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You're just showing off. :P :)

Lol - why would you say that you argued against something you believed was correct? To be fair, you're a slightly odd duck, my Friend. Most folks can't wrap their brain around a view that isn't considered both 'biblical' and correct. ;) .

I think there's a definite difference between testimony and orthodoxy—a difference most folks are not willing to fully parse. And I think Calvin was tormented by his own intellect, as many other theologians have been throughout history. I also believe he was a good man, contrary to...

"Calvinism" or the five-point, reformed faith, as it is sometimes called, was conceived by some unfortunate men who reckoned themselves too intelligent to submit themselves to God's will unless they could presume to explain it, and that God is not to be trusted with the secret things that belong...

Do you remember the article I sent you on Calvinism? :)

:watching and waiting: .

We all like to think we're free of denominational influence. But a great majority of faithful Christians still believe the stuff they were taught by them. There is a difference between non-denominationalism ('I'm withholding judgment') and anti-denominationalism ('I'm judging'), and the latter...

Words need definitions to be understandable. The biblical definition of "soul" in Genesis 2:7 is one into which I do not recall introducing any kind of human argument, such as: Baloney and mysticism If the Bible is what we're using, why the need for introducing Hellenistic Dualism? .

You're confusing contradiction with paradox, thereby creating a false dilemma. :p (I really like the tongue-sticking-out smiley—especially with good friends - - :p ). :)

The problem is that people say God is no respecter of persons when the principle doesn't apply to the subject at hand. That God is no respecter of persons is indisputable because the Bible says so. The question is what this lack of divine respect refers to EXACTLY in a person. If the Bible...

That's a nice bit of equivocation you've got there. So, we can't operate of our own free will, but both God and man can "over-ride" each other's will, is that it? Reminds me of an old country song about oceanfront property in Arizona. .

I can imagine, to some degree. When one has worked in personal ministry as you have, it's hard to be isolated. Nothing lives unto itself for very long. This was brought to my mind recently when I was recalling an interview of a woman who had born no less than 17 children. When she was asked...

I don't know about you, Brother, but sometimes when my "prayer life" gets blunt-edged, I've had to dispense with some of the dogmatic maxims insisted upon by some. Sometimes I have to get real and raw in order to keep my connection with God from becoming feeble. Jesus is my Brother as much as...

Revelation 22:20 — He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. :)

Speaking of things that are weird, we have one guy on our street of a dozen or so $250,000+ houses who has a Trump/Vance sign in his yard. The rest of us are fairly apolitical. Oh yeah, the weird part is that Trump guy is also the guy who mows his lawn twice a year whether it needs it or not -...

I struggled with my decision to break away from popular orthodoxy and follow the truth of what the Bible actually says about certain, (in my view) widely misunderstood subjects. But I don't recall anyone leveling this kind of "us-and-them" cynicism at me. I wonder how such words would have...

"Leaving only righteousness?" What righteousness? Christ imputes and imparts His own righteousness to the soul that is dead in trespasses and sins. Romans 3:10 — As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: According to your own claim: How can one "pass from death unto life" if...

Hopefully "His goodness" doesn't include Sabbath-keeping, I guess. .

Because just as God winked at the ignorant practice of idolatry (2nd commandment) for a time (Acts 17:22-34), so now He winks at the ignorant practice of trampling His 4th commandment... For a time. You are stubbornly and quite typically missing the point to further your slanderous agenda...

2 Corinthians 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. This is the very essence of righteousness by faith. .