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Even though I did. <smile> More than once. No, what it's "a sign" of, SI, is your absolute recalcitrance. No you're not. No need anyway. You're just... yeah, recalcitrant is a pretty good word for you. It's just very poor. And that's in addition to your... well, online, anyway...

Now, you, dad, I'll continue to respond to... <smile> For now, at least... <smile> Not a warning or anything, just sayin'... <smile> But I don't have as much patience as the Lord... yet. So, again, just sayin'... <smile> I'll get back to you soon. Grace and peace to you.

Not even reading any more, here SI. No disrespect intended. No need to keep going through... or at least trying to... the same things over and over and over again. And to endure... <sigh> ...the disrespect, and anger, and mean-spiritedness, and bitterness, which are all totally uncalled for...

<SIGH> Right. See above. <smile> That's exactly what I say to you, SI. Although I don't mean it in the mean-spiritedness you do. Oh, my. We're not talking about physical death; at least not me. There are a lot of dead people walking around and with us right now, spiritually speaking...

I'd call it an admonition, but yeah, I'll accept 'warning,' if meant along the same lines. I'll just say this, SI, that even a preacher, in preaching in a Christian church, so presumably to believers, knows that there are people in the congregation... even though we may not be able to tell who...

You know, I'm not being coy (though you will almost surely think or say I am), but dead is dead. <smile> There is no ambiguity. None. The latter, in need of a physician (the Physician, in this case), certainly, without which he or she cannot be made well. But I'm glad you say "condition of...

Out of all this, I'm going to pull out one little thing... for two reasons: 1) because so much of what you ask, say, assert, whatever... I've directly addressed over and over again, and 2) because it's a microcosm of this whole discussion: I didn't demand anything; far be it from me to do that...

No I'm not... I agree... <smile> Ah! There it is: "develop an unbelieving heart." That is NOT what the text says, SI, and you know it. Or, if you don't, wow. No, the unbelieving heart is not "developed," as if it were once believing and then at some point unbelieving. It is a warning, I...

It does... if, dad, if, you mean 'pedigree' not in the sense of ethnicity, but rather through the promise, through the child of the promise, Isaac. Well yeah, me too. Israel is not everyone... and not even all those who are ethnically Jewish. Is this not what I have said? It is... No, the...

<sigh> Still falling on concrete ears... <smile>... 3 of 3: You, said that, SI. You said it. And my full quote, in response to your saying they "couldn't help it," was: "So, "couldn't help it..." I mean, in a certain sense I guess you might say that. Again, your focus is on the will instead...

2 of 3... We've talked about that. SI, like it or not, at any one time, we are all ~ all ~ children of the devil. If you could bring yourself to actually digest what Paul says in Ephesians 2:1-3, you would not continue ~ over and over again ~ asking me to address that. By nature, we are all...

Yes, and any circle of believers, then and today and at all times between. Wow. Right, but it is about the reason why those who were at one time with us are no longer with us. Because they were never of us, us who are of God. What John says about their not having been of us is absolutely...

It is. I have quoted Ezekiel 11:19-20 and 36:26-27 many, many times. It is what God Himself says, and applies both backward and forward from the time Ezekiel wrote it: Ah, not accepting it. You refer to Paul's words in Romans 10:17... "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the...

All He said was, "It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." I think you're making an inference there that really cannot be made. But fair enough; it's not a hill to die on. To you. I mean fair enough; it's not a hill to die on. You don't believe 1 John 2:19... all of...

It does, if you speak of lineages in the right sense. We are all sons of Abraham. Through Isaac, the child of the promise, and in Christ. Well, right, if you understand who Israel is (Jacob) and who all is of God's Israel (all those in Christ.). In it's lesser sense, it was what is was, yes...

From above... They surely are. I "wave away" none of them. Nor do I imagine them as limited as you do. Agreed. <smile> Absolutely. Agreed. <smile> Absolutely. Grace and peace!

Agree. Disagree. So... I said, dad, that ethnicity is not part of the equation... not relevant to salvation. Which you seem to agree with, and then in the same breath say it "has to do with their lineages," Now, "to a degree"... yeah not even sure what you mean by that... <smile> But okay...

Okay. I mean, no offense, but I don't buy your reasoning, because it's really just speculation, and/or inferences that I don't believe can really be made. In my view, none of what you cite here about Judas is unforgivable. Even calling him a devil... and even if meant as meaning not having...

From above... Ah, well, in one sense yes: The general call of the Gospel, and the call to repentance and belief in Christ goes out to all, certainly. But in a different sense no: God's inward call, issued by His Spirit, is only given to His elect. As Jesus says, "No one can come to Me...

Agreed. I've never said otherwise. We are in that time now. Jesus says so multiple times, Matthew 24:3-24, chief among them. And possibly very close to the time Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24:21 may be very close, even by our standards (and is not a separate time period). But then, yes, the...