Recent content by freeandfun1

Again, who said that we're not to oppose sin? Also, your overlooking WHERE those sins were taking place... in the TEMPLE! Today our sins are also being performed in the temple - ourselves - and that also angers him... but he forgives us for it. You've taken what I wrote and have...

Perhaps I was misunderstood... I've NEVER stated we should "accept sinfulness", but I've stated that the first step to overcoming sinfulness is realizing that we cannot overcome sin on our own nor will we ever, in this world, overcome it fully. What we have to accept is that we live in a fallen...

You're right, it's nobody's business but their own. I'm a Bible believing Christian, but I will never try to institute my beliefs, moral or religious, on anybody else as we all have to make our own decisions about how we'll live our lives.

Because they're ignorant.

Great point! Once we begin to idolize anything, we are sinning. A case could even be made that idolizing (not being able to live without) a message board is a sin.... :eusa_whistle:

Yes, we can sin through thought and we do. That is the point of Salvation through Grace. We are all fallen and were once sin was introduced into this world through the actions of Adam and Eve. However, the Lord sees we believers in our righteous form as those who have accepted His gift are...

Isn't it amazing how so many don't understand this point nor the differences between the two?

I believe Thomas Jefferson defined it best: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

yeah, they're eating all that unemployment money they're getting instead of using it to look for a job or pay their mortgage.

I'm not saying porn is OK, because I do believe it has not only detrimental affects on those that regularly view it, but also on those that are drawn into the industry that surrounds it. Having said that, one of the reasons I, even as a Christian, refuse to attend Church any more, is that...

No, there are actual shortages. That and QE. What regulations are being "blocked"? That's news to me and most of the world since there hasn't been any discussion of new regulations by either party.

Yes, for some I guess the debate will never be settled. But for me, it is! :up:

Again, God is outside of time and is all knowing. I do not see how you can equate knowledge with predestination. He doesn't make us make the choices we make nor does He program us to make the choices we make. But he KNOWS the choices we'll make. If he interviened, then yes, you'd be a...

How so? You can know that an event is going to happen, yet not stop it. That's foreknowledge. Foreknowledge is precognition or knowledge of an event before it occurs. Predestination is the belief that God set everything in motion and predetermined the outcome. They are not equal concepts.

How does foreknowledge prevent one from repenting? Also, I'm one that believes that we are only saved by belief. We cannot do anything that will get us into heaven other than believing in the One He sent. The gift of Grace is free and it's up to us to accept it or not.