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  1. e.r.m.

    Supersessionism and beyond - Can Christianity meaningfully address religious pluralism?

    John 14:6. Acts 4:12. Acts 14:15-17. We should be respectful and kind to those not in the faith, of course.
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    Supersessionism and beyond - Can Christianity meaningfully address religious pluralism?

    The answer is simple. Biblically based theology and pluralism are mutually exclusive. If a group within Christianity embraces pluralism, then they have rejected and departed from Biblically based theology.
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    I got into a fight with my dad about the bible

    Whether or not the story of the rich man and Lazarus is an account or an allegory, Jesus was not describing a life force, but people with consciousness. Why would Jesus describe that if we are stripped of consciousness after we die?
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    I got into a fight with my dad about the bible

    So what is it that is destroyed after the body is killed that we should fear? Is the body killed and the "life" is killed after?
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    I got into a fight with my dad about the bible

    Liking isn't or shouldn't be how we assess right or wrong. Is it possible the soul survives the death of the body? Matthew 10:28.
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    It is. I just don't have to resolve every account or issue to be at peace. I resolved a lot and right now other things are just priority
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    First, sorry for all the voice to text errors I did not catch in my last post. I should have been more careful, but I think you got the idea of what I was trying to say. I respect your opinion and your "due diligence". For me, it's not something I need to resolve. I'm sorry if that disappoints...
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    Ok. first I'd like to say, that this would not be a commonly obvious issue I just reading the account. One would need to look into the Viper issue. Now that I have, it is an interesting issue. I read through some of the explanations, and why they don't work. And also the likeliest scenario I've...
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    My wild theories statement was directed at someone else's post, not yours. And actually there are a variety of snakes on that island. As I had researched it once before. I can again. What is yokels?
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    What part of the world are you in? You seem very spirited and enthusiastic in what you believe. I don't know why your combative though. I answered your question as you asked me. What is my wild theory? I don't know that my answer will satisfy your curiosity. Correct, I don't know why you...
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    I wish I had time to reply right now. I'll try catching you after work.
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    Mark 16:17-18 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; [18] they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." Acts...
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    How Paul Contradicts Jesus on the Most Important Doctrine of Christianity

    Wild theories.
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    What say the scriptures?

    Not sure if this verse applies given the context of Col 2:17, but I would agree that John 3:5 was speaking of the future, if that's where you were coming from. I got that, yes. But the OP and my request is the "written" purpose of baptism in Jesus's name, explicitly stated, not inferred. The...
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    What say the scriptures?

    Sorry for my late reply. I got a chance now to go over the scriptures you cited. Among all of them John 3:5 is the only one that makes reference to what would later be baptism in Jesus's name, since at the time Jesus stated John 3:5, He had not yet commanded it. That began at the great...
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    Logistics of accepting Jesus

    That sounds like a nightmare I had where they were trying to water down the Bible and cut out Jesus, to a semi-secular "love" religion, akin to John Lenin's song "Imagine". To “accept Jesus” is to accept what he taught and exemplified NOT ONLY with regard to relationships, but with everything...
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    Logistics of accepting Jesus

    As long as man(kind) needs to do his part to accept the blood of Jesus, then it's not nothing but. As far as I have read, God does not force salvation upon us. We have the freedom to accept or reject, and face the consequences thereof.
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    What say the scriptures?

    Did Paul give this as a purpose for baptism? You're inferring a stretch as Paul didn't state that. Further on down the chapter Paul goes on to speak about baptism Romans 6:5-7 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection...
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    What say the scriptures?

    I agree with that as well, but for what "written" purpose?
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    God’s True Bible Code

    All shapes in the clouds as far as I'm concerned. People often look for codes, if it's not the xxxxth verse in the middle of the King James version, it's something else.
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