Dan1988 said:

Gods sovereignty over every aspect of His creation, is the most rejected of all bible doctrines. The Bible does confirm that God is sovereign over the smallest things, such as the number of hairs on your head, and right through to the big ticket things such as, who will be saved and who will be left in their unregenerate condemned state.

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Please explain to us why the unregenerate condemned? And make sure that your response takes into consideration everything you just said in this post.

wmpratt said:

reduced regulations in 2008-09

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Reduced regulations? What do you think got us into the mess?

stevevw said:

I find Dr John Lennox pretty good at explaining biblical truth and applying them to real life. Many say C.S Lewis.

Weirdly enough I like Jordan Peterson's psychological explanations of the bible truths even though theres questions about his Christianity.

He mentions that all literature throughout time, the great philosophers and canons of western thought are all trying to get to the truth. But the bible was the original truth and first book that all truths stem from. The precondition for truth itself. Quite an expansive view but very true.

But choose wisely. You don't have to support the entire philsophy of any specific author. Just pull out what you think makes sense as per the bible. I think Peterson gives more an overview and perspective of Christian belief as a human enterprise. Which can help get different perspectives.

I think its important to know all perspectives so that it can show the bible and its truth in light of other ideas and philosophies. Like Peterson mentions that we can sample texts from the corpus of all texts to get different views on what truth is. Or what its all about.

But in doing so we begin to see a pattern that traces back to the bible which is the precondition of truth. Without it all other philsophy would not make sense.

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A story:

I was taking a logic curriculum in college that required an early survey of philosophy course that was taught by the dean of the philosophy department. I signed up for the course and quickly learned that I was the only student enrolled. That would mean the offer would be withdrawn, but it best fit my intended schedule to take it that semester so I went to the professor, Dr Goldstein, to see if I could take it by independent study and testing,

"No," Goldstein said firmly, it was a course that must be taught by lecture. So, I said something about being disappointed that it would not be taught that semester. "Oh, I'm teaching it," he said. Even if to only one student, he was going to teach it. By lecture. We held the first couple of sessions in a classroom, just him and me. Then we mutually agreed that was dumb, so I just went to his office.

In that private setting, we learned we were both Christian, which rather surprised me, given his name. As it turned out, he had been born and raised Jewish. But he'd become disillusioned by Judaism and turned to atheism. But he had found atheism philosophically unsatisfying and had spent more than a decade traveling the world and investigation all sorts of religions.

Eventually, he looked into Christianity, which he'd previously avoided because he'd "heard enough" about Christianity just being in the US. But it hadn't taken him very much study into the New Testament to realize...there it was. There it had been all along.

So, that "survey of philosophy" course actually turned into "the ways all the other philosophies get it wrong."

When did I ever make a critique?

Strong in Him said:

Know about what? Salvation?

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Judgement

Strong in Him said:

If we didn't know we'd go through our lives in fear - "supposing I don't make it"? "Supposing I go go through all these trials, temptations, struggles etc and then God says, 'not good enough'?"
The Bible says that perfect loves drives out all fear, and John, for one, wrote because he wanted people to know.

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Salvation might be assured for those put their faith/hope/trust/love in Jesus Christ, but a gain or loss of rewards isn't though, etc, and it's regretable to suffer loss, etc.

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"love keeps no record of wrongs", 1 Corinthians 13:5.
"If we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us", 1 John 1:9.

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I'm aware of that, but I do thank you though.

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No one can do that with their own, human love - only if we have received God's perfect love.

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Yes, thank you.

Strong in Him said:

Don't apologise for being passionate.
What makes you angry?

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Judgemental and hypocritical people who don't think, etc.

But, I probably shouldn't have taken it out on @fhansen though, because he might not be one of those maybe, etc.

So, I apologize to you @fhansen, ok.

God Bless.

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Apple Sky said:

It's amazing what these Archaeologists find, as Jesus said there is nothing that won't come to light.

Ecclesiastes 12:14.

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Amen!

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Valletta said:

The Bible is clear as to how we are saved:

Peter 3:20-21 who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. RSVCE

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We’re saved by water baptism?

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

."I agree with you that it is referring to something in part that will become perfect or complete, and it's not Heaven. But the passage tells us what is incomplete now and will be complete then,

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The gloss here is that the Word will no longer be in part, because it will then be complete. I'm still trying to determine why God explained it that way. The word needed signs to be accepted to the Jew, until it no longer needed signs to believe ("I put away childish things" - 1Co 13:11).

It's ok if we differ in our understanding on this issue, thanks for the feed-back!

Comedy

Thriller or horror?

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ARBITER01 said:

I think you, I, and others here would rather seek understanding and teaching from The Holy Spirit. We tend to have some agreement between ourselves, as well as some fellowship.

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Yeah, I think it begins with humility since seeking understanding requires we first admit that we know nothing and cannot get to the truth on our own. In other words, we must be teachable and not just insist on being teachers. And when teaching is called for, doing so with gentleness and not insisting on our own authority or elevating our understanding to God's revelation.

Learning always said:

There is always hope.

A friend heard that his colleague was facing a serious marital crisis—his wife had demanded a divorce. She did so in a very firm and serious manner.

The colleague began preparing for the separation. He started looking for a new potential wife, and even traveled to Southeast Asia to meet a girl. My friend prayed a Novena for his colleague’s marriage.

Later, the colleague’s wife backed down. She no longer asked for divorce.

The Lord CAN change people's heart.

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Maybe. Or maybe she realized he was going to fare better after the divorce than she was.

Nithavela said:

You (using the collective you here) had the chance to do something last november. You chose not to.

If you're lucky, you'll have the chance to do something again in a year.

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Yes. The people wanted Trump again. Come 2029, he’ll be out of office for good. That’s how voting works.

iluvatar5150 said:

I'm kind of amazed I haven't seen this come up here yet.

About a week ago, Trump, via his TruthSocial account, elevated American political discourse to highs not seen in decades by posting an AI-generated video of himself piloting an F-18 and bombing No Kings protestors with poop.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

truthsocial.com

It would seem that Republicans are now okay with Dems wearing brown suits.

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It makes me wonder about his mental state. I’m not diagnosing him, but I’d be concerned if he was my father….

I post good stuff. Let's look at the horizon distance equation.

Just do this equation exactly as follows, inputting whatever is your prefered value for Ho.

What could be easier, and it's the best way to calculate the horizon distance.

If you wish, you could do this Imperial by inputting Ho as 44 miles / second and C as 186000 miles / second.

You will get the same Hubble horizon distance of 13.8 BLY's

No one knows the age of the universe, other than Creator God :-


Hubble Constant (Ho) Hubble Horizon Distance light years calculated from Ho of 70.9449 k/s/Mpc.





oneMpc X C, divided by Ho, and then divided by one billion = 13.7758 billion light Years



In this equation, directly input the values below:-

oneMpc is 3260000 light years

C (local) is 299792.458 k/s

Ho is 70.9449 k/s/Mpc

one billion is 1,000,000,000 used to give the answer in convenient units of
billions of light years.


Note:- This Hubble Horizon Distance equation prevents falsifying the terminology of
declaring light years as years only.



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This nonsense needs to stop. LGBT ideology is not love and casual hook up’s are not love. Speaking as someone who has a brother deep in that lifestyle.

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GoldenBoy89 said:

What do you want us to do about it?

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You (using the collective you here) had the chance to do something last november. You chose not to.

If you're lucky, you'll have the chance to do something again in a year.

Maria Billingsley said:

This is precisely why overturning Roe vs Wade was a very bad idea. Both maternal and abortion deaths have risen substantially. But no one is talking about this. Are they?
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has created a fractured US, with some states like Colorado protecting abortion access, and others like Texas and Alabama enforcing near-total bans.
Contrary to the expected decline, the national number of abortions has soared by over 11% since 2020 (the latest comprehensive pre-Dobbs data), and the increase is closer to 20% in the two full years post-Dobbs, reaching the highest recorded level in over a decade! Meanwhile, in the states with bans, this has caused a public health crisis. Maternal and infant mortality rates are rising in states with bans, disproportionately affecting Black women.These laws are directly associated with a higher risk of death for mothers and infants and are causing dangerous delays in essential medical care for life-threatening pregnancy complications.

Lets us reason. There must be a better way.

Be blessed.

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I’m no scholar, but I’m pretty sure RBG even thought Roe v Wade was a bad law.

I think the only way to really heal our nation is return to God and holy marriage. The nuclear family. The sex obsessed culture needs to end.

Peace

Disgusting! Praying for the day this barbaric practice ends once and for all! May God forgive us and have mercy on us!

Thanks for sharing