When I give a free gift there are no conditions. The person is free to take it or not. In the case of the free gift Christ gave us through his resurrection, those who didn't want it the free gift of salvation through Christ fought with Lucifer in the war in heaven and were kicked out of...
When Adam partook of the fruit and God placed an angel to block the way to the Tree of Life, "lest Adam partake of the fruit thereof and live forever in his sins," Adam truly became his own agent. He was truly independent having fallen from the presence of God. He was accountable to his own...
When man was placed in the Garden God gave him the ability to choose, but until man partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, man was not accountable for his choices. True agency is man's indepedence from God. God's purpose for us is to develop the attributes of...
John the Beloved, John the Revelator was not John the Baptist.
John the Baptist taught and baptized with the Aaronic Priesthood. The Apostle John was commissioned of Jesus Christ to administer His Church as He organized it prior to his crucifixion and death. The Apostle John received the...
The Apostle John starts his testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by declaring that Jesus is God, Jehovah, the Son. The "Word" is Jehovah, Jehovah is the Creator and the Savior, who was gjven the name Jesus during His mortal life.
The god of the jews is the "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob". Beside Him there is no god. Is the Muslim god the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? No he is not. The Muslim god is not the God of Jacob (who later was given the name Israel after wrestling with an angel). Muslims do not believe...
"Free will" is a corruption of language. The correct term is "agency." And I most certainly believe in and sustain the agency of man over the erroneous concept of pre-destination, which removes the agency of man. This term "pre-destination" is also a corruption of language. It was devised to...
If "Christian" businesses desire to not provide services to protected classes of people as defined by the State, then they need to refuse to serve their BUSINESS of providing labor against their conscience. As a consequence the business no longer has the resources to provide services to certain...