Gene,

What Paul is teaching us is that God created us so we have nothing to boast of. The definition of free will is that you exercising your will and not the will of another party outside of yourself. A computer does not have free will, nor does a puppet, nor does any soulless creature. Beast, according to the definition of Scripture though…[Read more]

Charles,

Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding.

I agree that Jesus bones were never broken but his blood was spilled on the ground and blood is linked to soul. That is why under the Law animals were sacrificed for a person’s sin as it was a trade of the soul of an animal for the soul of the one that sinned. Jesus sacrificed himself and…[Read more]

T8,

Is it the right way, I cannot be 100% sure. The fact that the 10 toes represents something and that there are 10 kings could just be a coincidence.

I do not remember it being in Daniel’s interpretation and I am not about to support an interpretation that claims to have more insight into Nebuchadnezzar dream than Daniel. It seem overly…[Read more]

Gene,

All the rest do not really say anything that supports that we lack free will. We clearly have free will despite the fact God created the will we exercise freely. It is not a random will as that is not free will. It appears that God created some of us to choose to reject his will and others of us to choose to accept his will and he did…[Read more]

Carmel,

I am not going to follow that rabbit hole.

Jesus had his own human spirit and he was given the Holy Spirit.
Immersed believers are united in one spirit that is the Hold Spirit and the Holy Spirit is sent in Jesus’ name.
Believers have their own human spirit. Believers also have a human soul and a human body. The soul and spirit maker…[Read more]

Carmel,

You are weaving a net with conjecture. A person of the First Century would not have the knowledge of science you attempting to use and yet God expected them to understand what he Scripture.

The bottom line is that despite the fact we now know bone marrow produces blood cells the bones are never said to be the source of the spirit in…[Read more]

T,

That is a relevant verse as well.

Gene,

Romans 9:22-23Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

Casmel.

NOW this is bone (SPIRIT) of my bones and flesh ( MATTER )of my flesh! OBVIOUS A REFERENCE TO THE DUST OF EARTH, FROM WHERE HE CAME!

Where do you get bone is a synonym of spirit?

Carmel,

WHY THE HOLY SPIRIT, GIVES TESTIMONY,TO “THE WORD,” JESUS’ SPIRIT , OUR SPIRIT, THAT WE ARE THE SONS OF GOD?

So you are saying that there is two spirits. One of those spirits is the Holy Spirit and the other is Jesus’ spirit. In addition Paul calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit while calling Jesus’ spirit our spirit.

Am I correct?

Gene,

There is at least one Scripture that seems to show there is no such think as free will but you are not using it to make your case.

Instead you use a radical definition for free will that even those that support the idea that human beings have free will do not not except as random will is not free will. A human being’s will us not free…[Read more]

Charles,

I am not following you as when I look at Romans 8:16 I see at least two Spirits mentioned, the first is called The Spirit and the second is called our spirit. So what to you think Paul is calling our spirit in Romans 8:16.

Charles,

I am not following you as when I look at Romans 8:16 I see at least two Spirits mentioned, the first is called The Spirit and the second is called our spirit. So what to you think Paul is calling our Spirit in Romans 8:16.

Carmel,

HUMANS HAS A SOUL AND A FLESH, NOTHING ELSE HIS OWN!

Unless there is something I fail to understand your words contradict Scripture in many places. One of the most obvious is Romans 8:16 where Scripture testifies that the Holy Spirit bears with with the spirit of believers that the believers are the sons of God. There are clear two…[Read more]

Gene,

If what you believe is the case, then there could be no predestined people

That has more to do with God’s foreknowledge than whether or not humans have free will.

The other thing it has to do with is that God choose when and where each of us is to be conceived and born because he is our creator.

Wakeup,

The british empire never sets, so they say.

That was a saying before World War II. It has declined since then. The British Empire came long after the Roman empire and the Persian-Media Empire was more an evolution from the Babylonian one as I believe they took the later over through a coup.

We are well into the iron and clay age…[Read more]

Carmel,

Something is missing from what you are saying. You probably know what but do not have the same context you do. It makes what you say confusing.

Just looking at your words you do not believe a human being that is a Christian has his own human spirit that bears witness with the Holy Spirit that he is a son of God. If you believe that…[Read more]

Ed,

Psalm 12 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
Psalm 12
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

1 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth;
for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour:
with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3 The Lord shall cut…

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Ed,

Psalm 12:5-7Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise, saith the Lord;
I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

6 The words of the Lord are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O…

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Gene,

Thank you.