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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2014 17:00:11 GMT -8
John 5:24, ""I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life."
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1 Tim. 6:15-16, which says, "...and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality...."
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Isa. 40:28, "Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired...."
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Hebrews 4:4, " “And God rested on the seventh day from all his work.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2014 8:02:28 GMT -8
John 12:47, "For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ... "
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Psalm 96:13, "... the LORD...comes to judge the earth. He is coming to judge the earth. ..."
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2014 9:53:44 GMT -8
RIGHT: "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys" (1 Sam. 15:3).
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: "Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence of the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving" (Col. 3:22-24).
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: Prov. 23:13-14 ("Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell"),
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat" (Lev. 26:29)
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: Luke 19:27, "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'"
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: Luke 14:26, "If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone: your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple."
WRONG: Homosexuality.
RIGHT: Matt 10:34, ""Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
WRONG: Homosexuality.
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2014 9:54:57 GMT -8
Num. 23:19 "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent."
1 Sam. 15:29 "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent."
Versus
Jonah 3:10 "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."
1 Sam.15:11 "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king...."
Exod. 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Psalms.42:10 "... for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you."
Gen. 6:6 "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
1 Sam. 15:35 "...and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel."
In April 1982 Zondervan Publishing House issued one of the most comprehensive writings in recent memory to justify Biblical fallacies. Entitled An Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties, the promotional campaign by "Christian Readers News" describes it as a work which "exhaustively studies every difficult passage in the Bible-Genesis to Revelation." This is erroneous of course as we shall show.
It is always interesting to note the terminology employed by Biblical apologists with respect to contradictions. They are rarely referred to as contradictions per se.
Such words as "difficulties," "discrepancies," "detractions," and "problem," are far more evident than contradictions, fallacies, and falsehoods. Using the former denotes an obvious attempt to minimize inconsistencies. A minor discrepancy sounds far less serious than a contradiction.
What then are Gleason Archer's explanations for the contradiction in regard to the problems of God's repentance, he offers the following:
"...it is a mistake to infer from this (God's omniscience) that he is incapable of emotions or reactions to willful depravity of his creatures."(p. 80)
(1) If the word repent means anything, it says, I somehow made a mistake, not that I merely regret the results of my acts. I went down the wrong road. If you regret the outcome you are also saying, I wish I had done something else.
(2) But even if repent is restricted to the very narrow sense of emotion and remorse, the fact remains that God does not repent in any sense. 1 Sam. 15:29 and Num. 23:19 makes this quite clear. Whether he is sorrowful or not is irrelevant. God does not repent, period. Apologists use the phrases universally when it suits their purpose, but in a restricted sense when it is obviouly wrong to employ the broad sense.
After saying God could repent in a sorrowful or remorseful sense, Archer states:
"Yet when it comes to His announced covenant purposes towardHis covenant people, God is indeed incapable of repentance."
But there is no evidence of such a distinction in scripture. Num. 23:19 and 1 Sam 15:29 says that God does not repent. They do not say this applies only to those situations which involved "His annouced covenant purposes toward "His covenant people." Acher has inserted a provision which clearly is nowhere in evidence.
In groping for a way out of this quagmire, Archer has grasped at two straws. Readers are free to choose either. "Repent" is only meant in an anthropomorphic sense or God does not repent "when it comes to His announced covenant purposes toward His people." There is not the slightest evidence for either assumption.
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2014 6:10:10 GMT -8
On several occasions Jesus equated himself with God, although he never directly said he was God:
•(a) "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30);
•(b) "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 17:22);
•(c) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God" (John 1"1). (See also: John 10:38, 14:9-11, 17:11, 21-23, Col. 2:9)
Yet, a far larger number of statements clearly shows Jesus did not equate himself with God, in which case he couldn't be mankind's savior:
•(a) "Why callest me good? There is none good but one, that is God" Matt. 19:17);
•(b) "for my Father is greater than I" (John 14:28);
•(c) "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me" (John 7:16);
•(d) "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46);
•(e) "Who has gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God" (1 Peter 3:22); (See also: Mark 13:32, 1 cor. 11:3, John 5:19, 20:17, Matt. 26:39 and many others).
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