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  1. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    Wages = punishment. It's the punishment you're rightly owed for sin. Salvation is a gift is because Jesus paid the price for that sin which was rightly owed to you - Jesus stood before all the wrath of God in your stead so you didn't have to. You know your sin was paid in full and can be...
  2. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    So where are you and what are you doing? I mean, iron sharpens iron yes? Your here in a political thread standing in judgement over others because you don't think they should vote, and don't approve of who they are voting for... Doesn't that sound silly to your ears to do? I mean, normal...
  3. Hazelelponi

    Transgenders

    It was classified as a mental disorder, and (and still kind of is) until 2013. In 2013 the new DSM 5 came out and, in some kind of attempt to avoid the stigma the transgender feel about being mentally ill, they changed everything about the diagnosis and treatment recommendation for these...
  4. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    I know with some people it really does seem to be a matter of semantics ..It's just where the emphasis lies.. in the semantics sometimes I rather think we can both be right at the same time, as the heart seems right with some.. But then there's the other's.... sigh.
  5. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    Ahh... I don't talk to them often. I got into a few of those merry go rounds early on after I was saved, shocked they were even occuring and scratched my head and walked away from all that. Lol ..
  6. Hazelelponi

    Why do Christians prefer their Churches segregated..

    People attend churches close to where they live... Most people live in neighborhoods where people look like them. People usually attend churches in the neighborhood where they live. If being the lone white guy is important to you then go for it, drive 45 minutes to attend whatever church you...
  7. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    Such a beautiful post, thank you! God bless you!
  8. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    I went ahead and deleted, it's a very good topic. :)
  9. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    Your welcome brother... :hearteyes: I haven't gone through and read the thread yet. Lot's of fighting? I'm thinking I might not try and sort through it all .. lol
  10. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    ... It's not fatalistic (aka hopeless) and honestly, only ignorant people would see predestination that way... Go back and read my last post in this thread. The theology itself is one focused solely on hope and joy in Christ... You live an accomplished life because Christ accomplished that...
  11. Hazelelponi

    What Is "Predestination"? How Does It Shape Your Daily Life?

    Because Christ has told us we are overcomers in Him, Monergism allows me to see my own personal sin as overcome (past tense) in Christ even if the physical overcoming isn't completed in me yet. 1 John 5:4–5 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has...
  12. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/what-tulip No one takes anyone's church over. Some reformed denominations might join into larger groups of churches for the purposes of supporting missions, and others don't (at some churches supporting missions is individual responsibility rather than...
  13. Hazelelponi

    Immigration is a good thing-----

    Since you did this twice I want to ask if this is you being intentionally demeaning of those who would help by being sarcastically sacrilegious? Or can you not spell, and avoid any proof reading your own writing before or after posting? I just wanted to know how to take you here.... So I...
  14. Hazelelponi

    Transgender refugees

    Ding ding ding!!! Correct. And until you exhaust all your options your not being persecuted. As far as why do most women move when they pick up a stalker? It's because other people, individuals, have rights too. We don't get to jail people on little to no evidence of any actual crime and...
  15. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    You know I never thought of it like that... I always just put it on God being mind-blowing and just having a hard time wrapping my brain around the new reality... But it could be evidence of a changed life too, the world is definitely not a homey little place anymore... Hahaha
  16. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    I've done politics all my life... I've not done God all my life.... That's new, and God is guiding me through. When something makes me question something I step back, pray, and research for my own conscious sake. I don't do things I believe are wrong or against God's will, ever. I would...
  17. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    I don't think it's possible, not truly or at least not wholly. I believe in separation of powers and a separation between church and state, but I guess only so far. The church is the church and has a role in the life of men, and the law is law and government has a different sphere than the...
  18. Hazelelponi

    Trump is dangerous - a Messianic Complex

    I just want to give people who don't know me a heads up, but when I point out a book suggestion - anywhere on the forum - for people to read, it's because I own them, have read them, have found the content accurate and recommendable, I don't suggest books that are not affordable for what they...
  19. Hazelelponi

    Immigration is a good thing-----

    It was an English colony they immigrated to... at the time they immigrated.