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One possibility is that they understand that (contextually understood).... "blaspheming the Holy Spirit" is a sin which is presently impossible to commit. That is one option. :rolleyes:

What authority do you have that we "ALL" disagree with this? Do we? Have we "ALL" expressed as much? Can you speak for others? I do not have all things worked out yet....but I am (sorta) committed to the idea of "Original Sin"...but I distinguish it from "Original Guilt"...as they are in...

This is "question begging"...at minimum...MOST, if not ALL (generally conservative) Theological positions expressed in Scripture will feel consistent if the whole of Scripture is involved...The exact converse might be asked of you yourself... Read it from a "dispensational" perspective...and...

This is engaging in an attempt to "shift burden of proof"...(Another logical and debate fallacy you are engaging in) This is also an example of poor debate....One I, (at least) will not fall for. You have made positive and ill-advised assertions in support of your theological...

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I love Jesus

Please directly answer the passages proffered as they were offered to you....or cease the bloviation...

Not when he does good, no, only when he does evil.....you fail to distinguish between the very notion of "good" and "evil" you are blurring the lines of distinction between "good" and "evil" and it is dangerous.... very dangerous, and I beg you to reconsider.

This easily answers why someone might be drawn to it from the angle of arguing a Theodicy...but I am only speaking on an existential level. You seem to think I am arguing from appeals like you were, or your relatives...forget the Theodicy for a second...I am arguing on a more personal and...

Back to the OP.....as I posted: Can anyone comment on this? Are we adherents because we "WANT" to be? Or are we adherents because we feel it is existentionally obvious....Aresman, BRILLIANTLY, blurred the distinction, by implying that we "wanted" to believe it only for reasons of...

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When I was an unfortunate attendee of Florida Public Education (48th over-all in my day) I still learned how to distinguish between "simile" and "metaphor". To state that something is "like" or "as" in this language we call "English" is still to merely imply a relational idea...yes, indeed...

Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Eze 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live...

"Soul-freedom"....I default to this...It is a Pastor's job, or that of the "bishopric" of elders to determine a doctrinal line which is taught at a particular church....but some things are left to personal "bereanism"....I do not adhere to some of the doctrinal positions my Senior Pastor does...

Dunno....ask a determinist, I am not one.... That would be my contention.

"Faith" is not, according to the Scriptures a "work" of righteousness, and is not Scripturally justified to be defined that way... "Faith" is "COUNTED" to men as righteousness.. Rom 4:1 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? Rom 4:2...

HMMMM....An interesting question. I also purchased Aresman's book, and found it convincing and informative, and, well, it helped to sell me on his point of view about the tithing issue...I now agree with him on the topic!!! But frankly...it didn't convince me about the identity of...

This question...I suppose, in many ways depends on whether one thinks in similar terms as a Dispensationalist might or someone else...for my own part....(from a Dispy perspective)...The History of God's relationship to man might be summed up in roughly three 2,000 year segments to date...roughly...