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Very nearly all male homosexuals do have that kind of history. If you executed convicted child molesters, rather than allowing them to adopt their victims, you'd have almost no homosexuals in your society within a generation. It is quite different for the female version of the same perversion...

It's both, I'd say. That is not to say, however, that they are equivalent sins. Jesus taught that if you lust after a women, you've committed adultery in your heart but He was not advocating the death penalty for lust. Thus, a longing to sin is itself a sin, which is a major part of why the...

"Preference" isn't the word I would use. It's an aberration and/or a psychosis. I prefer green beans over peas and always have. I don't believe that preference was learned, in fact, I'm reasonably certain that I was born hating peas because even my Meyers Briggs personality profile somehow knew...

So what do you do with the fact that God is going to turn back to Israel after the fullness of the Gentiles has come in? Romans 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to...

This is off topic but.... Any of you here that are familiar with Bob's work will likely remember him citing a quotation of C. S. Lewis about God not being moved by love. I cannot find any such statement in any of Lewis' works. Am I remembering it wrong? Can any of you remember the specific...

I'm not so sure about two things... First, I'm not so sure that such a situation could not exist for four decades. Populations throughout history have gone bonkers for much longer than that. Nearly the whole population of Russia and China truly believe that Communism isn't just a good thing but...

While sulfur boulders are consistent with the HPT, I'm not sure that their existence is affirmative evidence for the theory. Also, just to restate it for the record, I happen to buy most of the HPT. I definitely think it does a much better job of explaining Earth's geology than Plate Tectonics...

Previously populated Earth? Are you just responding to something Ciano said or do you believe that the Earth was populated prior to Adam and Eve being fruitful and multiplying (Genesis 1:28)? I mean, I know Ciano brought it up, but the way you worded the question makes me wonder whether you...

This is the sort of thing that Ps82's method of formulating doctrine produces.....

No one needs your help to read the bible. Your additions are just you reading your doctrine into the text. This is EXACTLY the way David Koresh and Yahweh Ben Yahweh formulated their doctrine. Indeed, this is how Augustine and Calvin did their doctrine as well, although not to such a degree as...

This is you reading your doctrine into the text and ignoring an obvious figure of speech. If your interpretation of this verse was correct and applied consistently, it would not be the image that was the firstborn of creation is would be God the Son Himself that was created because the verse...

You couldn't have destroyed your reputation and undermined your credibility any more effectively than you have in the last 48 hours on this single thread. Congratulations.

That's one thing I think TOL does right. They don't just arbitrarily close threads because they've gotten several weeks old as several other similar sites do. Over 4500 posts on this thread alone. I have no doubt that there are plenty of gems in there that would be worth someone's time to read...

There isn't any need to study all the facets. It takes less than thirty seconds to look up the term and confirm that what you've said here on this thread and elsewhere is 100% in agreement with that label. More importantly, you're lying. You did not get your doctrine from reading the bible. It...

You are a liar. The only reason I engage anyone in the first place is precisely to discuss and debate. People don't start getting called names until they've proven that they are unwilling to participate and instead insist on ignoring whatever has been said and simply repeating themselves as...

If only more people would show up here to actually debate! Instead, we get people who are wise in their own eyes who show up thinking their going to teach everyone some super deep truths and who get offended when it turns out that no one is very impressed with their personal opinions.

Exactly! The idea being that we are created with sufficient similarities to God that it is possible for a meaningful and loving relationship to exist between us and our Creator. Indeed, the similarity is sufficient to make it possible for God to become a man. The bible uses the same terminology...

You are definitely a modalist, which is not at all the same thing as a trinitarian. The only part of God that is created is Jesus' physical body, which He did not have before He was conceived in Mary (just over 2000 years ago). The only thing that the bible records having been created in God's...

A quote from Dave's home page.... The human soul longs for eternal life, the rational mind for absolute truth, and the broken heart for healing love. God is love because there is an eternal relationship between three eternal persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father...

My thoughts are that you look for gnats to strain out where there are none. The problem had nothing to do with the word "we"! For crying out loud! I mean that is just literally silly. The problem is that God told them what to do and how to do it and they disobeyed Him. First time.... Exodus...