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20th November 2009, 08:42 PM
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21st November 2009, 02:07 AM
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Reps: 36,661,185,937,442,840 (power: 36,661,185,937,445) | | | yeah, thats clear from the parable of the sower. The seed is the message. A kid can be sowing it or an adult, it doesn't matter. If it falls on the right soil it will grow and yield fruit. The power is in the seed.
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21st November 2009, 02:16 AM
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God reaches out, and knocks, always hoping each soul *accepts  & Welcomes  & follows*  GOD
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21st November 2009, 02:27 AM
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21st November 2009, 11:14 AM
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Paul didn't have a problem with this kind of expression. We too often think verbs always mean to describe cause and effect. It's not the case.
=sigh= Then Chrysostom beats y'both. And then there's Justin Martyr.
Best to just leave it to Paul.
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"... not an unconcerned sitting of God in heaven, from which He merely observes the things that are done in the world; but that all-active and all-concerned seatedness on His throne above, by which He governs the world which He Himself hath made." John Calvin
regeneration does not act in people as if they were blocks and stones; nor does it abolish the will and its properties or coerce a reluctant will by force, but spiritually revives, heals, reforms Canons of Dordt, 1.16
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