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Gen 1:1 is a great example! God obviously didn't consider it sufficient, because He follows it up with the 7-day creation story. And not only that, but He follows that up with a summary: [Gen 2:1 KJV] Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Thus, your example...

Why do you leave out “in”?

No, I didn't say he didn't die. I said he did die, and in that day. But just like Gen 2:4, the day is an era, or a timeframe longer than a day. That's what the context gives you. And I don't have to redefine "death" or "day". And as I showed, there are two ways that context shows it isn't a...

So you're saying God is the first cause, but not the second or third or fourth cause? Yet whoever those causes are, aren't they caused to be exactly like they are by God? Didn't God make Satan to rebel, in your view? If not God, then who? Is Satan able to decide to rebel all by himself?

I didn't establish the criteria. [2Co 13:1 KJV] This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Of course, Paul didn't just make that up, the principle came from other places (or "mouths") in scripture.

If God wanted sin to happen, and He made sure it did (predestination) without having to know what other agents were going to do, then God authored, or purposefully caused, sin. If God is the author of sin, then either sin is ok with Him (His character is not righteous), or there is no such...

Then you should be getting baptized for your dead ancestors.

Would you like to name a few?

How many doctrines are obvious enough to only need a single verse of support?

What you’ve pointed out here is not two evidences, but only a single piece of evidence, because your definition is derived from the fact Adam didn’t die in that 24 hour period. As I’ve pointed out in other posts, the non-24 hour definition of day is used earlier in the same chapter as God’s...

Are you saying foreknows because He ordains, or He ordains because He foreknows? If He foreknows because He ordains, then He is the author of sin.

There were two parts to my comment that you were responding to: You addressed the "distinct part of us" part, but not the "that survives our physical death" part. I'm glad you've been persistent with this question. I don't know if I have the full understanding of the impact of believing one...

Does that also mean you are old, but not old?

Perhaps so.

As promised, though somewhat later than I had hoped, here's my reply to @Clete's post in the other thread. Clete, I didn't bring my quotes that you were answering, so sometimes the gist gets lost without it. If you think I've gone off on a tangent from what you meant, please let me know. I...

I think you've proved what I was trying to say. Their belief is based on something, and therefore it isn't totally mindless. Perhaps you are saying that belief that tries to limit any actions of God in creation is from the instincts of man weighed down by the constraints of his sin nature, but...

But beyond the snark, "mindless" belief is always based on something. Consider the Tooth Fairy (to try to find an example that hasn't been overly emphasized in media--especially Hallmark Movies for Santa). Children are told this by their parents, and they believe their parents. This is NOT...

Funny how what you wrote isn't true.

Why do you think these are future prophecies regarding Egypt? The Jews in Ezekiel’s time (and Jeremiah’s) trusted in Egypt to save them from Nebuchadnezzar, but they didn’t/couldn’t. Egyptians were carried off captive to Babylonia, and allowed to go home about the same time as the Jews—40 years...

Thanks, GD. And welcome back. You’ve given good scripture to show that we are elect, which is agreement with @JudgeRightly and myself, but I couldn’t tell if you were answering my question to JR, which was to find out what he thought we were elect for, if not for salvation.