Recent content by BlackJack77

Dear David, I'm going to as a courtesy, answer this before I pack up my pearls. Why are you asking me this question? I didn't just make that statement and run away, I explained that statement fully in the paragraph that followed that apparently you didn't see, so I'll post it again for your...

Dear Tissue, First of all, it is the Scripture that taught me the "narrow" path in the first place, not my own "predispositions". Scripture is of no private interpretation. It isn't the parts of the Bible that people don't understand that I believe troubles them, but rather the parts that they...

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Of course it is. The Scriptures tell us so. There is no way around it, unless we want to enter into fables that we wish to believe. "Orientation" is a crock and a crutch. We are all sin oriented BEFORE coming to Christ, afterward we should be Christ oriented and righteousness oriented, not...

Dear MagusAlbertus, What if it was proportionate? Would that mean that God hates the world, despite sending His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life? Of course not. The evil is currently allowed to exist because God is being longsuffering...

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Exactly timlamb. The Scripture declares that the heart is a great deceiver. Our feelings exalted above the knowledge of God are not truth, but deception if they oppose that knowledge that God has revealed through the pens of His Prophets and Apostles, in the form of His written WORD. What does...

Dear Red, God did not set it up so that it was unavoidable. He made the provisions for escape for everyone who will repent and receive His gift and serve Him the rest of their days on earth and the power to throw off the old master. The power to be transformed, to be made living witnesses of...

Dear LS, You totally missed the analogy. If you know what people see when they view things through a macular (sp?) degenerated retina, then you would understand that their view is distorted. After God created man and woman, He said it was good. Man fell after that, everything else and other...

Dear LS, If we are starting by "looking at ourselves" we have started on the wrong foot to begin with. Sin and righteousness is not known by looking to ourselves for the truth. We must look to the source of truth, which is God's revealed will to man, written by inspiration of the Holy Spirit...

Starlight, There is no "gay"gene that has ever been found or proven to exist. Tenaciously sought, yes. Found? No. Jack

Liars_paradox, I didn't want to quote your whole long post just to answer this portion, so I hope you don't mind that I quoted just this that I am responding to. Yes, for sure Jesus knew something, and at the very least that something is that the law required them to bring both the woman and...

Sadly, from what I've seen on these boards, I have to agree with you. Jack

Wayseer, The words of God that have been presented to you time and time again is what would make a Christian believe what He said in both 1 Corinthians as well as Revelation. You simply choose to reject these words of God and choose to follow a way that seems right to you despite it. There is...

Ollie, James the Apostle would agree that sin starts in the mind as a thought that is pondered and then follows along the same path of progression of sin that you outlined. ie., However I would change the first two to align more closely to what James said to thought-> meditation on the...