises the question." Define "faiths."

Because you say so? Let's say you were the President of the US when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. How would you have responded to that attack? Why do you think the people in the above examples did not, in fact, rely on God? How many children have been slaughtered in the womb because...

Calling your opinions "scripture" does not bode well for your position... Because that's what I was talking about, not scripture. As RD said, don't bear false witness. You said, "I find [X] premise . . . to be directly contradicted by scripture. X = that Jesus manipulated Judas into...

This begs the question that manipulation of one's enemies is evil, and/or that manipulation is always evil. Question: had Judas instead not sold Jesus to the Jewish leaders, and repented of his evil, and asked Christ to forgive him, would Jesus have forgiven him?

That doesn't mean there isn't an objective standard of justice, which is what I've been saying this entire time. Fine, I'll concede the point if you agree to just call it "justice" from now on. Confusion arises when you ignore the context. And God's thoughts and ways are not LOWER than our...

The begs the question that Christians (those saved by grace alone through faith alone) will be on the earth during the tribulation. They (we) won't be, because it's not the same church.

So it wouldn't have mattered if Germany and the Axis powers won WW2? It wouldn't have mattered if the South had won the American Civil War? It wouldn't have mattered if Britain won against America in her war for Independence? Tell that to the Jews in Nazi Germany who were slaughtered. Tell...