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Back at it? I'm not going down your rabbit hole. Last I heard the ball was in your court on this matter. I made myself very clear.

What I said is that I don't know it to be a lie. "All-or-nothing thinking" is an ironic but common, binary cognitive distortion that is gaining ground amongst those who believe, among other falsehoods, that sex is non-binary. I try to avoid all forms of cognitive distortion. And, again, no...

...a duty owing to parents that no perverse special interest group has the right to forcefully usurp (i.e., "We're coming for your children!").

Still assuming this is rhetorical. I couldn't find enough proof to satisfy you if it were indeed true and I had unimpeachable evidence, and you know it.

I'm awfully sorry to hear that your family has been hurt by folks who play fast and loose with Gods commandments. I guess that's what pain is all about. .

Yeah, the trouble is, the world is actually full of real sinners to love, like my son, several cousins, friends, and other neighbors, as opposed to the hypothetical sinners that virtue signallers like to trot out in their platitude-filled posts on social media and other interweb outlets. Are...

The fact that you think these observations somehow make things look better for the offenders is mind-numbing. I don't know who "we" are but it doesn't include many here on the forum and certainly not me. 5 whole years?!!! All of the evidenceless nitpicking ("Prove it!!") and humanistic...

You mean, like a God who is synonymous with love torturing people for zillions of years for stuff that they got done in less than a hundred? I'm with the atheists on this one, Jack. .

If I'm not mistaken you've made it very clear in the past that your motivation for seeking salvation was largely to escape hellfire, am I correct? Do you really believe that God's ability to save is so limited that He has to resort to exploiting a base human emotion to convince people that He...

Honestly, I don't know how to make this work because everyone claims to be led by the Spirit. We can't even agree on what/Who the spirit/Spirit is. We argue over whether it is the gifts or the fruit of the Spirit that is more important. Again, I'm thinking practically here. How do I know...

We have good reason to be distrusting of ourselves. We humans are very good at overlooking the obvious, largely due to our tendency to allow our hearts to be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A34&version=KJV...

Elder Mark Finley, assistant to the President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, a global fellowship of 22 million Christian believers, made an official statement today on the Biblical view of the LGBTQ+ community and its interests.

Would you agree, then, that there are varying degrees between these two levels of influence? And, if so, where do we draw the line? I'm trying to look at this practically—not start a debate. :)

Unless that person just happens to be Dr. Frank Charles Thompson? Not busting on TCR—I love it—but this idea that people study the Bible without influence or help from others just puzzles me. Virtually, if not literally, no one does so.

I guess I was suggesting that the fact that repentance is granted doesn't make it any less a matter of obedience than any other duty we owe to God.

Fair enough, in fact, I couldn't agree more, but doesn't He grant everything that is good?

A lot of questions... Jesus is coming soon The signs of the times show that Jesus is coming soon. There are eight points you need to know about His coming: 1. More angels that you can count are coming with the Lord. 2. He is coming in the clouds, and every eye shall see Him. 3. The dead in...

Actually, however unintentional it may be, the title of the thread is a trick question. Isn't obeying the call to repentance and confession necessary for salvation? Can these things be withheld with a reasonable expectation of salvation? The message of the Bible is (among many): Obey and...

AMEN. That's why scientists measure toxins in parts per million. :)

It seems like real (deep?) thinking would be precisely what's needed to get beneath a surface-reading of Scripture. So, as Christians, we don't believe anything that isn't plainly stated with a fair amount of detail in the Torah? This is not a classical hermeneutical model that I'm familiar...