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Another out from left field post. The topic of conversation in this thread is self - the individual Biblical scholars who leave Christ (Christianity). They do so not from sinful action but an intellectual, individual self. Regarding the Spirit being opaque; some things are just going to be...

It's a good point; comparing Biblical scholars to Pharisees of old, who know about God but do not KNOW him. A personal relationship is emotional, not purely intellectual.

Telling him to burn in hell is THE EXACT OPPOSITE of pulling them out of the fire, THE EXACT OPPOSITE Jack.

Agreed. Agreed. It's just why in the world would anyone read such a vile,* old book that so many in our society hate with a passion? I submit it is by divine appointment that one genuinely searches for the truth. That is, it is only AFTER one has encountered the divine that the seed of yearning...

Agreed. He needs to work on his thesis statement. His OP's read like a proto-thought, not quite fully developed. Old people like me are like that; "I want to tell you something important. It has to do with .... where was I going with that?"

Didn't read the whole OP or the rest of the thread but I say bunk. It is the Spirit of God that is the think, not parchment, not translation but the power of the living God + 0.

Agh, I love the smell of that brotherly love of Christian agape in the morning.

THEN you are abdicating the most important responsibility that God will ever give you. Agreed. The 10C do not say to honor your friend. Why honor parents? It is precisely because they cared for you enough teach you right from wrong after giving you life. :Happy: It's easy and fun to make...

What exactly is the good news that isn't good?

My point exactly. The point of sports is to build the person. First, the body. Then, over time, the character. It is not about how well you play the sport. It's about learning discipline. In High School, I used to run 5 miles before school. On days that I worked but did not run before school...

The People are lost. Being indoctrinated, they will repeat the talking points they've been taught as they board the train for the concentration camp, as they walk into the gas chamber, as their throat is sliced. It will only be after great and long time suffering will the truth penetrate their...

Agreed. I put the end at September 2028.

No. God hates evil. Evil deserves to be hated.

No. Acting homosexually was always bad.

You got it backwards as usual. SOME ‘differences’ are bad.

The converse is true. Because they DO BAD, I hate them.

One way to know this is not prophetic text is the fact that Isaiah is talking present tense, not some 6 centuries in the future.

You think that is what I was referring?

LOL. Educating children must begin with what is right and wrong, good and evil. Pretending these are just "different" is not education at all but indoctrination. This is why if I could give one parenting advice to parents of young children, it is to home school. Exposing children to the filth...

Agh, the generalizing to the point of dishonesty and white washing the whole debate. Some "differences" are bad.