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  1. Arthur Brain

    Hey libs...

    What makes it a viable one?
  2. Arthur Brain

    Ukraine Crisis

    I've just finished a college course where there were two Ukrainian women on it after having had to flee from their country. One of them is married and her husband had to stay behind, not to fight as he's deemed medically unfit but as a first aider and also to help with catering supplies for...
  3. Arthur Brain

    The Mar-A-Lago raid

    Well, you can bank on him to rant on like a mad man on too many energy drinks anyway...
  4. Arthur Brain

    US propaganda vs reality

    Considering how much you've bought into all sorts of crackerjack conspiracy junk then this is more than a little rich. You're quick to blast anything that derives from any Western media source (at least non loop the loop ones) but so keen to lap up anything that presents Putin or China in a more...
  5. Arthur Brain

    Hey libs...

    Don't have one. Stupid term anyway really. I realize that some pompous prudes and puritans seem to define women who have sex with more than one person outside of wedlock as being so but then that sort of rubbish can be discarded accordingly. What's yours out of curiosity?
  6. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    God can do whatever He wants JR, figure that one out. He could likely choose both simultaneously while making a tutti frutti and feeding 4 billion people with a carton of eggs and 17 muffins. When are you gonna get that your - and my - human understanding of time does not remotely apply to God?
  7. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Garbage. Your freedom isn't affected whether God knows the future or not unless you're programmed to act via the hyper Calvinist route or some such. You carry on declaring what God can and can't know though.
  8. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    So, you haven't got a quote of mine that says any such thing as you've accused me of then have you? Else, where is it? Misrepresenting people is hardly edifying JR and you should either acknowledge that you've nowt on the score or retract. Exhaustive foreknowledge isn't remotely the same thing...
  9. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Learn to use 'spellcheck' dude... Newsflash: You don't get to determine what is actually determined through a narrow frame of reference. Or maybe God is a magician when He does anything outside of your limited scope? Turning water into wine? Wow, that's magic and then some, right?
  10. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Is it "magical" to you if a thousand years is like a day to God and the same in reverse? Maybe Jesus feeding the five thousand with some bread and fish was metaphor perhaps? Changing water into wine etc? God isn't limited to a human perspective or understanding where it comes to time. Knowing...
  11. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Well of course the threads still here to read, what, was it gonna go somewhere else? Got a quote of mine that says that God needs to know the future in order to say something yet? I would wish you good luck on the score but you'd need more than that. They're only mutually exclusive to those...
  12. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    So, you haven't got a quote of mine that stipulates that God needs to know the future in order to say something then? Shoulda thought that through a bit more before leveling an unsupportable accusation like that JR. Just because folk have no issue with foreknowledge doesn't mean they think...
  13. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    It's rational because God hasn't influenced/forced/programmed/coerced you simply by knowing what you were/are going to do at any given point in time. Your will hasn't been infringed upon and you'll have made any number of choices today and anyone knowing about them in advance wouldn't have...
  14. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Really, you believe that God can see the future? Since when? In case you hadn't noticed, I'm not arguing that God has 'set it in stone' anyway as foreknowledge of an event isn't the same as predetermining it. It's not a case of wanting to avoid making such a declaration or demanding it, that's...
  15. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Yes, it is absolutely clear. God knew what Peter was going to do in unequivocal and blatant terms. How you can't understand that God knew what Peter was going to do in the future is bizarre. That you're reduced to God forcing a bird to crow on demand in order for the verse to tie in with what...
  16. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Seriously, even you should be cringing at this whole 'making a rooster crow on demand' stuff JR. That is lame as all get out. What, Jesus was going to wait until Peter denied Him three times and made the bird chirp? Get real.
  17. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    I have no challenge to answer to with you, none. The verse is explicitly clear in itself. Peter would deny Jesus three times on the very same night before a rooster crowed. It's absolutely specific as to the number of times prefaced with Jesus telling Peter that this is the truth. Could God have...
  18. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Yep. Peter wasn't forced or programmed into his denial. There's a difference between God knowing events in advance and forcing them to come about but try telling some of this lot that.
  19. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Hmm, well, your sense of what's "rational" is hardly the yardstick for humans let alone an omnipotent deity so any limitations you decide to place are pretty much yours and yours alone. Yes, It's possible for God to know what Peter was doing to do in such specific detail while Peter still had a...
  20. Arthur Brain

    Do you believe in predestination ?

    Well enough to know that on that very same night that he was going to deny him exactly three times before a rooster crowed? Come off it. Nobody's saying that relationships aren't important but your imitations on what God can know can be dismissed accordingly.
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