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I certainly do. Many, many thousands of Fundamentalist, using their "revered and God Authorized" KJV, (facetiousness intended) conclude that Luke 14:26 tells us we must hate our entire families in order to be Jesus' disciples. Your words, (quoted above), claim that since a certain group (be it...

Did God ever promise anything that was not commiserate upon something reciprocal from the people He covenanted with? ("Quid Pro Quo", as it were?)

I can see why people here get fed up with your verbal gymnastics. LOL You twist and turn like a worm sliding down an icy mountain road. The sentence in question would never have included the words "Go into all the world", if He had not meant for that to be an important distinction of where...

Nothing wrong with that. I think I mentioned that I am now on my fourth reading of the same material Calvin wrote.... and I still don't understand all of it.

It is a little sad that we sometimes spend so much time immersed in searching the darker parts of our culture for "evil", that we can no longer comprehend certain words in their original form. Ex: A vision impaired man gropes his way, uncertainly, across an empty ballroom floor, though it is...

Yeah, Dragonflies are fascinating creatures.

"...how did they all come up with different answers?" An interesting question. It begs another question: What does the phrase "Go into all the world" mean to you? If it means what the typed words indicate.... constant global travel... what are any of us doing sitting in our living rooms? I...

As it should be. And pray that you never get so bound up in legalism that your larger concern is "who" said something, rather than "what" they said. (Some people truly DO think the words "Authorized Version" printed on the face of the KJV, mean God authorized that particular book.) Remember...

There was a period of time that, though I could have afforded the MS Suite I now have, I still got cheap and wouldn't spend the money. So, I got a similar FREE program (an earlier version) It didn't have all the bells and whistles I now have, but it worked fine and achieved the same ends.

More specifically, it was taken from Section #1 of that chapter which more narrowly addresses: Section #1 Secondary helps to establish the credibility of Scripture. I. The arrangement of the sacred volume. II. Its dignity. III. Its truth IV. Its simplicity. V. Its efficacy. Commentaries...

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What do you use when you write documents…. not letters in e-mail?

As my Signature says: "True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and only that which is." François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

MS is MicroSoft (a Software company). One of the programs in the Microsoft suite of five or six different programs is a writing program called "WORD." WORD's ability to instantly read aloud to you is only one of the many great things it can do.

I have 40 some books on MS Word. An advantage there is that Word will read to you.

Somebody always frowns on just about anything you can mention.

So true. Frankly, as a man, I detest many of the attitudes Calvin held about others. And I think his basic theology is couched in arrogance and narcissism. But he was one great scholar and a helluva of a writer.

Actually, he doesn't Usually when we say something like that, it is because we, in our unfamiliarity with the strange-to-us jargon, often miss transitions prefaced by the word "not", or some such similar error afforded by trying to read too flightingly.

I can't reiterate it enough.... No matter what translation you use, I think it would behoove anyone to, in conjunctive reading, avail themselves of the clearly worded explanations found in The Passion Translation.

It "proves" nothing.... except that you might have frustrated your English teacher when you guys studied Shakespeare. LOL But, that's OK. I drove most of my teachers nuts. BTW, the trick to understanding Elizabethan English is to, first of all, have no distractions... then to realize the...