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1 Corinthians 5:5 Hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. But what does "the day of the Lord" bring? It brings the Judgement. Which would not come if "ALL are saved." Which need not be said if one also believes that...

Not sure "art" quite captures the form of it, although art certainly does align with spiritual gifts, as certainly God-given. Regardless, it is good to point out that many overlook the trajectory, and therefore, the full meaning of what we now have set before us. The read limited to the...

Dan, perhaps you could edit this post to include who it is you are quoting.

No, not at all. The point is, God makes such decisions, not men. Men then have a choice of going with it or defying God. Thus, in the case of homosexuality, it is no different than having inner feelings of murder and acting upon them. Both are against God. As for being born left handed-- what...

Wow, that is a lot of material! I'll look into it. As for "long gone preachers", there are indeed some who are better than many today. Yet, if they were before the time of the sounding of the seventh angel, they did not have all the information. Thus, "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”...

Why do you question yet another choice made by God and not by men? Would you make the same argument regarding murder or other sins?

This (your error) is like that of "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." In other words, you have it backwards. It is not the scriptures that reveal the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit that reveals the scriptures. As for me getting "direct revelation apart from the...

I can't finish all you wrote... You are as much as claiming the Holy Spirit no longer speaks, and only the Bible does. That's not biblical.

I just used the common language. The term "preference" could be looked at two ways: 1) As if we have a choice when we actually don't, which some just assume and do anyway; and 2) As if, no, it's not a preference but one is simply born that way. But, no, it's not a choice open to...

Is the Bible just a guide book on "How to Maximize Your Time in the World?" --It can be, and it certainly is only that to some. I mean, the whole "applying" what is written to your everyday life--is all about you and the kingdom of this world! And yet you even hear it from the pulpit...

I love this topic and I love the scriptures...but they should not perhaps be singled out as the focus of how God draws people to himself. The scriptures are rather only one product or evidence of His drawing people to Himself. In other words, the draw was not first written, but the still small...

There is a doctrinal issue in that regarding whether God will "fix" everyone or not in the judgement...but that is not the topic of discussion, and I hear ya.

Good points. You mentioned homosexual behavior in the same sentence as murder, theft, addiction, etc.. It is a good thought to consider each perhaps in the form of ones "nature" or in the case of homosexuality as "preference." In other words, taking the least of those, perhaps theft--if it were...

The gender issue is a sad one. God created man and then took the women out of the man to then again become one again. Meanwhile they each were given a role to perform, which biblically was not fully clear until Paul explained the mystery of marriage as more importantly pointing to our marriage...

Aye, just as the highlands are not the low. Commerce is good among such, but one should not tell the other how to live--lest the work of each suffer.

If "beheading" spiritually meant "removing their head whom is Christ" (as was the case with John the Baptist, proceeding the crucifixion of Christ--a foreshadowing)...how would you then interpret the beheadings foretold of the Great tribulation? Because it does. @Truth7t7

Hey--I resemble that remark! :cool:

Indeed, it is wrong to blame those men who have not participated. In fact it potentially adds hypocrisy to the original infraction making it the greater offence. In either case, men's offence by some has been against women as well as against God, and women's offence by some has been against men...

That is a fair analogy, with one exception: It is true that it is our nature to sin, just as it is a fox's nature to eat quail. However, the exception with homosexuality, is that it is not our nature, making it a different type of sin. Now, having said that...yes, all sin is sin, and the...

Biblically speaking, since we have the parable of the church being the bride of Christ (as God being male and mankind all being women), such a movement of women against men...is actually against God--their own tower of Babel. Which is not to say men have not abused their role portraying God and...