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i mean, to me, it seems pretty obvious that the fact you had to go look for them in the yard, instead of waking up to an ishtar basket beside your pillow, is a dead giveaway that there is definitely what's known in the business as an 'hidden ishtar egg seeking event' going on. the name kinda...

i don't think searching the yard for ishtar eggs provides any kind of logical basis for concluding your mother did not intentionally hide ishtar eggs in the yard. consider your potential outcomes, given your confirmation bias: you don't find any ishtar eggs aha, you say, there are no hidden...

was the prerequisite to God's will that all repent, also His will, in this case?

does marrying and being given in marriage have nothing to do with anything other than producing offspring? in the context of this saying, there was nothing about having babies or doing specific things that would result in babies. it was about a woman being uniquely joined to a man in a certain...

the text says that God's purpose in teaching with parables instead of plain speech is so that to those who have, more will be given, and to those who do not have, even what they have will be taken away. a person who is committed to rejecting the gospel can just as quickly reject a clear message...

under what circumstances do people repent? having no sin, or having sin?

while you may have an argument about the 'original cause' of a person's not perceiving or understanding - about which origin i have not commented - that does not undermine what God expressly stated about His purpose in speaking in parables. in fact it substantiates it, because what you are...

He says eternal life is "inherited" not earned. Peter asks Him what they will "therefore" receive because they have left homes and family, and He tells them the parable in Matthew 20 as a reply. eternal life, salvation, entrance into the kingdom of heaven, is not a wage. it is not by works but...

a family, and an habitation Matthew 19:27-30 Then Peter answered and said to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?" So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who...

salvation is a gift, not a wage. Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. Romans 11:6-8 And if by grace, then [it is] no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer...

i propose an experiment. @GWH tell us what the wage is

if you are not seeing it, it is hidden from you. why do you resist the Word of God so strongly? Mark 4:10-13 And when He was alone, they that were about Him with the twelve asked of Him the parable. And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but...

both Pilate's statement and Christ's are intentionally ambiguous

Luke 23:3 Pilate asked Him, saying, art Thou the King of the Jews? And He answered him and said, thou sayest.

apparently you should have answered me in the other thread instead of directing me here, if you are also unwilling to participate in discussion here, and apparently you missed it the half dozen times i have repeated God's Word in this thread, where He explains that the purpose of teaching in...

you have read it yourself, why then do you need me to repeat it to you?

believing the word of God is not doublethink. when you do not understand what He has said, the correct reaction is not to take words out of His mouth and put your own words in it instead. the correct reaction is awe.

so we see it demonstrated again that His clearly stated purpose of parables is carried out, adding to those who have, and taking away from those who do not have, selectively hiding and revealing according to His perfect will. He will do all His will

the treasure in the field and the choice pearl cannot possibly be salvation: salvation cannot be bought or sold. such thinking is evil. the man in the parables cannot represent us, the church. we do not purchase or secure salvation, or equivalently, Christ, neither His Kingdom. it is Christ...