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    Moses wrote Genesis?

    Remember that the ancient culture was a listening one, not a modern, visual culture. As a result, the tribes would have one person with a very good memory who would carry on the stories of the past accurately. Besides, the Holy Spirit worked in Moses to enable him to distinguish his narrative...
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    Mark 13:10

    "Chain of custody"? Now, you sound like a policeman seeking evidence. Just remember that in those days, it was a listening culture, not a visual one. As a result, many people carried on the heard tradition about the gospels like Matthew writing the gospel. The "proof," then, is that the early...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    No, I don't accept the Popes' pronouncements if they vary from the Bible, which is the standard for interpretation of the truth.
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    I go by what the Bible itself says is inspired in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and 2 Peter 1:16-21 as well as Jesus' preaching to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus: 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in...
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    How much do you admit that the Popes have added a tradition that is beyond the teachings of the Bible like the doctrines about Mary's immaculate conception, the need to pray to her, and purgatory, that aren't taught in Scripture? Such doctrines will keep Protestants away and perhaps their...
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    Predestination

    I have understood the word "imputation" as a declaration of a person's status; whereas the new birth is God's action, not his imputation, in a person's life that brings about his gift of faith and repentance by his grace alone (Ephesians 2:8-10), which enable us to do good works that honor him.
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    It's not boasting if they say and mean it that God gave them the new birth and faith by his grace. They would be giving God the credit that is due him. The true teaching of biblical election can come later when they are maturing believers instead of even before they become believers, which is...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    JusttheFacts, I compare every claim with the Bible's clear teachings; that's how I can tell whether or not it is from God. Do you make sure that every vision that you get conforms to the Bible's teachings before you accept it as coming from God? I had one prophetic vision, and it came true...
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    No, you wouldn't be a liar when you withhold truths that they wouldn't be ready to learn yet. Do you tell unbelievers about the mysteries of the Trinity, providence, and the divine and human natures of Christ? Don't you wait until they are growing believers? We do the same with children. Our...
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    Predestination

    I would call it what Jesus did "being born again or from above" (another possible translation--John 3).
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    And it's the Athanasian Creed that makes the Trinity, including his oneness in three Persons, even clearer.
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    It's not an action that we can claim any credit for, because God enables us to do it. It is salvation through faith by grace so that we can't brag about it. Neither can we boast about the works we do for God after he rescues us. It's all in Ephesians 2:8-10.
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    Universal Atonement - Part 2

    I wouldn't send any of my adult children to hell when they reject me, as one of them has in one of life's mysteries. However, I'm not their judge and jury. God is everyone's just Judge as well as their Creator. So, he has a perfect right to declare any of his human creatures "not guilty" and...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    I evaluate your views by the results of your "investigation," and they seem to have veered away from the Bible's truths that I have gleaned from the Bible's own assumptions as a whole. I can say that angels visit us to help us from God but that it's questionable that other events that you have...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    My opinion is that if you pick and choose here and there what is authentic and what is not, you are the one being the authority and not the Bible, which is all God's Word, as the Holy Spirit guided the early church to assemble. Your caviat, "only if the real authors are identified" throws your...
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    A blessed Christmas: the birth of Jesus, the God-baby!

    Yes, members of my small group from church dropped by unexpectedly with some goodies, and we had a nice chat in my man cave. Otherwise, it was just me and God in my condo, which is always a joyful time. God has given me the gift of singleness at my age of 82. I enjoy getting together with people...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    I have "investigated" and studied the interpretation of literature and the Bible for most of my adult life at the age of 82 We need to study both from their own viewpoints, not from analyses, ideas, and methods outside of them. As for your visions, they must be measured against the Word of God...
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    A blessed Christmas to you! Jesus the God-baby was born!

    The Christmas miracle: Jesus was both all-God and all-human!
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    No, as Paul says in Ephesians 2:8-9, God saves us by grace through faith so that we can't brag about saving ourselves in any way. Receiving it is passive, not active, and thus not a work.
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    So, you discount all of those beliefs founded on the Bible. I agree with you about number four, but how can you say that about the first three gospels, which are mostly history of Jesus' ministry. Why do you discount their teachings?
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