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Fantastic answers! Thanks!

I might tell her that the red letter words of Jesus are extremely important, but so are the black letter scripture verses that tell us about Jesus. I might also ask her to quote a red letter verse from memory. John 1:1 and Romans 10:9 are black letter verses that immediately come to mind.

I rephrase it just for you, brother. Aside from His dying for your sins… What aspect of Jesus fulfilled your greatest need in life? What aspect of Jesus do you think of first when you contemplate Him? What aspect of Jesus most attracted you to Him when you responded to the gospel message and...

Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

2 Timothy 2:23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

When my wife and I were searching for a new church to attend and serve in, we filled out the visitors card at each church we visited. We checked the box indicating we’d like a church representative to come to our home to explain the church. We were Baptists, but we explored Baptist, Nazarene...

Amen! Humans, all of them, are able to seek God. Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

The Seventh Day Baptists were first known as Sabbatarians, but the term Seventh Day Baptists was adopted by them in England soon after the Reformation. The Seventh Day Baptists do not claim an unbroken succession in the matter of church organization before the Reformation. At that time a...

Free will exists and is mentioned early in the Bible. God tells Cain he has the choice to do what is right or not. Cain is also advised to master sin, not let sin enslave him. Genesis 4 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right...

Explain why you negate the holiness of God by saying He wills sin to happen. None of your quoted verses agrees with that position. Your claim that I do not know the true God is just another in a long line of your wild presumptions. I try to keep this discussion focused on scripture, but you...

There were many Gentiles knowledgeable about the Old Testament and the ways of Israel at the time of the writing of Hebrews. Proselytes came to the temple in Jerusalem. Wise men from eastern lands, possibly Persia, came to baby Jesus to worship Him and bring gifts. Chapter 3 begins with...

God never wills for sin to happen. God never issues commandments, then wills that the commandments be disobeyed. Thus, you stretch God being the first cause into God wanting and causing sin to occur. If this were true, God would be contradictory to condemn and punish sin. The afflictions that...

Where the problem exists seems to be in the definition of “sovereignty”. Sovereign refers to the independent authority and unquestionable rulership of a king. Historically, it never means that a king controls every atom, thought, and action happening in the kingdom. The king rules by issuing...

You cannot have two causes of sin. You say God is the cause of ALL things. Then you say sin is done by the sinner. You contradict yourself.

So you, guided by your Calvinist theories, claim that when a person sins, God is the cause of the sinning,

Again, you contradict scripture. Faith/believing is not salvation by works. Faith is the opposite of works. Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in...

So according to your Calvinist philosophy, when a person sins, God wills the sin to happen.

In December 2007, Obama was implied to be the messiah / anointed one. https://www.politico.com/story/2007/12/messianic-rhetoric-infuses-obama-rallies-007281 In a giant Sunday afternoon rally suffused with Christian – and at times messianic – rhetoric, Barack Obama made his largest-scale pitch...

Exodus 8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

This has nothing to do with God wanting sin to happen, it is about the punishment of sin.