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I had to put my cat down today. Her name was Truffles. She'd been sick for a while, but I wasn't able to get her looked at until today. She's asleep now. Not in any more pain. Goodbye baby girl. Sleep well.

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Instead of wasting time on conjecturous theories, have you tried to see what Scripture says on the matter?

That framing only works if obedience under consequence is coercion, and it isn’t. Coercion removes choice. Moral law presupposes it. A warning is not a gun to the head; it’s information about reality. Gravity doesn’t “coerce” you by consequences, and neither does God. Your "Love Me or face...

If fearing consequences is "mind-killing," then freedom died the moment you called responsibility "control."

You’re conflating fear as coercion with fear as moral recognition. Fear of God is not panic or loss of agency; Scripture contrasts it with fear of men because it liberates judgment rather than suppressing it. Control suppresses conscience; fear of God awakens it. Hence it is the beginning of...

Because of what the Bible says.

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

What argument? You never engaged.

On the contrary... Insults are a vice when they substitute for reason prematurely, and a necessity when reason has been willfully rejected. In other words, reason persuades the willing; rebuke confronts the obstinate. We insult you because you have rejected reason, not because we are irrational.

We fear God, not "gay." Because we fear God, we recognize that "gay," "homosexuality," et al, leads to death.

This isn't dodgeball.

And they also slaughtered millions of people, subjugated them, and forced them to convert to Islam and Sharia law. Of course you don't, because it destroys your entire argument. Most of them believed in a Creator. Led us to? You mean mathematical models of things never observed that have...

You're on a particular discussion board. Use your brain and figure it out. Don't be dumb.

I'm specifically referring to this post. Post in thread 'The Epstein Client list - Pedophiles Galore!' https://theologyonline.com/threads/the-epstein-client-list-pedophiles-galore.60290/post-1923408

You mean the mission to take back much of the civilized world from the Muslims before they destroyed everything? Which one? But you're not sure? You mean like many of the fathers of modern science having been Christians and/or believed in a Creator, at the very least rejecting naturalistic...

@Avajs fix your formatting please.

"Christ"mas It would not exist without Christ's birth.

Sigh. *taps sign again*

Holiday <== Holy day One holy day every year over the past 75 years. And let's not forget the entire month prior to that one day each year. Times 75 years. That's a lot of days. Jesus is the "reason for the season." His birth is the centerpoint of all of history. "Just another holiday..." HA!