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... Through the preaching of Paul. He didn't open her heart until she heard the words from Paul spoken. It wasn't some effectual work on God's part. Her heart was opened through the gospel which Paul preached. The means of her heart being opened was the preaching of the gospel. We attribute...

Anyone can cite or quote a few Bible verses and make them say what they want them to say. Doesn't mean what is being said is rational, or good. Hence...: Matthew 27:5; Luke 10:37, as an extreme example of what NOT to do.

Which, of course, is entire the point @Clete was making.

This is what you want inside the tags. Nothing else. Should look like this:

Yeah, it's been borked for a bit now. Workaround for now is to do the following: 1. Copy the link to the post and paste it somewhere you can edit it, the text input box on TOL works fine. 2. remove everything after and including the "?=si" (it's just tracking information) and everything before...

It's the same word used BOTH TIMES, Lon. PAS. Means "All, the whole, every kind of." Or are you trying to beg the question that it means something different just because it's talking about God? It says "you know all things" in both passages. So, either it means LITERALLY all things, in both...

Who? That comes through the preaching of the gospel. Which, again, is why it's so important to preach, so that ANYONE who hears it CAN come to Christ.

Yes. And?

Touché

One chapter earlier, John speaking to the Little Children (believing Jews): But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1John.2.20&version=NKJV

Shouldn't we be calling them "hostesses"?

Just another slow news day, it seems!

Whom does God want to show mercy? Those who call on Him in repentance and believe. How shall they call if they haven't believed? How shall they believe if they haven't heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? No one denies that. The problem is that faith is not God's action, it's...

I'm really not. Reward bad behavior, and punish good behavior. And not because he is completely incapable of doing so, but because He refuses to do so, because doing so would be unjust. Supra. It's important to note the difference between the definition I gave, and the "classical" (read...

Doesn't what? Again, you're missing the forest for the trees. The ENTIRE "COLUMN" was laid down by the Flood. Every single layer. All of the creatures found in the mile-deep of sedimentary layers are of their own "kinds." Evolution didn't happen. The layers were "sorted" during the flood...

That's nice. Yes, and sometimes those uses of "gods" plural are referring to angels or men. Indeed. Hence the rest of my argument. Saying it doesn't make it so. *"God" God is not cruel, despite your accusations to that effect. God is indeed a jealous God. If you think God is...

Unfortunately, sometimes people are silly, and say God can. I was just covering my bases. Noted! And this is why I said the above. Because "nothing is beyond capability" includes, but is not limited to, the irrational. Hence the disclaimer. I mean, He can't force someone to love Him...

Yes. That discomfort is a result of the cognitive dissonance between reality and what you believe. Keep digging for the truth. Right, God could, at any point, simply send all sinners to Hell, and be done with humanity, and be FULLY justified in doing so, because He is a righteous God. But...

Sure. God cannot do the irrational. He cannot count the number of hairs on the boogeyman's head, nor make a sphere-shaped square, nor can He know what a married bachelor is. Why? Because God is not irrational. He is reason itself. (Which is not to say that reason is God.)