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It seems unreasonable to think that nobody will follow Satan. And mob-think is certainly a predictable force for evil, if not also for...

Sure, but if you can, filter out the effects of MAD for the time being, to keep the topic as simple and direct as possible.

How God can know the future impacts what He tells us of it. So if He tells us of specific acts of specific people, then either it is...

I think that's all true, and I wonder if the open theism paradigm can help explain some of the inscrutable eschatology call passages...

I heard Bob Enyart say something similar to this years and years ago and it is the only explanation of why God does some of the things...

God cannot commit murder. That’s not even possible. All life belongs to Him. He created us, He sustains us, and He has every right to...

Please be careful to fully quote the sentence, as it was confusing what you were responding to. Why do you think it is wrong to murder...

I'm not saying, by the way, that I think the determination of what is just is something that comes from outside of God. But the question...

Probably not true but you wish it was

They can "survive" any scripture, because they don't want to admit what it says.

Genesis 18:25 (YLT) Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been...

That’s the fundamental, paradigm level, difference between those who hold to determinism and those who don’t. Determinists tend to...

Ok. Yes, but what do we mean by "foreknowledge about the saints"? I'm saying it isn't expressly and personally every saint that will...

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