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    A deeply troubling and awful thing.

    God didn't "reject himself." Humans rejected him beginning with Adam and Eve. Read Ephesians 2:1-10, if you have a good translation of it. Verses 1-3 describe our unbelieving life before we believe in God. Verses 4-9 say that God makes us alive through faith (trust only in Jesus as our way to...
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    Mary - Queen Of Heaven

    #6 does not follow from the other statements, because God originally want Israel to have a king: 1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all...
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    A deeply troubling and awful thing.

    What adds up is the rebellion against God that began with Adam and Eve, about which I assume you know. You're right that we aren't robots. God made us perfect when he created Adam and Eve in the beginning (Genesis 1 and 2), but all humanity rebelled against God when our first parents disobeyed...
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    Would the math say anything different if a "seven" were, say, 7,000 years, @JustTheFacts? I just give you an example of how people have gone astray in the past and predicted the time of the end, when they were wrong. How can you be absolutely sure that your visions were from God, not some other...
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    One sign of Original Sin

    Yes, but I can't tell absolutely who is a real Christian and who isn't, because so many Christians that I've met have proved to be false believers.
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    Can we know God? If so, how?

    And worked in our lives with the new birth and the Holy Spirit.
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    Body, Soul, Spirit?

    No, I believe that humans are a unity with different aspects--reason, will, and emotions, for example.
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    The Truth About Saul

    @JustTheFacts, why don't you just summarize your "facts" for us? My opinion is that your so-called "facts" rely on your suspicions of fraud that you look for in the Bible but that they aren't really there. Your assumption that the false teachers altered Scripture has made you look for...
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    When Gold told Ezekiel he would kill his wife...

    The whole chapter describes the situation. The king of Babylon is besieging Jerusalem, will overcome it, and will take Judah into exile. God commands Ezekiel to avoid mourning outwardly, though he grieved inwardly over his wife's death. Mourning for Jerusalem's fall was also forbidden, because...
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    What are anti-Pauline believers missing?

    @JustTheFacts, again, you have no proof that Nicodemus wrote anything in the New Testament but instead rely on your expertise, which is a non-biblical approach. I'm especially sensitive to your approach because of the following: I grew up in a theologically-liberal or neo-orthodox church that...
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    What are anti-Pauline believers missing?

    As I've said to you previously, JustTheFacts, the fact that you rely on your "expert analyst and fraud investigator" experiences themselves outside of Scripture shows that your analysis is flawed. Instead, depend on the Bible's own assumptions, teachings, and history to interpret it. You depend...
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    What are anti-Pauline believers missing?

    Yes, all of them!
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    One sign of Original Sin

    In watching DJT since the assassination attempt, I have detected a mellowing, perhaps humbling in him. Perhaps, God is working in his life.
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    How did the early church view "Peter as the rock"?

    No, all the resurrection accounts confirm that Jesus' resurrection is a historical fact; the eyewitnesses convinced me of it to provide God's basis for my faith when I was 16. Okay, show me step-by-step from prophecy and Jesus' words why you believe that false teachers took over the early...
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    A deeply troubling and awful thing.

    That's very true, Fuddy, but they brought it on themselves, sadly.
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    Adam and Eve

    True.
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    God has knocked all of the proud thinking out of me by making me see that I might be wrong about my interpretation of prophecy. It's hard to know exactly what the numbers mean for absolute certainty, for example, whether or not they are figurative or literal. So, I just say that I'll wait to...
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    Can we know God? If so, how?

    You're right, Lamb, but the Bible speaks such words as "know God" to impress on us that we can know him in a deep, loving, personal relationship that is far beyond knowing about him. I'm planning to write a book as a biblical survey about the subject.
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    Prayer practises.

    If you request anything from a saint or Mary, how can you be certain that they hear you? They are limited human creatures, who are not everywhere, the way God is. They are in heaven, not on the earth anymore, since their bodies have been buried, unless you subscribe to the unbiblical notion of...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    You're right that we shouldn't "focus" on Jesus' second coming, but it's the basis for our hope. Jesus did talk about his raising believers from the grave "on the last day": Jhn_6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise...
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