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What is in keeping with scriptures? You are making an assertion: "If it was known, it is determined!" You haven't shown the smoking gun, just evidence atf. If so, it doesn't matter. Let me entertain your 'no choice' scenario for a moment: Not only did He say 'vanilla' but made me...

It is possible, but I read it as Jesus explaining what all Pharisees and other Jewish teachers should have picked up from Isaiah 53, for instance. That tends to be how I read it because Jesus says: Realize I'm either not Mid Acts, or not versed well enough on the coincidence. For me, if...

Agree, I know of no other either. I think so. Here is a question for MidActs: Was 'born again' future for Nicodemus? From Theology class, the Holy Spirit came 'upon' men and women prior to the Lord Jesus Christ's DBR. If not, then I'd have to agree that 'born again' isn't the same as...

Uhhhggg. What in the world does "Planet Fitness" and 'kids' have in common? :doh: (some of these could obviously go in "Not Mad Enough" also. <Grief>

Hello Tambora! 1Co 2:9 But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." 1Co 2:10 But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep...

Part of the issue: What is a miracle? -"Biblically speaking miracles involve God doing something uncommon and usually awe-inspiring in order to reveal himself to mankind." Comments in thread will be over the definition difference and reasons for sharing.

Does knowledge of any kind, eliminate your free choice? Affect it? Some say yes, others no. Some assert as I do, knowledge has nothing to do with choices, and don't affect them and suggests as I do, a question fallacy. One tackles even determinism as removing choice and does a nice job of...

Absolutely. We'd not be very good parents without ability to change behavior. ▲This is the problematic conflation. It doesn't matter today, for the rest of my life, if I am going to choose vanilla, that you know it infallibly. Knowledge itself doesn't do anything. If you never tell me...

Oh! That's just wrong! (should have had that fire inside a tin can for better heat to cook the lion over...)

Lawsuit waiting to happen and the principle should be fired and never allowed in a government office again, maybe deported.

From a satire magazine :Z AND Riley is up against Lia(m)-Wil-lia-m- for 'woman' of the year in sports!

Coffee spilled on my keyboard... letters missing, a few grammatical errors as well. If both tax, please forgive and overlook. I've seen them :Z

I think it fairly straight-forward: It is a need for Nicodemus to be a spiritual being. From what I've garnered talking to Mid Acts, there is a cross-over in the sense that we all need spiritual regeneration. As I understand it, their only caveat here is "born-again" was going to be...

'A' conclusion. We all assert we are the logical ones. When we aren't actually logical, there is no appeal to 'logic' that will suffice. "If" any Christians find a problem (and we do), then it is wise to look to your own. If not, it has every earmark you are plugging your ears or so...

🆙 Like that EDF must somehow erase the fact that choice is made? Time Doesn't Exist so 'future' doesn't, if JR's argument is accurate. I believe it is. EDF is but knowledge like any other knowledge. Any 'if' doesn't eradicate the difference. It is this 8th grade easy, I agree! I...

I know you have me on ignore, but if I make a cogent point, someone can pick up on it. On this one, Clete says he has no major disagreement with other Open Theists. A debate on Omniscience is a consequential doctrinal difference.

More: Ephesians 4:15 Grow in Christ Ephesians 5:9 fruit Colossians 1:6,10-11; 2:6,7 2 Timothy 2:3-7 Hebrews 6:7,8 And some more good reminders for all of us: Gal 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your...

Romans 11:11-31 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 1 Corinthians 12 Galatians 5:22, Galatians 6:7 You probably don't have a farm upbringing? There is a lot of farm, vine, fruit, growing analogies and Paul carries a number. In a farm community, the preachers I've sat under would often go to planting...

As I said, perhaps a bit of AC and DC by analogy. John 15:5 is talking about being 'plugged in.' The Vine/branches analogy always means life is plugged in. Paul uses it often as in 'grafted in.' A distinction: *Unbelievers are not 'plugged in' but in every sense that we are...