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Is that what you did when God gifted you with physical life: You chose and yielded to him? Or did God "force" his will upon you and tell you, "You will live whether you want to or not"?

I have already addressed the tension between God's sovereignty and man's moral responsibility in both Deut 29 & 30. The conclusion you reach via Deut 29:9 totally obliterates what Moses said in v. 4. Explain to me WHY would Moses say such a thing if the Lord had given to the Jews a mind to...

Another thing God has laid on my heart is to demonstrate how NT doctrine on God's sovereignty is reflected well in the post-Fall Genesis narrative. This the passage I have in mind: Rom 8:29-30 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he...

Really? So, only the Jews of Jeremiah's day qualified, heh? I suppose the rest of the human race puts its pants or skirts on differently than Jews? I suppose you think Isa 1:5-6 is another anomaly? And I see you cannot give a straight answer to Jer 13:23a? BTW, just for giggles I visited...

So how does all your windy gibberish change the universal truth taught in Jer 17:9? And I'm still waiting for your simple, straightforward "yes" or "no" answer to the rhetorical question in Jer 13:23a. Your bosom buddy who is so full of himself could not bring himself to such an answer. I...

I'll give you this: You are one fantastic projectionist! :rolleyes:

I'm actually thankful to RDBD for insisting that Gen 3:21 teaches that God's provision of animal skins (presumably from innocent animals slain in the Garden) "proves" that A&E were both saved. But this assumption presents more problems than it solves. Chief among them is that the assumption...

Yeah...did you catch what Studier just said? He believes that UNBELIEVERS can please God with some of the righteousness they do! Apparently, he has never read that "without faith it's impossible to please God" (Heb 11:6), and that whatever is not of faith is sin (Rom 14:26), and that the world...

Shirely U. Jest! Since man was created "very good" and actually dwelt with God in His Temple (the Garden), and Light can have no fellowship or communion with Darkness, nor can righteousness and wickedness have anything in common, then the only logical and biblical inference that can made is...

And sadly, this is a very common error among so many believers. We often don't consider how an interpretation of any one passage affects the entire counsel of God! It seems many of us suffer from mental myopia. Many of us apparently forget that even though the bible consists of 66 canonical...

Talk about "bloviating" -- and by someone who doesn't read too swell. I never excluded Adam from Gent 3:21. But I did explain that that text in and of itself does not provide concrete proof that both A&E were saved. And the reason it doesn't is because God's work must be appropriated by...

Oh...that easy for FWer to answer. After Adam fell he bruised his knee slightly, but then picked himself up and dusted himself off and mankind continued on his way. Not much much to see in the Fall of Mankind or its consequences.

So the writers of scriptures made up their own metaphors? You don't believe the Holy Spirit uses all manners of speech to express his truth? And your dead wrong about men forcing metaphors to "fit their interpretations". Look up the definition of "metaphor" already, ad get a clue! This from...

What part of the above don't you believe, apart from all of it? :rolleyes:

Maybe St. Pete was loosely quoting Jesus in Jn 8:34?

Why the sudden interest in the NIV, which you dislike so much? How come you're not formulating your interpretation from other more favored, literal translations -- or directly from the Gr text?

That's how we're supposed to interpret METAPHORS! Obviously, when the Holy Spirit inspired his various writers of scripture use a metaphor to describe man's spiritual condition, he meant for us to draw analogies with what we do know about physical death. But FWers who are very prone to...

"Spurious" means their faith (not to be confused with God's gift of faith) was a forgery. It was a fake, false, phony baloney, good time rock 'n' roll kind of faith. Spurious faith is taught in the Parable of the Four Soils. And another example of fake faith can be seen in John 6 when a bunch...

Why should I have to use other scriptures when 2Pet 2:17-19 speaks plainly for itself? The ones who are enslaved to their depravity are those with spurious faith and who have "fallen away". IOW, the people described in vv. 17-19 were never believers! Is there anything else your blind eyes...

God created mankind in his likeness and image which means, among things, that man is a moral being. As moral beings our proclivity will be to pursue good or evil. When God placed enmity between the Woman and the Serpent, his decree greatly restrained Eve's inclination and attraction to not...