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That is like someone asking...

Why has God allowed you to be here to act the way you do? So you will lose all your eternal rewards?
You see this sold wood kitchen here, this was a a tree last last year i cut down, and cut every piece of wood to size.

I've just spent all week finishing it painting the wood with oil then chalk paint then varnish, whilst also talking to you. 😊

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sawdust

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You are correct that it is both. But why is it unfair and why is it unjust?
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Because to show impartiality is unjust. You haven't got that from my posts before now?

You are bypassing the original issue though. You implied God is unfair because people are born into opposite/different situations and you did that because you applied the wrong criteria to the meaning of fairness.

Are you rescinding your opinion that God is unfair because some are born rich and others poor? Or are you maintaining your position God is unfair?
 

sawdust

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???????

Because to show impartiality is unjust. You haven't got that from my posts before now?

You are bypassing the original issue though. You implied God is unfair because people are born into opposite/different situations and you did that because you applied the wrong criteria to the meaning of fairness.

Are you rescinding your opinion that God is unfair because some are born rich and others poor? Or are you maintaining your position God is unfair?
@Cameron143 That should have read "to show partiality is unjust". I didn't pick up the mistype until too late for editing. Sorry.
 

Cameron143

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Because to show impartiality is unjust. You haven't got that from my posts before now?

You are bypassing the original issue though. You implied God is unfair because people are born into opposite/different situations and you did that because you applied the wrong criteria to the meaning of fairness.

Are you rescinding your opinion that God is unfair because some are born rich and others poor? Or are you maintaining your position God is unfair?
It was unfair because the two individuals were treated differently.
It was unjust because it was sinful. They did not love the one man as Jesus has loved us.
Fairness deals with equality and equity.
Justice deals with treatment according to a standard.
Can you think of a biblical story where the demands of justice were met but not the requirements of fairness?
 
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That is like someone asking...

Why has God allowed you to be here to act the way you do? So you will lose all your eternal rewards?
and here's the other side just finished 😊



The best part is I've just Got 10 orders for 10 more, whoopee my rewards are great,



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sawdust

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It was unfair because the two individuals were treated differently.
It was unjust because it was sinful. They did not love the one man as Jesus has loved us.
Fairness deals with equality and equity.
Justice deals with treatment according to a standard.
Can you think of a biblical story where the demands of justice were met but not the requirements of fairness?
Which is what I said (in the corrected version) so why are you repeating me?

Fairness deals with impartiality and the lack of prejudice or bias, you keep trying to define equality as having the same circumstance/reward. I have shown you enough scripture that aligns impartiality with fairness for you to understand that point.

You bypassed my question again. You implied originally God is unfair. If you have a biblical story that shows God being just but not fair (based on the true meaning of fair, not your worldy version), then show us and prove how God is just but unfair.
 

Genez

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This is another suggestion nothing more.

Your assertion is based on God knowing they where going to..
Teach us how it was done, and why God did it...

Come on. Come on up front and teach the class.
 

Genez

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PaulThomson said:
Where does scripture say a soulish man has no spirit? Where are you getting that idea from in the text of the Bible?


Your source is not the scriptures.
PaulThomson said:
Where does scripture say a soulish man has no spirit? Where are you getting that idea from in the text of the Bible?
Because a soul is not spirit. A man with a human sprit is called "spiritual," not soulish.

Let's not waste too much time on this, please.
 

Cameron143

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Which is what I said (in the corrected version) so why are you repeating me?

Fairness deals with impartiality and the lack of prejudice or bias, you keep trying to define equality as having the same circumstance/reward. I have shown you enough scripture that aligns impartiality with fairness for you to understand that point.

You bypassed my question again. You implied originally God is unfair. If you have a biblical story that shows God being just but not fair (based on the true meaning of fair, not your worldy version), then show us and prove how God is just but unfair.
I never said God was unfair. I said God never claimed to be fair. And then I demonstrated how He dealt with people differently.
What you have shown is that while fairness and justice are related, they are not the same thing and I delineated the difference using the example of James.
Then I asked you for an example where justice was applied but fairness was not. And there is such a story. A landowner went out several different times of the day and hired workers. At the end of the day he paid all the workers the same. Was he just? Yes, because he met the financial terms agreed to. Was he fair? No. Some had to work longer than the others.
You seem to be hung up on the definition of fair. But you ignore the definition of justice. Biblically, justice means to treat equally according to a standard. That standard is the law of God. Justice compares behavior to what the law says.
This is not true of fairness. It compares behavior against the behavior towards another. That is its standard.
Thus, it is possible to be just and fair or unfair.
 

Genez

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Which is what I said (in the corrected version) so why are you repeating me?

Fairness deals with impartiality and the lack of prejudice or bias, you keep trying to define equality as having the same circumstance/reward. I have shown you enough scripture that aligns impartiality with fairness for you to understand that point.

You bypassed my question again. You implied originally God is unfair. If you have a biblical story that shows God being just but not fair (based on the true meaning of fair, not your worldy version), then show us and prove how God is just but unfair.

I think you have been more than fair to him.
 

Genez

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You see this sold wood kitchen here, this was a a tree last last year i cut down, and cut every piece of wood to size.

I've just spent all week finishing it painting the wood with oil then chalk paint then varnish, whilst also talking to you. 😊

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Nice work....

My drum shells are precision made, thin shelled, maple plies. Great for resonance.

But... My drumming will not get me into heaven.


For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or straw,
their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light.
It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up,
the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping
through the flames. 1 Cor 3:11-15​
Gold, silver, and precious stones are produced in a believer thinking with sound doctrine in the filling of the Spirit.​
Just the same. Nice workmanship! (y)
 
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Teach us how it was done, and why God did it...

Come on. Come on up front and teach the class.
God changed the cause of predestination for man after the fall.

The cause was set originally, so that man could walk with God in his garden.

If the original cause had stayed the same, mankind would have stayed in his Garden, and multiplied in his garden.

That never happened as unforseen circumstances altered the cause of mankind.

You had the devine counsel in the beginning living in present time with God, who all decided together how the image of man should be created in there image in present time.

At this time no plans where made to set a new creation, ie Adam and eve to live in past time.

So man was created equal, in an image that was free to choose, innocent and with out shame, of who there father was.

Protected in a heavenly garden, there was no need for God to know what Adam and eve would do next.

After they sinned in Garden, then there path changed, and this is where the plan was made to save man.

Where by man was banished from the garden and made to live in time that falls behind Gods time, So God could know everything man would do before they did it.

This of course also change God's will that's lives in all man, because God has now imprisoned his own will in man, so that man will never be free to choose or have free will, unless it is in accordance with his will.

Each and every man now has this will and this seed in him


Every man is chosen for adoption, but not everyman will be adopted.

The end. 😊
 

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Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood, "Your faith has saved you." She had faith to reach out for his garment, faithful that "if I but touch his garment"... She knew salvation belonged to Him, and it was her choice to reach out for it.
You will see if you search the Scriptures that faith just like repentance is a gift of God granted by grace.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Php 1:29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Act 18:27 And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

Everyone is commanded to repent and believe, but how can a person repent when they love their sin and how can a person believe when all they do is believe in themselves? The answer is that a person must be born again to do so.

The only reason why anyone chooses God is because God first chose them and made them willing.

Psa 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,

and therefore salvation does not belong to the choice of men but the Lord.

Psa 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah
 

maxamir

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I still don't see any scripturebacking up your opinions. Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who is Steven Lawson?
I already gave you several Scriptures proving that all men after the Fall are spiritually dead which does not mean that man does not have a spirit but that it is completely dead to God and enslaved under the curse to sin and Satan, which is why a person must be born again.

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Nice work....

My drum shells are precision made, thin shelled, maple plies. Great for resonance.

But... My drumming will not get me into heaven.


For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or straw,
their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light.
It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up,
the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping
through the flames. 1 Cor 3:11-15​
Gold, silver, and precious stones are produced in a believer thinking with sound doctrine in the filling of the Spirit.​
Just the same. Nice workmanship! (y)
the picture doesn't show the true precision of my finished work of how I've got the the grain to standout with chalk paint oil and varnish but this is what it looks like close up. 😊 Screenshot_20240315-015257.png
 

maxamir

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I don't get my theology from men and then force it into the Bible. I try to let God speak through the words He chose to use in editing the scriptures. I am not going to pigeon-hole myself so that you can well-poison my interpretation of texts based on what you think those so labeled believe. If you would rather jingo-ise and cheer for your team vs what you perceive as my team than discuss the meaning of texts, the value of conversation with you on the meaning of scripture will be reduced to close to zero.
From your response I take it that you do not then go to any church which has a statement of faith or sit under the teaching of any men which God has ordained to do so and therefore are unteachable in anything.

Everyone has certain presuppositions and it seems like you are too scared to have yours tested by Scripture which is given for this purpose.

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Mem

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You will see if you search the Scriptures that faith just like repentance is a gift of God granted by grace.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Php 1:29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Act 18:27 And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

Everyone is commanded to repent and believe, but how can a person repent when they love their sin and how can a person believe when all they do is believe in themselves? The answer is that a person must be born again to do so.

The only reason why anyone chooses God is because God first chose them and made them willing.

Psa 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,

and therefore salvation does not belong to the choice of men but the Lord.

Psa 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah
So there is really nothing we can do except continue as we are until what you speak of happens? Why even try?
 

PaulThomson

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I already gave you several Scriptures proving that all men after the Fall are spiritually dead which does not mean that man does not have a spirit but that it is completely dead to God and enslaved under the curse to sin and Satan, which is why a person must be born again.

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"You are born in the image of the devil" is not in either of those verses.

Citing texts and claiming they say we are "spiritually dead", when they do not mention "spiritually dead", does not prove that "spiritually dead" is a biblical concept; not does it define what is meant by someone using the term. Since it is not a biblical term and you have not defined it by scripture, a person could fill that term meaning with whatever they want.