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  1. ScottA

    Understanding TIME vs. ETERNITY

    We are born into a world--this world of time, and because of it time is the rule we come to live by. Rightly so. However, that is not the reality that defines our God, and as it turns out time is simply a teaching tool. Just as we have increments and years of school, time is God's way of...
  2. ScottA

    True or not? God is Jesus, but Jesus isn’t God.

    That is a fair, but perhaps confusing, assessment. A simpler way to understand it, is to imagine God standing in front of a mirror. The image in the mirror is Jesus. Therefore, He said, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Which is also to say: The complete image in the mirror...
  3. ScottA

    If God's mercies are "new every morning"--what is new every evening?

    Indeed, everything of the world is subject to time passing and decay, and comes to an end. To the contrary, the message of the gospel of Christ is not one of endless days of the flesh and of this world, but one of being born [again] of the eternal spirit of God--out of this world--out of the...
  4. ScottA

    If God's mercies are "new every morning"--what is new every evening?

    That certainly is the perspective from inside the snow globe. But those are the lower thoughts of men, as opposed to the higher thoughts of God and the bigger picture. One certainly can choose to hold on to the lesser...but that is to reject Jesus's offer of being led unto all truth and the...
  5. ScottA

    Claimed prophetic fulfillment seems highly questionable. - Were they acquired rather than intended?

    That's better! There was intent when God told his servants the prophets to prophecy. But otherwise, many of the Old Testament writings that turned out to be prophetic, were not the result of God saying, "Go prophecy." The writers of such passages were in fact unaware and simply lived their...
  6. ScottA

    Claimed prophetic fulfillment seems highly questionable. - Were they acquired rather than intended?

    Your premise is hard to understand. What do you mean by "acquired?"
  7. ScottA

    Revelation - chapters 19 and 20

    "Thousand" spiritually means forever. The time was "before the foundation of the world" (as was the Lamb slain), and the "little while" is the times of this world.
  8. ScottA

    If God's mercies are "new every morning"--what is new every evening?

    The original premise of the thread is based on Lamentations 3:23. But yes, I did include a quote of 1 Corinthians 15:23 to express an elaboration from the scriptures regarding the order of the repetition of darkness and mercy occurring daily.
  9. ScottA

    The happy thread

    In the year 2025 (2525): CLICK HERE - by: Zager And Evans
  10. ScottA

    If God's mercies are "new every morning"--what is new every evening?

    This is at times question, a groundhog day image of the illusion of time. And if the darkness and the Lord's mercies are new every evening and morning--what is every day but a repeat of what was, making it what it now is? What does that all mean regarding creation, and even the age of this...
  11. ScottA

    AI Trolls?

    Yes, probably so. I suppose...if we are able to spot them and not be troubled by them, it gives us a chance to witness, backfiring the scammers intentions.
  12. ScottA

    Why trust the "Early Fathers?"

    The word of God (the Bible) can indeed be trusted. However, the Bible itself (God) declares the error of the church including some of the church fathers. Peter said of this church age, "there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will...
  13. ScottA

    Why trust the "Early Fathers?"

    No, that does not answer the question--you left out 1,500 years where "the spirit of anti-Christ was already at work", with apparent total disregard and denial of the 5 out of 7 churches that Jesus reported He had "somewhat against." Your claims are against Christ. So, no, you did not find what...
  14. ScottA

    Why does everyone seem to need to come up with their own belief and doctrinal formula?

    It is you who needs to be honest. Here you have done it again, calling God's/Jesus' gospel "Paul's." Make up your mind, and stop speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
  15. ScottA

    If God is real, then how did Noah’s Ark happen?

    What you just did there--it's not original. But it is biblical, made famous by the father of lies. So shall it be written.
  16. ScottA

    Why does everyone seem to need to come up with their own belief and doctrinal formula?

    You're hedging and waffling, sometimes stating things correctly, and sometimes still defending your own claim that not even Paul would defend, nor did he. It's enough.
  17. ScottA

    Why trust the "Early Fathers?"

    Mary, how is it that you have not factored in that Jesus found "somewhat against" 5 out of the 7 early churches in Revelation; that Peter warned of false teachers entering into the church spreading destructive doctrines; and Paul foretold the believing of a "lie" that would without a doubt cause...
  18. ScottA

    Why does everyone seem to need to come up with their own belief and doctrinal formula?

    I just gave an answer for this in post #172. Which, is not determined by one's own actions, but by He who sent him--if he was actually sent by God..
  19. ScottA

    Why does everyone seem to need to come up with their own belief and doctrinal formula?

    And this you add to by attributing Paul's gospel to Paul himself, when he qualified and clarified his every claim was only Christ crucified. Now, it is true that Paul spoke for Christ, as he said, "for me to live, is Christ." Which does not make his doctrinal claim his own rather than Christ's...