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    Tell me what is wrong with this!

    Hi...I'm Pete, Just curious...what do you suppose the Corinthian church expected? Hmm? It's not good to limit one's understanding from a few passages in Acts, although...y'know...it's pretty clear Paul was expecting more in Ephesus than he saw, until he saw what he was expecting. Best not to...
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    DOES A PRAYER OF FAITH CHANGE GOD'S PLANS?

    The prayer of faith enables God's plan...our cooperation on earth makes us co-laborers. A legal decree must be executed to be seen, and we've been given the power to execute what has already been decreed in heaven.
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    Pastor Andrew Brunson returned to prison after third "preliminary" trial

    The story of Andrew Brunson, 23 year pastor of a church in biblical Smyrna, in Turkey, is one that Christians should be watching. I don't have time to give a full recounting of his almost two year term in Turkish prison, but let me give a short account: Early in October, 2016, after being a...
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    Does God Create Good and Evil?

    A brick is the product...what's left of the material...mud, clay, stubble... that which is not brick, is refuse....Try to understand: There is no darkness until the light appears. As the light brightens, the darkness is only the starker for the absence thereof.
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    Does God Create Good and Evil?

    It's simple really: Before Light, there is nothing. Once light is formed, darkness exists where light is not. It is the offscouring. The refuse. It is only absence. Simple as that. Hi, Troy! Pete
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    God is Said to do that which He Merely Allowed or Permitted

    Sorry this took so long to answer...As soon as I found time, y'all got a little heated! New forum, new culture. Imagine a world where "mutual respect" does not mean "unilateral capitulation." It will take getting used to! Warning...this argument sickened me for weeks. I had to settle that...
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    God is Said to do that which He Merely Allowed or Permitted

    I reject the exaltation of satan to something higher than a beast of the field over which Adam had total authority and command. Jesus called satan a liar from the beginning...never "...a great musician and god's right hand man...before he fell." That, as I've said so many times to the scorn of...
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    God is Said to do that which He Merely Allowed or Permitted

    Only if you are saying tohu bohu is something...Formlessness and void is emptiness and nothingness...To me, nothingness is nothing...and then God. And His spirit hovered over the waters...If anything the waters preexisted...but I'm not smart enough to do the quantum physics that are needed to...
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    God is Said to do that which He Merely Allowed or Permitted

    Yeah...but it had you and VW and Jedi...my favorite folks to converse with...so I was hoping to say hi. In His light we see light...That's how light is judged. As I understood it, darkness is the absence of light...It's the world before the Word is ever spoken. It neither is nor isn't, just...
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    God is Said to do that which He Merely Allowed or Permitted

    I asked the Lord that in one of those long walks I took with Him in the fields of France the year I was missionating there. Another French RC asked me if God is so good, why is there so much evil in the world? So I took it to Him. He said, Look at what I said: In the beginning God created the...
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    Joseph Prince interpretation of 1 John 1:9

    My name is Pete, and I don't post here often, as my friend ABM knows...But here is a topic that interests me, and here is a forum where I can share something I don't share frequently, and for reasons that will become increasingly obvious. On the subject of the tri-partite nature of man, I was...
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    Abraham and Sarah laughed

    Call it discernment, Bob...but I'm already sensing a difference.:cool:
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    comes to kill, steal, and destroy?

    Hi Bob... ...erm...I'm jumping in here...and I haven't seen the brilliant things others have written...but as you know me, you know I have an allergic reaction to Paul's thorn. James said, "Resist the devil...and he will flee..." Paul pleaded with God three times instead...I see a nuance...
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    Abraham and Sarah laughed

    I'm wondering why you think God had a problem...The child's name was Isaac...a memorial for all time to laughter.
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    Balaam

    If the prophet told the king..."The eyes of the LORD search high and low throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of the one whose heart is perfect toward him...", I wonder why he would do that, if there were not the hope of finding even a single one. Why would His eyes stray...