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Recent content by BruceLeiter

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    Salvation not based on our merit

    I have always objected to the song "Reckless Love," @jswauto, because the word "reckless" has a negative connotation. For example, dictionary. com defines it as: utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed byof ). Synonyms: imprudent...
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    Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

    Why, @MoreCoffee? It's because any other teaching apart from the Bible is made by humans, who can and do make mistakes. The Bible must be the only bases for our faith, as Paul and Peter say: 2Ti 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom...
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    Why should I let you into my heaven, asks God. How do you reply?

    And I pray for the same blessings in your life, @user1234!
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    Predestination vs Free Will

    You forgot or didn't want to refer to John 3:16-21, @Doran. Joh 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the...
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    Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

    You are probably right about the origin of your beliefs, but where, specifically, do you find that teaching in the Bible itself? What makes you think that the saints are everywhere and can hear our prayers? The Bible does not say so.
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    Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

    I agree, @Frankj.
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    Predestination vs Free Will

    I'm a Reformed Christian, @Doran, and I say that John 3:16 is a true description of the Father's love for the whole world as their Creator. He made all humans and loves them. However, the following verses describe the sad condition of that world: Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the...
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    Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

    @MoreCoffee, here is where I disagree strongly with the Roman Catholics. You say, "She does pray for us and thus is an intercessor." How do you know that she does? She is human, and thus her soul is limited to one place in heaven, since she certainly isn't God, who is everywhere. She, therefore...
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    Predestination vs Free Will

    Secular culture, reflected in secular dictionaries, defines "know" between persons as knowing about or "to have established or fixed in the mind or memory" (Dictionary.com). You seem to understand the Bible's use of "know" or "foreknowledge" to have that meaning. However, by far, the best way...
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    Predestination vs Free Will

    @Doran, where do you find "the distributive sense" in the Bible, or is that your reasoning outside of Scripture? It would help if you quoted the verses and commented on them directly. Please explain your post, though the sense I get of it is agreeable to me, because it seems to agree with the Bible.
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    What do you think of Lamentations 3:31-33?

    @jesus lover, context is always the key to understanding any passage. All of Lamentations is Jeremiah's lament or complaint done in faith about the exile of Judah to Babylon. God also inspired Jeremiah to share the hopeful prophecy that seventy years after their exile, they would return to the...
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    What do you think of Luke 3:6?

    It says that all humans will see God's salvation but not that they will be saved, just as their knees will all bow and tongues confess him but many of them grudgingly. I believe that these events will happen at Jesus' second coming: Php 2:9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on...
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    Predestination vs Free Will

    @slaney4, you have delved into a biblical mystery. On the one hand, God plans every believer's salvation before God's creation begins. On the other hand, every human is fully responsible for every thought and action and is rightly condemned when he remains in his rebellion. Both are clear...
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    The bible rejects doing wrong so that good may come

    @Lamb, a very true principle is, "The ends do not justify the means." In other words, if the means is sinful, it is wrong, even though a person might have good motives. Sin is always sin. An example of this false teaching is in modern culture as follows. In a movie in which the Deputy U.S...
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    Did you know that in the bible it is ok to put a curse on someone?Sometimes?:(

    First, the form of that command has been done away with by Jesus' death on the cross, because it is the national law of Israel. Second, the ceremony wasn't "magical" at all, because God used it to determine the guilt or innocence of the woman. Third, the principle of that action by the priest is...
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