Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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sawdust

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This is why it is important to deal with issues immediately and not let the sun go down while still angry (EPH 4:26).
Who's angry? I'm not. I find it comical she quips how civil she is when she has done nothing but insult me and others here without showing any evidence except her opinion.
 

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Was going to reply to one of your many repeated comments, i do mean literally the same comments, which have been answered many times in this post. It's one of the things which make me think you and Genez, if you are different people, are trolls. You are shameless hypocrites too, you virtually demand others go digging through your almost identical, asinine comments, which have been answered repeatedly, just to hassle people and disrupt the actual theme.

Your one saving grace is it's possible you're teens, if not you seriously need to sort yourself/selves out. For someone who thinks they have the right to preach to others, you seem seriously short on fruits of the spirit.
Again, opinion without evidence.
 
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Don't be daft, it's all there through the post, several times over for the most part. Off you go and read through it all then, like you expect others too.
 
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Don't be daft, it's all there through the post, several times over for the most part. Off you go and read through it all then, like you expect others too.
Again, opinion without evidence.
S'pose i must cut you a little slack, must seem a mission too far when it's mainly your own rubbish you'll be reading.
 

sawdust

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S'pose i must cut you a little slack, must seem a mission too far when it's mainly your own rubbish you'll be reading.
You said I was spiteful and I asked you to show me the posts as evidence. You haven't because you can't. I have not asked anyone to read through all my posts.
 

Genez

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This is why it is important to deal with issues immediately and not let the sun go down while still angry (EPH 4:26).
That is not what it says, nor does it convey.

Be angry with righteous indignation
and yet do not sin in your anger'/
'tremble with anger and do not sin'
{a quote from Psalms 4:4} . . .
do not permit the sun to go down
on your intensified/sinful anger.


{Note: There is a time for justifiable anger when your thinking clearly lines up with 'the Truth' (from the previous verse).
The second part of the verse is a mental attitude sin and we are instructed to keep short accounts}

Psalm 4:4 says,
"Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent"

grace and peace ........
 

Genez

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You said I was spiteful and I asked you to show me the posts as evidence. You haven't because you can't. I have not asked anyone to read through all my posts.
In their rejection?
One will find what is called, "projection."

It's a mess.
For they will accuse others of what they suppress about themselves.

It produces a vicious cycle of denial that robs them of true self-esteem.
Self-esteem that only God can cause by growing accurately in the grace and knowledge of God's Word.
All to be achieved while in the filling of the Spirit.

grace and peace ............
 
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You said I was spiteful and I asked you to show me the posts as evidence. You haven't because you can't. I have not asked anyone to read through all my posts.
Go read it sweetie, i am not going to keep posting the same messages for your amusement. i'm not going to repeat posts for your spite, others are welcome to read back as well, think many are probably used to your shenanigans too.
 

Genez

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Go read it sweetie, i am not going to keep posting the same messages for your amusement. i'm not going to repeat posts for your spite, others are welcome to read back as well, think many are probably used to your shenanigans too.
Hey, Jennifer. I think we ought to turn around.
 
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Hey, Jennifer. I think we ought to turn around.
Which one of you is Jennifer? That's if you are actually two people. EDIT: The decent thing for you to do would be to go play on posts you create, not ruin discussion on other people's posts.
 

Genez

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Which one of you is Jennifer? That's if you are actually two people.
Jennifer is the passenger in my car.

We just drove into a small rural town where the folks are closed-minded, suspicious, and unfriendly.

So, I was telling Jennifer, we need to turn around before they start throwing stones at us.

I would suggest doing likewise.
Looks like they eat cats there.
 
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Jennifer is the passenger in my car.

We just drove into a small rural town where the folks are closed-minded, suspicious, and unfriendly.

So, I was telling Jennifer, we need to turn around before they start throwing stones at us.

I would suggest doing likewise.
Looks like they eat cats there.
Erm.... that gibberish rather makes a solid case for what i've said about you. Crikey!
 
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It goes right by you...
Just like Crikey, goes by me.
I have no idea what that means.
Wish it did go by me Genez, i'm not keen on seemingly senseless drivel. I say seemingly because there's a vague possibility it's true. Just looked at your profile and noticed a dearth of your own posts, surely even you can see the logic in creating your own posts to play in?
 

Kroogz

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This is why it is important to deal with issues immediately and not let the sun go down while still angry (EPH 4:26).
Did I miss something? I thought I read a post that you were taught under Col. Thieme? Maybe it was someone else, almost has to be considering what you teach.
 
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Was going to reply to one of your many repeated comments, i do mean literally the same comments, which have been answered many times in this post. It's one of the things which make me think you and Genez, if you are different people, are trolls. You are shameless hypocrites too, you virtually demand others go digging through your almost identical, asinine comments, which have been answered repeatedly, just to hassle people and disrupt the actual theme.

Your one saving grace is it's possible you're teens, if not you seriously need to sort yourself/selves out. For someone who thinks they have the right to preach to others, you seem seriously short on fruits of the spirit.
May I recommend giving up after two or three attempts to explain one's views if there is no progress or constructive discussion so that we do not reach the point of ad hominem attacks?
 
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Did I miss something? I thought I read a post that you were taught under Col. Thieme? Maybe it was someone else, almost has to be considering what you teach.
I attended a church where we learned from RBT for about two years, but I admired him without idolizing him--
as I did my systematic theology teacher William Hendricks at SWBTS.

I am interested to know what teachings differ.
 

Kroogz

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You said I was spiteful and I asked you to show me the posts as evidence. You haven't because you can't. I have not asked anyone to read through all my posts.
Hey, those who have emotional doctrine over bible doctrine......Will keep you going for PAGES.