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Thank you for explaining your position. I don't know why it is, but you and I seem to repeat this routine of objection, followed by clarification, only to find we are generally on the same page. Oh well. The things I give answers to are for the most part, not my own, but the result of being...

True. But that does not fully account for the evils of this world many of which one does not sow and yet we are exposed to them nonetheless, making life in this world like a rollercoaster of good and evil, even if we were without sin.

That's it, that is the doctrine. The details of which are presented in the gospels.

You said: ...And because your description indicated that God did not mean for things to go the way they did--I explain how, Yes, He did mean them to go the way they did--because He is indeed in control. But if you want to look at it differently, it is also written, by example of Joseph and his...

Again, the one image is of this body in the flesh, in the world, while the other (spiritual) image is not yet seen: "So is everyone who is born of the Spirit" (John 3:8). So, yes, in spirit we have unity in Christ...however, "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" (1...

That is a different image. Both images however, are given to us by God, neither of which can be denied. Even so, it is good to seek the image of unity rather than the image of the suffering Christ which we now are.

Amen to that!

How shall I answer you? “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men?” Your sentiment is not unlike Peter's, well intended--even as it should be. But God did not lose control of the fate of His creation in the garden-- On...

Indeed it does. But... ...Such is the image of Christ on the cross, bloody, beaten, and in disarray, until the times are fulfilled. We are that body.

That would be a common perspective, it would seem. But Jesus' bloodied and beaten body on the cross is divided day and night over many generations, one man divided as the light divided from, and at odds with, the darkness.

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The biblical definition of a generation would indeed be 40 years. Which over the many uses of 40 years, is established by the forty years of wandering in the desert before the next generation entered the promised land...the math of which is only determined by the spiritual meaning of that...

Excellent! The point I was making, however, is that the use of "thee" or "thou", "singular", shows the word to be to the church as individuals, rather than as a group (as if they all "received and heard" the saving message of Christ all at the same moment). Which then collaborates Paul's...

You don't need to do anything. In fact doing nothing would be better for you. But no, you claimed that God was not speaking through me--like you would know, like you knew anything. And I don't need to validate anything. You are owed nothing. If you don't like hearing the wind, plug your ears...

I am well aware. But don't think for a minute that those who falsely accuse those actually sent by God are subject to any lesser consequence.

The words were not my words, nor was I the One who "mingled" them or spoke them. God's word is His own providence--and He alone decides by His own choosing who speaks the truth from Him. Question is: Why have you come out with swords and clubs, as those who killed the prophets of God and...

"Thee" is John in the passage. However, the passage is not only about John. In other words, under the context of revelation to the churches, John's experience of salvation is an example, which was to John as an individual--not as a massive group. Which was given to John to be a part of his...

False. It is not a litmus test based on your presence and relationship with God. The reason people suffer with evil, is because we live in a fallen world where there is darkness and light at every turn.

God and His Word are simply One and the same. You have heard the saying "my word is my bond", and certainly even people can authenticate themselves without seemingly being actually present--by fax, facetime, etc., not a problem. And certainly not impossible for God.