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This is a great thread topic. I doubt that I know the Psalms well enough to form an educated opinion. Sure, I've read the Psalms a few times now. 19 and 82 are 2 that I have focused on a bit for the last couple of years.

The wise theologian knew his Bible. Freedom in a political sense is somewhat possible but not in a metaphysical sense. Within our nature, we can be free indeed, but are still controlled, and therefore enslaved, by our nature, no? They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and...

Similarly using just as straight language, the Bible repeatedly says Jesus is a man.

I hear a Quiet Whisperer who often talks 2-3 word bursts, a rhythm I recognize as not my own.

They don’t have eyes to see or ears to hear. To them, God’s law is restrictive rather than protective.

That’s the weight you put on witness testimony? Thankfully, God knows it has weight as well as every court ever.

Moving the goal posts. No one is talking about potential but the actual case. If Jesus actually does save everyone, without exception, then universalism is correct doctrine. People today are so lazy, they don’t want to even take hold of a life preserver when it is offered. And if they do, they...

A hallmark of sanity is, paradoxically, questioning your sanity. Those that don’t tend to be over-confident, which is irrational, the shadow of insanity. Self-aggrandizement is the most common form of mental illness. Most can talk about the flaws of others at great length. When it comes to...

Brother, you don’t have to have mental illness to suffer in the struggle to discern the Spirit world.

Sure they can! A modern translation makes this easier to understand. Yes, Christians have overcome the evil one but remain in his domain, this fallen world.

I have no idea what you mean that I am denying the saints. They are not God. I don’t deny the saints but I don’t pray TO them.

IMO, they’ve concluded the price is too high. Slaying the worlds largest IDOL, one’s ego is simply something most are not willing to do. Take all thoughts captive to Christ? Who is he? My own counsel will I keep - people seem to say. Of course people don’t believe a god superior to them could...

Not for but to. I pray TO God FOR other people. I don’t pray TO other human beings. See the difference?

That’s not what it means. We are part of this world.

The evidence is my first hand testimony.

What I wrote is true. The very fact that Ratzinger wrote that piece was a reaction to a half Millenia record of Catholics denying Protestants the right to exist outside the ‘one, true’ church - that continues to this very day, right here on these forums. Your post stands in contrast to...

And @theefaith has made it painfully clear over and over again that as Muslims oppose Israel’s right to exist, the RCC oppose Protestants right to exist, claiming we lack any credibility outside the ‘one, true’ church.

From the RCC. I was just talking to my daughter about this last night in comparing how both JW and RCC usurp Christ’s authority claiming it as their own. In the Apostasy movie, the JW Elder rationalized the verse where Christ did not come to being peace but division to support their practice of...

A modern translation might light your path: 1 John 5:19 The Voice 19 Have confidence in the fact that we belong to God, but also know that the world around us is in the grips of the evil one. Yes, I agree that while I (we) belong to God, the fallen world is in the grips of the evil one.

Yes. And thanks for the praise. My daughter and I talked last night about him really needing therapy to get over the trauma from the cult, which I’ve learned through him the JW is. (We watched a movie called the Apostasy that accurately reflects the mind control tactics and twisting Scripture)...