The Narrow Path Ministries

Hi Brody, Romans 9 would seem to work against your view as it kinda emphasizes an active hardening by God.(Romans 9:17-18 "For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth." Therefor...

In hardening Pharaoh's heart, God increased the sum total of wicked deeds that man would do—but only because the man was already on a wicked course which he, not God, had chosen for himself... I have often seen this reference to the Lord's hardening of Pharaoh's heart portrayed as though God sort o...

steve wrote:I remember saying that, but was that during a lecture?

Nah, that's just lame attempt at humor.

I'm pretty sure that the Kingdom of God lectures (currently available at theos.org/media) were the only topical lecture series given at any of the three schools (though I could be forgetting something). You're forgetting that lecture on why the Australian version of "All Hail King Jesus" is better ...

It is plausible that four or eight years of sympathizing with and identifying with a Mormon president, in the course of ongoing political struggle, might attenuate some persons' antagonism toward Mormons in general. Wasn't there a similar issue raised with regard to catholicism when Kennedy was ele...

Paidion wrote: Perry, I don't know about you. Did you learn about rhyming when you went to school?

Hey, "gnome" rhymes with "shone", way better than "good" rhymes with "food".

mattrose wrote: It's not 'sooooooo' like a passionate love (eros?)

It is more like "God loved the world like so (in this manner)"

I agree. I've always linked this verse with Romans 5:8.

It seems without purpose that God would give His life for those who he knows will never love Him. What good will it do those people? They will go to hell forever (or be annihilated). Exactly the same thing that would happen to them if God had not given His life for them. Wasn't that Homer's whole p...

Gnome.

Singalphile wrote:IMO, You just determine what you think they will do in office (not what they will believe)

Don't you think that what a person believes affects what they do? I would say that if it doesn't it's not really a belief at all, but just a professed belief.