Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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she has been hurt a lot by several people some of them were so bad I had to step in luckily some of them got banned but yes magenta has a beautiful soul and a very strong yet sensative heart
She has the poet/artist/creative heart Blain and i love her too. Sadly, misunderstandings can easily arise and be difficult to sort out in this format, so hope it getting a mention in this post will lead to a happy resolution. Really think it's a misunderstanding sort of thing, they're good people.
 
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See the same friend, she really feels hurt. Thing is it's much easier for misunderstandings to occur through text, much harder to sort them out too.
You just don't get the immediate impressions/feedback available through physical discussion. if i'm unsure about something said in text chat, i ask for more information, it's so sad if troubling misunderstandings fester.
I don't want to make any assumptions about the reason for the friction between them, but your observation is relevant. I'm well aware of how my own writing style can rub some people up the wrong way.
 

Blain

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She has the poet/artist/creative heart Blain and i love her too. Sadly, misunderstandings can easily arise and be difficult to sort out in this format, so hope it getting a mention in this post will lead to a happy resolution. Really think it's a misunderstanding sort of thing, they're good people.
Well I cannot speak on her troubles with @GWH but the issue with the other people is one of those types of people who do not listen to what is being said because they have no intention of listening she speaks plain english and yet people don't listen. the people that attacked her I do not think ever intended to do anything but cause strife.
But yes she is a very creative person she and I have had fun making pictures and posting them she and I both are poets and we both are very artsie plus we are both empaths so she and I have been friends for a long time
 
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she has been hurt a lot by several people some of them were so bad I had to step in luckily some of them got banned but yes magenta has a beautiful soul and a very strong yet sensative heart
Copied your testimony, what i've read so far is beyond distressing but certain the Lord has your back. You're a truly lovely person, not just a survivor, love and hugs from me for now, see you soon.
 

Genez

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I don't see there where it says that the Holy Spirit's only function in the believer is to be a stamp demarcating that this one is guaranteed an inheritance. Seals do more than just mark ownership. They often also prevent intrusion by unauthorised persons or unwanted things. A sealed tomb, a sealed jar. a sealed letter.

Also, arrabon does not mean a deposit guaranteeing, but a down-payment, and earnest, indicating one's sincere intention to take full possession of something at a later date.When I put a deposit on a house, I am confirming my genuine desire to own the house. However, not all house deals go through, and often it is not the intended buyers fault when it fails.
It names one of the Spirit's functions?
And, you think I meant the Spirit only has one function?

And, when God signs on the dotted line?
He is not a man.
Stop the comparison!


Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,
whom you have received from God?
You are not your own; you were bought at a price.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20a​


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