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Recent content by jiminpa

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    Discussion My Dad has come to doubt the validity of the gift of tongues and may become a cessationist. Here are some of his searches... help wanted.

    The god of cessation is a god who can be controlled by man. The God of the bible cannot be controlled by man, and just might ask us to embarrass ourselves or do some other thing that we may find unpleasant.
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    Discussion My Dad has come to doubt the validity of the gift of tongues and may become a cessationist. Here are some of his searches... help wanted.

    The correct response to some person or people being poor examples of some standard of Christianity is to abandon the teachings of the Bible? That seems to me to be the worst possible response.
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    Discussion My Dad has come to doubt the validity of the gift of tongues and may become a cessationist. Here are some of his searches... help wanted.

    I read those articles and the best of them are saying that scripture means the opposite of what it actually says, which is what cessationists believe. No cessationist believes scripture. The most scriptural sounding argument, but it's not at all scriptural, is forcing the presumptions that...
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    Blasphemy against holyspirit

    Blasphemy is not what you believe, it's what you proclaim. The Pharisees publicly called the Spirit in Jesus a demon, (therefore publicly proclaiming the Holy Spirit to be a demon, and committing blasphemy concerning the Holy Spirit), and then Jesus taught that blaspheming the Holy Spirit would...
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    Blasphemy against holyspirit

    Why can't blaspheming the Holy Spirit be what it clearly is, like the Bible says it is, you know, blaspheming the Holy Spirit? The Pharisees insulted the Holy Spirit by calling Him a demon and because the Pharisees did that, Jesus states that blaspheming the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. The...
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    Discussion My Dad has come to doubt the validity of the gift of tongues and may become a cessationist. Here are some of his searches... help wanted.

    You don't become a cessationist by studying the Bible. You become a cessationist by believing man instead of the Bible. I think the best thing you could do is pray, and if the Spirit gives you anything, tell him that. The problem is that the cessationists have centuries of practice at arguing...
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    Fellowship Thanking God for his Goodness

    I don't even bother to read the other areas of this site. I see them as places of people who want to claim God without actually believing Him.
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    Jesus Saves

    I live in the U.S., and I've never heard of the Nicene Creed mentioned in conjunction with COVID reporting. I don't watch CNN, because they are incapable of any truth, so I could have missed a reference.
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    Jesus Saves

    Jesus is God. I don't see the Bible supporting a "3 gods, 1 essence makes 1 God," stance. I'm exaggerating the point a bit there. But to be clear, I think that Oneness and Trinitarian theology fall equally short, and are equally correct. This is where I do lean on an argument of mystery, since...
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    Jesus Saves

    Is it not possible to believe that God is one, as Jesus and the prophets have stated, and yet still understand that God is distinct in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? The way I see it is that the Bible explicitly says that God is one, and Jesus said that if you've seen Him you've see the...
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    Discussion Calvin and the foolishness of God, Jesus death.

    Which is why I don't go down those roads. They're false arguments.
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    Discussion Calvin and the foolishness of God, Jesus death.

    Scripture explicitly and directly refutes your philosophy. Any further conversation is, in my opinion, pointless strife.
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    Discussion Calvin and the foolishness of God, Jesus death.

    That's a ridiculous way to avoid the truth. Precisely why I don't argue scripture with Calvinists.
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    Discussion Calvin and the foolishness of God, Jesus death.

    I have learned that it's futile to discuss scripture with Calvinists, because if they cared about what the scripture says they wouldn't be Calvinists. 2 Peter 3:9, 18 for starters
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    Discussion Calvin and the foolishness of God, Jesus death.

    I would have never cared about the teachings of Calvin if I hadn't encountered numerous Calvinists. I don't need others opposed to Calvin to compare the teachings of the movement against the Bible, you should try it sometime. I'm not going to spend more time reading some man than I dedicate to...
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