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  1. JohnRH

    Could earth be the center of the universe?

    I think it could be. If you could de-materialize your giant arm and reach into a complex gear box and hold one gear tooth stationary, the entire gear box would rotate around that tooth. Everything inside the universe (material and immaterial) would have the same relationship with one another...
  2. JohnRH

    Marks Of A True Believer In First John.

    Are you asking, "Can we know objectively that [another] person [other than ourself] is a true believer?"? It would be more accurate to say that a "fellowshipper" walks in the light. Don't get "true believer" and "fellowshipper" mixed up; they're not the same. A true believer can wander out of...
  3. JohnRH

    Is the Gospel the power of God unto salvation?

    I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. All people HAVE been born - unless you know of some who were hatched. But they HAD the Savior - they just spurned Him. God, who is the Saviour of all men ... 1 Tim 4:10 Who gave himself a ransom for all 1 Tim 2:6 And he...
  4. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    Rufus gave an illustration earlier that I like. A lion cub is a carnivore before he ever eats his first morsel of meat. He eats meat because he was born a carnivore by nature.
  5. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    I don't think people are born "sinning" (an action) either. I believe they are born of the flesh (a state) and need to be born of the Spirit. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: Romans 7:18 (KJV) ... flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth...
  6. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    It's a tough subject, but here are a few tidbits that come to mind: There was God's law prior to Moses/Sinai. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. Gen 26:5 (God to Cain) ... sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his...
  7. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    No, just letting the text speak for itself.
  8. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    All the while someone is dying, they're 100% alive. God didn't say, "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely be dying"; He said, "thou shalt surely die".
  9. JohnRH

    Is the Gospel the power of God unto salvation?

    And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15 (KJV) And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 (KJV)
  10. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    You're mixing "partly dead" with "dead". A person is either dead or he isn't. You seem to get that idea from your miss-rendering of the conversation between Eve & the serpent: Eve doesn't mention "day" at all, but the serpent does. But in God's actual statement (2:17), He says they'll...
  11. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    It seems it may have been: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know...
  12. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    Do you understand death to be "separation"?
  13. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    Why do babies physically die before they get the law?
  14. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    Sometime after he graduates googoo and waah.
  15. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    The law that a newborn doesn't have.
  16. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    I didn't say the written code of the law.
  17. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    I never said that.
  18. JohnRH

    Bounds of their habitations?

    And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Acts 17:26 (KJV) It might be helpful to consider "times" and "boundaries" together (as a combination). As you alluded...
  19. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    A newborn doesn't have the law. Sin is not imputed when there is no law. Therefore every sinner who dies before they have the law goes to heaven - no exceptions, no "sovereign choosing" of one over another. The newborn is personally innocent of Adam's specific transgression, but physically...
  20. JohnRH

    What Changed?

    If newborns weren't born in sin, they would never die until they were old enough to commit their first sin.