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...which would tend to imply that their predetermined fate was based upon their free will choices and decisions and NOT without condition nor reason as Calvin suggested. They chose their eternal relationship with YHWH and HE chose their eternal fate as the perfect moral response to their free...

Not just Calvinists... I am a die-hard anti-Calvinist and have had Beloved57 on ignore for years but I accept that these two sentences are true or the word predestination has no meaning.

This question betrays a great gap in the understanding of GOD's love and the reason, ie, HIS purpose, the heavenly marriage, that HE created us to fulfill. It is as wrong as the level of misunderstanding that would suggest Satan is one of the Divine Persons of the trinity.

Ad hominem. Ad hominem. Ad hominem. Ignores content. Ad hominem. Misconstrues the content to apply t me when i asked if it applied to you...sigh. I do not think He is tricksie but you must if you think HE uses a metaphor to explain a metaphor. There is a song verse or two that describes...

My goodness... Rev 12: 9 And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. is all I need. 'to the earth' is clearly in the Greek. What are you on about?

People like me, eh? A line used to depersonalize people, to dehumanize them for political, racial and cultural reasons, putting the blame for your animosity on your victims. Where do you think Satan and his angels went or got to after being flung to earth? Especially in light of 2 Peter 2:4 For...

ImCo: Planet earth was a prison planet from the moment it was chosen to be where GOD's army flung Satan and his demons to sequester HIS heaven from the leaven of the wicked, Rev 12:1-9. Satan too flung some people here whom he had control over, ie, they had followed him into rebellion, but to...

Where ever we were when we saw the creation: Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and ALL the Sons of God shouted for joy? KJV....

By our creation we were indeed able to fulfill all things but not here, on earth after we have chosen to be sinful...

I suggest that there can be no sin by ignorance but only by a free will decisions to go against HIS decision knowing how HE defines or names the consequences for each option of that decision. I also think that eating of the tree of knowledge is an euphemism for making a sinful decision and...

Well, it is interesting to consider 1 Timothy 1:8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient... This implies that sinners /sin came before the law, the law does not create evil...

Well, ummm, I just don't think anyone but Christ had to enter death for the salvation of Eve et al. Another set of metaphors to ponder: In Satan all the reprobate, those condemned already for the unforgivable sin, Jn 3:18, the people of the evil one on earth, aka the goats, are summed up...ie...

No one was taken. Those who left, left by their own free will. The Satanic left Him by putting their faith in the idea that since YHWH could not be better than themselves that HE must be a liar and a false god driven by an evil psychosis of megalomania, thus sinning the unforgivable sin, fit...

I suspect they are both metaphors for GOD's purpose for us, HIS relationship with HIS creation. Christ is the Head of the Church and is also the Lamb who is Husband to the Bride. In ordinary terms the head does not marry the body but that is a mixing of metaphors that has no merit. From the...

Why do you think HE was constrained in some way against HIS power? Are you just denigrating HIM for some reason? You start with a worldly story and try to make it fit some worldly view of GOD. I start with an understanding of who GOD is and then look to see how HIS goodness is expressed in the...

Lk 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Whether He was sweating actual blood (Hematohidrosis: a very rare condition of sweating blood. A case of hematohidrosis is reported. There are only few...

Never?? Hardly... Matt 13:27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ 28 “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. [a reference to verses 36-39] “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ [that...

First: Jesus taught He would be killed and resurrected in the context of it being predicted by the prophets: Lk 18:31 Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He...

So where is it? And, should not a theological discussion contain a scripture based rebuttal not an emotional red herring? Provide me with your favourite verse that denies the possibility of our spirits pre-existing our conception on earth or even hints at it being impossible which I will...

You have a special insight that this true? It seems illogical to me in light of the word SOW (not: create) in Jesus own words explaining the metaphor of the parable of the weeds: Matt 13:36 Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to...