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  1. Stumpmaster

    The Christian Theocracy

    Gen 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him? Biblical theocracy refers to a form of government in which God is recognized as the head of the state. The term "theocracy" derives from the...
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    Christianity requires fear, guilt, and conformity

    See how focussed and motivated you are. This faith of ours has got you. You're here because you need salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not of works.
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    LIMITED ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    God wants all people to be His People, but not all people are willing to be His People.
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    No need to guess. Plenty of information to be found. The Ark of the Covenant contained several items that were symbolic of faith and God’s presence. The tables of the Mosaic law represented God's covenant with his people and his expectations for their behavior. The pot of manna symbolized God's...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    An arc is part of a circle.
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    Christianity requires fear, guilt, and conformity

    Got you focused on it. Keep looking. You haven't scratched the surface yet.
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    I have worked out what Jesus meant, when He said "they shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9)

    An illustration from way back . . . Psalm 79:13 So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, Will give You thanks forever; We will show forth Your praise to all generations. Psalm 95:7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    What? No locusts or grasshoppers? Too bad . . . :jest:
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    Christianity requires fear, guilt, and conformity

    It assumes that the concept of hell is the reason people become Christians, and asks a question to which a quantifiable answer is not possible. Not just strawman but empty rhetoric.
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    Unlike Elijah, J the B did no miracles but there are similarities, as Matthew Henry's Commentary relates. Quote from notes on Luke 1:17 [3.] He shall go in the spirit and power of Elias. That is, First, He shall be such a man as Elias was, and do such work as Elias did, - shall, like him...
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    Biblical Theology is the study of God as revealed in the Bible. Very relevant.
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    See the full context: John the Baptist was not the Reincarnation of Elijah
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    Use Not this verse : 1 John 1:9...if you are born again.

    Jas 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Mat 18:15-17 “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have...
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    None of those terms pertain to the hypothetical process of reincarnation. A perversion of theology might propose that a Christian saved by grace through faith in an earlier life is then for some obscure, unfathomable reason, caused to leave their eternal habitation and re-enter this temporal...
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    That's a relief. Some "churches" host yoga classes with the mantra that "we just do the exercises" but there is a spiritual concept to these that is entrenched in eastern philosophy and its associated religious ideology, and that infiltrates the consciousness of the unwary.
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    Agreed. Christians who practice yoga put themselves at risk of corruption, deception, and exploitation.
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    Is Reincarnation baloney?

    Yeah, a perverse hypothesis might have one incarnation saved and another damned.
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    Is Spiritual Israel The Woman In Revelation 12?

    There are many parallels, types, and shadows in Scripture. Conceptual imagery is used to create ideological pictures that extend beyond natural boundaries. I have not been following this thread which is on a frequently discussed topic. Any interpretations of Revelation 12 that exclude the...