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You need a new version of the bible! That is a perfectly awful translation of that passage!

The only books of Lewis' I've read are the Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Brilliant stuff, to say the least! I'm two thirds of the way through "The Abolition of Man" and would definitely say that it does not have the same feel as either the Narnia books or Mere Christianity, both...

As if you've read any of it to know. Your first sentence negates the validity of the second.

Suicide. If one is wanting to kill the mind, what good does the body do them?

So, I was watching a movie several evenings ago and the main character was reading the last of a list of 100 books that everyone should read and it inspired me to find a similar list of books to read. I was somewhat surprised to find out how many such lists exist and so I enlisted the help of...

A tattoo is an object.

James is indeed talking about justification but he isn't implying that the readers themselves are necessarily unsaved but he is talking in general terms. He is talking about how they got saved and how they would remain saved. One could lose their salvation in the previous dispensation, by the...

Show me your line of thought here because it makes no sense to me whatsoever. There seems to me to be no path that leads from any premise I support that ends at such a conclusion. James himself says that he is talking about salvation! He IS talking about justification, NOT sanctification...

How could it? The king can lie and even if he didn't, if he can't ever be removed from the throne, why would he care whether it's required or not? Maybe he decides just to blow off writing any records of any kind. Who's going to do anything about it? Well, he would be able to ignore the...

This objections seems backwards to me! It is I who am reading the whole thing! How can you not read the whole thing, understand that James is specifically talking about how faith alone cannot save you and then come here and say that it's all about faith? Which is true! How is it that you didn't...

Both appropriately so, by the way. Abraham is legitimately the father of both groups and thus of the whole household of faith.

That IS too what James was saying! That is explicitly what James is saying. The entire premise of the book of James is about what it takes to get saved. He is not talking about sanctification but salvation! It is literally the theme of the book! NO! His own example proves this false... James...

The problem, Idolater, is that your "belief" amounts to lip service. It isn't the same doctrine at all really. You believe not only that works are required but that there often isn't even enough good works that one can do during this life to overcome the evil actions you're guilty of and you...

Good works aren't prohibited under grace, Derf. Doing good is still a perfectly desirable thing. It just isn't a prerequisite of getting saved. It's good enough to get you saved, Derf. It's good enough to get you saved. No one is suggesting that you shouldn't do rightly! No one is suggesting...

This is your interpretation but it is not what the text of scripture teaches. James and his followers were all "zealous for the law" and if it isn't works of the law then just what sort of works would you suggest that he is talking about? Acts 22:8 On the following day Paul went in with us to...

How is it possible for that effect to work from more than one perspective?

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Liar.

The argument that has been presented proves that it isn't 100%, it's zero! It cannot have happened. It did not happen! Given then that we are here and that life cannot have happened by accident, the conclusion then is that life was created. Here we are!

That is not what I'm doing at all. I'm using a computer to perform billions of random actions in an attempt to assemble a particular sequence of 26 letters by random chance. A feat far and away simpler than assembling an RNA molecule by random chance which you believe happened! Are you really...