Let's Talk About Evolution!

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1 hour ago, boyle said:

prisoner

 

Jesus is still extending the offer to become free.

 

"And the spirit and the bride keep on saying, “Come!” and let anyone hearing say, “Come!” and let anyone thirsting come; let anyone who wishes take life’s water free."

[Pudgy]

26 minutes ago, boyle said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10304919/Female-paedophile-62-sexually-abused-seven-year-old-boy-webcam-loaned-pervert.html

The characteristics and traits are the same, but why do “women” hold women to a different standard within society, when it comes to accepting it, even though their gender can be just as evil?

Is it out of love and sympathy?

The only way you could possibly find out is to interview more than 20 women and ask them an unambiguous question tightly focused on what you want to know, and their answers be 100% truthful. 

Do that for every culture and national group  around the Earth (The Northeast Canadian Eskimo families, as an example, traditionally sleep naked together under animal skins in their Igloos in winter as they migrate and hunt. The Japanese culture is known for the entire family bathing naked together with other families at public baths …. Etc, Etc.)

After you have gotten the truth from several thousand women and men like that, and not filtered it through a local agenda …. Your answers MAY be 85% accurate.

The thing about DNA is that there is infinite variety.

 

[Pudgy]

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I answered that question before you asked it, as shown.

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1 hour ago, boyle said:

Wise people flee from sin.

 

"Be as free people, using your freedom, not as a cover for doing wrong, but as slaves of God."

 

"Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?  But thanks to God that although you were once the slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over.  

"Yes, since you were set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.  I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.  

"For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as to righteousness. What, then, was the fruit that you used to produce at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death.  However, now that you were set free from sin and became slaves to God, you are producing your fruit in the way of holiness, and the end is everlasting life.  For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord."

 

"Keep on speaking and behaving in such a way as those do who are going to be judged by the law of a free people."

 

We're still living in the darkness of this system of things, this long night. But we are free if we choose to be, by means of the gift.

 

"Those hoping in Jehovah will regain power.  

They will soar on wings like eagles. 

They will run and not grow weary; 

They will walk and not tire out."

 

We may be in a cage, but we can still sing until the night ends, and we can still figuratively "fly" when we let our love soar, when we take Jehovah's hand. His love is way up high.

 

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So my ways are higher than your ways

And my thoughts than your thoughts."

 

"Moreover, may the Lord cause you to increase, yes, to abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,  so that he may make your hearts firm, blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the presence of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones."

 

 

 

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"That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned—."

 

"...where sin abounded, undeserved kindness abounded still more.  To what end? So that just as sin ruled as king with death, so also undeserved kindness might rule as king through righteousness leading to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

 

That's why it's called "undeserved" kindness.

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I don't know anything about IP addresses, @boyle. It's your heart that shines through every time to make you easily identifiable.

 

"Out of the heart's abundance, the mouth speaks."

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Speaking of hearts, @boyle...

 

"The sacrifices pleasing to God are a broken spirit;

A heart broken and crushed, O God, you will not reject."

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4 hours ago, Matthew9969 said:

Have you ever heard the saying, love the sinner, not the sin?

 

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5 minutes ago, boyle said:

Do you believe God loves the unrepentant?

 

Yes. The Bible is clear that He does.

 

He sent Jesus before we had a chance to repent.

He lets the sun shine on the wicked and the good, because of His love for them.

He lets the rain benefit the wicked and the good, because of His love for them.

 

God's love is patient. 

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Look, @boyle, the FDS may say what they say about whatever, but the Bible is God's Word.

 

Jesus came to save sinners. Even the foremost of sinners.

 

God hasn't made His judgment yet. Why have you?

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(I have to go do some stuff, but I will be back later...🙂)

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2 hours ago, boyle said:

Does Rev 3:16 mean anything to how god will deal with so, so people?

 

Revelation 3:16

 

"So because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth."

 

Jesus was talking about their love. Their love was neither refreshing nor zealous.

 

The FDS likes to say that at Revelation 3:16 Jesus was talking about field service reports, but that's a bunch of junk. Jesus didn't put into place "reporting time". 

 

Jesus commanded that we show love. We don't "count time" we spent "showing love". Love is not something that can be measured by a "service overseer" or "service department". Love is not measured in "placements" or "return visits" or "talks given" or "comments given". That's a bunch of junk.

 

I'm not saying it's wrong to comment at a meeting or give talks or place Bible-based literature. But if love is not the motivating factor when a person does those things, well, it doesn't matter if they put 1,000 hours down on their "report" and comment at every part on the program - it's still being "cold" if not motivated by love. It's still being "lukewarm" if their heart isn't in it. Jesus can read the heart.

 

What good is it if a person has a "perfect" service report for twenty years and does every avenue of "service" possible, and yet that person doesn't talk to their own family members because they consider them "too worldly"? Or to their so-called "disfellowshipped" brother? Jesus would say that love is lukewarm or that love is cold.

 

"Let your love be without hypocrisy."