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If you are saying the earth was not created a land of natural bliss, then I agree. Adam and Eve were both driven from the paradise garden of God planted on the earth, with no more uncondemned fellowship with Him. However, His presence was still among men on earth and enjoyed by Abel, but Cain...

Oh, I see. I wouldn't call call the prophecy of the Word become flesh, Him being conceived before the foundation of the world. God isn't conceived, but the Word was conceived in the womb of Mary. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream...

No-choice-faith is as dead as having faith alone by choice.

I don't argue with Christians arguing for doing unrighteousness by grace. Especially them that are grieved by preaching doing righteousness and not sinning. And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the...

Our salvation is not unconditionally secured, but renewable. If we turn to sin against Him, we are not cast off forever, but can still come to the Lord as before, to confess Jesus unto repentance and have Him formed in us again. He will do so 70 x 7 times, even as He admonishes us to forgive...

Salvation is renewable by faith, not secured while sinning. Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days...

Excellent. You show once again the difference between Scripture speaking to obedient believers and the disobedient. All transgressors are all judged the same as unbelievers. God is not mocked, nor is a respecter of persons. Being saved is being forgiven and not sinning. Being saved is only while...

Absolutely true with the things of God. It is either the truth of Scripture or not. Opinions about the weather can be gray. The problem is trying to mix opinion with Scripture, and corrupt the truth of God as though it's just about the passing weather. Had you offered a Scriptural point, rather...

4. The potter is the Lord, and the clay are His people. But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are...

3. Them ruled by the Lord will be His own nations and people. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. The first Scripture prophecying...

2. The Lord's ruling is shepherding first. This has always been true for the Lord's people, even if needing to have made captives or killed. That will also be the case in His Millennium for all His subjects of all nations. And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the...

This is good. It's the first time I've seen this possibility. It's the kind of insight that can only come from a serious response to a challenge. It's how we should all respond to objections, rather than just blindly ignoring them and repeating our own mantras. You are forced to conclude that...

Sola Scripture is the only way to be like the Bereans. Teaching and tradition is only as good as the Bible that agrees with it. I don't see it as undoing or losing anything. We are either being saved and doing His will, or we are not doing His will and not being saved. Determinism says two...

And so you are saying that all are called but only few chosen, because not all men repent. And so, it's not just speaking of those that already answered the call but failed to follow through. I like it. I say a movie once called "The children of a lesser God". That would fit. People who...

Well, it's your own fault, because you don't write things plainly. I've spoken to you before about this doctrinal language you use, is mostly lost on me. I have to try and decipher it, and then ask you if that is what you mean, and it can go on for three or four posts, because you finally say...

Whoa, hold on there. The Word was God, not conceived by God. Are you teaching Christ was created by God before the foundation of the world? That's what the JW's teach. God and the Word were before creation, not any man. And the Word did not become a man until after creation and the first man...

This is another good one. Someone else taught about how all men are called, and so only some are chosen, because not all men answer the common call of God to repent and believe His word. You show further, than all men are foreknown of God, and not just some created by Him. And your labelling...

I've written a thread long ago about predeterminism, or as you call it Christian determinism, and I never corrected it the way you have. I say well done. You have shown how John 15 ought be read. I only wish I had thought of it. You rightly show how Jesus is not saying we have no choice in...

Proofs that this earth is His Millennium, not the new earth. 1. No sea on the new earth for the river of waters to cleanse. 2. He builds His house and temple Himself for His rule, and is the temple Himself in New Jerusalem. 3. His saints reign with Him on earth during His Millennium, and there...

There is only one Scripture necessary to believe millennialism: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. The only answer to this, is...