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Micah 7: 8 Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. 9 I will be patient as the Lord punishes me, for I have sinned against him. But after that, he will take up my case and give me...

I think wanting to be a husband and a father are indicators that boyhood is in the past. Briseis, marriage is a biblical goal and your SO should definitely be tenaciously pursuing either marriage or singleness. His indecisiveness is painful because when seen through the lens of a servant-lover...

"Many have claimed love, but few have delivered." My girlfriend and I define love in such a way that it would be inappropriate to to say it yet. For us, love is a series of decisions and not a measurement of a feeling. Love is knowing you are loved when you know you are unlovable, like when God...

JdwB10, That's a really valuable input and an amazing warning to share. You have to be really humble to be able to do that. However, apart from the obvious regret, you don't offer much advice on which technique works in order to cultivating a pure relationship, avoid having sex and how to...

I have been pretty harsh thinking you just need a slap in the face to spin you round from you sin and mistreating of your girlfriend. Harsh. Sorry. I didn't quite realise the struggles you were going through and that you are not equipped right now to act as I hope you might. Your behaviour with...

Your girlfriend would be better off without you until you man up, seek God above all, lead her with a demonstration of holiness and PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON. Maybe one day you can love a woman, but you are not ready today. Aim and plan for this instead of your selfish gratifications...

Sexual ethics: what would be wrong extramaritally is wrong premaritally. Sexual immorality is anything that you do to seek sexual satisfaction outside of marriage. "HOW MUCH SIN CAN WE DO BEFORE WE GET IN TROUBLE?" You should treat any woman who is not your wife as your SISTER. Read this: Sex...

I'm going on holiday tonight but because I am so vain I sat out in the garden on Friday and now have massive sunburn on my back and cheast and it really hurts and itches like you wouldn't believe! My legs are almost as good as new, though a little baked and I am very grateful to God that I can...

I love meat and I still eat it when I'm offered it (my house does communal cooking) but I've decided not to buy it anymore. I don't think animals are people and God commands mankind to kill them for food in the bible so I have no ethical or moral objections to the consumption of meat. Eating...

Yet another overlooked piece of information. It's strange that people who claim that Jesus didn't exist but defend the idea that if he did, he fathered 3 children. I think another reason that Jesus couldn't have been a father is because he sacrificed his sexuality as well as everything else...

I picked up on the word history there: I think the defense of reformed theology is done very well on these forums. What I don't believe is that the reformed theologians got their history correct. Augustine had very different views to the early church. Look at the epistles of Clement (a...

I wouldn't argue with the fact angels have a choice to obey or not, given the fact that they have already rebelled. Somehow I don't think they were doing as they were told...

I posted on the topic a few days ago. I'll repost it here in case someone wants to comment on it in this thread. ... I don't think there is one universal view taken by Calvinists on the soteriological problem evil. The most coherent I think is the one put forward by A.W Pink: "To declare...

I would suggest you read them , then you would observe the ignorance of people like Greg Boyd and other Calvinists who claim Molinism is a form of open theism. ... Without a doubt the most damaging aspect of Reformed Theology, Molinism, OVT or Arminianism is that the church tends to divide...

These websites defend what I've said about Calvinism and Molinism pretty well. They are worth reading. http://www.apuritansmind.com/PuritanWorship/McMahonHeresyMiddleKnowledge.htm http://www.basictheology.com/definitions/Foreknowledge/...

When someone asks me if I am Calvinist or Arminian I feel like I am being asked "are you French or Dutch?" :doh: I believe determinism is false (makes God's kingdom based on force, so Calvinism is false), the future is not simply predetermined by God (satan and mankind's choices influence the...

I concurr: And they built the high places of Baal, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. Jeremiah...

I don't think there is one universal view taken by Calvinists on the soteriological problem evil. The most coherent I think is the one put forward by A.W Pink: "To declare that the Creator's original plan has been frustrated by sin is to dethrone God." I find that statement to be an...

Ok. I think that's really weird because I don't believe that's what election and predestination meant to people in first century Palestine. I would say election is a bestowal of office; predestiny is corporate and concerns God's plan to bring salvation to Gentiles and Jews and grace is the only...