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We're filled with emptiness Re-living our mistakes Why are you so afraid? We never were alone Yeah! We're filled with emptiness (Failure) Re-living our mistakes (Why) Why are you so afraid? (Alone) We never were alone Yeah! Selfish anger now plagued with a thought Our lives or nothing else...

Where does YMMV come from? "Your mileage may vary” was a common phrase in American automobile advertising during the 1970s and 1980s (car manufacturers were required to disclose estimated fuel efficiency ratings but needed to include disclaimers that actual performance would differ based on...

Yes ... but not like that. To contemplate the Universe as "oneness" [a unity between creation and creator] is to look inward to physical reality. It is ultimately "And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused." - Romans 1:21...

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"Not Going To Church" [sigh] I think I am just getting too darn old. I should probably get a chair for my front porch and just yell at kids to "stay off my lawn" (of course, I will need to grow a lawn, first.) I attend services at the local church and I feel like I am sitting under "Pastor...

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. - Romans 14:4 [NASB] For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL SHOW COMPASSION TO WHOMEVER I SHOW COMPASSION." So...

Genetic Risk [just FYI]: "All of us have some recessive disease genes. But we usually have a second, working copy of that gene to make us healthy. When you have one normal copy and one disease copy of a gene, you are called a "carrier" of the disease. Carriers don't show signs of the disease...

I am reminded of an old joke ... "I am confident that I cannot lose MY SALVATION, now, you on the other hand" ... [shrug] ... "who knows?" ;) SALVATION is always in the "first person": my salvation; I am saved DAMNATION is always in the "third person": they fell from grace; y'all can lose...

I read those verses, think of others and suddenly have 100 questions. As I mentioned, I find the exact wording of scripture important and "Christian-speak" (like "saved" & "lost" & "fall away") to be terms with sloppy definitions. Heb 6:4 It is impossible for those who have once been...

No. According to Hebrews 6, it is “impossible”. (I just wanted to prove that the question could be answered.) ;) This, of course, assumes that “enlightened” means “saved”, “fallen away” means “lost salvation” and “restored to repentance” means “get it back” … which are reasonable assumptions...

I get the feeling that we are talking past each other here, so I will offer "no comment" and just let that point die. I assume you mean in the commentary on the soils, (in which case I agree and thought I was making that clear) rather than post #93 (which offers far more than just my opinion)...

The "verses" were provided in post #93 ... it was the reason that I made a post responding to your challenge to someone else ("You have not given anything to counter what I have said except your opinion."). At the risk of pressing a parable too far, I think the SOILS are illustrative of...

I agree that the “warning” verses appear significant. So, too, do the “surety” verses. I have no comprehensive answer that satisfactorily addresses both. I merely recognize that BOTH must be acknowledged and too great an emphasis on the warnings against falling away make a mockery of the...

“Saved” appears to involve an element of “endures to he end” that all but the “good soil” lacked. "And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” - Matthew 10:22 "But he who endures to the end shall be saved.” - Matthew 24:13 [NKJV] "And you will...

Yup.