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(1) They were clear in knowing that God commanded them not to eat the fruit and that they would die if they did. That should've been plenty enough of information for them to obey. (2) They didn't have to know all that Satan had planned; they only had to know that their disobedience had dire...

None taken. No, God didn't create humans to go to hell. They decided under Adam to send themselves there by trying to take over the rulership of his universe. That rebellion was their fault and sent them there because of their self-centeredness. We let Satan bamboozle us into imagining that we...

I agree with you mostly. However, Jesus did "write" the whole Bible by being the Agent through whom the Father inspired all of it by the Spirit's power as the ONE Inspirer of it. He also guided the assembling of it according to the criteria he gave believers, who, nevertheless, are all fallible...

Well, that's great, fellow Christian!

In my case, I came to understand that God wants me concentrating my book and online ministries, the way Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7.

Your words "seems to be" are telling. We need to discover the words' meanings within the context of Scripture, not from our own reason. The choice before creation was by a 3-in-1 God who then created everyone and chose some to belong to him. He could have let us all go to hell, which is where we...

How can you say that the Catholic church preceded Moses, who wrote the first five books; the prophets, who wrote the rest of the Old Testament; and the Apostles, who wrote the New Testament? I believe that every interpretation outside the Bible must be measured by the Bible, including all...

A couple questions: Do you worship Mary? Why do you pray to and praise Mary when Jesus said to pray to "our Father in heaven" in the Lord's Prayer? Jesus had to be fully human to die as our Substitute on the cross and fully divine to rise from the dead to give us his resurrection power to live...

When my dear wife of 56 years died suddenly almost four years ago, it was a shock how she died down our condo stairs and was a huge adjustment. After all, she was a master household and financial manager, besides being my loving companion. For a while, I was open to God's guidance of whether...

What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography (Amazon).

Busy lives and failure to study and read the Word of God.

You misunderstand the Reformed view, of which I am a part. John Calvin's view of those passages was that, yes, God loved and chose believers to be saved before creation, but he allowed lifelong unbelievers to have it their own way and go to hell. The difference is that it was part of his...

On what Scriptural passage do you base your opinion? The Bible itself is the authoritative set of teachings and history for us to be saved and built up in the faith. Any other people's added interpretations without the authority of the Bible is very questionable and have to be verified by the...

People took Jesus literally when he was being figurative all the time. The whole Gospel of John is full of such examples. He claimed that he was the Vine, the good Shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the gate to the sheep-pen, the Bread of life--all of them claiming to be God with the...

So, based on this one verse, do you believe that God will save everyone, regardless of many other verses saying otherwise?

I agree with you. The passage that came to mind as I read your words was Philippians 4:6,7, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will...

Why are you so angry at Calvinists and John Calvin? I suggest that you read Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. Perhaps, someone has led you wrong in your evaluation of the subject. Maybe, it's a lot more biblical than you were told.

Both! Apart from Jesus' perfection in his life, death, and resurrection, we would be lost forever, because of God's perfect justice. It's only his grace that accepts us at all based on Jesus' as our Substitute. Furthermore, God is both our just Judge and our ready Rescuer through Jesus by the...

I have been reading the New Testament again for the umpteenth time. Read the Gospel of Matthew and discover Jesus' descriptions of hell. He pictures it as outer darkness where there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth." Of course, other passages picture it a eternally-burning fire. I think that...