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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== Post #32 (MoreCoffee): That is definitely a cut above the “normal Protestant” “Bible Studies” I have attended over the years. The only one I remember that had any depth was an Anglican study...
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    Political Chaos Continues in Australia.

    ============================================================================================== DHoffman (Post #3): 7 Prime Munisters in 10 years? Cool, Huh? Australia has no resident President. So the equivalent of the majority leader in the United States House of Representatives is called...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    Continued... ============================================================================================== We saw in Post #29, an example of a typical, superficial (almost meaningless) question that was asked in a “normal” (representative) Bible Study I was attending. We also saw the lack of...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== Because of my unusual sense of humour, people sometimes call me a goat (Australian slang meaning stupid). That makes me feel sheepish...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ...Continued Post #27 (me) A pointed example of accepted (safe) superficiality will follow. Post #28 (atpollard): No it won’t. Yet here it is ! ============================================================================================== In my former Post, I floated the idea that the...
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    Is there such a thing as partly saved?

    ============================================================================================== Post #16 (Lämmchen): Well, how about: Post #247 in the ‘Credobaptists - What about those with disabilities and baptism?’ thread: The information imparted in that quote (incomplete though it may...
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    ============================================================================================== Post #28: That is another good example. If a person is aware of a few considerations that need bearing in mind when looking at the Inspired Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), some puzzling things...
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    Why wasn't Satan stopped completely?

    ============================================================================================== Post #7, in response to thoughts presented in Post #6: Consider this. If God had stopped Satan immediately, or even before his evilness of heart had been revealed, the comparison below could never...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== Post #25: It might be that your perception of that shallowness is the actual problem in that you already have a faulty opinion to begin with on general Christianity as you wrote above. I understand...
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    ============================================================================================== Post #27: That is a good question. Let’s see if it can be done some justice. ============================================================================================== First of all, each...
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    ============================================================================================== In Post # 39 we saw that the Jewish shops were closed long before the women who were with Jesus at His crucifixion and accompanied His body and watched as it was buried, had time to shop for the...
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    Little gods

    ============================================================================================== Arsenios’ comment in Post #5 reminds me of an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac, I once heard about. He used to lie awake at night, wondering if there was a dog...
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    Chris Pratt - MTV Award speech: Courageous?

    ============================================================================================== MennoSota (Post #55): Is this your profile picture? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180819/1d66ae2d61bc02675e496ee5198dafc1.jpg...
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    Chris Pratt - MTV Award speech: Courageous?

    ============================================================================================== MennoSota (Post #49): So...you're not a Christian? Me (Post #52): That question was asked in response to my pointing out that the Christian Religion indulges in unholy compromise, to promote itself...
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    HELL

    ============================================================================================== This is the continuation from Post #59. In Post #46 the Author presented Matthew 18:8 and Matthew 25:41, and pointed out that the use of “eternal” (“aionios” – Strong’s G166) in the phrases “eternal...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== I find the response in Post #23 to be both puzzling and enlightening: Readers will note that in Post #22 (to which Post #23 was a reply), I deliberately did not name any names. That was done so that...
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    Brown people wrote the bible

    ============================================================================================== Post #183: ============================================================================================== My understanding is that the whole Bible, with two definite areas of exception, and two...
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    Brown people wrote the bible

    ============================================================================================== Post #149 DHoffman: With respect to Genesis authorship, there are theories that Moses complied the early chapters of Genesis from preexisting legends, some of them written. The sources are normally...
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    Brown people wrote the bible

    ============================================================================================== It looks like MoreCoffee is really browning some people off. ==============================================================================================
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    Why wasn't Satan stopped completely?

    ============================================================================================== A possibly clarifying thought.. Job 8:3 says: Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?” God has the power and authority and right to do anything He pleases. Yet He chooses...
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