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No. You can have unity without agreeing on one interpretation of scripture. It is largely the quest to settle on one interpretation of scripture that causes disunity. Epistemic humility , acknowledging that we know only in part (1 Cor. 13:9, 12) , and that if anyone thinks he knows anything he...

Paul told his brethren they were carnal. What is the mark of a carnal Christian, Rufus?

No one denies that there are differences between Christians and non-Christians. But your understanding of the meanings of biblical words is somewhat confused. Paul told the Christians at Corinth that the mark of their immaturity was their carnality.

Slaves and prisoners can plan escapes in their minds, whether their masters and jailors want them to or not. Prisoners and slaves can refuse to eat non-kosher foods whether their captors want them to refuse the foods or not. Masters and jailors do not wield absolute control over every facet of...

The Father judges no one but has given all judgement to the Son. John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Why? Because the Son suffered abandonment as the Father's expression...

Your philosophical speculations are not more authoritative than the Bible. Slaves are not fully controlled by anyone.

Those who are setting their minds on the flesh (whether Christians or not) cannot please God. Both Christians and non-Christians have spirits and can set their minds at times on spiritual things that their spirit is sensitive to. You are confusing "unregenerate" with "carnal". Unregenerate means...

Abraham told his servant His plan to get a wife for Isaac from beyond Canaan.

Necessary and inevitable are not the same thing. God decreeing X, does not mean X was necessary. If an exhaustive divine decree were a thing, God could have converted person Y with or without Z's prayers.

Slaves are not 100% controlled by their masters. They can rebel and disobey their masters at times. Read Philemon. and the history of "night trains" and "the underground railway". You don't understand what slavery is.

I can lead a horse to water... but I can't make it think.

PaulThomson said: Those who are setting their minds on their flesh are "in the flesh". They may be either unregenerate or regenerate. 1Cor.3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with...

We Christians do a lot of things we don't need to do that are unhelpful for us to do. That does not mean those things are God's will. God's will is "Don't be anxious. Be anxious about nothing. Do not fear. Be of good courage." God still loves us, but sometimes our world and self focus makes it...

Yes. But where does it ever say, "Be anxious with those who are anxious. Be depressed with those who are depressed."

You just posted six lines of claims that you have no scripture to support. Justification is removing sins, not adding someone else's righteous deeds. You are starting to sound like the Roman Catholics who claim that the excess good deeds of Christ and dead saints can be imputed to those on...

PaulThomson said: Those who are setting their minds on their flesh are "in the flesh". They may be either unregenerate or regenerate. 1Cor.3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with...

Pron. 23:6 Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies; 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you. 8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words. Someone with the reputation of being a...

Those who are setting their minds on their flesh are "in the flesh". They may be either unregenerate or regenerate. 1Cor.3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for...

There is nothing wrong with straining out gnats. If one falls into my tea, I take it out. But what you are doing is swallowing the unforgivABLE camel along with your ungrammatical gnat.

PaulThomson said: Paul does not say "repentance is impossible" for such people. He says it is impossible (for us, according to the context) to b=ring them to repentance. He does no say it is impossible for them to be brought to repentance. Again, saying to a class of students, "It is impossible...