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You're much too kind. Whatever wisdom I may have stumbled over came from the same Place that dispenses all wisdom, as I'm sure you're aware. "If any of you lack wisdom..." (James 1:5) But you're right, of course. It's much easier to spot folks who are hungering and thirsting after...

It's a simple, but objectionable matter, I'm afraid. We pray too little for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christ spoke a lot about this—we don't. The problem is that the Spirit is not divided. If we expect Him to guide us, we must be ready to be guided wholly. We can't have the comfort and power...

There is indeed a fine line between "instructing those that oppose themselves" and "striving." We like to impose man-made, boader and clearer lines, such as distinguishing between "essentials" and "non-essentials," etc., but there's always some gap left in these methods that involves relying...

No, but I'm not the slightest bit dispensationalist, either. I believe that every follower of God, from Adam forward, has been saved by the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Sorry to disappoint. .

I'd be curious to know what would be the point of presenting Scripture to someone who has already perpetrated extensive historical criticism on all of the pertinent passages. .

The image of a man lying with a man as with a woman is "blanket" enough for you? .

As if God should have a wholly different standard of purity for women than for men? There's quite enough expressed there to warrant due caution. Unless, that is, one is actively searching for syntactic loopholes to soothe her aptly agitated conscience. .

No single, seemingly satisfactory, all-encompassing statement is necessary. The preponderance of Biblical evidence reveals the truth about sexual purity, but self-seeking and sophistry will always succeed in concealing it. The only sexual framework that the Bible validates is that which...

Oh, the sun is hot. And that principle is what makes your arbitrary commentary denying plain statements of Scripture correct. .

Theological word salad But I accept your apology for being wrong. Goodbye .

Jesus didn't say anything about a Jewish sabbath—He said that the Sabbath was made for mankind. .

Yeah, everybody says that. Which part am I arguing with? .

So, it just all depends on what you want to call whatever it is you want to be "in effect" or not. Got it. .

Luke 23:50-56 KJV — And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them) He was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and...

Instead, you presume to speak for God. .

Who died to put the Old Testament "in effect?" .

I honestly don't understand the logic here. It seems self-defeating and a non-starter. How could any gene even exist or begin to proliferate through "sex" that quite naturally produces no offspring? Am I missing something? .

Sexual activity outside of the divine marriage institution is what constitutes sexual sin. Examples: Forcing sexual activity upon a member of a person of the opposite sex is a single step above the offense of consensual adultery. Forcing sexual activity upon a member of a person of the same...

We are/were all, by very nature, the children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), which is no reflection on God's creative power or perfect will. The first Adam ensured depraved heredity; The Second Adam affords all who will to be partakers of the divine nature. .

But there's no complexity to sexual deviation and there's no complexity to the practice of mean-spiritedness. Perhaps what you're terming as complexity is what I normally see as sophistry. I don't see anything complex about bad things. We often see sin and righteousness as being opposites along...