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As I understand your posts, you have no interest in other people. It's only you and God. And if you get a million dollars, you would keep all of it for yourself?

You said, God is not finished...

My (too often imperfect) love for and caring about others is not work righteousness. It is God's perfect love reflecting off me, shining through me, enveloping and serving others.

waltero, God loves me. His love reflects off me onto others. I love and care about others because He loves me.

Agape love – a love of action, that responds to a need.
Yes, agape – a love that...

Please tell me how I think.

WG: God needs me to tell others about His love

Yes, He does. He says so in the Bible. It's a command. "Go ye therefore and teach...."

There are several definitions for the word "show". You are...

You and I aren't in the same rowboat. I'm done here.

How will God spread His Word and His love without us? Us is all who believe and love in His name. How did we come into belief and are able to love? Through others who were brought into the faith by...

How will God spread His Word and His love without us?

I'm not starting to think that.

How will God spread His Word and His love without us?

How will God spread His Word and His love without us?

I posted two so far.

I agree.

God needs me to tell others about His love --
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matt. 28:19 (KJV)
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And your narrow-minded fundamentalism doesn't wash here.

Do you speak and read English?

Prov. 8:17: I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Acts 17:27: God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any...

So Jesus thereby negates all those other inspired passages.

You're wrong. The Bible has many, many passages similar to the ones I posted. Give up, Charlie.

Again --
Prov. 8:17: I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Acts17:27: God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far...

Post #257: You said, "None of those say that we can come to God without Him first calling us. However, these passages ALL say that no one can come to God unless God first reaches out to that person....

Not in so many words.


Even you agree the verses I posted are from the Bible and were inspired. And they do say someone can come to God without God coming to him first.

Huh? You didn't get my sarcasm toward your (not God's) comments?You did. (Inspired scriptures aren't good enough....)

Why do they have to be the words of Christ?

So if God's not interested in drawing someone to Him, that person is s*** out of luck?

Of course, they do! As well as yours do.

Yes, I agree, the verses I posted are inspired. (Reading and comprehension problems again?)

You want Jesus' words? Like this?

Matt. 7:7-8 -- Ask, and...

Why are you saying (twice???) that the verses I cherry-picked (NOT my opinion) don't support the opposite of what you claim, that my quoted verses are not inspired scripture, are not the words of...

Um, see examples above.

Now tell me, why do Bible verses contradict each other?

Again --
Prov. 8:17: I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Acts17:27: God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far...

My verses are much more explicit. God wants us to seek Him and will respond.

"We cannot reach out to Him first?"
Not according to the Bible.

Yes, we can -- according to the Bible.

Prov. 8:17: I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Acts17:27: God...

What does God have to say to us? Where or how?

We cannot reach out to Him first?

All fiction of any genre used to be in the 800s (literature). American Fiction in English was at 813.54. There was no "fiction" section with FIC/Author on the spine; all books had numbers on their...

I don't like, so I won't.

Now you're talking "degrees," not "levels".

...just a little.

Ask any librarian. Ask any fiction author. Yes, you are welcome to your ideas. Free country and all.

Only to you.

There is no such word -- or concept -- in fiction writing or reading.

Nope. I'm traditionally published and a librarian. NEVER have I heard the term "fiction levels".

There are no "levels". They are called genres, categories.

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/the-17-most-popular-genres-in-fiction-and-why-they-matter/

All Quiet is not fiction; it's historical fiction.

Name other fiction "levels".

Fiction has no levels.

DW is incorrect ("Historical novels may or may not include fictional elements.") Historical novels ALWAYS include fictional elements. That's why they are shelved in the fiction collection, not in the...

Thus, you have now given a good example (actually, TWO examples) of my definition in post #215.

How so?

Is either historical fiction?

I have to butt in. I was a librarian for over 25 years, shelving library materials, taking inventory of them, and for fourteen years cataloging them. (Btw, sunsets are not considered historical. And...

I put on my librarian hat and found this:

"When a bone is broken, the body produces fibrous tissue, called a bone callus, to protect the injured area. That's the bump you see. Then, bone cells...

Let's say Atticus was an eyewitness centuries ago. He wrote a book about his experience. Anyone who reads that book is not an eyewitness. That person's report about it is hearsay.

Example: The...

You are deliberately misunderstanding. Why?

You are cherrypicking and not understanding what he wrote. Context!