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We never had any guns in our house when our kids were there, but I can see that your method was very effective, @Edward429451!

Brother @Marston, when you say, "eventually ALL beings will follow Jesus," you change the text to fit your own universalist-tending ideas. Here is the context: 1Co 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 1Co 15:21 For as by a...

@Marston, if you suspect that "corrupt members of the early church" changed Scripture to fit their ideas, how can you trust any of it as authentic? I believe that the Holy Spirit guided the preservation and protection of the whole Bible. What proof do you have to say that the Bible was changed...

@Edward429451, I think that we are all born with a "seared conscience." That's what Paul means when he says we are spiritually stillborn (my paraphrase): Eph 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins Eph 2:2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the...

According to my understanding, a cult is a group of people who follow a leader whose word is the law of the group. If they want to leave, they will be persecuted, and the doctrines of the leader, usually a dynamic person, are the law, not really the Bible.

When I was a preacher, Ezekiel 33 was a great comfort to me, since God says to the prophet that once he shares God's message faithfully with the people, he is then free of any more responsibility. They are responsible for what they do with it (my paraphrase). Eze 33:9 But if you warn the...

Amen, and he also will banish all ready-rebels from his final kingdom at the final judgment: Dan 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine like the...

Yeah, all the rich and the poor will stand before God at the Final Judgment to account for everything we have done and said. Was it for self or for God?

You might consider that it's God's will that we get married first before we have sex (or long trips :) ).

But, @Marston, the question is what the words "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" actually mean. I think that it means a whole life led in active rebellion against God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Only God knows at what point he says, "Have it your own way." If people are worried that they might...

No, it means that the disciples were not to waste time on unbelievers who won't listen. It means to share the gospel or at least your witness with everyone but not to waste time trying to talk resistant people into the kingdom. Such efforts are attempts to control people, not being respectful of...

How did that difference make you feel, @Frankj?

What girl are you going with, @Holy999?

Yes, and as the only true God of justice, he must punish sinful rebellion in his creation. For believers, he punished his own perfect Son in our place. Why? I don't know, because not one of us deserves it. Always remember that he is the perfect God of justice as the perfect Judge of unrepentant...

@Marston, I don't have time to watch the video, since God has given me a writing ministry in my retirement from church ministry to occupy most of my time. However, the headline is interesting, "History Proves...." It doesn't sound as though the Bible is central to Shade's ideas but that history...

And an "employer" doesn't need to be a paying one, @Edward429451. After all, our real Employer is Jesus, who gives us his gifts of grace and love freely.

@Holy999, I have a question, who or what is "shockofgod"? That sounds like a very irrational reaction. Why would someone get mad at an unreal myth and then blame God and Jesus for Santa's unreality? Anyway, my parents played up the Santa myth every Christmas; it was the only thing that I...

@Frankj, the gospels have many examples during which Jesus breaks down many barriers that the separatist Pharisees have put up. He eats with "tax collectors and sinners," a practice strictly forbidden by the separatists. I accept the people you talk about as people but not as practicing sinners...

When I was a pastor, God gave me the spiritual gifts of preaching and teaching God's Word; but in retirement he switched gears to give me his gift of creativity through writing, because in my time of rebelling against his call to the ministry, he led me into teaching English.

So, have the works of the devil been completely removed, @Marston? They have in principle at the cross but not in practice in believers' and unbelievers' lives yet. That final accomplishment has yet to happen. In quoting 1 John 3:8, you assume that those works are completely finished. Yes, Jesus...