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My reading of the thread thus far leads me to the following thoughts, which I have the temerity to hope might contribute to the perennial debates here yet again considered. 1) What is meant by human "freedom" of the will? I can't remember the philosophical titles and distinctions (and I'm...

Gerald Schroeder is an orthodox Jew who once taught physics at MIT. He maps and old earth, Big Bang scheme onto (using Nachmanides and I think Rashi) rabbinic readings of Genesis 1's estimated five-and-a half days until the creation of Adam partly via the General Theory of Relativity and the...

Chemical_Alien While I'm not sure why so many posters have emphasized English translation as a Bible study resource as opposed to other resources for Bible study, some of which I have mentioned, nonetheless I concur with much of hedrick's remarks on the topic, not least in view of the proverb...

While I agree a bias-less response on my part as for others is not entirely possible, I recommend the introductory Exegetical Fallacies by D.A. Carson. The title is a negative phrasing of "how to study the Bible" or the like. A chapter in that book reviews a number of wrong (and hence right)...

I'm not sure I understand the specifics of what you are aiming for or why your OP question stands in the Discipleship forum, but perhaps the following might help. You cite the LORD's words to Isaiah at the latter's call to be a prophet in ch. 6:9-10 which in turn is used in John 12:40...

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Good question (though by "something an idol" I am taking you to mean "idolatry" or the like). On the one hand there are clear boundaries when for example one starts praying to a god other than the One in the Nicene Creed (e.g., Krishna). I would call that idolatry, one that touches on basic...

D.A. Carson, Moises Silva, Tim Keller

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If you wish to understand my position, at this point I suggest reviewing my previous posts. I don't know where the misunderstanding lies, though it does seem that there is one.

I agree per the previous with the above, and also think my post to which the above responds holds.

I would say the above misrepresents what I have written and what my position is because incomplete. I do not believe God loves everyone in the sense of final mercy; I do not believe God loves everyone as concerns salvation in Christ. God hardens some, etc.

I think we are close to understanding one another. It may help in addressing your questions to me to add the following illustrations of "agape-love" as the Greek OT and NT use the word often transliterated as "agape" in noun or verb form: 1) Amnon's incestuous rape of Tamar is described in...

Of those such as myself whom to appearance per context you are polling (I reserve the right to define what I mean for response purposes elsewhere if necessary), I would be surprised to find any who would confess "God is usually good but still does immoral & unrighteous things once in a while,"...

Thank you for further explaining your position. Also note: 1) The claim that Adam and Eve both "possessed the Spirit of God" is of course neither stated nor implied anywhere in Scripture; it is a reasonable theological inference, but as such a limited foundation for drawing conclusions from it...

Sad. Compassion International (CI) is not the only foreign-based organization or foreign-based Christian ministry Narenda Modi pulled out of India, but CI is the largest Christian one pulled out. According to one figure I read, 145,000 orphans in India are now or soon will be without...

Welcome to CF, Quasar92. Here you can find Christians and non-Christians of all species, ages, origins, and points of view as well as sub-forums of many varieties broken down by denomination (if I can call it that) and "faith group," topic, life stage, miscellaneous classification (like hobbies...

Good point, but the above as a response still evades my question. Rephrasing the question (see my post # 59 above), was it impossible for God by nature or purpose to have done more to restrain Adam/Eve from eating of the tree from which He had commanded Adam not to eat? Some sort of divine...

Yikes & Um. Leaving aside the Bible or books within that Book per se: 1) Idols for Destruction by Herbert Schlossberg 2) Crucifixion by Martin Hengel 3) Exegetical Fallacies by D.A. Carson 4) The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Anthony Thiselton (a commentary on 1 Cor.) 5) Lord of the...

Can you not suggest possible reasons yourself? If you and some set of friends and acquaintances were eye-witnesses of some patient diagnosed with cancer being instantly healed ostensibly by some other person speaking words to the patient, or witnessed water being instantly turned into wine (etc...