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  1. Matthias

    Contending with the devil

    Thinking about your personal meeting with the real Satan, a literal snake - would you say that you encountered the same creature that Eve encountered in the Garden of Eden? If you do, how do you account for Eve being able to understand the snake and you weren’t able to understand the snake...
  2. Matthias

    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

  4. Matthias

    Contending with the devil

    That’s helpful. You believe the real Satan is literally a snake. If I understand you correctly, the Book of Noah is the story of Noah contained in the Book of Genesis and an unnamed angel fell in love with an unnamed woman and (for what reason?) caused the flood. Who or what is the seed of...
  5. Matthias

    The happy thread

  6. Matthias

    Contending with the devil

    Do you believe Satan is literally a snake? Do you believe Satan is literally one specific man named Adam, the husband of one particular woman named Eve? Is the passage speaking generically about a struggle between husbands and wives?
  7. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    “It may even be that there is a greater danger for nominal Christians to be condemned rather than those who have not heard of Jesus. Jesus said, ‘to whom much is given, much will be required’ and ‘the first shall be last.’ On that basis, Amos wondered why his fellow Israelites were so looking...
  8. Matthias

    QUOTE for the day

    “Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.” - Billy Graham
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    Porphyry wants to know

    “If I try and bend that far, I’ll break.”
  10. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    I’m about to finish (re)reading A Wideness in God’s Mercy. I am, and always have been, a slow reader. My mind doesn’t easily move on. I linger on what is said, tend to think deeply about it and remember it for a long time. I can pick up a book I read thirty years ago and remember within a page...
  11. Matthias

    Contending with the devil

    You’re aware then that the Christian church has compiled it and you stand against the Christian Church in regard to that specific issue. I presume your belief on the matter is connected with Chinese mythology. Do you have “the Book of Noah”? In your anti-Christian Church understanding, who...
  12. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    “Pre-Christian faith is valid up until that moment when Christ is preached, but not afterwards. When Christ is known, the obligation comes into force to believe on him. The unevangelized are expected to receive the Good News when it reaches them. God’s offer becomes an objective obligation at...
  13. Matthias

    Contending with the devil

    Angels are part of God’s creation. Have you been persuaded by the Christadelphian that the devil and the demons aren’t real personalities, rebellious angels?
  14. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    You may not (I dare say, will not) agree with everything Pinnock says - I don’t, and people who affirm orthodoxy won’t - but he will cause you to think. I don’t know about you but I’m always grateful for those who cause me to think, whether or not I ultimately change my mind to some degree or...
  15. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    Pinnock offers this for consideration: ”… Jesus spoke about the salvation of the unevangelized in his parable of the last judgment when he says to those on his right hand, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me’ (Mt 25:40). Who are...
  16. Matthias

    Porphyry wants to know

    Pinnock posits that God - who wants everyone to be saved - is working with people in other religions; the darkness of those religions not being able to overcome the light. ”… it remains true that God’s light shines everywhere in the darkness, and God’s grace precedes all people everywhere...
  17. Matthias

    The happy thread was dead. Long live the happy thread!

    I’m okay. Just feeling down over @talons accident. Thank you for letting me know about it. @Angelina went out of her way to let me know about it too. I appreciate it and y’all so much.
  18. Matthias

    Fast as a twinkle

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    Porphyry wants to know

    That’s consistent with what Jesus said (Matthew 7:21-23). What about what he said in Matthew 25:40? Who is he talking about there?