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I think you and williemac are making the same mistake in the application of this scriptural passage. God isn't willing that anyone should perish, but that hope is extinguished by the choices we make in life, for people can put themselves beyond the redemption of God through sheer unforgivable...

Hi Anski and welcome! You said you live in Australia, so I'm confused by your picture. Shouldn't you two be upside down?

Bronzesnake, we don't agree on your interpretation of the 1000 year period, which I don't believe to be a literal thousand years, but rather as a Hebrew idiom indicating a large number that cannot be counted. (God owns the cattle on a "thousand hills") Satan is bound right now and we are in the...

Right now I'm following the case of a Catholic family who owned a ranch in upstate New York where they host events and now they're being fined $13.000 by the New York "human rights commission" (although they're really the NY gestapo) because they refused to host a same sex wedding citing...

Jericho, I think you and I are in full agreement. I don't discount the testimonies people give of being touched powerfully by God and I've certainly had experiences like that myself, being touched powerfully, though I didn't drop to the floor. Such experiences are unassuming because people...

Madad correctly pointed out your misuse of that passage, and I furthermore explained the this passage of the sins of the father being visited upon the 3rd and 4th generation. In fact, this verse explains itself with the suffix, "of those who hate me". That means that curses don't befall...

Williemac, God is not a slot machine that gives you a predictable outcome when you pull the lever. He is a sentient being, and no person can come to repentance unless he wills them to do so. There is another side to the beatitude "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy" and...

Brother, you're in the wrong place if you don't like strife, this is a Christian discussion board. It's like showing up at a boxing event and wondering why people are hitting each other. I can eclectically go through the Bible too which you just did, to make it say only one thing and not the...

And perhaps the title was an error because I agree with you that hell will indeed be eternal for the angels that sinned. In fact, I believe a far worse punishment awaits them than even the worst human being. It's the people that I wonder about, whether they will experience hell for eternity...

I'll make sure to pass that on to any Universalist who chances upon this thread.

I recently had a disturbing thought upon reading a report that there are no longer any Christians left in Mosul. They've all been driven out, every single one of them. Christians are a royal priesthood, intercessors between a just God and an unjust world. As I've often stated in refuting the...

I can appreciate that you're on the fence about evolution. Many people try to find a middle ground, to be diplomatic. I'm of the opposite mindset, believing that friendship with the world is enmity with God (James 4:4) I see no reason to reconcile with evolution and find ways that it might be...

In fact there's no stronger argument for the existence of hell than the evil in this world that demands rectification. I've made this argument many times. People instinctively know there's a hell, even Jews who say they don't believe in it, but refer to it often and the reason is there is a...

What did he do wrong? He's buying in bulk to prepare for hard times like many men do. I guess I'm just too left brained to figure what the problem is.

I'm amazed and delighted when blustering evolutionists are confounded by people who actually know what they're talking about. Great post.

I agree that it's not an informed choice, or better put, that one is not in a sound state of mind to make rational decisions. I see people holding suicide to the standard of a well pondered action rather than the desperate seeking of escape by somebody who believes they have no other options...

Bronzesnake, Though I can't address all of that post, there's a couple I would like to. If you are suggesting that being harsh towards other posters is actually a positive teaching tactic, then I must wholeheartedly disagree brother. Then we disagree. I think when people can't get past the...

I agree that the Creation story is meant to convey general concepts, but those general concepts are iron clad, which is why I believe evolution is categorically excluded as a possible means by which man was created. Man was created as a special act distinct from all other creatures, created in...

I hope my position is just a little more humble. I really can't say for sure that God will relent on the full execution of sentence upon the reprobate and certainly He is within His right to carry out his sentence upon the unjust. I just leave open the possibility that even these will...