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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    We are all on our way to hell when we're born, but God has chosen some to be rescued, but he passes by others. He doesn't create them to be fallen; they do it to themselves.
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    Mark 13:10

    No, that's precisely what I was talking about concerning literature interpretation. Take the document as a whole and interpret it as it appears instead of dissecting it into parts. That's one place you have gone wrong in your interpretation of the Bible. As I said before, I trust the early...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    For example, your use of the dictionary's meanings shows that the ordinary, popular meanings of words are important to you rather than the Bible's own meanings as God's Word through word studies within the Bible. Your constant emphasis on the authorship of the gospels reveals your modern...
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    Your conclusion that "He created them vessels of wrath" is not supported by the text, brightfame52! What is wrong with the interpretation that before creation God chose believers but passed by unbelievers, who go to hell because of their stubborn rebellion, thus allowing for human responsibility?
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    Prayer practises.

    It is clear in the Bible that the three Persons of God work together all the time. That truth is in the context of your verse: Joh 14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Joh 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. Joh...
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    A "Seven" and a "Woman"

    Yes, except if those numbers of days are symbolic, as the many numbers in Revelation are. I'm afraid that you have through your analysis arrived at a conclusion and gathered together many texts that you believe support it. That's called theology. However, how many of those references have the...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    JustTheFacts, you have exposed the fallacy of your approach to the Bible. You use human abilities to study the Bible from outside the Bible. The best theology studies the Bible from its own viewpoints (after all, it is God's inspired Word), not from external viewpoints, which you have done.
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    Mariology

    We know that such a human will pray for us, a request that Paul made all the time. You don't know at all if Mary or the saints hear you, because they are limited human souls in heaven. Neither do you know that they have any awareness of your presence on the earth. The saints, including all true...
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    Prayer practises.

    Mat 6:9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Why is it "clearly wrong" to pray to the Father and not to Jesus? Jesus tells us to pray "in his name" but not to him. Jhn_14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the...
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    brightfame52, why do you add the words in parentheses (as others) after wrath to 1 Thessalonians 5:9? Doesn't the Bible warn us not to add to it? 1Th 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 1Th 5:10 who died for us so that whether...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    Why is Matthew 28:16-20 a contradiction with John? Please be specific. First, God taught me how to interpret literature in general and then reinforced that knowledge with the best interpretation of the Bible with which I preached for 27 years, because there are many parallels. The differences...
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    Mariology

    Mariology has grown up with the Popes' approval to support praying to Mary with the Rosary. She is alleged to have been conceived sinlessly, receives believers' prayers, and comforts believers--all doctrines that have been added to the Bible, which is what the Popes have been doing for...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    I didn't address your last point. In order to understand any literature's meaning, including the Bible's, we need to study their writing from their own viewpoints, and then we can take the principles or main ideas they present and apply them to the present and to the future. We must also learn...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    Oh, okay. You'll forgive me if I continue to call that gospel Matthew. :) 1) The disciples had varying degrees of faith and doubt about Jesus' resurrection. John 2:22 emphasizes their faith, because he is big on faith in his gospel, but you notice that in that passage, it doesn't tell at what...
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    Mariology

    @George It wasn't the "early church" that added a tradition to the Bible; it was the whole line of Popes. When the church became the favored and only one in the Roman Empire in the fourth century, I believe, they made a huge mistake of merging Christian beliefs with pagan ones. For instance...
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    Show me the source of Calvin's writing that says what you say he says, fuddy. Or is it something you heard someone say that he says. I spent a whole semester reading and studying the Institutes under a Calvin scholar and never heard such a distinction. Where did you find it, and what is its context?
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    Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity

    It's important that we not accuse people of stupidity just because they disagree with us. The law of love calls us to respect everyone.
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    James 16?? What specifically is that piece of writing? I'm not familiar with it. Is it a gospel? I'm leery of "validating" anything from extra-biblical sources and would prefer to stick with the eyewitnesses Matthew and John along with Mark and Dr. Luke, who both got their material from...
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    Mark 13:10

    Interesting! Why do you have to "separate out the independent information"? What info is that? Why don't you treat it as a whole book? Why do you think parts of Matthew come from James?? It was written to Jewish Christians and to other Jews to convince them further that Jesus was the Messiah...
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    A deeply troubling and awful thing.

    Besides Jesus' words, Paul writes in Romans 1, "Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is...
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