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What is the purpose of eating a Twinkie? They are of no nutritional value? Or going swimming? We are not fish. Or wearing clothing? (besides the obvious... we need pockets to put stuff?...) What you may consider of no value has some value to others. If I really wanted to I could drink...

Perhaps you (and they) have not stopped to think that in order for that calling to be fulfilled he needed to go through those trials and testing in order for the metal of his heart to be properly tempered for the Hammer of The Lord to bend his will ultimately to the calling.

That is why I suggested to change the word "will" (which carries with it a denotation of active participation) to "degree" which points to the passive voice, whereby Creation is obeying God's utlimate Plan for the universe while not implicitly laying the cause and maintenance of sin at God's feet.

Before my botched hospital stay last year I enjoied a nice peaty Scotch Whisky and water. Now with my liver compromised it is one pleasure I am now denied. Oh well, maybe there will be Scotch in heaven :)

America must diminish for the antichrist to rise.

dear saint, no scripture blizzards, ok?

I would reword that to Everything happens by God's decree.

If you want to shock a lower case "c" christian into a thought provoking discussion begin it this way: Q: What do Adolf Hitler and Mother Theresa have in common? A: Both are in hades waiting their final judgment. Hitler was quoted saying, "Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease...

I have noticed people cry foul and accuse others of judging them the most when they are caught in their sin/duplicity.

Never say in private what you wouldn't say in public. Words to live by.

prism, I am grand.

Because.

Stop sinning.

Melancholy? So the truth is depressing to you? I find it exhilerating and free! (null)

My son has autism and there are days happiness flees him like cockraoches from the light. And there are days his mirth is absolutely contagious. Whatever the day, glad or despair, his challenges are the same. On either occasion when I ask him about his mood he tells me, "Because I decided to...

I wasn't addressing you but the others who flaunt their "righteous indignation" indepenant of reason and careful meditation on scripture.

Then all of you who disagree believe in universal reconciliation? Because that is what you are implying. If God has no wrath left in His tank then Satan and all the workers on iniquity have nothing to worry about at the end of the age because, according to your thinking, God has no wrath left...

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I don't watch TBN. And my judgment of the prosperity gospel is well articulated elsewhere.

Emotion is to be secondary to reason. By definition, judgment is an intellectual process, and we are to judge for ourselves if God is faithful. Our emotions are a reaction to God working in our lives, but we are never entreated in scripture to believe God according to our emotion... we are...