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    God is male/female

    You just admitted that you never looked up Hosea 11:9 in the Hebrew Bible. Biblia Hebraica is the Latin title of an all Hebrew Old Testament. Except for the title, no other language is present. Obviously, you didn't look up or didn't understand the Hebrew-English interlinear I posted for you.
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    God is male/female

    The standard Hebrew Bible is "Biblia Hebraica," edited by Rudolph Kittel. Jews call it Tanakh. I knew you didn't own a standard Hebrew Bible. btw, Young's Concordance also reads "ish" just like Biblia Hebraica for Hosea 11:9. Readers can expose Mr.E's ignorance on this matter by consulting...
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    God is male/female

    You're relying on wrong sources. I actually read Hebrew and have a Hebrew Old Testament that reads "ish" in Hosea 11;9. You don't know what your're talking about.
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    God is male/female

    So whar's your point? Neither "enosh" or "adam" is used in God's denial in Hosea 11:9. The noun for "male, "Ish," is.
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    God is male/female

    Duh, irrelevant because 'enosh" (another word for "man" or "mortal" is not the word used in Hos. 11:9; "ish" ('a male') is. )
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    God is male/female

    Nope, don't pontificate when you don't know Hebrew. The word is "ish" which means "a male," not "human." If Hosea wanted to say "human," he would be expecrted to use "adam."
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    God is male/female

    "Logos, " used philosophically, just means "the rational self-expression of God as opposed to God in God's unknowability. So it doesn't mean Jesus was a preexistent "male" guy. Remember, God denies literally being "a male" (Hosea 11:9). So "psychology" is the rational study of the -psyche, etc.
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    God is male/female

    "I am God and not a male (Hebrew ish" means "a male"), the Holy One in your midst (Hosea 11:9)."
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    NDEs and ADCs: Their Apologetic Value for Christian Witness

    (15) What about cross-cultural cases? In their book ''At the Hour of Death" Drs. Osis and Haraldsson compare 500 American NDEs with 500 NDEs from India. The 2 biggest takeways were (1) that the basic NDE elements were shared in both cultures and (2) that these elements clashed with the...
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    I'm starting to move away from "pretend Christianity"

    When life's circumstances suddenly and involuntarily make you temporarily lose confidence in God's promises:
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    NDEs and ADCs: Their Apologetic Value for Christian Witness

    (14) Dr. Bruce Greyson, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia, documents verification evidence from many cases of NDEs in which the experiencer encounters acquaintances not known to be deceased. Here is his summation of the evidence: "There are three varieties of “Peak in...
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    I'm starting to move away from "pretend Christianity"

    Rubbish! All I said expressed was a natural anger at God for not helping Nick when the church abandoned him in his hour of greatest need. I didn't blame God, but I was forced to battle doubts and a loss of confidence in Paul's promise: "My God will fully satisfy your every need according to...
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    NDEs and ADCs: Their Apologetic Value for Christian Witness

    (13) THE GEOGRAPHY OF PARADISE: At age 5 Margaret Sauro was misdiagnosed with scarlet fever and was on the verge of death as a result of a ruptured appendix. She suddenly found herself walking hand in hand down a path with a beautiful young woman in a Roman toga. The path was lined with massive...
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    The Biblical Basis of 10 Catholic Distinctves

    (1c) HEALING MARIAN SPRINGS An important variant of Holy Water is the healing Marian spring. If you want to experience awe, wonder, and a profound sense of the sacred watch this famous old movie ("The Song of Bernadette" [1943]) about Bernadette, the simple young girl whose visions of the...
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    NDEs and ADCs: Their Apologetic Value for Christian Witness

    (12) My friend Gord, a chaplain in British Columbia, shared this experience of Annie and her family. Gord visited Annie in her nursing home and noticed an unopened bottle of lilac cologne on a table next to her bed. He asked her is she’d like an application of the cologne and when she said Yes...
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    "Faith is believing what you know ain't so" (Mark Twain).

    Consider the case of Chuck Templeton, an evangelist far more famous in his day than Ravi Zacharias. In fact, in the late 1940s Chuck was considered a more promising evangelist than his close friend, Billy Graham. But then he attended my alma mater, Princeton Seminary and concluded that he...
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    The Biblical Basis of 10 Catholic Distinctves

    (1a) A few years ago, I received a call from friends at a UMC church I used to pastor. Their son in his late teens was secretly addicted to opioids. Then one night he went reluctantly to a horror movie with friends. The combined effect of created fear and opioids left him vulnerable to spirit...
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    Is all the fussing and feuding what God wants?

    God forces Jacob to wrestle with Him in a vision and then changes Jacob's name to Israel, which means "one who wrestles with God." Jesus and Paul teach that Jesus' followers represent the True or Spiritual Israel. So, of course, theological debate is an essential aspect of living out our...
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    The Biblical Basis of 10 Catholic Distinctves

    (1) THE BIBLICAL INSPIRATION FOR THE USE OF HOLY WATER: The underlying principles for Catholic sprinkling with Holy Water are the various uses of sacred water in God's Word to bless, purify, heal, or establish innocence. The Apostolic Constitutions (c. 400 AD) trace the priestly use of Holy...
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    The Biblical Basis of 10 Catholic Distinctves

    I am an evangelical Methodist who grew up Pentecostal. But for 12 years I was a Theology Professor at a Catholic university. I have a positive perspective on Catholic spirituality, despite the fact that I have even won a lawsuit against Catholics! Despite this, I believe there is no Christian...