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What caused Christians to turn their backs on the ten commandments so quickly, when all the great reformers, evangelists and preachers of the last 500 or so years taught them frankly and diligently? Is it heresy to want to be obedient to God after being born again, and baptized of water and Spirit?

It's not so much that I'm not understanding as I'm not agreeing with your interpretation. I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong, but I need more evidence than what I've heretofore seen to adopt the Hellenistic dualist position. Much more. I cannot simply surrender my will to the...

Yeah, that must be it. Very thoughtful post. Thanks.

I don't believe in separate body/spirit entities. That's Greek dualism. Hell is eternal only in the sense that it is final.

I was just shocked that someone was allowed to be so bold and blunt. It's not what I'm used to. I suppose staff is always in short supply to enforce standards. I like the overall open atmosphere here very much, though.

To be perfectly honest, CL, I don't reckon that the Bible speaks directly to the mortality status of angels, but since the evil ones obviously live much longer than humans, it seems reasonable to assume they possess a different nature (whatever that means) than we. I'm the first to admit that...

When I was growing up in mid-20th century America, the ten commandments were the standard of morality for Christians. My Southern Baptist grandmother often asked me to mow her lawn (about an acre). But she would never allow me to do it on Sunday. Lately, I'm hearing more and more about a...

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool." What does this mean? Besides the obvious, plain reading, it sounds to me like God expects us to run into some...

Very fine post, G. I think there's room for varying views on the subject of God and hate as long as they are tempered with the notion that He is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance. Some scholars say that sometimes when the Bible talks of God hating someone...

This has been fun, but...

If God winks at ignorance, wouldn't it stand to reason that He would also wink at true infirmities? Fear is a highly abused word.

Because that's not all that happens.

No, they will have conceded by then. Philippians 2 9Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11and that every tongue...

Biblehub.com is pretty nice. Also the Sword Project; MySword for Android; Don't know about iOS. :)

Absolutely agreed

It went like this: How about the magnificent, incomparable love of Christ as incentive, or would that be insufficient?

The word "merely" makes this a straw man argument.

Yes

I think it is misguided. Off the top of my head, I cannot refute scripturally. I know that the angels are most often mentioned separately from us when it comes to final punishment, but I don't see that as an indication that justice will be any different for them than for us. All unrepentant...

We've been over that.