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Originally Posted by Chan
Now how about actually answering the specific questions I asked: Do you deny that Acts 1:8 is a promise that applies to us just as it did to those 120 who were shortly after that in the upper room receiving the Holy Ghost? Do you deny that you are called to be a witness for Christ?
I didn't deny any of it. I just think it means something different than you do.
Well, no, you do not have ownership of it. Your life belongs to God to do with as he pleases. And, no, you don't have FREE will because God does not give you the right to choose against Him.
I DO have a free will to do WHATEVER it is I choose to do. I even have the right to choose against Him. I will suffer the consequences of those choices, but I do have the right/ability to choose. That is a gift from God.
Nor did I even remotely suggest such a thing!
Nor did I even remotely suggest such a thing!
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Where does the BIBLE tell you to "enjoy all I can of this life"? Where does the BIBLE say God gave us this world to enjoy? |
Where does the Bible tell me NOT to enjoy all this world within the confines of God's word?
You can't be saying that God gave us all this beauty and vastness of His craftmanship as the Creator only to tell us that we can't enjoy it. The world is not the garden of Eden nor is it the tree in the garden of Eden. We have NOT been told to refrain from the pleasures of this world unless they are ungodly and unwholesome.
Sorry, I don't buy your argument from silence. You can refrain from all the godly pleasures of this world you care to.....not me!! I will not raise my children in that kind of an environment that prohibits them from God's gifts, both natural and spiritual.
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