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We assume both Wrath and Grace mean certain things. We don't question our understanding of these terms....I would say, to our weak and beggarly understanding of our God. We have muddled the two together and somehow presented God in a similar vane to the heathen deities. This has happened...

The way I understand it is that Grace has cost God his life in Jesus. That is anything but cheap, yet when I say that Grace is for all peoples, it is interpreted by and large as 'cheap' because it negates punishment. The problem is in man's perception, not in God's generosity Grace is what God...

what I mean is, what is your motivation for coming here

what brings you to this site?

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We are all rebels and selfish creatures. There is none righteous, no not one. We are all in the same boat even while some think they are not. The good news goes to all, including the worst of us....even those on death row. Life is a gift to them as it is to all people. What they do with the...

What's your point RD?

How the idea of Immortal Soul got into the Church The denial of death....even while staring it in the face, makes it easy to fall in line with all and any pagan views......which might I add, fall from the tree like a ripe apple in unrenewed minds.

Everyone with curly wool comes into the pen unless they choose to bolt. Oddly, bolting seems to be a popular and approved method of staying in the cold.

Did he wait? or is our perception skewed? Ephesians 1:4-6 Before the creation of the world, he chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in his presence. 5 Because of his love he had already decided to adopt us through Jesus Christ. He freely chose to do this so that the kindness  he had...

I mean all people. Yes, God has given life to all. It is a gift. It is news that is so good, it is gob smacking. How can people be lost you might ask? It is a mystery why people should be lost. If there was a reason, there would be an excuse but there is no excuse. They have been wooed by the...

All of us are written in the book of life for Jesus sake. In him we have this gift. Getting crossed out is the result of dogged rejection of what has been freely given us. ...and what does dogged rejection look like? One explanation is preferring ones own view to God's view. An example might...

I think Jonah is ok. He'll be able to tell you his fish story in detail when you see him yonder tl_p

You can get crossed out of the book of life by deliberately exiting it.

'Obligated' hmmm, what does that mean? God is long suffering. It means it never ends. So why is it a good idea to walk in God's ways? Is it not because his ways promote LIFE? Is it not because it is the way to relational joy? Is it not because everything thrives in life giving ways? Will sin...

I doubt Jesus made his parables deliberately difficult to understand. So why is there a struggle to get what he intended to convey? Is it not because of a refusal to concede that our paradigms are faulty? Oh no, I can hear in the background, not mine! If we refuse to even ask this question...

I know many Christians find this alarming and downright dismiss it without enquiry. They assume that what they understand is unquestionably right. The same process of dismissal even vilification has occurred in medicine, in science ...and in the life of Jesus.

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Does God bring calamity? It appears the OT folk thought so...and wrote so, but does that make it so? The storm on the sea which Jesus slept through before being awakened by his friends is another in question. I think we need to be definitive about this and know why otherwise the dot joining...

Jonah no doubt believed in human sacrifice as a method of appeasement. Evidently the storm abated after he was thrown overboard. The question is, who was it that bought on the storm? ...and as far as human sacrifice is concerned, the scripture is clear that God opposes this practice.