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The only thing being held over your head is a warning that you don't believe. That is hardly the same thing as being threatened with beheading, or even lesser punitive measures.

I remember when growing up the siren at the fire department was used to call in the volunteer firefighters. It's changed since then.

Consider that Jesus doesn't want his followers to be unwilling. There isn't mutual love in such an arrangement. Giving your life to Jesus can't be forced by another. It's like the difference between giving a gift to your loved ones vs paying your taxes. Your heart isn't in the latter. And God...

Free speech also helps to reveal what people really believe, so we can know rather they are someone we may want to associate with.

He has chosen a side.

The borg plays on the zombie movie trope. And zombies are subservient to base desires through an infection which destroys the mind. In reality they serve the whims of a higher molevolent intelligence. They are for all intents and purposes already dead, but they still pose a danger to their...

The borg assimilate against the will of those they invade. God on the other hand doesn't force anyone to follow him.

Breathing in dust from milling is also hazardous to one's health.

I conceptualize it very simply. The dead include anyone who is doomed to destruction. The living includes anyone who either find life in Jesus or holy angels who never fell in the first place.

Israel disobeyed and they had to deal with the infiltration of pagan culture, including idolatry. Wiping them out would have eliminated those foreign temptations. There were no righteous nations anywhere on earth, so their neighbors could have been anyone and God would order them destroyed...

Flesh and blood lineage does not equate to spiritual lineage. Because flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. Cain himself was born from the same mother as Abel. But Cain tended towards unrighteousness, because his spiritual father was Satan.

Something similar happened to the prophet who turned back and ate in Bethel against the Lord's command in 1 Kings 13. Except the old prophet did not decieve him with malicious intent. Nevertheless the young prophet died, the Lord sent a lion to kill him.

Can't ignore our part in this mess either. And sins tend to have unexpected ramifications. Should we blame God because he gave a command that was ignored? Is it God's responsibility to provide each of us with the pros and cons for obedience?

I believe rocky was agreeing with your post and specifically about God not being consigned to one denomination.

All the testimonies I've heard of where people received a visit from Jesus Christ in person was to those on the brink of suicide. So it is rather clear that such visits are an intervention. The repercussions of following through must be very weighty.

There is one body according to Ephesians 4:4-6. And from the context I must conclude the text refers to the body of Christ, which is the Church.

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God may be outside of time, but is this the mystery of God? I'm expecting something more profound, something also beneficial to humanity. Like Jesus serving as the vessel to reconcile the world back to himself. He serves this role in the past, present and future. The past, because Satan was...

But on second thought it may not be the same, as Christ's authority is greater than that of Adam and Eve before the fall. Jesus' authority is over heaven and earth. Adam's authority was merely over the creatures on earth. Jesus is God of the living and the dead. He holds the keys to death and...

I hadn't considered that there may be a connection between the order of Malkizidek and the authority granted to man in the garden. I believe that Malkizidek was granted some degree of prophetic insight into the reign of Christ. Jesus restored authority to man, through his own obedience to God.