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That parable is about hearing the word on good ground and therefore producing fruit because of it. It has noting to do with sin, you have added that yourself. We are all sinners but that does not mean we can't produce good fruit when walking in the spirit. Are you saying you don't? Some receive the gospel and some don't. They might later on, etc but that's what that means -hearing the word of God, which we know from other parts of the bible that produces faith and then we can produce fruit. Why are you inserting sin here?You know, the part where Satan SINS in everyone via theft
We should hear and accept every word as truth. And live by that truth. But once again, not every verse specifically applies to every individual. We have to know the context, who the audience is, what is being discussed etc. You can't seem to understand that.He did. 3 times. Cited to you how many times now?
No, he specifically separated them into 4 different groups and what type of ground they receive the word upon. Wayside, stony, thorns and good ground. But keep making it up as you go along.Uh, yes it was a direct statement from God in Christ multiple times.
Yeah, I figured as much. Putting man's word over God's. We were told stuff like this would happen and people would leave sound doctrine. I had to drop some false doctrines that were indoctrinated into me at an early age. It was only later on when I got into the Word that I saw they were unbiblical.I came to understand Christian Universalism because some patient people waded through the subject matter with me
Have you read there are conditions?Have you heard the one about God actually saving sinners?
Why? That's probably your thing but but I have the Word right in front of me. And I've read the conditions. You are totally ignoring Christ's own teachings about repentance, etc. It's very serious and I'll choose his words over yours.You should google them some time.
Loving our neighbors does not mean we get to throw out God's Word which will not change. God is so long suffering because he himself of course does not want any to perish but to come to repentance. But yeah, let's just throw out that fact as well. According to you he doesn't have to be long suffering."love your neighbors part?"
Like I said, what "facts" have you got?There's a firmament up above & nothing can get through & the furthest they can go is low earth orbit.
Well pooI'm afraid that it doesn't work.
Gold ... has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.
True, gold has some
industrial and decorative utility,
Here is where his Keynesian brainwashing come to light.Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it
would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At
$1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.
Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400
million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most
profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would
have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying
binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?
A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn,
wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the
currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its
owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The
170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can
fondle the cube, but it will not respond.
Admittedly, when people a century from now are fearful, it’s likely many will still rush to gold. I’m
confident, however, that the $9.6 trillion current valuation of pile A will compound over the century at
a rate far inferior to that achieved by pile B.
Does Buffet not have anyone guarding his funny money? He pulled his funny money out of the market; because like the bankers who print that trash, he knows that this ponzi scheme is almost up.Gold gets dug out of the ground, then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. I
It's mind blowing what you sometimes can squeeze out of your keyboard.It means that Cornelius. was not THERE. ??
There is a whole universe outside of the firmament that God also created including other planets and starts. Saturn with the rings is one.
Saturn is almost 800 million miles away from Earth.
According to the Word of God ...You were there? What sins do you accuse the mother of God of having committed?
There is a whole universe outside of the firmament that God also created including other planets and starts. Saturn with the rings is one. Saturn is almost 800 million miles away from Earth.There's a firmament up above & nothing can get through & the furthest they can go is low earth orbit.
Yes, we know.I never really understood what this "transcendent" business is ...
It would help you considerably if you understood the "non-sequitur" argument before using it incorrectly.Non-sequitur much?
I take that as a "No", ie., you have no help to offer on a definition of the "good rape". There's hope.That's between you and him.
It's very often not sin actually, and yet sin may be blamed.. Sometimes from official sources in a church. But anyway, I don't disagree with this message either.I walk in the Lord, I am obedient to his word, but when the enemy comes knocking and tries to change my mind, gives me false visions and tries to drum up whatever they can to change my mind or break my faith in Christ, I have had experiences where calling on the name of Jesus seems like it's gone, but they are still there, still whispering their influence. Just because they stop chucking things in the room, or stop giving false visions, doesn't mean they left. This is why Paul says to take every thought captive:
2 Corinthians 10: 4-5
"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
There are the possibility of having quite a few voices in your head. Gods, angels that follow God, angels that don't follow God and your own. We will constantly fight against principalities of the air until we die. This is a war and a war is won by following all of scripture, and putting on the armor of God because it's there for a reason. Influence is more powerful than their overt attacks because influence is underhanded and goes under the radar.
I once had a fallen angel come to me and pretend to be Elijah sent by God to help me with scripture. When they talk to you telepathically, it sounds like your own voice. Deception is a mighty weapon they use and they are smart and more clever than people realize or give them credit for. Through my experiences, God taught me by scripture what works, what appears to work and what doesn't.
My warning is, don't think that just because you feel peace, they aren't whispering in your ear when you think they aren't there. Be more aware of the thoughts that come into your head because there are a lot that aren't from you. You could be thinking about what's for dinner and deciding what to eat as your focus is on that, but something else comes into our mind out of no where. That is not your brain on ADD, that is a possibility if it being a spiritual influence.
The scripture teaches that followers of Christ ARE going to be attacked by the enemy. It's not always sin as Job is a great example.
1 Peter 5:8-9
"Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
So we need to be careful what we say and teach others because attacks are going to happen no matter what and we need to be aware, what to do and how to handle it. Paul says "resist", James says "resist", Peter says "resist" and that is what we should do. Follow the scriptures because again, there is no where in the scriptures that says we get rid of the enemy by claiming the name of Jesus apart from possession.
What "facts" have you got?
Man's spirit is immortal, and is not subject to death, according to the word of God in 2 Co 5:8.