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You quote Paul saying: Then you quote James saying: Which ends with this verse you left out: 16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? And then you can say with a...

We purposefully justify our bad behavior. But that is saying the opposite of what you said before--that our perception determines our reasoning. Our perception can be false and misleading, so we can't base our reasoning on our perceptions. There has to be a standard that is outside our...

Anti something, for sure.

This is a dangerous position. We might not know enough to reason with God, but that means our conclusion is faulty, even if logically arrived at, because it is based on faulty premises. If reasoning is right based on perception, then it was right for Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge...

You forgot 4 There's some remaining difference between the body of Christ Christians and the kingdom of Israel Christians that must be maintained on pain of being scorned, though no one can adequately explain why.

Just like they can't find who started the J6 riot, or the G Whitmer kidnap plot, or who killed JFK, or who colluded with Russia, or who created COVID 19. It's difficult to find out who did it when they won't look internally.

Because he was a troll.

Then you reject scripture? ...when he wasn't yet physically dead. Not in Abimelech's case. And if you don't need that explanation for Abimelech, then it isn't necessary in other cases. Your problem is explaining how God could call Abimelech dead when he was still alive, and it wasn't...

I started talking with my family about this "coincidence" a couple years ago.

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...