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I don't understand the relationship between the title and the OP. It seems that this is what you are proposing....recognize sin for what it is and root it out of your own life without hating sinful people around you. This seems to be the very definition of hating sin and loving sinful people...

But why is Jesus being butchered and murdered on a Roman cross an act of divine love? I do not think, apart from penal substitution, that an inhumane murder of an innocent man can be construed as "love." My standing in front of an oncoming train is in no way an act of love toward...

aspen, I think God's sovereign choice to create a universe that permits choice will not be superseded by His desire for all to be saved. There is nothing in all of the witness of Scripture that would indicate as much. Rather, the Bible is filled with proclamation about the Kingdom and warning...

I would encourage everyone to read Richard Hays new book, "Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness." It deals powerfully with how the Gospel's address the person of Christ from a literary perspective. It specifically looks at how Christ is perceived from the...

Very sorry to hear that. Remember, God brings dead things back to life and calls things that are not as through they were. I hope this happens in your marriage. Keep fighting the good fight.

I am very sorry to hear about that. I think the most important thing for you (although I know its easier said than done) is to pray that your heart does not become hardened toward her. Christ calls us to love our enemies...and sometimes those who wear the label "enemy" can be someone under the...

The Holy Spirit wrote the Bible. The Holy Spirit is not at odds with his own writing, nor does He need to supernaturally illumine someone to understand what He has written in the Scriptures, otherwise "inspiration" is meaningless. Why would inspiration mean anything if no one can learn...

Born_Again, No, Paul specifically says that the believer should not leave their spouse. If the unbeliever leaves, the Scripture says that there is freedom for the believer and they are not bound by what the unbeliever does. I think this was specifically an issue for someone who became a...

I'm not bragging and I am not interested in "winning" according to your silly point system. I am just pointing out that you are butchering the Greek with your plug-and-play online dictionary translation work. Its not how translations are done because it is not how Greek works. Therefore, I...

HearGod, I know Greek. You do not. Please let me know if you have ever taken a formal class on Koine Greek...but I think we both know the answer to this. You know nothing about how endings work on verbs, adjectives, and definite articles. You are looking up words in an online dictionary...

I understand, sj. I am not trying to be contentious. I am simply saying that the church, throughout history, has seen this as a major issue. I think there are good reasons for this. So, this isn't just about one of us being right and one being wrong. It is about an issue that the church...

Webers, I assure you that the church has not strongly argued and defended the position for thousands of years because they started with the premise and sought to find verses to support it.

sj, I understand. This issue has obviously been a difficult one throughout church history. I think people are on high alert on this topic because there are some pretty unfortunate consequences theologically throughout history for people who deviated from what the church determined to be the...

What exactly is your point in all this? Are you attempting to argue that the hundreds of Greek scholars who put these translations together do not know what they are doing or are somehow trying to perpetuate a man made tradition? This is the danger of someone who does not know Greek but uses a...

Weber's, I agree that the Trinity is complex and beyond understanding for sure. However, the quote above seems to miss the fact that God is three distinct persons with one essence. Thus, it seems reasonable to me that God can be both spirit and flesh, and take a superior and inferior role if...

1 Corinthians 7 deals with marriage in some various ways, divorce being one of them.

Johnlove, I see you are still twisting Scripture. How is it that you can take a 1st century narrative of Jesus speaking to the Pharisees about those who were following him during his earthly ministry and those who would not and turn it into a, "real followers hear the audible voice of Jesus"...

Angelina, Thanks for getting back with me. I hope you get some rest :). I agree that divorce is a bad thing and not what God intends. However, the Bible does make provision for divorce under some circumstances. So what is divorce? Divorce is an act that renders one who was married as...

Angelina, It just seems to me that the very concept and nature of divorce was the dissolving of a covenant agreement between a woman and man. If this is a biblically legitimite divorce, it would seem that the very nature of the concept means the person is "not under bondage" to that covenant...

Angelina, Can you show me Scripturally where a person who has undergone a legitimate divorce would be prohibited from remarriage? It would seem to me that the very concept of a legitimate divorce would be that God understands the covenant between the two people to be dissolved. I do not see...