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If only those scriptures were understood!

@ Behold Now that you have implemented all the right efforts and have risen above ordinary mortals you now have the dubious title of 'holier than thou'. Your status therefore qualifies you to give plenty of advice in how to pull up socks (howbeit, according to your definition) One of the...

You can be certain that those who persist in vilifying others (even if it is under the cover of anonymity) are on a slipperier slope than is realised.

There is a lot more to understand on the subject you have raised.....and that understanding gives perspective.

Keep asking difficult questions Matthew. Don't give up because of opposition.

All await a resurrection, either for good or 'bad'. In the interim they are 'asleep' (dead) no consciousness of any sort.

Faith for me amounts to a calm quiet confidence that I am loved....and that beyond what I can understand. So I ask about 'beyond what I can understand' and this is what I've come up with..... God basically loves assholes because that is the definition of a sinner (one who violates love and...

WOMEN ARE TO KEEP SILENT IN THE CHURCH So that others can hear the whistle blow

Discernment ..........Correction.... and the BIBLE Discernment is not something that can be arrived at by debating it anymore than love can be arrived at by debating it. Discernment as with Love are gifts given.....be thankful if you have and can or can and have.......and shy away from being a...

Objectivity and subjectivity are the words I've used.

Every interpretation is subjective. In other words it is how one sees/ hears/ understands the words. Understand them well or those very words one hangs so much value on could be opposed to you! Luke 8:18 So beware how you listen, for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not...

I certainly hope you understand the principle of objectivity and how it varies from subjectivity!

One can quote infinitum Eb, however if ones paradigm is faulty/ skewed, what is the good of it? It will be made to say things not intended. The devil's quoting of scripture to Jesus in the desert and how the Jews used it to condemn Jesus are examples of this. I have no interest in...

Sin and death will be destroyed. The NT is clear on that. Confusion arises when the words 'death and destruction' have appropriated to them meanings in line with Pagan theories.

Johann....you have missed the immediate context of my conversation with f2f. It is on the nature of our exchange that (in humour) a thread title change was suggested. :ummm:

The title of this thread is... What is the basis for the unbeliever's condemnation? Perhaps we could rename it, What is the basis for the believer's condemnation? Whatcha say?

Above is a good example of interpreting a question in the worst light. Maybe you are not aware that when you engage with me you use this principle to make charges, further bouncing your assumptions off your own negative constructs as grounds to blame.

Your imagination it seems knows no bounds when it comes to making unwarranted and untrue charges f2f. I wonder if that is the process you use to elevate yourself in your own understanding or is it just the default of the human nature?

is it really assumed that running off lots of scriptures makes a matter more true?

All who have aligned themselves and desire God's reality and those longing for Jesus' return.