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Well, ScottA, it may well be that humility isn’t my strong point. But if you fail to see the inconsistencies in your Biblical interpretations, I put it to you that it’s not your strong point either. So you reject the notion that passages in which the Bible has Christ speaking of fire, gnawing...

So you have free will that makes you the master of your own salvation or damnation, no matter what God wants for you? Really? I think not. It is God who distributes faith which frees you to do His will (Romans 12:3), and it is “the devil, who has taken (those who don’t) captive to do his will”...

Peter seems to agree with you. If it wouldn't give them the chance to repent and turn to Christ, why else should Christ have bothered to make "proclamation to the imprisoned Spirits 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being...

Imho when you’re drawn by Christ you’re saved. What else? And of course there’s more than one verse that points us to the hope for universal salvation. The question is how to interpret the others. For example I never saw Matthew 22:1-14 as pointing to it that some are chosen for hell (imho a...

This article hits the nail. Sadly - at least concerning one white supremacist poster here, who doesn’t shy away from using the N-word – I know the answer to the article’s last sentence: the Sermon on the Mount doesn’t matter to him. He’s of the opinion that it describes rules for a 1000-year...

Not sure whether it really makes the same point that you make (my brain shuts down when faced with complicated numbers, so I don’t quite get your point): Having been a university-lecturer on Logic, I’d say Keith Ward is probably quite keen on it. This lecture of his isn’t averse against truth...

Yes, the concept of free will was first developed to explain the problem of evil. And if you read Luther’s “On the Bondage of the Will” – IMHO a fine work of theology in many ways – you’ll find that his medieval views of God do indeed strike one as cruel, in that Luther firmly believed in hell...

Well, according to Gallileo “Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe”. I very much hope God also has other effective means of communicating with us because math was never my strong subject. You may however be interested in this lecture, which I found to be quite...

It may be the Lutheran in me, but I think you’re taking “free will” too far here. You are basically depicting man as the master of his own salvation. IMHO we can’t choose or deny our own salvation. It’s entirely in God’s hands. Should He will us to perish, we’ll perish; should He will to save...

" 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." (1 Timothy2:3-4) I trust and hope that God - being allmighty - will eventually get what He wants.

Yes, indeed. While I deem most of their theology to be absolutely bogus, the Jehovah’s Witnesses' pacifism and the sacrifices they were willing to bring for it are to be admired.

You forgot that God made a covenant with Noah before Abraham and Moses. And it is common Christian understanding (both among Catholics and traditional Protestants) that He made a “New Covenant” in Jesus Christ, which made the old one “obsolete” (Hebrews 8:6-13). Through Jesus Christ the Old...

"If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:29)

Sorry guys, I’m Protestant myself, but far be it from me to look at the splinter in my brother’s eye … Actually more Protestants than Catholics were in bed with the Nazis. The “German Christians” even wanted to eradicate the OT, because of their rampant Anti-Semitism. Very few German...

Yeah, the “death panels”. *Yawn*. Fact is that the average life expectancy is highest in countries with some form of universal healthcare. You’ll also find that it’s countries with universal healthcare that are the least corrupt. Also most of these countries spent less money on healthcare for...

Really? Well, funnily enough it seems to me that here are topics in which I’m far more ‘conservative’ than you are. For example I have rather strong views on divorce and unrepentant adulterers. Wanna open a thread on that?

A: Why? Obama isn’t President anymore. Trump is: Tracking Trump's Conflicts of Interest B: “The other kid did it, too” is not an excuse I would let my 8-year-old get away with. Please don’t drag me into your polarized world of liberal vs. conservative. If you guys in the US don’t watch it...

The first step to falling for false testimony is deeming yourself immune against it. There are loads of Italians in Germany, too. Like other groups of immigrants they did get a lot of insult, when they first arrived. Yet these immigrants made German society richer, not by completely...

Oh my! Well, I did decide to revisit this forum because I felt spiritually touched by the Pope’s Christmas Sermon, ya know the one in which he said that “see Jesus in the faces of Syrian children” (Pope Francis’s Urbi et Orbi 2017 Christmas message: full text | CatholicHerald.co.uk) Seeing that...

That the newspapers lie seems to be Trump’s default defense whenever he is faced with uncomfortable truths and I see you swallowed it hook line and sinker. Of course it is a matter of personal opinion whether one thinks there are still conservatives with moral integrity (my prayers go out to...