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Ah, so you're saying it was not related to any of the previous posts? It's hard to tell, because some people get so triggered with everything so quickly.

Who's accusing anyone of being hostile?

I remembered the comparison of rebellion to witchcraft (which Saul faithfully eradicated in his early years as king), but not stubbornness to idolatry.

Lol! I call that the "door/window fallacy", not because anyone else in the whole world would recognize the term, but because when my kids were little, they would argue like that, and I tried to show them what it was like by imagining two people arguing, one pointing to the door, saying, "That is...

I'm going one step further, because miracles may produce unbelief in a hard heart, ie, someone who is already against the thing the miracle is promoting, which would certainly include Pharaoh, but miracles also produce belief, like when the man with the son whose demon would throw him into the...

How would someone actually cause entrenchment in someone else? I ask because our church is going through Exodus and talking about God hardening Pharaoh's heart. I don't think it's necessarily difficult, but I'm not sure of all of the technique. For instance, I think Pharaoh had magicians who...

1 Samuel 15:23 KJV — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Irrational truth: i**2=-1

Do you have a link to the debate?

You’ve omitted the more obvious option, that the Son of Man is creating new creations (new believers) from existing people and the devil is making people to be like him. There’s no need to assume the people are just now becoming humans. No, I don’t see that implied there at all. Here’s where...

Saying something for a child's benefit doesn't mean one has to give a false statement.

If He didn't already know what Abraham would do, how would God's actions have been different? And how do you know this? For instance, Abraham might have decided not to climb the mountain, even, in which case, we would never have known whether or not there was a ram caught in the thicket...

Why do they call that dish a "cobbler"?

I'm of the opinion that they go bodily to the grave ("Sheol"). But even if Sheol is the place of the somehow "living" dead, the issue is that Jesus Christ had to die physically and be resurrected physically to assure our salvation. That's because part of our salvation is physical resurrection...

Why? How does Christ's bodily death and resurrection fix a problem caused by a person who sinned BEFORE he had a body?this seems like a big disconnection in your view? Right--they loved the sin they committed before they had a body, so the solution shouldn't require a body.

You are merely pushing the problem back, making the more important thing the immaterial person, which removes the need for the bodily sacrifice of Christ and the physical resurrection of Christ.

You are saying that God made them with the nature that causes them to fall? That's the type of "nature" God created them with? If that's so, then of course He would know which ones would fall, but how just is it that He would punish them for falling, when that's how He made them? If God punished...

Because he was a devil? That's what I think.

is that supposed to be addressed to me?

At what time? When He first chose them (no, I don't think so)? At the time He asked the question (maybe)? or at the time He was arrested in the Garden (yes, and they did)?