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    What is the Meaning of This Parable

    2 Pet 3: 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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    The GAP Theory

    The Hebrew word for was is the same word for became...
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    Settling the Elect and Predestination Question

    James tells us by the Spirit in Jas 1: 13-15: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth...
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    The GAP Theory

    Is 14: 18-20 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase...
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    The GAP Theory

    I always think of the Lord to be everywhere present and nowhere absent, and also, every-when present and no-when absent...
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    The GAP Theory

    Heb 1: 5-7 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him...
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    The GAP Theory

    I suspect that Adam knew he was choosing Eve over the Lord...
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    The GAP Theory

    Here's my take on the earth's beginning: Gen 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The wording here used in the original Hebrew, implied that the earth was a finished work, ready to be inhabited. Gen 1:2, "And the earth became without form, and void; and darkness was...
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    What is the point in being a prophet?

    Usually, we're given a lesser gift to use and once we've become fluent with it, the Lord will lay it upon such a one's heart to ask for a better gift of the Spirit. 1 Cor 12: 4-11 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same...
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    What is the point in being a prophet?

    1 Cor 14: 23-33 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is...
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    Matthew 7:1-5 Jesus Tells Us Not To Judge

    Mt 7: 1-5 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou...
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    What are his commandments?

    1 JN 3: 19-24 19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22And whatsoever we ask, we...
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    Matthew 7:1-5 Jesus Tells Us Not To Judge

    1 Jn 5: 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
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    Matthew 7:1-5 Jesus Tells Us Not To Judge

    Jn 7: 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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    The Name of God

    Is 9: 6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
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    Christ is God

    Jn 1: 1-3, "In the beginning was Jesus and Jesus was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things that were made, were made by Jesus and without Jesus was not anything made that was made." Heb 1:3-, "Jesus being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and...
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    What clear evidence in the OT that Jesus will be resurrected?

    Ps 16: 10, "For thou will not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
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    Why I now believe that salvation can be lost.

    Here's a couple more of the many many scriptures that agrees with this statement: Rev 3: 5, "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." Rev 22: 19...
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    Gods will vs mans free will

    Deuteronomy 30: 19, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. James 1: 13-15, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be...
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    Is voting a Christian duty?

    Voting was not even an option is the ages past. Our government takes away the power of mortal kings as the absolute authority deciding the direction of the nation, but voting between the lesser of two evils will never lead one's nation to healing. A nation receives the government that it...