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  1. quietthinker

    Are only 144,000 saved? (Rev 14:1)

    Too many assumptions which I would call unsubstantiated. Assumptions which attempt to justify incorrect predetermined positions.
  2. quietthinker

    Using Up The Universe

    well, I think hypocrisy uses us up. The Universe is a big place; I doubt whether hypocrisy uses it up. :)
  3. quietthinker

    Are only 144,000 saved? (Rev 14:1)

    God's magnanimity is not to be under estimated. We need to step back and see humanity as represented both in Adam and in Jesus as presented in Romans 5:6-21. We are to use this understanding as our base for God's saving intentions and activity. Get too close to the trees without the perspective...
  4. quietthinker

    This world and the wicked are going up in a puff of smoke when Jesus come - thus negating Premil

    Evidence witnessing to truth is all around us yet who has eyes and ears to see and hear? It is often there in the least expected places.
  5. quietthinker

    What makes a doctrine false?

    Condemning people is never a part of a believer's commission, whether it be matters of the Sabbath or inappropriate sexual relations, even murder. However, patience, guidance, rebuke or shinning a light on matters which encourage us to walk in step with God's designs is necessary. We all fail...
  6. quietthinker

    What makes a doctrine false?

    Example 1 :- The story of the rich man and Lazarus.....The point is missed, denied or ignored and a doctrine of the afterlife is constructed Example 2 :- The 4th Commandment ....it is 'spiritualised' to negate it. Example 3:- Death is not taken seriously.......immortality becomes the given...
  7. quietthinker

    This world and the wicked are going up in a puff of smoke when Jesus come - thus negating Premil

    This world and the wicked are going up in a puff of smoke when Jesus come I've heard 'puff' the magic dragon lived by the sea' Revelation 12&13 :)
  8. quietthinker

    What makes a doctrine false?

    What makes a doctrine false? A contextual violation.
  9. quietthinker

    Are only 144,000 saved? (Rev 14:1)

    Are only 144,000 saved? (Rev 14:1) This might be considered...... In Revelation 7:4 John heard the number 144,000 but a few verses later in vs 9 when he looks he sees an innumerable great multitude from all nations (plural) I suggest this is the same crowd. The term 144,000 being made up of...
  10. quietthinker

    Nothing much left to say

    Isn't that qualifying yourself as bereft of what is needed?
  11. quietthinker

    Bible classes

    like?
  12. quietthinker

    Bible classes

    what will you tell them MD?
  13. quietthinker

    Reasons Jews Reject Jesus

    I think it is understood Jim, that the designation is general. As a political nation, the way Israel deals with its neighbours is shameful
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    Can God draw a square circle? Can God create a rock so big he cannot lift it? Can God speak things into existence from nothingness?
  15. quietthinker

    Reasons Jews Reject Jesus

    The reasons they choose are excuses. What greater evidence is there than rising from the dead.....and predicting to do so? What greater excuse is there than a flat denial it occurred? Here on in, the labyrinth of confusion and lies accelerates.........and there is no peace; there can be no peace!
  16. quietthinker

    Olivet Discourse revisited

    The Olivet Discourse?.....Matthew 5 ahhhh, seems I have addressed the wrong thing if thats the case