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Nearly every time a sentence begins with "So I must conclude" a warning is given that a straw man argument will surely follow. If one wishes to be taken seriously in debating, all-or-nothing thinking must be done away. If I insist my opponent has only choices A or B when there might possibly...

Yes, of course, Luke 8:13 trumps the rest of the Bible.

As long as people are selfishly obsessed with being in good, secure standing with God, the issue will never be settled. The Bible gives more than one view on it depending upon the reader's expectation, which influences interpretation very strongly. I grew up in a zero-tolerance home and yet they...

I can give a verse to support any doctrine you like. It doesn't mean a thing.

You seem to know an awful lot about me.

Of course I do. I thought your position was otherwise.

How do you know James 1 is reliable?

What is grace?

Abiding requires abiding of some kind.

How utterly preposterous. How can a person fall away from something they never had?

Isn't it telling that there are roughly 750,000 words in the (English) Bible? This is why I find canned theologies suspect.

Then we shouldn't be hearing any more condescending comments from you? Promise?

Blaming it on "the church" is kind of a cop-out, don't you think? According to whom, though? There are spiritual psychologies at work in the Bible. Hiding wisdom from the wise, spiritual discernment, etc. Unfortunately, pendulums swing to extremes. Amen to the third power I like you. ;)

Theological Hobby Horsemanship You've got some nerve; I'll give you that--declaring that people you don't even know couldn't know their Bible or believe it. Your smug, dismissive attitude betrays the spirit which actuates you. Keep on a' trollin'.

Everyone does exactly this, and everyone says this but no one agrees. It is a Babylonian mess, or confusion, IOW.

And when do you suppose that happened last? And what debate? Is that what you call all of this sandbox activity?

If you just think about it there is more than one way to interpret this. Jesus Christ spent every day of His human life getting to know His Father better. Paul did not have the same experience. Paul knew Christ and the Father as well as he was able to. It is not sensible to believe that Paul...

Then why are the replies nearly all as predictable as the calm after the storm? Nothing ever gets settled. People get tired and move on. The faith is not contended for. Axes are ground to a nub. No conclusions are reached, only held onto. The same texts are repeated over and over again, and we...

But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. (Titus 3:9) What meaneth this? How readest thou?