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This is probably going to sound evasive and I don't mean it to be but I really don't think in these kinds of terms and so I'm not sure what you're asking me. The time I spent writing those posts this morning is one thing that I think might qualify but, like I said, I'm not sure exactly what sort...

What do you mean by "honoring the words of Jesus Christ"? Jesus was born under the law, obeyed the law and taught others to do the same! Then why bother with them? Says who? You? This is the most false thing I've ever seen you type, Hoping! Where did you get this from? Romans 7:14 For we...

Only Catholics and cults would have the temerity to teach such a thing outright. Even the most legalistic sects of Protestant Christianity don't typically teach such thing outright. It isn't that they teach it verbatim its that they imply it, its that they live their lives as though that's what...

It isn't true, Jefferson not in the way he means it. Connecting your work to salvation is legalism - period. Confirming or questioning a man's salvation based on his works is legalism. A man is saved by faith - period. Works do NOT come into it. "Things Which Gracious Souls Discover: "To...

Legalistic double talk. Romans 4:5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

Is there nothing you'd add or edit?

I disagree. In fact, it seems to me that you are mixing a bit of law in with grace. If you love God or your neighbor because there's a list of rules on the wall that says to do so, you've missed the entire point of Paul's gospel of grace. Jesus was teaching the law. He was born under the law...

@JudgeRightly is correct, I did have a thread on this basic question. I called it, "The Gospel Proper". I was surprised by two things, I was persuaded to change my mind on one important point and I was surprised at where the disagreements manifested themselves. In the end I landed on the...

It is truly baffling what Catholics count as sound reason. If this is what you count as logical then why bother? Why not just believe whatever the Hell you want to believe and stop pretending to be rational about it?! Simply idiotic! Your pretend rebuttal of the real refutation of your silly...

IF we're talking about a biblically based criminal justice system (i.e God's criminal justice system) then there would be no jury, just a judge who would held responsible for his judgments. Regardless, your point holds. There are certain "ingredients", if you will, to the crime of murder.

No, it would be an accident. It is not a crime for a child to shove someone across a bedroom and a person with sever retardation would not be able to think through the possible consequences of his actions in a manner where it would be reasonable to think he had any idea that such consequences...

Yes, accidental murder is a contradiction. God did not command the death penalty when someone died because of an accident. Where there is no intent, there is no guilt. (Deuteronomy 19 and Numbers 35). There is also the issue of self-defense where someone dies and there is no blood guilt...

Well, that's just the whole point. Murder is an intentional act. If a person is not capable of understanding what murder is then he can't commit the crime. There is an argument that can be made that it isn't up to us to make such determinations and that someone who takes another person's life...

Those are gigantic IFs though. So gigantic as to be practically meaningless.

Not a five year old. I don't see it. They're barely old enough to understand that a toy belongs to them at that age, never mind what it would take to end someone's life on purpose. If it's possible at all, it would so rare as to not be worth talking about and the parents of any such child would...

Anyone ever heard of a five year old murderer? I haven't! I doubt very much that a five year old is even capable of committing the crime of murder.

Like I said, those who have their eyes closed can't complain about the "absence of evidence" for anything. I wonder what it will take for me to stop wasting my time on this website? I dropped nothing. A free and civil society cannot persist for long absent morals.

Children are NOT born sinners! People who commit sin are sinners, not newborns! Elizabeth's baby wasn't alienated from God... Luke 1:41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. The only people...

Ad hominem much? Right. Are you convinced by that? Me neither! That might have something to do with Catholicism being more than half false and the fact that the closer you get to Oxford the further from the truth and reality you're probably getting, especially when it comes to theology. You...

Except that it explicitly says that God's will wasn't done. The is specifically and explicitly what it says. The ONLY reason you have for saying otherwise is that your doctrine demands it. You read your doctrine into every passage that you can and ignore the passages that explicitly contradict...