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So you are now arguing that it could be the same or not the same, like my analogy? I agree. Therefore, if the passage you quoted can be...

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...

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...

We agree! I ask again.... In what way then does my example fail? Forget using Hillary Clinton as a specific example. Perhaps that's...

I wouldn't go so far as to say that "He might boot people out later" because the conditions that make rejection possible are not...

Saying it doesn't make it so. It's a metaphor. We are members of body of believers called "the Body of Christ". We are not literally...

It says "today".

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...

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...

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...

God didn't need us when He created us and doesn't need us now. His existence and perfection is not, nor will it ever be contingent on...