Recent content by Derf

Your analogy is flawed, because it inherently makes the outfits different--which is my main complaint about MAD. Let me see if I can do better. The organizer of a conference arranged for lunch through the Dave and Sally Catering Service. He wanted to serve the men in one room and the women in...

In what way am I contradicting the great commission?

It doesn't.

If you look up the Greek, you'll find that the word "gospel" is only used once in that verse. So the question then is whether "of the circumcised" means the gospel was different or the peop!e were different. The obvious answer is that the gospel is the same, but different peop!e were committed...

Are you saying we don't know if we will be rejected and told to depart from Him? or that we don't know whether others will? The former seems to fit the scenario of the passage, where they thought they would be accepted. Same for the pharisees, scribes, lawyers, priests, etc., that Jesus spoke...

And permanently "in the air", too. So, according to your interpretation, we will forever be with the Lord in the way that we met Him, so we'll be floating there forever. Thank you!!

It might not be in scripture, but @Clete's point is a valid one--that unless we are somehow forced to love Him for eternity, or our free will is somehow curtailed, people who once believed in Christ (including being subject to His mandates in eternity), might decide they no longer need Him or...

Congratulations. Agreed. Which is a mischaracterization of what I wrote, if it matters to you at all. I'll assume, for the sake of a brother, that yours was not intentional. Mine was a serious question that came from thinking about your position, which I tend to agree with, if it matters...

I would think that is talking about when Christ returns to establish His kingdom on earth, and not about hell.

Even if that was your point, it suggested other points, as no belief stands alone. I apologize for sounding too intelligent, but I enjoy your posts and the conclusions you reach, and I want to see where they logically lead. It's a shame you have such little patience with people who you have the...

I'm not disagreeing that there are bad police officers, all over the country. But that doesn't mean that all officers all over the country are bad, and you can't pre-judge the guy with that criterion.

In the version where she is moving when there is an officer in front of the car, it appears, if only for an instance, that she is trying to run him over. Remember that the officer didn't get to review the videotape several times before deciding to take deadly action against another deadly...

But what form must that take? If the person is recognizing a false gospel and false accounting of God, then he is understanding some of God's attributes correctly and correctly rejecting the false gospel. Isn't that a huge part of accepting the true God and true gospel? So no excuse needed?

Please compare this complaint about going To this reply:

You would fault this particular officer in this particular instance because of "dirty officers in the country"? Isn't that why they do investigations? Or would you also say that investigations would come to the wrong conclusions because there are too many dirty officers in the country?