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    Hyper-humility is silly!

    What do you think about the idea of forgiving one's self? I think it is usually used to assuage guilty feelings for something one did in the past, but it always makes me cringe a bit.
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    You besmirch yourself with such words. I spelled out the part explicitly where she was unwilling to discuss restrictions on abortions for convenience until I agreed that the state must support the baby throughout. Abortion means the killing of a baby. Please point out where I went wrong in the...
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    Calvinism Made Me Doubt My Salvation

    Do you feel like you are stumbling into less sin than you used to?
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    Here's where i got it from: I said She replied So the only way I can have a meaningful conversation with her ("get back to me when") about abortion for convenience sake (the part of my post she was replying to) is if I first concede ("you're ready to") that the state must ("have the state")...
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    @annabenedetti was. And you took her side. Ergo, you did make that argument.
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    Calvinism Made Me Doubt My Salvation

    Then I recommend you think through your post and try again. I couldn't tell what you were getting at. The title talks about Calvinism and your salvation, but the OP only talks about Calvinists who gave you some advice. Can you explain WHY you think Calvinism almost made you lose your salvation?
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    Calvinism Made Me Doubt My Salvation

    Do you have a question we could help answer? God hates divorce, and it wasn't His plan for you. But now that you're dealing with it, deal with it according to scripture, not according to some theological system.
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    I still don't see why, because a parent might not be able to care well for a child, that makes it ok to kill the child. The two are not the only options.
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    Wrongly, of course. But that was my point--that such a course allows people wholly antithetical to a movement or ideology to pretend to be part of it and corrupt the movement. Republicans are in danger of promoting the very things the party complain about. So if you don't agree with murder, the...
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    So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

    That's probably what you are still doing, it's just that you finally heard from the other side, as many Christian kids do when they grow up and are exposed to different viewpoints for the first time...and they leave the faith of their fathers, because it was never their own (never believed, just...
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    ECT Mary: Mother of God

    What does it look like to "set aside"? Does it mean that "hail Mary" is more often expressed, as often expressed, or just a little less often expressed than "Our Father...hallowed be thy name"? What do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that we treat someone who isnt God almost like God...
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    The Joys of Catholicism

    I think Hulk Hogan only needs two more miracles to be declared a saint.
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    A little comedy break....

    We're even: 8 cows, 8 people.
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    ECT Mary: Mother of God

    The question then, would be whether @Idolater would agree if it is idolatrous.
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    To Tithe... or Not to Tithe - July 28, 2025

    I haven't listened yet, but i agree with the comments. The problem isn't whether to tithe, but what should be done with the tithe. If i remember correctly there are three tithes called for in the Mosaic law, and 2 of them are to bring people together for a feast, while the other one is to give...
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    The Joys of Catholicism

    The standard given to us for determining truth vs error for events was at least two "witnesses". That includes the internal consistency part, but it also presupposes humans.
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    The Joys of Catholicism

    Verifying today what happened 400 years ago almost always relies on the testimony of witnesses. So it would be with levitating Christians. So it is with Jesus’ miracles, birth, death, resurrection, and ascension. We trust the gospel accounts because the writers were either eyewitnesses or...
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    The Joys of Catholicism

    What did he have to say? Was it biblical?
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    time gap or no?

    Here's a similar scenario: Revelation 11:7-12 KJV — And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which...
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    time gap or no?

    If you see death as an impediment to ascension into heaven (remember that Jesus first rose from the dead before He ascended into heaven), then you can see that all others need to first rise before ascending. But such doesn't help with your time gap question. I think it is probably still...
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