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God's glory is his fire. It consumes wickedness. God was glorified in Jesus and Jesus was glorified in giving his life. This is his glory/fire Consider Moses coming off the mountain with his face shining.....the people freaked out, they couldn't handle even a faint reflection which rubbed off on...

ears Matthew, not mouth!

I define help by teaching a man how to fish, not giving him a fish. Do you care to learn how to fish? or are you looking for an 'instant fix'?

engaging the ears before the mouth is the way to learn

Matthew, tell me, why should I take up your offer of sharing any insights when I can guess, based on your past responses that you would reply with 'thank you for your opinion' It's like inviting a person in and then shutting the door on them........telling yourself how polite you are.

and I see you are happy to keep the advertising going

'sigh'....just present the details of your understanding. It is not required that you lead me, manoeuvre a certain logic, second guess or go around the block to cross the street. I have the capability to think and decide.

Could it be that the peace we have or don't have is related to how we understand the information at our disposal? Could lack of peace be because we have pushed away God's constant knocking on our door of understanding. We have assumed incorrectly, we have blocked our ears and deducted that the...

is this your position BJ?

ahhhhh, cop outs!....the inability or the unwillingness to deal with anything which challenges favoured views.

would you like to give some details?

Understanding the terms used in the overall picture of events, terms like, 'eternal punishment', and where 'weeping and gnashing of teeth' fit, is helpful. Not understanding it and lumping it into one indiscriminate 'puddle' confuses everything. It is the character God which is in question...

Your foolish statements here as well as on other matters elsewhere, are unfortunate!

When one resorts to name calling in an attempt to gain the ascendancy they signal their desperation and weaken their cause

I think the common view you have stated of Adam, Cain and Able are assumptions Rockerduck. By Noah's time, sacrifice was a cultural practice by the natives. Do you know of any details given by God re this practice prior to Noah's time?

Why is the death, burial, and resurrection important? How can there be resurrection if one is not dead?

(Easy to read edition) What can we learn from Cain who slain his brother? that if you hit a man in the head with a rock you can kill him.

semantics! did Jesus have an adversary inside of him? The calamities which befell Job were caused by?

Yes, I understand it. It was birthed by Luther and Calvin who both studied law. Penal substitution was not held by the early Church. Penal substitution says that God requires blood ie, death before he can forgive yet God forgave Adam and Eve which is evidenced in that he went looking for them...

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