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Thanks! I've been a member since 2019 so it's good to be acknowledged. Lol I'm kidding :) I think my comment was related. You can avoid the point I was making. I don't care so much. it still stands. There is a significant cross-section of Christianity that picks and chooses the sins deemed...

Trump's accomplishments: 1. Instigating insurrection 2. Consistently bad combover

I think the pearl clutching over homosexuality is a tempest in a tea cup. Where's the diatribes against greed? Oh wait, we love our comfort too much for that. Let's see Christians band together against indifference and hatred in all its demonic forms. Pfft. Let's face it, homosexuals are an easy...

For the sake of argument, I've assumed it is sin. My question was: What makes it particularly special as a sin? Pick whatever sin with which you struggle and tell me why it's any different than that one. Or, perhaps you are sinless now?

Oh yeah, I know the difference. I am certain we disagree on this issue. I'm not convinced homosexuality is a sin. Honestly, I don't think it's my business to worry about the sexual proclivities of others so long as they do no harm. More than that, I'm not worrying much about other's sins...

Who isn't trapped in the bonds of sin, though? How many are "athletes of Christ" and have accepted all suffering so that they are done with sin? I doubt there are many Christians who rail against homosexuality that are also not still enslaved to their own passions. A preacher with five chicken...

That is strange, but I'm sure someone thinks the same about my beliefs. That being said, anything that purports to share secrets or special knowledge sounds "gnostic," which is worrisome if it leads to elitism (we're in and you're out) or abuse of vulnerable people (give us your family...

I'm thinking we agree the penal substitution is not much good as a theory. I'm not sure any one of those on the table works alone, but I am a fan of ideas like Christus Victor, recapitulation. Christ became like us so we could become like Christ. A nice, early church chiasm. It is surprising...

I'm not saying Christian Nationalism is a thing, but Christian Nationalism is a thing. I worry about that as a strange teaching. I would say if separation of church and state makes a person uneasy, they're already leaning in the wrong direction, coupling power and the use of force with Christ...

What strange teachings do you mean? I haven't read Martin but looked him up. He's seems to be saying 'we're right and y'all are wrong.' I understand the sentiment, but it doesn't say much. Individual-subjective certainty is much weaker than inter-subjective certainty. That's why no one agrees...

So sin abounds more than grace? It seems Paul contradicts himself. Adam's sin is more powerful, more successful in destroying than Christ's grace is in healing. That's not good news.

I do and appreciate you taking the time to read it. Yes, this makes sense to me. I pretty much assume we are being trained now, at least in part, to continue the ministry of reconciliation in the next age (Paul talks about ages to come in Ephesians so it could be plural). What does it mean to...

We're saved from the destructive nature of sin and evil, which tend toward non-being. The consuming fire of God is God, it is divine love redeeming what belongs to God. The Logos (hypostasis of divine wisdom) of God is both the means of creation and the means of reconciliation. The incarnation...

That's not an accurate rendering of apokatastasis as it was understood in the early church. Those who are not in Christ and have not died to self and the passions will endure the age of punishment, which is cathartic not retributive. "God's very love of humanity drags that which belongs to him...

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That's just my point. In order for someone to chose that, they would either not be in their right mind, and sin is a good indication we are not in our right mind, or they are deceived, and we know sin is the result of a deception, i.e., we choose what seems good when it truly ain't. God sent...

It's a common (deliberate?) misunderstanding. At least, the classical Christian account of universal restoration never abrogated the biblical notion of "hell." It was just understood to be cathartic and restorative instead of penal, retributive, and never-ending. Pace St. Isaac the Syrian...

I know, right! I'm full of God's love for others so I might as well join in the good work. I think it was Aquinas who tried to argue that the joy of those in heaven will actually be increased by seeing the suffering of those in hell. It just goes to show that brilliance is not always good or to...

The ones who need to know God's love most get tortured for not receiving the gift of grace. Perhaps they chose evil over good? Is that what a truly rational creature with freedom would do? Choice A: The good that leads one to fulfillment and the life for which one was created. Choice B: The...

Judges 19 is one part of the Bible that might be put forward as a reason it should be banned from children's libraries. It's full of drunkeness, revelry, violence, rape, murder, and dismemberment of the victim. It's a horrendous chapter with absolutely no redeemable value. I wouldn't want a...