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  1. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    That's because you don't want to be convinced otherwise. That English translation of a Hebrew idiom, which you ignore the real meaning of, is the straw you're grasping at, trying to cling to unbiblical doctrines that you love more than the truth. Go look up the phrase "confirmation bias". It...
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    Answering old threads thread Part II

    Let's all hide a watch to see if @annabenedetti alters her stance at all when the Epstein files show nothing at all about Donald Trump or his family. TDS is real!
  3. Clete

    Faith

    Nope! Words mean things! Concepts are given names. Those names are what words are. "unto" names one concept, "into" names another concept. The two are not synonyms and there is no way that the context of Romans 10:5 supports "into" as a proper English translation. It is "unto" - period. This...
  4. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    Notice the reading into the text: First the pump is primed with, "God knows everything there is to know." and then the verse is quoted and followed up with "You cannot be almighty if you don't know all things:" This is how proof-texting works. By this method, all doctrines are created and...
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    Faith

    Okay, first of all, the translation "UNTO" in Romans 10:10 is accurate. The Greek word "eis" does NOT necessarily mean "INTO," as your post implies. In fact, the KJV translates this word in a variety of ways depending on context. Strong’s G1519 (EIS) is translated in the KJV as follows: INTO...
  6. Clete

    Justification

    Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s...
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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    The Pharisees were looking for a spectacular, undeniable, heavenly sign that would authenticate Jesus according to their expectations of the Messiah. They were expecting a revolutionary to overthrow Israel's oppressors and to sit on David's throne. They wanted to see some evidence of this kind...
  8. Clete

    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    In Jewish culture, there was a widespread belief that the soul hovered near the body for three days after death, hoping to re-enter. That is why Jesus waited until the fourth day to raise Lazarus, so there would be no doubt that he was truly gone (John 11:39). This cultural understanding made...
  9. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    The list is endless! The exact moment you will sneeze next The precise number of photons emitted from Alpha Centauri in the past three seconds The total amount of gasoline you will burn over the next month What you will choose to eat for your next meal The specific thoughts someone is hiding...
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    Answering old threads thread Part II

    Lunatic.
  11. Clete

    Justification

    The same sort of posts were inches from getting me banned at that other website. I've never in my life seen a group so thinning skinned in my life! Wow! To be clear, I don't suffer fools lightly and I don't mince words. It's an internet forum, not the lobby of a church. If you want to...
  12. Clete

    Justification

    Thanks for laying that out. I indicated in our previous conversation that I had never come across this teaching before and so I appreciate the clarity you've provide here. Even if I disagree with your conclusions, it's refreshing to see someone who takes the text seriously and is able to...
  13. Clete

    How Would I Describe the Triune God!

    God is Relational God is not a solitary being, closed in upon Himself, nor a detached abstraction, He is relational. This is not a trait He acquired when He created the world, nor a mode of interaction He chose to adopt. It is who He is. Relationship is not a consequence of creation; it is a...
  14. Clete

    Answering old threads thread Part II

    So what? Who in the world ever thought that either was going to happen? Biden will go down in history as the single worst president this nation ever had. The entire world knows he had Cottage Cheese for brains and that his son, along with his entire family, is a festering cesspool of sexually...
  15. Clete

    You Cannot Have a Free Society Without a Moral People

    To be clear, reasonable measures designed to make it difficult to get away with crime are fine and dandy. If a bank wants to add security measures then they are not only free, but wise to do so and it is not paranoia to put locks between the things you value and the outside world. The point...
  16. Clete

    How Would I Describe the Triune God!

    God is Reason God is Reason. We are rational beings. We reason, we reflect, we seek consistency, and we expect the world to make sense, and we find that, in fact, it does make sense. The universe we inhabit is structured, intelligible, and governed by principles that can be discovered...
  17. Clete

    You Cannot Have a Free Society Without a Moral People

    It seems to me that if we want a society that is both free and civilized, one where we do not have to simply accept things like mass shootings of children by sexually deranged individuals seeking to go out in a blaze of shocking infamy, then we need to fix the foundation. The solution is not...
  18. Clete

    What in the world does this mean?

    That's your computer or device wanting to read text to you aloud.
  19. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    @xfrodobagginsx Do you believe that God is able to forget things that He chooses to forget? Isaiah 43:25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.” Jeremiah 31:34 “…For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember...
  20. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    It truly is proof! I'm honestly baffled by people's reluctance to accept it as such.
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