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Recent content by Mark Quayle
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Trump Burns 500 Tons of Food Meant for the Hungry
—Or so your sources want you to think.- Mark Quayle
- Post #35
- Forum: American Politics
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Trump Burns 500 Tons of Food Meant for the Hungry
and assumptions...- Mark Quayle
- Post #33
- Forum: American Politics
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
Mark Quayle said: WHAT in the world does demons believing or not believing in Jesus have to do with the argument? I didn't bring that up --you did. I brought up the difference between mere intellectual assent and salvific faith, and you want to make it sound like I'm talking about Demons. Wow...- Mark Quayle
- Post #411
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
Wrong again. I do NOT believe James is telling people what to do to be saved. Curious, though. If James is truth, why not use it to tell the truth? Because you don't know how to do so without getting off topic? The Gospel is not just the basic black, red, white, gold pages. The more I learn...- Mark Quayle
- Post #351
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
WHAT in the world does demons believing or not believing in Jesus have to do with the argument? I didn't bring that up --you did. I brought up the difference between mere intellectual assent and salvific faith, and you want to make it sound like I'm talking about Demons. Wow.- Mark Quayle
- Post #349
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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An Evil Spirit from the Lord
"Allowed" for a purpose sounds to me more like partnering with evil. "Intended" for a purpose is simple and straightforward use of somebody else's bad intent. And it is simple logic to see that it comes by way of First Cause.- Mark Quayle
- Post #53
- Forum: Christian Scriptures
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An Evil Spirit from the Lord
Hmmm! So THAT'S why law enforcement like donuts! How many YEARS, I've been wondering about that...- Mark Quayle
- Post #30
- Forum: Christian Scriptures
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An Evil Spirit from the Lord
I'd have to say that we are so unlike God, that the word, "intend" (or most other words we use to imply human concepts), don't really work the same way as we think of them. For example, when in Scripture something is translated "want", or when what-to-us-human emoting is expressed, "...how I...- Mark Quayle
- Post #29
- Forum: Christian Scriptures
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An Evil Spirit from the Lord
Judging by the text, and by reason (in which God being creator of all that is, INTENDED all that is), I'd say that God more than simply "allowed" this 'evil' spirit to do as it did, but INTENDED it to do so. Our whole modern understanding of who/what God is, and of language, needs a...- Mark Quayle
- Post #17
- Forum: Christian Scriptures
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
Mark Quayle said: And this is all that Salvific Faith is? Simple belief? Have you not been quoted before, that the demons also believe? You will likely retort, as have all those before you, that it is also submission and trust, not just acknowledgement, and that is true, but still lacking what...- Mark Quayle
- Post #320
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
How do you get this so wrong??? What I was saying is that your example of believing someone has brown hair has NOTHING to do with salvific faith. It is ludicrous! God is not like us, and faith in him has nothing to do with becoming convinced, or learning what we can trust him to do, or about...- Mark Quayle
- Post #301
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
And this is all that Salvific Faith is? Simple belief? Have you not been quoted before, that the demons also believe? You will likely retort, as have all those before you, that it is also submission and trust, not just acknowledgement, and that is true, but still lacking what Scripture...- Mark Quayle
- Post #286
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
So you have said before. You became convinced, by which you suddenly had faith. Generated from within you, by you, upon being convinced. Not by the Spirit of God, who alone is capable of changing your very nature, generating that Faith. Yes, but that is simple, fleshly, belief. Do you say your...- Mark Quayle
- Post #197
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
Yet, you are the one who just finished saying: YOU are the one claiming your eternal life depends on YOUR choice to believe in Jesus. THAT is an action YOU do! I don't think anyone is saying you do not choose, but that your choice is not valid apart from Christ making you alive. One chooses to...- Mark Quayle
- Post #190
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !
Before I was "in Christ" I made many good choices --that is, they were better options than the others-- but they were not righteous. They were sinful. This even includes the choice to "accept Christ". It is empty and useless, apart from God having already made me alive in Christ, out of being...- Mark Quayle
- Post #187
- Forum: Salvation (Soteriology)