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Well, you can block me for this, but it seems that Jesus takes pleasure in making people jump through a lot of hoops. If he is like that, I'd rather not. If I'm not good enough the way he made me, then I guess I'm not good enough.
And that's the name of that tune.
And that's the name of that tune.
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SpiritualMan · M
@Carazaa I have to ask why does Paul say if you divorce a believing spouse you are supposed to remain single or reconcile, but the next passage says if an unbeliever departs from you, then you are not bound to them. That seems to be a contrast. I used to be very confused by a lot of bible verses when they were interpreted, often by pastors and teachers, out of context, and then later found other bible verses that contradicted the out of context interpretations I heard. If we interpret different bible verses in a manner where they harmonize with each other, then we have truth.
Carazaa · F
@SpiritualMan Please analyze if you are all about pleasing God, or pleasing you.
SpiritualMan · M
@Carazaa I won't answer that question if you interpret my disagreeing with you as pleasing myself, but agreeing with you as pleasing God, that isn't a fair litmus test. I am not married, I am not divorced, I don't have a vested self-interest in this question other than attempting to interpret these passages as best I can per attempting to find the right context.
@Mattypp What do you mean God and Jesus? Jesus is God the Son.
Also, your posts don't look great for your testimony.
Also, your posts don't look great for your testimony.
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Quimliqer · 70-79, M
I’m not sure he put a number on them, but did say that not all who profess will be allowed to enter…
SpiritualMan · M
@Carazaa SPIRITUAL virgins, meaning either did not worship idols, or the beast, or repented of such, and thus are COUNTED as spiritual virgins NO WAY does that mean PHYSICAL virgins because sex is created by God, and God is displeased with sexual sin only, but not sex done within His guidelines.
Carazaa · F
@SpiritualMan The virgins called The bridegroom Lord, and they thought they would go to heaven, but the door shut. Jesus said, I don't know you! They did not go into the wedding supper of the lamb..
SpiritualMan · M
@Carazaa Then it means spiritual virgins in this case, and if they didn't go to the wedding supper it means thet went back.
exchrist · 31-35
The source is too old to be reliable maybe aim for this millenia?
TheBannibalOne · 61-69, M
It is more then half.😃
BiasForAction · M
And so endeth the lesson
LordShadowfire · M
Serious question. Why does God make garbage?
Carazaa · F
@LordShadowfire
Yes, we all can ask this very question! Life is a gift, and if we repent God might give us eternal life. Listen to what God says in this passage...
[b]Romans 9[/b]
6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b] 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c]
10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d] 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e]
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[f]
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[g] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[i]
26 and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[j]
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
Yes, we all can ask this very question! Life is a gift, and if we repent God might give us eternal life. Listen to what God says in this passage...
[b]Romans 9[/b]
6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b] 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c]
10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d] 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e]
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[f]
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[g] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[i]
26 and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[j]
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
LordShadowfire · M
@Carazaa Yeah, none of that actually helps.