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Your “no” comment. (“On this earth today … no”) Am I wrong to recognize you as one of God’s children?

Ignoring that we know the names of many of them who lived in the past, that will serve as a confirmation of what I said about you. I included you in that recognition. Will you take issue with that?

“All the data from every direction points to the same conclusion: that John 5:4 is probably not original to John’s gospel. Modern translators are wise to point these issues out to their readers.” https://carm.org/king-james-onlyism/was-john-53-removed-from-modern-bibles/ Interested readers...

Have a pleasant and restful evening. God willing we’ll talk again tomorrow. Goodnight.

I’m not sure how to say it any clearer. I’ll give it some thought and try again if I think of another way. Yes.

“Only God knows who are his children.“ Those are your words. They express what you believe. If it is true that only God knows who are his children then wouldn’t it also be true that you don’t know any who are? The Bible identifies many of them by name.

I’ve tried to address that in post #568.

I took the liberty of bolding your comment. You don’t know any who are his children.

I quoted your words (about only God knowing who his children are) and made the observation, which naturally follows, that you - since you aren’t God- don’t know any who are his children. If only God knows (your standard) and since you aren’t God then you don’t know any who are his children...

The point is that my comment was about you, that by your own standard of measure you don’t know any who are his children. I graciously allowed that you know it about, but only about, yourself. What is there for me to explain? I reject your standard. Was that previously unclear to you?

Let us accept his “opinion” (he believes it is reliable, as it testifies about him; they should have believed the testimony) about the OT. Does he have or not have an opinion about the NT?

So now that takes us back to “You, apparently, don’t know any who are, besides yourself.”

Thank you.

“Only God knows who are his children” (post #538). You aren’t him, so, apply the standard to yourself. When you do, what does it look like? *** Yes, as a search of my posts would demonstrate.

I try to abide by the rules of the Board. What is the worst that they can do? If they treat me fairly, I won’t be harmed. If they treat me unfairly, they are harming themselves.

You, apparently, don’t know any who are, besides yourself. Yes. The heart of God, the mind of God, is revealed in the (reliable) Bible. I’ve seen what you say can’t happen, happen. I would refer all of my readers to the parable of the sower.

It has to be more than a just a comfort, doesn’t it?

The student didn’t think the Bible was unreliable, then he did (briefly) doubt that it is reliable, then he recovered with my assistance. (And perhaps with the assistance of others that I’m not aware of.) This thread was designed with a twofold purpose: (1) Would you be able to help such a...