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How is God going to fit a person into his plan if that person does not want to fit into his plan? If a person is unable to choose to deviate from God's plan, then isn't the entire plan nonsense? What I've read from your reasoning is that God is going to use the prevalence of evil to teach good...

You've misunderstood. I'm not saying that the meaning of the word "love" has changed from what it originally meant. I'm saying that love-- the thing itself-- has been misrepresented by its Greek definition, and the idea that it is divided into three Aristotelian categories. Every language...

Vietnamese has different words for love, too. Why are we talking about this again? My argument is not that the idea that love can be divided and categorized is specifically a Greek thing. My argument is that Greek philosophy (which accepts the division of love into Eros, Philea, and Agape)...

Conjecture, conjecture, conjecture, Thomas. Your reasoning is that Jesus said suchandsuch because there's no evidence to say that he didn't, yeah? Your references to Genesis (Jacob's ladder) and John (Jesus' explanation of Jacob's ladder)... where is the connection to there being two kinds of...

No, it is not. This is a myth, or rather a misunderstanding based upon the philosophy of the unenlightened Greeks. And I use this term on purpose-- unenlightened Greeks-- knowing that I am walking into a hornets nest, but the fact of the matter is that a society with no knowledge of the LORD is...

Precisely. The difference, of course, being that Jesus was given the power to rise from the dead. And that's why nobody else can establish the true Kingdom of Heaven: everyone who tries will be murdered by those who have a vested interest in keeping the world as it is. The fact that the...

Did Jesus ever make such a distinction? Was such a distinction ever made in the Old Testament? The letters of the NT were written to convince Greeks to come to Christ. The original language was intended for a specific audience for a specific purpose. The use of such distinctions is therefore...

"You probably shouldn't, but I hope you will anyways."

Only if that person is Jesus. And that's why Jesus is going to return to establish the kingdom. Haven't you noticed that every time some lone person has tried to do what you describe, they've been murdered?

"Imagine all the pee-ple, living for today... ah-AHHHHH, AHHHHhhhhhhhhh...." But there are countries, and there are possessions, and there is religion, and there are greed and hunger, and people do live for tomorrow, and there is no brotherhood of man, and John Lennon was shot dead in New...

Actually, that's at least $1.25 worth; don't sell yourself short :p

If God is love, and you can't divide God, then you can't divide love. That sort of division is a Greek thing and, in my opinion, is irrelevant to Christianity.

Can't he be both? Say I found a litter of stray puppies on the street, and brought them back to my farm (assuming I had a farm) to live there. And say that litter of puppies grew up to be a pack of dogs, and that pack of dogs attacked my sheep and killed a bunch of them. What would I do with...

No, I don't think that man was created to sit. I also don't believe that man was created to be glorified. I think that man was created to work. And I think that the simple works of man are what is beautiful in God's eyes: that his creation would be satisfied with the simple things in life...

Here's a surprise: I disagree :) My life is lived in service to the Lord. When I was 22, I was on top of the world: I had 2 university degrees, a high-paying job in a city on the other side of the world where money can buy you just about anything, I was in the best shape of my life and had...

An additional thought: Have you ever considered that you might be wrong? I mean, you're assuming that what you are contributing are pearls of wisdom, and you're assuming that those who argue are arguing because they aren't sharp enough to see the Christ in your words. Have you ever considered...

I didn't say anything, because I assumed you all knew. I mean, it's spelled out pretty clearly in the Bible, isn't it? You've read the Revelation of Jesus Christ, haven't you? I assumed you had, but maybe I shouldn't have. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. I know that because it's a Kingdom...

The problem with analogies is that they are never quite perfect. Again, your picture of a pebble thrown into a lake seems to make sense, but the world is much larger and much more complicated than a lake. Throw that pebble into the ocean; will it's ripples reach to the ends of the earth...

I love how every historian assumes that similarities must be the product of the writer of a later document borrowing from an earlier document, completely ignoring the fact that if we assume God exists, every account he would give would be consistent with the others. I seem to remember Jesus once...

That's beautiful. Too bad it's not true. Of course, it's what we all want to believe, right up there with "you can do anything if you put your mind to it." But it just ain't true. Before his death, Jesus prayed that we would be one. Right now, we are many, and as divided as the day that the...