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Deacon replied to the thread Dominion vs determinism 2.Grumbling... and thinking of you as I'm reading a philosophy text this morning rather than working on next Sunday's lesson. A rather... -
If God allows man to make real choices then man is just exercising his God given free will. But we also see that R C Sproul also said...
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This is my point. Those who advocate that free-will exists do so within a biblical context (not libertarian free will but free...
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Deacon replied to the thread Gender-neutral Versions.A recent thread referred to a passage in the epistle to the Hebrews. Hebrews 12:14–15 (AV 1873) Follow peace with all men, and...
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My issues do not have anything to do with feminism. My problem is with saying “men” when the sense is “humanity”. God does not want all...
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Deacon replied to the thread Gender-neutral Versions.In Hebrew, almost every word is gendered. Most of the gendering is filtered out in our English translations but English too has its own...
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You really have a way with words! Have you considered doing Bible translation work?
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Deacon replied to the thread Dominion vs determinism 2.I don't have many books of the subject of free will but about half of them are non-religious philosophy - boring as all get-out! When I...
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I question whether it is theology at all. As your post demonstrates with the dilemma, the issue is philosophy. Theology would be...
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I believe this is my 10,000th post. It seems a huge number, but I see that others are at 40-50,000, so it's no big deal. Nevertheless...
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Deacon replied to the thread Gender-neutral Versions.No waiting, the Scriptures already accommodate the trans-gender. There's nothing new under the sun. In Matthew 19:12, Jesus says: For...
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Deacon replied to the thread Dominion vs determinism.So the question stands: Does God control our response? Scripture is somewhat vague: Sometimes God chooses the person and divinely...
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Deacon replied to the thread Gender-neutral Versions.Translations are made to transfer meaning. If the translation fails to communicate the original meaning, or even misleads readers, it...
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Deacon replied to the thread Dominion vs determinism.As I stated, there's a dilemma, a tension; a balance between dominion and determinism. We cannot love God, without him first revealing...
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Deacon replied to the thread Finding the right definition of a word in the Greek.Strong’s Concordance lists the ways a Greek word is used in the KJV. Strong’s doesn’t work well with other Bible versions because it...
