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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Demons.
    If God is omnipresent, there can logically be no problem with demons occupying the same space as God and God occupying the same space as...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Systematic Bible Study.
    I was considering translating "capture at the point of a spear" as "menace into surrender", but I thought the face to face confrontation...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Systematic Bible Study.
    Sharon and I have arrived back in New Zealand and have been settling into our new home on a 2 acre orchard we bought last November, so...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Systematic Bible Study.
    A literal translation of the Greek text - Eph 4:11 And ( καὶ ) he ( αὐτὸς, emphatic: the risen glorified victorious Christ) gave (...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    Are you taking you mind off the artwork when you contemplate it without spoken or written words describing it ?
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    When you want to understand a piece of art and what the artist is trying to communicate through it, is it enough to simply read...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    IMO, the way many Calvinists and others use their proof-text verses, throwing them out there without providing any of their own personal...
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    PaulThomson reacted Agree to Blain's post in the thread Christian mysticism?.
    From what it sounds like what you found with them is not Christian at all it seems more like hindu or something like that. A christian...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    The sometimes abuse of a tool or skill does not make the tool or skill something that should be eschewed entirely. The wise approach is...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Scripture's meaning of God's Elect.
    The good pleasure of His will is that we believe in Jesus to be chosen. That seems pretty clear from scripture.
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    You can train both sides of the brain.
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Christian mysticism?.
    Our western culture has become philosophically very left brain elevating, and somewhat right-brain indifferent, including many in the...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Systematic Bible Study.
    Eph 4:7 But to each one ( Ἑνὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ ) of us ( ἡμῶν ) was given ( ἐδόθη , aorist passive indicative ) the grace ( ἡ χάρις )...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Scripture's meaning of God's Elect.
    It seems like you are not really interested in a discussion. You have not engaged with any of my points, but have simply dismissed them...
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    PaulThomson replied to the thread Scripture's meaning of God's Elect.
    Choices are made either randomly, like picking raffle numbers from a bag, unable to distinguish between the options; or choices are...
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