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    I agree that someone is misunderstanding the texts. Where we disagree is which texts are controlling the interpretation of the others...
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    What you're doing is assuming the conclusion rather than demonstrating it. You have shown that, in your view, certain passages about...
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    I don't think that response actually engages the argument I made. I never claimed that a particular social group could not have...
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    I agree that Scripture does not present poverty as inherently holy or prosperity as inherently spiritual. Deuteronomy 14:22-27 shows...
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    OMC reacted to mailmandan's post in the thread Future sins with Like Like.
    Reformed theology does not teach that God made man sinners. Instead, God created humanity upright, and sin entered through the fall of...
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    OMC replied to the thread Shall we sin that grace may abound?.
    ooohhhh... Back to my corner😒
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    OMC replied to the thread Rebellion, Falling Away or Departure.
    What Dr. Sweigart has shown is that there is at least a linguistic case for translating apostasia as "departure" rather than...
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    OMC reacted to mailmandan's post in the thread Future sins with Like Like.
    Amen! 1 John 2:19 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but...
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    OMC replied to the thread Shall we sin that grace may abound?.
    A believer can be tempted in many ways yet not yield to that temptation. If they yield to it, then they are in sin. But if they don't...
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    OMC replied to the thread losing my mind.
    I so understand you. And have no answer to satisfy. However I offer this, be strong to the end.
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    OMC replied to the thread Shall we sin that grace may abound?.
    A person can experience same-sex attraction without acting on it, just as a person can experience other temptations without acting on...
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    OMC replied to the thread Future sins.
    The verse implies they were "not of us", to begin with.
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    OMC replied to the thread Rebellion, Falling Away or Departure.
    I agree that 2 Thessalonians 2 distinguishes the Day of the Lord from the apostasia, since one precedes the other, but the real question...
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    OMC replied to the thread Future sins.
    "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went...
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    OMC replied to the thread Rebellion, Falling Away or Departure.
    If apostasia means the rapture, Paul's argument becomes, 'The day hasn't come because you haven't been raptured,' which the...