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It is, but it's different from the ones where some are cast into outer darkness, with weeping and gnashing of teeth. The parable seems to be talking about an earthly kingdom of heaven, where some will be cast out of the kingdom and just be with other people (no gnashing?). So I would suggest...

Yeah, @Idolater, don't be an oxymoron!

"Freewill", sure. "Autonomy"? No, at least not without consequences. God told them the "law", and the consequences for breaking it. I don't see that as a gift. Yep. You blame man's sin on the serpent? Do you really think they could've lived millions (billions? trillions?) of years without...

Two is all we know about. Since it was an agreement between Abram and Sarai, it's possible they did it more often.

The company I was working for most recently did something similar with covid tests, which unvax'd employees were required to take every 2 or 3 days. They were going to give us a bunch of test kits, which we would use at home, then we had to take a selfie with the test result and upload it to a...

How is the master loving the steward?

Yes, but the previous verse says "if" the master gave him a wife. So it can be love for master and/or love for wife and kids in a subset of cases. Self-love, perhaps. Do you see him loving someone else?

Just on this point, can you show a scripture where love ISN'T freely given, i.e., it is forced? And if not, then every scripture about love fits your criterion--that love is "constrained" by the definition of love, i.e., doing those actions of love willingly. Certainly we can imagine the same...

Than we definitely should close the thread.

Do you? I can't do any of those things. Yes. I see some words appear on the forum. Yes, I can. So can you. You describe it as "water flows downhill". That's a "downward bias", if I understand what you mean by it.

I can see the results of your actions, but you don't exist. (Does it matter WHERE you don't exist?)

Who are you? How can you be replying when you don't exist?

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of @1Mind1Spirit from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical...

Yet you never called it "stupid"? But seriously, it was an interesting interchange. A bit repetitive, as would be expected.

Seems like we need some of these. https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/flat-earth-funny-memes-fb11.png

"Let not many be teachers" comes to mind.

Why isn't "remove from existence" an option?

My position is that He could have, and practically did, prior to the resurrection of Christ.

Good topic, JR.

It goes to the question of authority. If Jesus told them to do it (whether or not He told them how), then Matthias is a shoo-in for Judas' replacement. If not, then the question has to be decided on other points. The biggest factor, in my opinion, is about whether CHRIST chose him. Christ...