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Saw this yesterday: Proverbs 15:3 KJV — The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. If God doesn't look on some of the evil that men do, then is this verse accurate?

I completely put this in the wrong thread. I'll put it in the Omniscience of God thread, if you want to comment there.

Or a vivid imagination.

What do you make of this passage? Do the words "he" and "him" apply to Jesus Christ? Colossians 1:13-20 KJV — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins...

But what difference does it make to your position on anything else? Does it help resolve some other conflict or seeming paradox?

Then why are you doing so? "To view" or "to behold" carry exactly the same connotation as "to see", and it conveys an anticipation of the outcome, not a sense of already knowing.

You mean like we do? Ephesians 5:23-32 KJV — For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives...

Which is in direct conflict with 1 Thessalonians 4, the way you read it. But if you recognize a third state that Paul mentions, "unclothed", that seems to be what comes between thus body, and our heavenly bodies, it sheds light on what happens when we die, and it seems to be an undesirable...

Resurrection seems to proceed judgment (i.e., standing before God). Thus, we will be within, not without, our physical bodies. This is how Paul described it: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 KJV — For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the...

It's because you're either not dividing rightly, or you're not judging rightly.

It's interesting that he reads the text as "in the day", then proceeds to always talk about the conflict by saying they didn't die "on the day." Why the switch in terms? Isn't it because he isn't comfortable using the phrase "in the day"? I would propose that the reason he doesn't use "in the...

If time is the "distance" between two events, and changeless means no events, then one requires the other, if not opposite faces of the same coin.

Aren't the two concepts the same thing?

I think that's a good way to say it. "Belief" would not be a work. Circumcision would be a work. Repentance (as a state of mind) would not be a work, but repentance leads to following the law, which would be a work (or a lot of works). If the works (such as loving your neighbor as yourself) are...

I'm not on X either, but I was able to watch the video.

Maybe the reason we left the topic is that the options for the topic have all been explored without any movement from any party towards the other(s). It goes back to presuppositions. If your presuppositions include the full dichotomy between two different salvation mechanisms, you support it...

To dig deeper, what does "proceeds from" mean? And is "begotten" a term that applies only to the incarnate Son, so is it an eternally-past applicable term? It informs our idea of the eternality of man. If he was made such that he could live forever, but wouldn't necessarily live forever (I...

Yes, those are good ones, too. Maybe better than my quote. It even delineates who is doing the destroying. But I still think it could include the idea that when Jesus is raised (given new life), that He, like Lazarus, was responsible for getting up and coming out if the tomb on His own power...

I don't think I'm an expert on exactly what the incarnation entailed for the second person of the Trinity, but if He really became a human being, then His death must have been much like a human's death, and not just a release of His soul back to God-ness. Here's all of the verses talking about...

For salvation? Or at all? Is Jesus the lord of someone who rejects any attempt to align his behavior to the lord's will? But James is saying "be motivated by duty and not by love"? Who is a higher authority. Simply? Then why did Paul have to keep telling people to love one another? If...