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"Piece of flesh"? Human doctors use stitches and/or glue to close an incision, yes? Likewise, סָגָר, which in this case is translated as "God took one of his ribs and ~closed up~ the flesh at that place" .. Genesis 2:21b, speaks of God repairing Adam's flesh w/o needing to add any flesh to do...

What did the Lord Jesus Christ need to be "saved" from.:unsure: "His path to life".:unsure: Please elaborate. Thanks :) ~Deut

Hello @Starsdance7, welcome to CChat :) God bless you too!! ~Deuteronomy 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24...

Hello Wansvic, please allow me to apologize ahead of time, because this is going to be a blind post (I simply do not have the time to read through your thread right now, but I wanted to make a point about it, even though someone else in the thread has probably done so already). The point is...

Hello Alisha, this topic is one of the most controversial within Christendom, especially out here in Christian Cyberspace it seems, where so many who hold various beliefs about it come together to discuss them. The reason that this topic has been/continues to be so controversial is due to the...

Hello Websters.Home, I'm don't disagree that God can do whatever He wants, but if He (for instance) ever chose to not do what He had previously told us/promised us that He would do, what reason would we have to continue to trust Him, with either our lives on this side of the grave, and with the...

I hadn't saved it when I wrote my last post to you, but I've changed it now. Thoughts :unsure:

Hello @Magenta, I was thinking about this problem last night (including how often all of our regular members have to scroll past all of my verses/passages to get to the next post, so I am changing my signature line to a single verse. What does it look like on your end and do you think this was a...

Do you believe that we will have that ability (to renounce Christ altogether, that is) throughout eternity :unsure: If not, why not :unsure: Also, what about God? Does He have "free will" like we do, and if He does, could He choose to sin (either now, or sometime in the distant future perhaps)...

Hello again Resident Alien, in the OP you asked us to tell you how ~we~ understand what being "born again" means, and I believe that quite a few of us have already done just that. You also claimed that you had no preconceived notion about this. While that may have been true when you wrote your...

Hi Magenta, thanks :) I could remove my signature. Do you believe that would fix the problem? I do use a little bit of formatting in my signature line, but it's typically far less than it is where I'm posting. Before I do so, do my posts seem pretty readable to you, or are they annoyingly...

Thank you for letting me know Sister :) I’ve looked at this thread on several different devices and my posts look ok to me on my Windows desktop and laptop, and on my iPad and iPhone. So I’m not sure why it’s such a problem for ResidentAlien :unsure:, but apparently it is. Thank you for your...

Hello again ResidentAlien, et al, here's a short article that addresses the main topic of this thread. It was written by one of my very favorite teachers, Anglican theologian, Dr. J. I. Packer. I'm also doing this to see if what I am writing and pasting in is any clearer this time around (as...

Hello @MsMediator, if someone who sins against us asks to be forgiven, then the ball is back in our court and forgive them we must, according to the Bible. As the Lord Jesus said, Luke 17 3 If your brother sins, ~rebuke~ him; and ~if~ he repents, forgive him. 4 And...

Hello @ResidentAlien, I told you what I believe and why (at least in part), and you told me that you don’t agree with me, and that’s fine (this topic has been and continues to be quite controversial for a reason, yes ;)). So I agree, we’re done (for now anyway), and that’s fine too. However, if...

I believe that those who truly/completely "renounce" Christ after claiming to have become a Christian at some point in their lives are actually/were always CINO (Christian In Name Only), never true believers. They ~never~ knew Him, and He ~never~ knew them .. e.g. John 17:3; Matthew 7:22-23...

Hello ResidentAlien, God speaks to this directly (in large part anyway) in the following passage (I believe that I mentioned this passage in my last post, but I thought that it might also be worthwhile to include the passage itself in this thread, so here it is). God changes us and quickens us...

Hello @ResidentAlien, I believe that being "born again" means that we are quickened/regenerated/made alive by God, "spiritually". IOW, we were dead (spiritually) in our trespasses and sins, and by nature, children of wrath, even as the rest, but God causes us to be "born again"/"makes us alive"...

It looks like the initials belong to a freshman US Congresswoman, last name Greene. I am not positive however. ~Deut

The second paragraph from the OP article says: Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State and implies that to be a good...