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Yes, I know, but it complicates things to bring that into the discussion at this point. :)

No, we are unfortunately NOT all His children. John 1:12---> "But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God." In the Jeremiah passage, He is speaking of innocent children. Those evil people used to sacrifice their innocent, infant sons and daughters...

There are only two options for one's final destination after death--paradise/heaven, or hell/the Lake of Fire. Would a loving God permit someone who hated Him to be in His holy heaven?

I found it disturbing as well. I think the pastor was well-meaning but I don't think that even street kids would expect a pastor to be vulgar.

Yes. They are. But the Apostle Peter told us that God is unwilling that anyone would be destroyed--that all would come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9) But, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, understanding that some would not come to Him. Would a just God not punish sin? But He has made a way of escape...

Why do you put sin in quotes? God has declared what is sin. What happened to your daughter was a terrible sin (Jesus was very specific about what would happen to such people who sexually abused a child) but we all have sin. The only difference is that some of us have had our sins paid for on...

The most loving thing that anyone can do for someone else is to tell him/her the truth in love. We could lie to you and tell you that your rejection of the Savior will not end in eternal suffering, only to have you find out that hell is real and that it is probably worse than anything you can...

What I have read on the issue is that it was customary for the Romans to execute naked prisoners on a cross. An exception was made for Roman citizens who would not have been crucified anyway (crucifixion was reserved for non-Roman citizen criminals) but rather beheaded in a clothed state. A...

I think that when God speaks of "creating evil," what is meant is that He sends good times and bad--much the same meaning as Jeremiah had in saying, "I know the plans I have for you and they are for good, not for evil..." However, God does "cause" evil (i.e. the absence of good) by creating the...

LOL--how fun! I am thankful that trees give shade from the summer sun, that, in spite of man's sin, it is still a beautiful world and that love (from He who is love) makes this world of sin and death bearable. I wish liars also had to contend with growing noses. I find it disconcerting that...

Have you a French press coffee maker? It is, in my opinion (and that of a number of people) that it yields the very best coffee.

"You can lead a horse to water..." I know a lot of people who like to watch cute animal videos on Youtube to get a lift. Others find their "happy place" when watching cooking shows. Still others like to step back into a more peaceful time watching historical re-enactment videos. One that I...

Excuse me for butting in to what appears to be a private conversation between you and "stunnedbygrace" but I couldn't let this pass without comment. Between the government and private foundations, there is an enormous amount of money going toward medical research, but it appears that we have...

Yes--"New Age spirituality" is really just old age paganism and Christians who do not know their Bible often fall for it. Francis Schaeffer warned shortly before his death, at the end of the 1980s, that evangelicalism would soon be endangered because of the lack of Bible study in the younger...

Yes--many "christians" are being seduced into Hinduism through yoga. First comes the "exercise" part and then, in order to advance, they go to a bookstore and get a book on the different kinds of yoga. The number of "christians" who "believe in karma" is shocking. When I encounter someone who...

Peddling the lie that we can become as God.

Justin Peters is one of the best at preaching the TRUE gospel--he exposes the lies of the "prosperity' gospel, which helps no one but the prosperity gospel preacher. Joyce Meyer owns a compound where she lives with her adult children and their families. I believe it was estimated to be worth...

Yes, I have seen some pretty wild "Pentecostal" gatherings on YouTube. One woman who said she practiced "Kundalini" and "Tantric" yoga (and I'm told that Tantric is worse than Kundalini) was doing some kind of dance and head shaking that a missionary friend said reminded him of demon possession...

Hebrews 11:1--->"Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see." While science is not faith and faith is not science, they both move forward on evidence. ;) As for "refusing" to "address Scripture that does not line up with the point of view" you are...

Yes, I expect you are right about that.