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There are no miracles here, Christophany, except those that the Holy Spirit would perform through their actions and words in possibly converting their hearts from stone to flesh. This is called evangelism, basically, and a foreshadowing of the authority we all have in Christ now ~ and mandate...

We should not conflate sufficiency with efficacy. Case in point. For sure, the atonement was made for all in that it was sufficient for all. But it was only made efficacious for God's elect. As Jesus Himself said: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them...

LOL! My goodness... Sure. Yeah, any gospel of that sort is not the Gospel at all. Sure. Grace and peace to you.

No. No, that is not my position, Christophany. As for Judas himself, I would like to know where you see Judas to have performed any miracle. I'm not saying he didn't, at least not yet, but I would like to know where you see that. That's... kind of my question to you... :) I'm not so sure...

Yeah, and Calvinism is not. Well, Calvinists most assuredly affirm that the grace of God is eternally established by God through Christ. So really, you yourself wholly disqualify what you are saying. Okay, and Calvinists would say precisely the opposite. Again, you yourself wholly disqualify...

There is such tragic irony in this statement. Because John Calvin, like Augustine before him, and all understanding Calvinists who have come after and understand the whole of God's Council as they did truly grasp how truly great God's love really is, what is the true breadth and length and...

Well, but in that little schema, the Gentiles would have been left out in the cold, and thus... well, you know. :) And I'm sure you would agree that that was never God's intention, so ~ and I mean no offense by this, but ~ that kind of nullifies any point you were trying to make, to be quite...

Oh.... yes, I do understand... :) But obviously ~ at least for now ~ our understandings are quite different. I've said this before, and this is where at least one of the roots of the disagreement is ~ we have different understandings of who ~ who ~ Israel really is... who is really of...

The mark of the Beast is a counterfeit for the seal of God’s name on the saints (Revelation 7:2-8; Revelation 14:1; cf. Ezekiel 9; Deuteronomy 6:8). The Beast owns those who are marked and they are his slaves (Revelation 14:9; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:4), and this is exactly what Paul...

No, I don't, Ronald. I don't. Need I say it again? But you, I, all human beings after Adam and Eve are born spiritually dead in sin, at enmity with God. This is the state Adam and Eve fell into in Genesis 3, just as God said they would in Genesis 2:17, and is the state in which we are all...

Okay, we'll agree to disagree. God issues judgments, for sure. A word search for 'judgment' is very informative about what they are and why He issues them. There're a bunch of crazy things being thought and said about Revelation and the end times here, but I expected that... :) Grace and...

Let's see: Well, yep. To your points here, consecutively: PROPHET The function of a prophet is to speak God’s Word to people. He certainly did this when He walked the earth, but even beyond that, He was, is, and always will be the Word of God (John 1:1). He does not simply speak the Word of...

Well, Jesus is the fire. Our God is a consuming fire, right? As for the two judgments you described, I am assuming you mean the following, from your quote above: I would certainly agree with you regarding the first; the judgment issued is subjection to death, both spiritual in the subjection...

Isn't denial a river? :) Grace and peace to you QT.

Yes, we do disagree. He is not able to deceive the nations. Jesus is very clear about this in Matthew 12. He has bound the strong man (Satan) from doing so. This has made it possible for Him to commission us to go and make disciples of all nations. If he hadn't done this, we would not be...

So you think. So be it. That He is, and always will be. Ronald, Jesus said He was a King many times during His life on earth, my friend. Do you think He was then, but He ceased to be King when He ascended to heaven? Surely not, especially given where He is sitting. Quite the opposite...

LOL! There's only one world... :) Well, that people actually live on/in... :D Oh wait! Maybe you're speaking metaphorically... Paul is long dead, as I'm sure you agree. I mean, what he wrote in the Bible lives on, I guess, but that's because God's Word endures forever, as Isaiah says...

When ~ when, not if ~ Satan is unbound from deceiving the nations, if we are still alive... Well, I don't even want to think about it, to be quite honest. The millennium is filled with tribulation of all kinds. But God is with us in it and through it always. Though we walk through the valley...

I get why you think it does, but it does not. In any version. It does no such thing. It surely does show that Satan is still able to deceive individuals, and possibly any individual in... the world. As you said to 2nd Rate Mind in another thread, all of creation is fallen; we all dwell in a...

That's sort of the issue, 2RM, really. I mean, not that that's a issue; I agree with you. But the issue is actually underestimating ~ albeit unintentionally ~ God's love, which is far greater than we can imagine or even to attain to. Right on, brother. Grace and peace to you.