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You are objecting to Skan's entire analogy wholesale because you are focussing on the one point at which the analogy breaks down (all analogies do)....But rather than "being nice to his sister"...What if we pretend that Skan's four year old son instead merely said to him: "Dad, I want your...

. I find this humorous as well...as Baptists...the bulk of us could give a hoot about what "THE Church" [defined as RCC]...decreed (heretic or not)....unless, of course, they happen to agree with us personally on a given topic. I feel similarly about Protestant denoms...Often, they are...

Agreed 100%....:thumbsup::wavey::thumbs: If Abiogenesis (from a materialistic perspective) is even POSSIBLE...than it stands to reason that lifeforms with completely different needs would/could have evolved. They have not. Why the necessity for water? Or oxygen? or even "relatively" stable...

Kudos for the Thomas Sowell reference!! Agreed. Abortion is David Duke's bestest buddy in the world. It is genocide of blacks.

Welcome, to the "Free-willer" camp then... because that is precisely as we see it. Our noble opposition allows man ZERO freedom of contra-causal will or contrary choice. Welcome to the camp of "free-willers". The camp which merely thinks that God is slightly more creative than to guarantee...

O.K....This Thread is not a Theological treatise...in any way about the truth or falsehood of either the claims of "Free-willers" or Calvinists, or "Compatibilitsts"...or any such thing. This thread is merely an expose' of one facet of the mind-set which defines what are possibly a lot of those...

. :thumbsup::thumbsup::wavey: My wife and I chose some classic Anglican vows to be incorporated in our wedding during the ring ceremony....We LOVED the Theology in it... "With this Ring, I thee wed...With my body I thee worship...And all my worldly goods, I thee endow." Even from an...

1.) Don't go decaf...You would become boring, and boring is not your gift. 2.) I only know of the ideas you were conveying as being, well, kind of not largely or commonly accepted anymore...Maybe there are more modern proponents of this idea than I thought. I am no authority on this line of...

Absolutely correct....:thumbsup::wavey:The 50/50 is the most failed idea carnal man can engender for himself...It has never worked, and never will. That being said...An interesting point is that wives are never commanded to "love" their husbands. Their command is to reverence and submit...

I know that statement of Cypress's sounds rather strange...but his point was rather more well taken than it might appear at first look. He is appealing to something of a thought experiment to justify his point of view. It's a Philosophical line of argument which Philosophers often make to...

:wavey::thumbsup::thumbsup: I would also add that "Free-will" always has certain limits to begin with. Not only does God reserve the right (and sometimes uses it) to "interfere" with the free-will of his creatures...But nearly any concievable choice entails only a limited number of available...

This made me smile...My daughters are all 4 and under...and I am still in the hoping and praying and training stage. We fear for them, truth be told, even though we shouldn't. This won't be an era which is particularly conducive to training up Godly children. But with God, all things are...

Usually they are praying for a convicting drawing from the Holy Spirit, or for God to possibly create circumstances in that person's life which would help him/her more keenly feel their need for salvation. Or something along those lines. One thing, however, is that it is not in the least...

No believer in Free Will properly defines it that way. Why make it an all or nothing proposition? Free willer's don't think that way at all.

1.) I was merely supplying an ENGLISH definition to a translation of a HEBREW word. 2.) I don't assume they "literally" saw anything....because I believe that prophecy to be yet future anyways. So I am not really committed to defending a point of view which I don't hold to anyway. 3.) They...

The OP is obviously a sweeping generalization...presumably neither true of all people nor in all circumstances.