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O.K.....If you are paying attention to my posts, I am clearly objecting to certain assumptions about what "free-will" must entail...and I am merely suggesting that the appropriate definition of what it properly entails is more accurately or fairly defined by those who actually believe in such a...

There are NUMEROUS possible answers to the above question from a non-Calvinist perspective. You appear to be unfamiliar with them, but they do exist. The question is problematic and difficult to answer from any soteriological point of view. The question is not easy for ANY soteriology, some...

1.) The capacity or ability to be wicked, duplicitous or sinful is NOT necessary in order to posses free will. Free will assumes limitations. To say that we won't be free to sin in heaven does not mean that free will will cease to exist. It would only mean that that is a particular set of...

Well, while I might, or another might disagree...it is decidedly no SIN for someone to feel differently about whether one should "boycott" or not. Padre is quite correct...it is no "Great Commission" issue...There is no direct Scriptural command to involve oneself in that way....I would...

Thank you for your responses :thumbsup:

No, it is not a "sin", and I doubt that any Bible-believer here would claim that it is. I do not believe anyone has suggested that it is either....If they did, they would be wrong to do so.

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Yes...precisely why the basic question in the OP is hard to answer..or, more precisely....the answer can be BOTH yes and no at the same time. The answer depends on what one means by "pre-destine" Does "Pre-destine" mean "cause"? If No: Then, quite possibly the answer is no...

And you are absolutely correct....and I understood this before you were quite so "succinct" for my diminutive mind....What I am saying is that the notion of a "boycott" is designed to do no MORE than, as you say: That is the point, and the ONLY point....You are also pretending that two things...

With Regard to the initial question of the thread...No serious student of Genesis or the Scriptures could, I think, believe the Bible could possibly convey the idea that man is, in any way, "evolved" from any lower life forms. Most of us gloss past the creative account without serious study...

Jesus never baptized anyone either....he left that to his disciples. You keep making arguments from silence... Social activism isn't a part of the Great Commission Jesus didn't engage in Politcal Activism Padre...Jesus presumably quit his job as a Carpenter around 30ish too. Is this how...

While this is true....a boycott is not really a "Great Commission" issue, it is a socio-political one...It is a cultural issue. No doubt the Great Commission says nil about boycotts, but it also says nothing about voting for pro-life candidates. It says basically nothing about making any...

Sounds like somebody has a copy of: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465022529/?tag=baptis04-20 Or, at least something very similar EVERYONE should read this book...

I haven't heard him say as much, but that would make sense. I don't agree with it, but that is valid enough IMO. I think it utterly non-sense to think that "time" would exist a se, which is basically the claim unless it were. It is a "Neo-Platonism" which I would wish to avoid more than...