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  1. Grandliseur

    Is obeying the commandments of Christ a requirement for salvation?

    Those who live lives in sin become damned if it is a serious deliberate willful practice of sin. That is by scripture. Many who think they can do anything and everything because of grace shall be damned.
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    Still angry

    I am sorry but as a man, I don't see how my counsel could assist you. Could you find a place where predominately women would assist you?! People usually do not bully me more than once or twice for good reason. The only thing I can think of that might assist you is use one of the modern phones...
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    Cessationist and Sola Scriptura don't mix

    There are two confirmations of sorts - of this, or two witnesses, if you want to put it that way. I have never run into the term 'Cessationist' before. It is a convenient term if all know it. Since you described what your subject was, I understood its reference. If the subject had been...
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    Does science change?

    You either accept the Bible as being true in all things because it was inspired by God, or you reject it. If you reject this, you reject the ransom, and thereby the whole of what is taught about salvation and the kingdom. It is not a question of accepting Maxwell's equations on...
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    Can we pray for shortening the days of the Second Coming?

    We can pray all we want, but the fact of the matter is connected to the sign of Christ that Matthews mentions in chapter 24. This sign of Christ is going to be a sun-like object, perhaps a brown dwarf star accompanied by its satellites of debris. Such an object doesn't speed up or slow down by...
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    Did God determine his own nature?

    I already answered this once, but will give some additional thoughts. The thing is that if a being is immortal as God is, and having the mental computational powers that we cannot even comprehend, there are processes at work within the 'physical being' that must be adhered to for life to be...
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    Did God determine his own nature?

    God has always been what he is. Since he has no beginning, there was no choice, no initialization.
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    Do all speak in tongues?

    Totally disagree. Speaking in tongues was one of the lesser gifts and it stopped being given once the apostles and disciples around the apostles died. It was given by means of the apostles laying of hands on a person after baptism, and God chose which gift each was to have. Once the apostles had...
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    Why Are We Divided and Can We Fix It (With the Holy Ghost)?

    Not only is it a pipe dream, it is also counter indicated in the teachings found in Matthew chapter 24 telling us about the last days. There are a great many things that we cannot agree on. Some of these things are because churches stick to their guns (dogma) and because not everyone interprets...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    Just going through the material right now. So far nothing of importance positive or negative has been found. Also, remember when Jude quoted Enoch, he didn't say it came from a book: Jude 14: And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    I told you it would take time, and I am not as fresh as I used to be. It also seems that there are more than one book of Enoch. The one I am going through now is called the Ethiopian book of Enoch, and frankly I don't know how many other claims there are. There seems to be one more that I have...
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    The Ten Virgins & Where It Fits

    Just going by what you said and by memory. We have them waiting in darkness. This darkness has been mentioned other places and refers to the dense spiritual darkness of this world during this time of their waiting for the Lord to return. That they are virgins has nothing to do with their...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    Here is someone else's opinion on the book of Enoch. I will go through some of the book on my own, but wanted to give you this link: The Book Of Enoch EXPOSED! Unfortunately, some of the claims found on the link, I find against scripture!
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    Question

    Isn't honoring your father and mother showing them consideration as they get older with perhaps helping with expenses, with shopping, with preparing a nice meal once in a while. It surely is not lying for them, or some such other wrong thing. But, then lying is not always lying, not everybody...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    Here we come down to a dilemma of sorts. Even in some Christian writings not in the NT, you shall find similar useful things if you read them. Therefore we must ask why were they not included? The answer is fairly simple. We were given what we need for our faith. That other things exist which...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    Here is an answer to points one and two you ask about, and possibly even to #3, which I, however, shall try to find specific points over the next few days, or even today, if that is the will of my Lord Jesus. Source study: Josephus: Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, BOOK I, Whiston section 8...
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    What you are asking for will take time to find. I have made a bookmark of this question and shall return with what I find when I am done. The book of Enoch that you ask for, I read in the past sufficiently to determine what I said; I didn't make notes since this was my own personal study, and...
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    A Millennium Full Of Sacrificial Blood?

    I am new, but first joined as no denom. I asked a moderator to help me out since I am quite fundamental in my Bible views, though I do not belong to a denomination. So, I was changed to Christian which is just fine with me because that is what I appear as on other sites.
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    It is sophistry that we Protestants "accept the canon of the Jews"

    The Jews were very strict regarding what books were permitted in their Inspired writings. These we have accepted by divine guidance into our Bibles. We have also accepted the NT in its present format. The book of Enoch and other books which the Jews did not accept, we shouldn't accept either...
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    A Millennium Full Of Sacrificial Blood?

    As you state correctly, there shall no longer be any more animal sacrifices. There shall be a kingdom on earth, I don't know if you object to that. And, though I am puzzled, it looks as if there is going to be a temple built again unless it is totally different in application than what it...