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    Has the Church Replaced Israel ?

    Yes...already have converted to Judaism. Yet Paul tells them this: Romans 10:1-4 KJV — Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they [not "you", because Paul is not speaking to converts to Judaism] might be saved. For I bear them [not "you", because Paul is not speaking...
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    Has the Church Replaced Israel ?

    Proselytes are by definition part of Israel. As soon as they are considered part of Israel, they are no longer part of those who are being grafted in because of the unbelief of Israel--they are literally part of Israel that are mostly rejecting their saviour. So it is logically incoherent to say...
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    Has the Church Replaced Israel ?

    And Gentlies. Paul was talking to all three groups, who had joined together in one congregation. And the only way that makes sense is if they had heard of the reconciliation of Jesus Christ bringing those who were far off nigh by His blood (from Eph 2:13).It tells us here in the same chapter of...
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    Has the Church Replaced Israel ?

    Paul seems to be saying to the Roman church that somebody was cut out of something and the Roman church was grafted in. Romans 11:17 NKJV — And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and...
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    Like the word "logos". 😉
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    Different Stuff

    I was being silly. Sorry it came across badly. ok
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    A little comedy break....

    As long as they do it the right way next time, like Cuba, for example.
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    Different Stuff

    Anyone, as long as you are Black. and a woman, and assuming you don't know what a woman is.
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    Different Stuff

    Well! U annoys me, too. So there!
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    A little comedy break....

    I thought it was going to be about using the seat heaters.
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    Occasional-ism “a non-Deistic understanding of the World”

    It's not a lie to withold some pieces of information, unless you first say you are going to tell the whole truth
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    Occasional-ism “a non-Deistic understanding of the World”

    To what purpose in our resurrection, or His, for that matter? Wouldn't it be easier to say that He blinded their eyes so that they didn't recognize Him rather than that He changed His appearance? Both might be in His power, but one is deceitful to those who love Him.
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    Occasional-ism “a non-Deistic understanding of the World”

    Enough that He didn't have to manufacture scars on a new body, for tge reason below. If so, then the scars He showed them were fake, or of something that were not intrinsically evidential to His resurrection. I don't think I'm taking that part too literally. 👍
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    On the omniscience of God

    For sure! And that's my point. I had said earlier in the thread that the reason I think God had to "go down and see" was not that He didn't know enough to make a righteous judgment, but that He wanted to see if the cause was hopeless, at least so far as the circumstances warranted*. That's part...
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    On the omniscience of God

    And often tests the people to see if they will repent, like Noah preaching righteousness and Jonah going Nineveh.
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    On the omniscience of God

    Don't you think that a God who can hear from heaven could also see from heaven? 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and...
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    On the omniscience of God

    Then He needed the "gory details" to make a righteous judgment? And His other sources of information are not trustworthy, apparently?
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    On the omniscience of God

    But in the Sodom case, God goes down to see whether what He has been told is true. He hasn't chosen to not know, but to know better.
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    On the omniscience of God

    I've heard that here before, but it doesnt make sense. If God chooses not to know something, doesn't He already have to know it well enough to choose not to know it?
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    Confessions of a Reluctant Catholic

    To all of us. But we have His Spirit in us, to make it less and less of a challenge each day
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