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This is not correct. God kept Adam around for 930 years presumably because he was useful to God. Adam did, after all, learn directly from God and walk with Him.

If someone under our care is being hurt by another, we cannot forgive them to make everything right. We must act. Otherwise our care for them is illegitimate.

Right. You also have to consider "It was different from all the beasts that were before it". So were looking for a type of kingdom different from the template of the others.

@Godsgood It's best if you coalesce your thoughts into one post or submit a new thought relative to the topic rather than repeating yourself just to bump the thread to the top.

"This calls for a mind with wisdom." "[There was a 4th beast] It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns." The heads are 7 systems of influence: business or commerce, domestic affairs or family, education, government or law, communication, arts, and...

In Revelation the Seven Spirits of God are mentioned 4 times: 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, and 5:6 For example, Chapter 3 verse 1 begins with "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars..." You can find the seven spirits of God...

I have not heard of that term. I will look into it. After a glance at the definition I was reminded of the verse “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." And then this...

Of course. It's my pleasure. You are one for whom I am glad to give my full account when you ask me a question.

More accurately: God has provided the means for salvation before man was even born. There is no "summoning up" anything. In fact, the spirit in man remains dormant until the Holy Spirit gives him new life. The Lord Jesus Christ gives the Holy Spirit to whom He pleases. If we're talking about...

No I did not. Man cannot overcome himself. Only when he quits resisting God can he receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit sufficient to overcome even the world. This is why there is much instruction to believing saints about how to continue on into maturity in Christ.

Anyone alive has been given this endowment. It is the 'nesh-aw-maw', the breath that God breathed into Adam. Genesis 7 called it "the breath of the spirit of life". "All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died."

No, man's spirit does not suppress the flesh. His flesh and his focus on the flesh does.

No, God initiates salvation by giving man an endowment of Himself. The state of resistance can be defined as being "carnal" or "focused on the flesh". This is the philosophy and systemic order of the world that came about from the fall. Adam and Eve saw that the fruit would benefit their flesh...

Sorry. I forgot to expound upon this part. I did mention man's "sin nature" being, well, natural to man. Even so, the endowment of God's spirit in man manifests in the man what may be known of God. His natural actions, or action based on the needs of his flesh, further suppress the truth in...

Exactly. Even if they once resisted, like myself and Paul (Oh what great company I keep! :cool:) they may be saved if they stop suppressing the truth.

Because he begins from a state of resistance: informed only by the flesh. This is what's call the sin "nature". Man becomes spiritually born when he stops resisting God. But, as I said, man cannot take credit because his spirit that responds to God is not his own, it is God's who gave it. This...

You're looking at it backwards. Man's design is to connect to God but a man can resist God. “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you." The reason man gets no credit for salvation is because man's spirit is not his...

Neither. Man's spirit is from God. It cannot be corrupted. Man's spirit returns to God who gave it upon his death. All men have a spirit given by God. This is the mechanism for the creation of the soul: the interaction of man's spirit with God and creation. If a man resists God, his spirit...

Are you arguing from the perspective of the world or from the perspective of the Kingdom of God?

"But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel..." Then Peter speaking to the Gentile believers: "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called...