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Everyone does this, me and thee. The flim flam of exegesis is that for anyone to get the meaning of a verse from the verse without any input from their mindset and unfiltered by existing ideas is on the order of Paul's conversion as a bright light and hearing GOD's voice. Every interpretation...

I suggest that image has nothing to do with physical appearance but to the fact that HE created us as persons with all the attributes of personhood. HE made us this way so we could enter into a full emotional and intellectual communion with HIM in the perfect marriage. No one accepts a marriage...

The verses that tell us what we know about this situation are in Rev 12:3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. and 7 Then a war...

My problem with GOD knowing everything that can be known before HE create anything is from 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. All HE had to...

You have your eisegesis, I have mine. That yours contradicts mine is NOT PROOF that I am wrong...it is only support for your thinking that I am wrong. I have considered yours all my life and rejected it as leading to blasphemy. You may note that nowhere in the Bible is there any statement that...

And Jesus called sinners good seed in the parable of the tares when none are good, not one. It is obvious that the terms innocent and good etc are not definitive but conform to context.

Peter calls Christians sheep in an allusion to the Jews being called sheep by Isaiah: 1 Peter 2:25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have RETURNED to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. Well,TO RETURN, one must have been there before, at least, according to the normal...

How did His sheep get lost? 1. The fault was in the Shepherd...He sent them as corrupt out into the world (Matt 13:36-39) to take their chances in the evil world. 2. The fault is in the Shepherd's enemy, the wolf in serpent's clothing dragged the sheep off and He could not or decided to not...

Saying it doesn't prove it. The people who sang HIS praises at the creation of the world (Job 38:7) certainly pre-existed the world. If them, why not us? Are we not sons of GOD? And no, angel does not refer to a race of beings, it is a job description. And yes, they are people too, not robots.

There were two kinds of sin before earth as I have explained already: the sin of the rejection of YHWH's deity and the sin of rebellion by some of those who had previously out their faith in HIS deity and truthfulness and so became HIS elect. The sin of the demons was to put their faith in the...

What is taught to me IN scripture I know about but my memories of that time are as missing as everyone else's... JOB Job 38:7 ...while the morning stars sang together and all the Sons of GOD shouted for joy? While talking to Job about the creation GOD asks where was Job when those watching the...

It is because you reject our life before earth that you can't agree.

The bible is totally full of of truth for us about how GOD thinks. Your protestations that we cannot understand that is a deke to avoid dissecting the doublethink dissonance I accuse you of dwelling within...you can only deny.

We die due to sinfulness at every and any age...not because of reaching any so called age of accountability. I know we are not punished for Adam's sin, only our own, but neither are we stuck with the consequences for his sin, ie, death. because as Rom 5:12 we all die in Adam's death because we...

By the logical implication of your theology that HE created the system of human progeny and hooked our lives into Adam's sinfulness. Adam and Eve chose to sin...but we didn't?? We are stuck with the mistake? No man dies for his father's sin yet we die for our father, Adam's, sin.

How is the consequences passed down to all flesh if it was not by the will of GOD!? This blasphemy declares that by HIS will, every person comes into existence as corrupt stinking rags - including the elect, HIS Bride ! HE didn't even curse any of Satan's children with this but all of mankind...

No ma'am...I hate the Calvinist UNconditional election with all my heart because it implies (though they try to hide it) an UNconditional condemnation by passing over some people for election due to no reason at all. Nor do Calvinists accept my adherence to our pre-conception existence before...

Then what is the meaning of the explanation (ie, no hyperboly nor metaphor) of the parable of the weeds Matt 13:36-39? IF GOD created us with a tendency to sin then HE is not perfectly benevolent. I contend that HE is perfectly benevolent, ie, loving, righteous and just so I believe HE does not...

Because we were elected, that is, given the promise of salvation if we should ever need it, before the foundation of the world.

The fact that children do not understand their guilt does not prove they are innocent. The fact they do not, as new humans planted, not created, into the world, understand the difference between good and evil does not prove they did not at some time previously have that understanding. Only...