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I didn't say God sacrificed the animal, if there was a sacrifice at all, it would have been by the hand of Adam. As I said, I'm interpreting the scripture on the basis of typology, and the fact that God never changes. Some animal had to die in order to provide those skins. To deny that and turn...

Mmm. And yet after Calvary and the awesome revelation of the love of God, a revelation mind that Adam and Eve never had, we still deliberately disobey God's commandments and rationalise them to mean something other than what they plainly convey. How is that any better than what Adam and Eve...

Mmm. As were many of his senior officials.

Agreed. We are talking about the church, not the world in general.

Jehovah's Witnesses do no favour to God by misrepresenting His character in their stubborn belief in a creation that necessitated the death of creatures in order to evolve. @Aunty Jane told me earlier that I was making assumptions about A&E. Theistic evolution is no less an assumption than the...

But even as a sinner, man was in a different position from that of Satan. Lucifer in heaven had sinned in the light of God's glory. To him as to no other created being was given a revelation of God's love. Understanding the character of God, knowing His goodness, Satan chose to follow his own...

God's love has been expressed in His justice no less than in His mercy. Justice is the foundation of His throne, and the fruit of His love. It had been Satan's purpose to divorce mercy from truth and justice. He sought to prove that the righteousness of God's law is an enemy to peace. But Christ...

All those things you mentioned are quite obvious from the text. Except for the several assumptions you make in order to justify your church's storylines. What you are assuming is that there wasn't more to the story, as well as assuming God's mercy wasn't available to them on account of your...

I disagree. Those elements appear only as one from the outside chooses to introduce them. The field," Christ said, "is the world." But we must understand this as signifying the church of Christ in the world. The parable is a description of that which pertains to the kingdom of God, His work of...

Yes, and somehow gloss over the phrase, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction. Why is it that God is sooo patient? “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering (enduring with much patience) to us-ward, not...

So from whence did Adam and Eve attain their leather clothing? Do you really believe God Himself killed the animal to clothe them? Why clothe them anyway, if they were irrevocably lost? How many inferences do you need in scripture of God providing clothing of righteousness? Where did people get...

We are born with an hereditary proclivity to selfishness, which is sin. That sin nature needs to be dealt with, and it doesn't disappear through our good works out self determination. We cannot self operate to change our hearts. Which is why Jesus said, ye must be born again. Spiritual rebirth...

In character

In character.

Why focus so much on Satan, and not the power of God to save even the worst of sinners?

The abomination of desolation, as brought upon God's people in a localised literal sense at70AD, will be repeated on a global scale in a spiritual sense before the second coming. First brought about by the idolatry of pagan Rome in their desecration of holy ground around Jerusalem, but in the...

“1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. The...

In other words, what do you want personally from the deal?

How would you like it to be?

I agree with the Nicene creed, which was not yet Trinitarian in the truest sense. At that stage they haven't formulated how the Father, Son, and Spirit were one. Should have left that alone and settled for what scripture says. That Jesus was a Son before Bethlehem is obvious of you accept...