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To what purpose in our resurrection, or His, for that matter? Wouldn't it be easier to say that He blinded their eyes so that they...

Enough that He didn't have to manufacture scars on a new body, for tge reason below. If so, then the scars He showed them were fake, or...

For sure! And that's my point. I had said earlier in the thread that the reason I think God had to "go down and see" was not that He...

And often tests the people to see if they will repent, like Noah preaching righteousness and Jonah going Nineveh.

Yeah, He really might have. There have been times where he needed to know the details so that He could rightly judge the matter. Cain...

Don't you think that a God who can hear from heaven could also see from heaven? 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV — If my people, which are called...

Or He is the Living God and sometimes likes to see things for Himself?

Then He needed the "gory details" to make a righteous judgment? And His other sources of information are not trustworthy, apparently?

I have a favorite color. I offer to tell you, but you decline. You have chosen not to know something. That's literally all we're...

But in the Sodom case, God goes down to see whether what He has been told is true. He hasn't chosen to not know, but to know better.

I've heard that here before, but it doesnt make sense. If God chooses not to know something, doesn't He already have to know it well...

The apostle Paul told homos, rapists, murderers and slave traders "be reconciled to God". He said those that pervert the gospel in any...

Bob was a great man who taught me a great many truths from God's Word. I still miss him dearly.

To all of us. But we have His Spirit in us, to make it less and less of a challenge each day

If you require love to enemies to be requited before you offer it, and your enemies oblige you, they are morally superior to you, a...