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    John 3:16's two interpretations

    I hope none hate you; ever in prayers is the best way to describe my reaction.
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    Predestined

    Is it enough to know that the gospel is a call to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Or must one have a theory about who will accept it and who will not? Given saint John's statement near the end of his gospel: Jesus also accomplished many other signs in the sight of his disciples. These have...
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    What about the Sermon on the Mount? John says you don't have God without it.

    With men it is impossible, but with God nothing is impossible.
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    What about the Sermon on the Mount? John says you don't have God without it.

    Is this thread a bible study or a doctrine presentation?
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    John 3:16's two interpretations

    The immediate context is: Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our...
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    Forgiveness

    The children killed were not killed because they were Amish but because the man who killed them was insane with grief about his daughter who died on the day of her birth. His heart broke, he became furious with God, planned revenge against God, and took the lives of the children as his revenge...
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    Forgiveness

    Seems the post, the film, or their combination has silenced those few who have looked at the post. I do hope some of you will look further, maybe watch the film if you are able to take it, and if you have time to watch it. I believe that there's at least one lesson in it, probably many. God...
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    Forgiveness

    I do not advocate for the way of life that some live as Christians but I cannot help but speak in awe of the feats of Christian compassion that some, who are in what many see as a cult, accomplish because of their faith and way of living. One such example is forgiveness as it is shown by the...
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    The widow's mites.

    Some of the Church Fathers say things like this Whatever we offer to the Almighty with a good intention is acceptable to him; for he regards not the gift, but the heart of the giver. (Ven. Bede) God does not appreciate the smallness of the gift, but the greatness of the affection with which it...
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    The widow's mites.

    It's possible that the widow gave out of her poverty because she had been taught, by the scribes, to believe that giving a donation was giving to God in the hope of receiving a blessing from God. This would be akin to the widows and elderly poor who are taught to give to Kenneth Copeland in...
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    The widow's mites.

    . this dot is dedicated to ...
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    Crux Theologorum: Why are Some Saved but Not Others?

    Mystery fills the soul when one stands before the Father's glory and realises how incomprehensibly deep and wide it is. God graces us with revelation and mercifully accommodates his revelation to our capacity. Grace to know God will lead me home is sufficient for me. I am content to leave the...
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    Why Universal Atonement is Pelagianism.

    It suffices me to believe that human beings have been graced with a will; it's freedom or lack of it is more like icing on a cake than a necessary part of being alive.
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    Does God Change His Mind?

    Kind sir, there is not a man alive who has a defence.
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    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Good sir, do you think about forgiveness often, why it exists, why God calls us to exercise it, what it means, why we might need it? PS: I occurred to me that my post could be misunderstood as an oblique apology for alleged Church misbehaviour. Its intention is, however, not related to that...
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    The widow's mites.

    There's a story told in Luke's gospel in chapter 21 that many read as a recommendation to give sacrificially to the church. Do you read it that way, or have you been taught to read it that way? Does the story encourage you to give? Well, here's a slightly different chapter division that may...
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    There is one baptism.

    The baptism that Christ's taught the apostles to give, the one he commanded in Matthew 28:19-20, that is the one baptism, it is also the new birth in water and Spirit that the Lord explained to Nicodemus.
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    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Thank you :p
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    Does God Change His Mind?

    The thread title is click bate.
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    Why Universal Atonement is Pelagianism.

    Pelagianism was decisively condemned at the Council of Carthage in 418 AD, and is still regarded as heretical by the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church. Unlimited atonement (sometimes called general atonement or universal atonement) is a doctrine in Protestant Christianity that is normally...
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