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Groovy, As by now you should know that my fundamental critique of your original post is that it attempts to use a spoonful of scripture to address a mountain of reality. Making eternal life and death declarations based on a few Googled topics is inadequate and misleading. The very nature of God...

Reread Matthew 25. There is no doubt about what is required to be God's sheep. The external can only inform. The path to heaven is not about what you know, it is about what you have enough faith to do. Sitting an airconditioned concrete bunker perfecting your theology, creeds and proof texts is...

As memory serves, it was you who declared: "Human beings are selfish or sinful miserable and hopeless or hell-bound at the judgment when they reject God’s salvation." I'm not sure what question marks portend. You quoted 9 citations to "prove your point." (there are those pesky quotation marks.)...

My point is that they don't agree with your first statement about an all loving God. One can find writers making that case. One can also find evidence of the opposite. A God full of human emotions, anger, vindictiveness (God’s statement about visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the...

Do you see the "bible" as a means of confirming your preconceptions by stringing together texts that are not in context. Is that how you see the bible....just a google search for terms. It’s like going to a library and pulling from 73,000 pages of 66 library books strings of unrelated quotes...

Which bible are we talking about? The one with 81 books or the one with 73 books or the one with 66 books? Some of the authors of the Hebrew bible used other, non-biblical books as references for what they wrote. Few of any of these external sources exist today. As mentioned in the Hebrew...

My point is if you don't chose to fall away, nothing on earth can make you. That was the original issue. On the other hand, there a many many scriptures that warn us not to chose to fall away. Thus is can be your choice to do so. You are free to make those choices but it will never be against...

This question drives at the religious underbelly of Luther and Calvin but not of Jesus and his brother and leader of the early church, James. Under the "Standard Protestant Model" we can never be sure we are saved. Over the centuries, "believers" have contributed to the most heinous crimes in...

Why would a loving God+Jesus+Holy Spirit not automatically protect you? Remember Jesus parable of the 100 sheep and the power to find and return it? If the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is powerless to protect you from these things, what is the purpose? Do you believe those "led astray" are...

Text – Romans 6 (1:16) 7 (12-25) 8 (15-17) Opinion Paul’s letter to the Romans is probably the very first of his letters. He spends a lot of time talking about sin and forgiveness. As I do not believe in proof texts, please read all of Romans 6-8 and struggle with me to grasp Paul’s treatise on...

I see people every day who identify as Christians but they exhibit no manifestation that differintiates them. Your position is that there is something you refer to as a "surrendered" life. Is that something visible to others or is it just something you mentally believe? A friend of mine gave me...

I value friendship, cool cars, quiet nights on the porch with my family....I love icecream, cooking, sports and family.....I desire to learn, to earn the respect of friends and family and for world peace. Do I get divine judgement from life? As morals seem to be fluid or at least evolutionary...

You have described functions, but what is the "heart" itself?

"Heart" (Hebrew lebab/leb [b'bel], Gk. kardia [kardiva]) occurs hundreds of times in the Bible, making it the most common anthropological term in the Scripture. It denotes a person's center for both physical and emotional-intellectual-moral activities; sometimes it is used figuratively for any...

You may be an ambassador to England or France You may like to gamble, you might like to dance You may be the heavyweight champion of the world You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody Well, it...

Attempting to "prove the bible" without the visible life change power claimed by the Bible is a hill too far. In Jesus metaphor, we are to be a bright light on a hill that attracts the attention and admiration of the world as they see the living love of God. It was not a light in the pulpit, or...

I disagree that the key question is "how true Christians should be discerned." I suggest it is about how Christians live. Lynch pins. Jesus said "I came not to be served, but to serve." One on axis, Christianity is all about who you serve. As Bob Dylan so accurately put it, "You've got to serve...

It is my assumption that all people seek to live their "best" lives. The single indisputable witness to "atheists" is the life you lead. We attempt to "argue and offer "proof" via philosophies, quotations from our book and personal expressions of our faith. The world has seen and heard it for...

Why not be God imitators while you sit and wait for "salvation"?