Immaculate Conception

[BB1956]

If you don't tag in Miamited, he'll never see your posts.

This is how it's done: (I'm doing it for you this time)...


miamited

Ok, thanks

 

[miamited]

Hi BB1956

Yes, if you want to send a notification when you mention someone in a text, I always use the @ before the user name and it will come up like this in the post BB1956. Usually if you just put the first 2-3 letters of any user name the program will pop up a drop down box to pick from a short list, or even a single name to choose and then it will fill in the rest of the letters of the name.

Further, if you want to make it easy that you don't have to do all of that. If you are responding to a particular piece of someone's post you can highlight it, just as you would if you were copying and pasting, but instead of right clicking, when you highlight it a little dialogue box will pop up to allow you to 'quote' the underlined passage.

Then you will get a 'quote' box under the post that you are writing and you can click on the 'quote' box and it will put the quote in with all the identifiers for the person who actually wrote the words. And you can put the quote anywhere in the body of your text you like. That's why you see posters with several quote dialogue boxes in their responses.

You may already know all that but if you don't, here it is. But yes as wondering said, if you want to make sure specific people see your post, then you should @xxxxxx and it will look just like I did with wondering.

God bless and I am enjoying learning from you.
Ted

 

[BB1956]

Hi BB1956

I honestly have no idea how that issue ties in with what you copied me on.

[quote/]Miamited said,
Uhh, I don't think so. The Scriptures are not for disciplining the world. [quote/]

Yes the Scriptures were given to all mankind, but not for discipline, but for hope. I don't know where you ever got the idea that I believe that Jesus didn't die for all mankind, but I've read the Scriptures!!!!! I know that Jesus also told us with his own mouth, that there were two roads out of this life. One was broad and wide and many will choose it. The other was narrow and so only a few would find its way to eternal life.

So my understanding is that Jesus died for all, but per Jesus' own words there will apparently be more that refuse his sacrifice than accept it. Those few who accept it will be the only ones for whom Jesus' death will have been benefit. It is God's will that all men come to the knowledge of His salvation and be saved. But the Scriptures are pretty clear, oh, in the account of the rapture. Where those left behind are then thrown into the winepress of God's wrath. Oh, when the armies of the world come up against Jesus and his army...all men won't.

I'm glad we agree on that.

Get no argument with me on that. In fact, it is my very argument. Thanks for explaining it to the others who, maybe you didn't think understood what I was saying.

God bless,
Ted

Right from the start God wanted his word to be obeyed. So when God told Adam to not eat from the forbidden tree, God's purpose, what God wanted for Adam and all his offspring, was for them to be obedient to his word. So as I said the scriptures were given to all for disciplining mankind, not just for mankind to have hope. As I said God doesn't want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone, every human to live forever but God has always said that those who will get that everlasting life would have to love him enough to exercise Faith in him. Just because many choose to not love God enough to exercise faith for him doesn't mean that's the choice God wanted them to make, nor did he give his word to those only who would exercise that faith in him. Anyone today even if they're not a Christian can pick up a Bible and start reading it, and anyone who's not a Christian can pray to God and ask God to help him\her to understand the scriptures, anyone who is truly sincere, and God can read minds and hearts, so he knows who truly is sincere, but if that person is sincere when that person prays to God, God will use his Holy Spirit to make sure that person gets the help he\she has asked for. So yes, God has given his word to all for discipling mankind.

I understand what Jesus said about the broad road and narrow road that doesn't mean though that God wanted the many to choose the broad road, and just because the many would choose the broad road doesn't mean God didn't give his word to discipline all mankind either. Those many who will choose the broad road will be disciplined by God's word. Will it be a discipline of adverse judgement because they continue to choose the broad road?, yes!

 

[miamited]

Hi BB1956

Right! And as far as I'm aware the rest of civilization has obeyed God's word to Adam. I don't even know where the tree of knowledge is.

God bless,
Ted

 

[BeyondET]

But noah found grace in the sight of the Lord..

There is also the question was Mary without sin from birth ?

She wasn't born from above as she has physical parents without a divine nature .

Noah sure did drink alot after the Flood.

I think Mary wanted the wedding reception to go smoothly and have everyone leave pretty toasty saying now that was a great wedding reception. Throwing a great wedding was part of culture then and probably still is.

Both these accounts seem to involve alot of wine.

 

[BeyondET]

Only one had lived a sinless life on earth.