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perhaps you don't hurt and cry and bleed as others do? in your opinion! Romans 8:1 is self explanatory. It is the continuation of Romans 7. Romans 8:1 is not disconnected from Pauls assertions of Romans 7.

You appeal to the majority as if it were a measure of accuracy. Will it work for you is the question? Your confidence in your unashamed judgement is the pointer to self righteousness; it draws no admiration or resonance from this brown duck.

Criticism of the best intentions appears to be your go to. Responses of this nature determines for me the spirit operative.

I put to you your love of debate in favour of understanding!

The news in Oz of the Great US of A is (to paraphrase) Mr Trump loves wars even while he says he ends them; People living in tents on the sidewalks en mass in the cities isn't a priority for the rulers; Fires and storms manifest from one end of the country to the other; mass murders in schools...

Where is your focus? Is it not on sins? Will sins ever be overcome by the focus on them? Do we overcome by quoting scripture left right and centre, giving advice and making lots of words? My hope is in my Saviour. I have no hope in my flesh.

How God perceives people and how people perceive themselves are two different things. A varnish peeling, abandoned, cracked and broken stringed Stradivarius is still a Stradivarius with great value. A fallen, broken, rebellious human being is still of great value even when that person sees...

As we see/ comprehend and value how much we are loved we will walk in ways which are consistent with God's values ie, mercy, justice and righteousness.

I think the Prophets, whoever they may be were given insights but they didn't always join the dots well. Isaiah writes confidently that God is the creator of both good and evil. We know from what Jesus and John tell us that in God is no darkness at all. King David writes exuberantly about...

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ARE THE OT AND THE NT INSPIRED? Are you inspired.....yes, when you write out of your conviction, are you inspired? Does this mean that everything you write about is 100% accurate with no flaws? Does it mean that what you write is without your particular filter of right/ wrong or anything in...

We as people have a tendency, nay a compulsion to make it all about us. The Gospel is about God's disposition towards us. it is about God's kindness in the face of unspeakable horror towards himself. It is Good News for us but it is not about us. Keep the Commandments by all means, love your...

It is your interpretations of the scripture you are justifying. It is your interpretations I am questioning. You are conflating your interpretations with the scriptures working from the premise that your views of the scriptures are infallible/ inerrant. If sin is abhorrent to you...then don't...

To be clear, God has reconciled all mankind to himself (forgiven all their sins) but not all want reconciliation with God. God has removed any and all condemnation humanity has been saddled with through Adam but many do not care for the company of God, his character or his methods... or his...

or, does he do it for the benefit of his creation......even condescending to become a man and allowing wicked men to murder him....so men and angels can see that God's character is of a nature that he would rather allow himself to be killed than kill.

Yes. God knew it would happen and said it would but prediction does not equal causation. Isaiah who wrote of this was of the view that both good and evil come from God and so attributed Jesus' death to God. Death is alien to God. God is the life giver, not the life taker according to Jesus...

It was Satan who bought about the flood but God gets the blame. Does that sound familiar? As to how it was brought about, I can only guess. Maybe those antediluvians had sufficient knowledge to manipulate the elements sufficiently to change the climate and the genetics of living...

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I would say it pulls away people's right to choose death. Imagine if God said to Judas, sorry fella, you can't dispose of yourself; I insist you live and will negate the consequences of your choices even when you insist on them.