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From an Islamic source, “The Kaba has a black stone in its eastern corner which is also considered holy. It is believed that Adam and Eve received a stone when they were expelled from the heavens. Muslims believe that Abraham and his son Ishmael restored the stone and placed it back into the...

As an agnostic, what is your hope?

Yes. I was financially able to retire before turning 60. I relocated to my home state in order to be closer to my relatives. I don’t pastor a church where I currently reside. I declined salary and other benefits offered to pastors. I had no need for them (my means of support came from working...

Here I am. Retired but always and forever active in his majesties service. Abortion is wicked. It stills a beating heart. It ends a human life in the womb. Don’t do it.

In my opinion, the world stage is being set for the appearance of the antichrist. Taking down the world’s great superpower (the United States) from within (cp. the moral decline of the Roman Empire) may shortly produce the good of the coming age.

Bold is mine.

A member of this board has publicly stated that the two witnesses will appear in the Springtime of next year. Their appearance will be, he says, unmistakeable. If what he asserts is true then you’ll know them - we’ll all know them - in a very short while now.

I’m happy to see there’s something we’re in agreement on. I think we all have a tendency to focus on the things which we aren’t in agreement with. I’ve discussed this at some length with @theefaith. He has commented several times that he (a trinitarian, Roman Catholic) and I (a unitarian...

That’s a possible short-term good that might come from it. You astutely pointed out the potential danger of a good reaction gone too far, resulting in something as equally bad - or worse - than the evil it replaces. Is there another good besides the one you mentioned that could come out of...

“I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day...

Begetting (and conceiving) brings a being into existence.

The “in-between,” I recall from an earlier conversation with you, being binitarianism.

Jesus is in some sense God. I believe Jewish monotheism offers a better explanation of that sense than does later trinitarianism.

The same that is in Jesus. God’s mind, spirit, words.

No. We know only what God has revealed about his mind.

Link that with Philippians 2:5 and we establish God’s mind / spirit in believers; believers are filled with God’s Holy Spirit.

That’s a great question. There’s a very close connection in scripture between mind, spirit and words. Jesus has the mind of God. The words he speaks are spirit and life (John 6:63).

No. The one God, the God of Jesus Christ, is the Father and none other.

Just as sure and certain as your spirit is you. ”1. The one God. (a) theos is the most frequent designation of God in the NT. Belief in the one, only and unique God (Matt. 23:9; Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4,6; Gal. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:5; Jas. 2:19) is an established part of Christian tradition. Jesus...