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"Bart Goddard" wrote in message
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>
>
> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
>
>
> > After all, what Christ said in Luke 10 is very easy to understand.
> > It is quite hard for many to accept, because it enunciates facts
> > which many refuse to believe.
> >
> > 1) God knows what one would do under different conditions.
>
> Which doesn't imply any freedom. Just the opposite, in fact:
> People's wills are bound by these "conditions" they find
> themselves "under".

Another assertion. Prove it. That is, prove that they would |
not have freely willed it.

> > 2) The unregenerate would repent under some conditions.
>
> And if your God, Who says "What more could I do", doesn't
> provide these conditions, is He lying or just a monster?

More unfounded "logic?" NO.

God can't do the exact same miracles everywhere.
Further, I said that He does what can be righteously done.
And 2) above was referring to a specific unregenerate people
that Christ mentioned. There are obviously some that just
will not repent.

Glad to see you don't answer the argument at all, no attempt.
I wonder why?

You know, the argument that Christ used; that He was upbraiding
them because they would not repent, when others would have
repented.

Gary


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"Stephen M. Adams" wrote in message
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> "Gary" writes:
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> >If people believe Scripture they are saved from all sorts of error.
>
> And yet, they make all kinds of errors, especially with regard to
> theology, as they do not rightly interpret the Scriptures.

Very true of all of us, including yourself and me.

> >Further, as Christ said,
> >John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he
wrote
> >of me.
> >
> >Thus we see that a believing of the Bible in general has some
relationship
> >to believing in Christ and what He said.
>
> And before the Scriptures were written and collected???

Well, of course the OT was written and collected long before there
was any hint of the Orthodox Church.

We disagree upon which precedes which. I believe that God gave
the Scripture to the Church, not that the Church gave the Scripture
to us.

We can see from the OT how the "church" generally did not accept
the t