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It's not a matter of forgiveness. It's a matter of trust. You can forgive someone for a sin 7 x 70, but can you trust a group that never really came to you even once and said "I repent"?

So you agree that God called Abimelech "dead" even though he wasn't dead. And from your statement of it being a threat, you are affirming that it was describing a future potential condition for Abimelech, And not an actual condition, right? And that future potential condition was a physical...

He seems to be ever-watchful over some of His creation, but maybe not those who don't worship Him??

What isn't clear is if God was somehow so sure that the Judas who was alive when Christ was choosing His disciples was someone whom He knew about specifically centuries before. I don't see that as a necessary understanding of the text.

Why raise it from the dead if it's "just a vessel"? Can you show me a verse that suggests it's "just a vessel" to be discarded? The "old man" passage isn't good enough, because it only addresses the pre-resurrection body, not the post resurrection version of the same body.

I think if He has a way of not knowing something that is knowable, then it speaks to the mechanism of His knowing. For instance, if He decides not to know what Satan was doing, then how does He know if Satan is actually not doing the things God forbids him to do. Satan was at first allowed to...

The most reasonable version of the open view imo doesn't say His knowledge is limited to anything but those things which are at any time possible for Him to know.

Just like God said Abimelech was dead before he physically died...but it wasn't "spiritual death". Sometimes God talks about something that hasn't happened yet as if it has already happened. Romans 4:17 KJV — (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he...

A group of epigraphers claimed to have deciphered the Linear Elamite script, a system of writing used in the ancient kingdom of Elam (located in modern-day southern Iran) from 2300 to 1880 BC. François Desset, Kambiz Tabibzadeh, Matthieu Kervran, Gian Pietro Basello, and Gianni Marchesi recently...

And here's a case in point (remember that Rep. judges come from the same pool of lawyers that fill the legislatures in our country): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/just-texas-rinos-vote-impeach-ag-ken-paxton/

Can anyone talking about eternal life and not mean something that is the antithesis of death? The whole passage is about life vs death (also called "perishing" or "condemnation") Or maybe the problem is that you don't agree with most Christians in this area. What do you think born again means...

Jesus explained that for me. John 5:28-29 KJV — Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of...

Some do, perhaps, but many Rep. judges don't.

Eventually the old man will be destroyed, when one's body dies and is resurrected.

I see the difference, and agree, that death, burial, resurrection is new creation material. But I can't see how it is different from born again from the dead. Surely if we are new creations, it's not substantially different than being born again of a new type of person/a new man. Jesus wasn't...

Republicans should already be banning government agencies responsible for these things. But mostly they aren't

Romans 6:3 KJV — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Death is kinda destructive, don't you think?

And Paul tells us that if a man can't handle that family responsibility, where he is ruling over the household, then He won't be good at handling the BOC responsibilities. What responsibilities are those, if not "ruling" in some way over others. Surely Paul didn't invent the term translated...

Yep! Sure there is authority in the body of Christ: 1 Timothy 3:4-5 KJV — One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

You're getting grounded when you're 60 years old? 'Cause their both about 80, right?