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Church of God, a Worldwide Association is a split-off from Armstrong's Church of GOD. Big sabbath keepers.

I did check out my lexicons. It can mean that, but doesn't have to. Being drawn by the scent of perfume in Song of Songs 1:4 is hardly the use of force. ἑλκύω

Church of God, a Worldwide Association. Their website fishes for email addresses to get info.

Some kind of sabbath-keeper group.

Nothing new here. Worship of the 10 commandments.

As far as I can tell there is no such thing as the very elect. That phrase in Mathew 24:24 simply means elect.

IMO Paul simply was saying that even though sin was birthed into the world through woman, women who continue in faith will be saved from a consequence of that screwup, i.e., death from childbirth.

The same way John 6:45 applies. They're the same things.

No, I don't believe your interpretation. Salvation is of the lord, but if you don't meet his conditions you don't receive it. Nothing to boast in about that. That's just foolishness.

No I don't believe that it is all GOD's work. Those who don't respond to and learn from the father's teaching through the holy spirit are not led to Christ. That has nothing to do with deserving or earning salvation. So there is something that we who are saved do, that those who are not saved...

He leads them to Christ and illuminates their heart to believe into righteousness, then confess and be saved.

No it's not metonymy. You just read that somewhere and agree with it for some reason.

That's completely different than bearing children.

You don't know that, and he died before the new covenant was established.

You really have a knack for saying contradictory things. The fact that Paul wished all women would not have children in order to better serve the lord entirely precludes your idea that bearing children is somehow tied to salvation. Paul was a realist, though, and realized that few had his...

Not that I care what the Vulgate says, but it does show what the prevailing view was at that time. It says that "if she continues", not "if they continue".

Not my experience at all. I was looking for GOD, but my blindness of heart kept me from seeing who he was. He simply opened my eyes and gave me understanding.

IT sounds strange because it is strange. GOD doesn't force himself on anyone. It is written that he leads people who hunger and thirst for righteousness to Christ. They choose to believe in him because it is what they have been looking for.

Paul would never had said or meant such a thing. He wished that all were unmarried so that they could better serve GOD (1 Corinthians 7).

The dead know nothing. No suffering, no nothing. Like they never existed.