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Hi Paidion, Read the article at the link you posted. The author is Reformed or Calvinist, if you will, and his idea about being "placed as a son" would seem to dovetail with a Calvinist idea of being elected as a son and then at conversion being placed as a son: The son was always the son ( elect? )...

Hi Paidion, I do not think there is any doubt that gennao in its various uses means begotten or born. But in either case it seems we can not take it literally in reference to our becoming a Christian. Paul, in numerous places, references our "adoption as sons". How can this be if we are literally "b...

Hi Paidion, This passage would not seem to fit into your view: Titus 3:3-5 (NASB) 3. For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4. But when the kindness of God our Savior ...

Hi Paidion, You wrote: The Greek word is not any form of the word “τικτω”. It is “γεννηθηναι”, the aorist passive infinitive of the verb “γενναω” (I beget). It is the word found in the geneologies in Matthew 1: Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. (Matthew ...

Darin, Are you familiar with the writings of Dallas Willard? Some put him on par with C.S. Lewis. Anyway you mentioned a book, and I would highly recommend Willard's "Spirit of the Disciplines". Chapter 10, titled "Is Poverty Spiritual?" is about 25 pages on the subject of Christians and wealth. IMO...

Darin,

Food for thought:

https://www.soulshepherding.org/bernard ... s-of-love/

Homer

In regard to the quote of Lincoln we should all have Paul's attitude: Philippians 1:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 18. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, Our current president does and says ...

Something I found of interest regarding Manson was what a phony act he was. Manson was for some time incarcerated at Pelican Bay prison near Eureka, CA. Our daughter-in-law's brother has been employed at the prison for years and knew Manson pretty well. When Manson would get on TV for an interview o...

Christ not only demands that we give freely to all who ask from us (Matt. 5:42), with such prodigality that one hand is ignorant of the other’s largesse (Matt. 6:3); he explicitly forbids storing up earthly wealth – not merely storing it up too obsessively Is giving feely to all who ask the loving ...

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