Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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I told you this is my pastor and here is his testimony


And you need to listen to him

You have a good day to

Why were you showing me all those women teaching from the pulpit then?
And, only showed him after?
 
The rapture isn't as important as getting right with God for yourself, coz when your right with God, that's when your raptured to his son 🙂

The Rapture is real and is going to happen.
You treat it like it's only a nice story.
When someone is right with God, he will know it is reality.

You seem to be wanting to live in some imaginary world.
If I may say so... In a rather dainty world, that suites you personally.
The Bible understood in the original languages is not that way.

Yes... God takes the harshness out of harsh reality when we find ourselves in spiritual maturity.
But it remains reality that is now buffered by God's peace given to be within you.

One should not alter what was said to turn it into a scene of butterflies and flowers to walk away from what was really said.

What you really desire in your heart is what we will find in heaven forever.
Just don't change what the Word is saying to try to attempt to produce such a feeling.
That is impossible to experience until we are out from these bodies we were born into.
 
You asked to see my church you moron

OK... Why are there so many woman teaching from the pulpit in your church, then?
When they are not supposed to be.

A church is not supposed to be matriarchal.
Sadly... They appeared to have a stronger presence than the pastor.
 
OK... Why are there so many woman teaching from the pulpit in your church, then?
When they are not supposed to be.

A church is not supposed to be matriarchal.
Sadly... They appeared to have a stronger presence than the pastor.
how is it you don't say anything to sawdust for sharing her teaching, let me guess you only condem whom it suits


once again to answer your question, they share testimonies and there understandings.

And where all called to be disciples, decides means learners and teachers of his word, a mum can not reach there children correctly without his word

This is what the mum of Jesus taught John 2:1-11


Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman,[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
 
The Rapture is real and is going to happen.
You treat it like it's only a nice story.
When someone is right with God, he will know it is reality.

You seem to be wanting to live in some imaginary world.
If I may say so... In a rather dainty world, that suites you personally.
The Bible understood in the original languages is not that way.

Yes... God takes the harshness out of harsh reality when we find ourselves in spiritual maturity.
But it remains reality that is now buffered by God's peace given to be within you.

One should not alter what was said to turn it into a scene of butterflies and flowers to walk away from what was really said.

What you really desire in your heart is what we will find in heaven forever.
Just don't change what the Word is saying to try to attempt to produce such a feeling.
That is impossible to experience until we are out from these bodies we were born into.
Yep Jesus hasn't Gone anywhere he's in people hearts, the thought of him returning to bring justice to the lands on what happens to Christians during the great tribulation is up for debate, I'm not interested in that dude,. For me it leads no where important for me, as I can't decide one way or the other.

Besides.the donkey that took Jesus to safety could of been white, but that's just humour, EEE awe. Making light humour of the rapture, as people do make light humour out of things.

Which you may think I'm being disrespectful but no I'm only trying to help you, because I see that you keep letting yourself down by getting to upset.
 
OK... Why are there so many woman teaching from the pulpit in your church, then?
When they are not supposed to be.

A church is not supposed to be matriarchal.
Sadly... They appeared to have a stronger presence than the pastor.
here's a nice teaching endorsed by our church 🙂

This one should make you see something but I'll wait for your answer as to what you see.

 
how is it you don't say anything to sawdust for sharing her teaching, let me guess you only condem whom it suits....

She is not teaching in a position of authority of a pastor over a church like your ladies had been doing.
Unliked here, no one in the congregation could challenge them like we can here with each other.
It is not the same thing.
This setting is a Bible study format.

The key is... To teach over a man with authority.
 
She is not teaching in a position of authority of a pastor over a church like your ladies had been doing.
Unliked here, no one in the congregation could challenge them like we can here with each other.
It is not the same thing.
This setting is a Bible study format.

The key is... To teach over a man with authority.
You have the wrong reasons for understanding why people allow women to speak in church, as your only looking at authority as being higher, nope actually any women could place scripture on me that shows more authority than I've noticed.

The fact is a woman was the first person Jesus revealed himself as the Messiah to , because he knew she would spread the good news, which is also spreading the gospel.

He also knew the Jews where teaching many things wrong.
 
Yes Jer 17:9

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The word for desperately is 'ānaš :

to be weak, sick, frail

  1. (Qal)
    1. to be incurable
    2. to be sick
    3. desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.)
The condition here described is incurable. Nothing but a new hart will suffice
There it is again.

First of all. Not everyone is deceitful.

The Lord was ministering to Jeremiah, who was being anguished and tormented from watching his beloved people fall into gross depravity of the worst kind. Jeremiah was grieved about how they could do such things.

The Lord told Jeremiah (in the Hebrew) something more like this...
(which makes sense once we know the context).

"The heart {emphasis on old sin nature
wrapped up in mental attitude sins}
is deceitful/fraudulent/'non-reality' above all {things},
and 'dangerously sick' (mental attitude sins lead to temporary or permanent
psychotic conditions).
Who has the ability to discern it?"

Instead, of that understanding? As it should be? Some will run with conventional translations as their means
to condemn all people for being deceitful.

After I graduated from Bible college, I learned the context of Jeremiah by finding a pastor who can exegete and explain from the scriptures the horrible depravity the Jews had fallen into. It was totally gross. While the King James made it almost sound like poetry.

It was why God punished the people by having Nebuchadnezzar come in and over run Israel!

The truth is better than fiction.
 
You have the wrong reasons for understanding why people allow women to speak in church, as your only looking at authority as being higher, nope actually any women could place scripture on me that shows more authority than I've noticed.

The fact is a woman was the first person Jesus revealed himself as the Messiah to , because he knew she would spread the good news, which is also spreading the gospel.

He also knew the Jews where teaching many things wrong.

It was a woman who taught me about the deity of Christ. No problem.
 
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How come that women can not preach the gospel ?
Some can. Giving the Gospel is leading people to Christ.

On the other hand. Teaching Scripture skillfully with authority is pretty much telling people how they need to live by rebuking when need be.