Approximately, these many folks die: 1.8 humans per second, 106 humans per minute, 6,360 humans per hour, 152,640 humans per day,55,713,600 humans per year.... Man, if that is not a sign of the end I don't know what is. Any one of us could die by the time we finish reading this? Or in the next minute quickly followed by another minute? The next hour quickly followed by another hour? In the next...more

Approximately, these many folks die: 1.8 humans per second, 106 humans per minute, 6,360 humans per hour, 152,640 humans per day,55,713,600 humans per year....

Man, if that is not a sign of the end I don't know what is. Any one of us could die by the time we finish reading this? Or in the next minute quickly followed by another minute? The next hour quickly followed by another hour? In the next twenty four hours followed by another twenty four hours?

The end is nigh!!! Repent of your sinful evil wickedness or you shall perish....

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gracefulwords, you show your lack of grace and gracefulwords by misrepresenting your opponents view and your general ignorance of the “true truth” of Reformed/Calvinist Theology. You sound like the typical Arminian with a chip on the shoulder to me. Ungraceful attacks on Reformation/Calvinism Theology is never ending. I can not say it any other way. You also do not know the true interpretation...more

gracefulwords, you show your lack of grace and gracefulwords by misrepresenting your opponents view and your general ignorance of the “true truth” of Reformed/Calvinist Theology. You sound like the typical Arminian with a chip on the shoulder to me. Ungraceful attacks on Reformation/Calvinism Theology is never ending. I can not say it any other way. You also do not know the true interpretation of 1 John 2:2 and I will give several links to studies on that below. If they do not convince you or others of the truth they teach then all I can do is leave you in God’s hands...I suggest you stop commenting on what you are ignorant about and do some prayerful, careful, serious study on the topic from Reformed Resources and authors themselves and not rely on others of like mind such as yourself. Your views are neither new nor are they original. Those who attack Reformed Theology attack straw-men and mischaracterizations and lies said about Reformed Theology, constantly, some with more venom than others. I hope and pray you do not fall into that same awful trap as it is very difficult to extract yourself from it and you may end up with much mud on your face and having to eat copious amounts of humble pie...

Here is just one essay you may like to start with and help to clear up your stereotyping:

The Sovereignty of God and World Missions by John W. Hendryx:

http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/hendryx02.html

and here are a lot more on Reformed Theplogy that will help you and others tremendously: http://www.monergism.com/directory/link_category/Reformed-Theology/

Take your time, precept upon precept, line upon line. Remember, most people HATE the truth claims of Reformed/Calvinistic Theology. Do you? Many on this website do.

I John 2:2:

http://www.reformationtheology.com/2005/10/understanding_1_john_22_by_pas.php

http://www.the-highway.com/1Jh2.2.html

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/securing-our-faith-ii/

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/whole-world/

http://www.ccwtoday.org/article_view.asp?article_id=22

http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_detail.php?1688

God knoweth we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requireth no more than he giveth, and giveth what he requireth, and accepteth what he giveth. - Richard Sibbes from The Bruised Reed

Indeed the Word of God is like the sun, shining upon all those to whom it is proclaimed, but with no effect among the blind. Now, all of us are blind by nature in this respect... Accordingly, it cannot penetrate into our minds unless the Spirit, as the inner teacher, through his illumination makes entry for it. - John Calvin Institutes 3.2.34.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright. - Martin Lutherless

Where in the Bible does it say the Samaritan was good? What the Samaritan did was good but he wasn't good in and of himself. No one is good, no not one, there are none that seek after God. Prior to the new birth, all are dead in their trespasses and sins, in bondage to sin and don't want a bar of God...btw, Perry Noble is a very clever crafty Scripture twister and false teacher using truth to do i...more

Where in the Bible does it say the Samaritan was good? What the Samaritan did was good but he wasn't good in and of himself. No one is good, no not one, there are none that seek after God. Prior to the new birth, all are dead in their trespasses and sins, in bondage to sin and don't want a bar of God...btw, Perry Noble is a very clever crafty Scripture twister and false teacher using truth to do it, and he is a bully of a man, he has his peoiple under his spell and total control you dare not cross him else the wrath of Perry will fall upon your noggin, but he wont get away with it...Judgment Day is a coming...less

johnson, my mind is renewed by not enough Christian truth, I cannot get enough. The renewal of my mind is absolutely essential. I am being perfected and one day I will be perfect just as my heavenly Father is perfect...if you knew the nonsense I once believed before I became a Christian you'd be freaking out...now I fear God alone and nothing else... The sea of damnation! (William Dye...more

johnson, my mind is renewed by not enough Christian truth, I cannot get enough. The renewal of my mind is absolutely essential. I am being perfected and one day I will be perfect just as my heavenly Father is perfect...if you knew the nonsense I once believed before I became a Christian you'd be freaking out...now I fear God alone and nothing else...

The sea of damnation!

(William Dyer, "Christ's Famous Titles")

"Or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance? But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when His righteous judgment will be revealed." Romans 2:4-5

Oh! who will pity you who would not pity yourselves—when you are damned—when you are howling and roaring in hell?

If the day of mercy leaves you graceless—the day of judgment will find you speechless!

There is no standing before Christ—but by standing in Christ.

Ungodly men fear no wrath—because they presently feel no wrath.

Because their sin is now unpunished—they think there is no punishment for their sins!

Because God continues to spare them—they go on to provoke Him!

Because He adds to their lives—they add to their lusts!

Because He is very merciful—they will be very sinful!

Because He is very good to them—they will be very bad to Him!

Because His justice now winks—men think He is blind!

Because He does not reprove them for their sins—therefore they think He approves them in their sins!

But JUSTICE will soon avenge the quarrel of abused mercy!

Oh! sinners, though the patience of God is lasting—it is not everlasting!

If by the warnings of God, you are not alarmed—you shall be consumed by His wrath!

The longer God is in raising His omnipotent arm—the heavier will be the blow when it comes!

The day that begins in mercy—may end in judgment!

God is silent for only so long; but know, that God has vials of wrath filled with indignation—for vessels of wrath fitted for destruction!

If God's mercy does not draw you to repentance—God's judgments will drive you to destruction!

The sea of damnation—shall not be sweetened with one drop of compassion!

"How will we escape—if we neglect such a great salvation!" Hebrews 2:3. If you neglect the great salvation—you cannot escape the great damnation!

Oh! sinners, think of this—before the bottomless pit has shut its mouth upon you!less

The Manhattan Declaration is a betrayal of the Christian Faith delivered once and for all. It contains a compromise of the biblical Gospel. That's what happens when working together for a common cause, something has to give...sad...don't revise it, throw it out completely...there is enogh confusion as it is... The Manhattan Declaration: Why didn’t you sign it, R.C.? ~ R.C. Sproul: http://www....more

The Manhattan Declaration is a betrayal of the Christian Faith delivered once and for all. It contains a compromise of the biblical Gospel. That's what happens when working together for a common cause, something has to give...sad...don't revise it, throw it out completely...there is enogh confusion as it is...

The Manhattan Declaration: Why didn’t you sign it, R.C.? ~ R.C. Sproul: http://www.ligonier.org/blog/the-manhattan-declaration/

The Manhattan Declaration - John MacArthur: http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/A390

The Troubling Aspects of the Manhattan Declaration ~ James White: http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3638

Further Thoughts on the Manhattan Declaration and a Response to Frank Beckwith - James White: http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3643

The Manhattan Declaration (Article) ~ Alistair Begg: http://www.truthforlife.org/resources/article/manhattan-declaration/less

johnson, that's because you don't think< carefully and deeply enough about the truth of Christianity. Lost sinners like yourself don't...your happy in your evil wicked sinful ignorance. You certainly won't be happy on Judgment Day if you die in an unrepentant state like you're in at present, you will end up in the torment of the endless void... The sure conclusion of a godless life! (...more

johnson, that's because you don't think< carefully and deeply enough about the truth of Christianity. Lost sinners like yourself don't...your happy in your evil wicked sinful ignorance. You certainly won't be happy on Judgment Day if you die in an unrepentant state like you're in at present, you will end up in the torment of the endless void...

The sure conclusion of a godless life!

(Henry Law, "Deuteronomy" 1858)

"They always heap up their sins to the limit!
The wrath of God has come upon them at last!"
1 Thes. 2:16

All men are born spiritually dead.

SIN entered with murderous hand.

It planted deep its dagger in the heart.

Knowledge of God,
love of His name,
delight in holy communion,
sweet fellowship with heaven,
the happy worship of unsullied praise,
the blissful gaze on the Creator's smile,
and all the circle of pure joy--
were buried in a deep grave.

The soul became . . .
a total wreck,
a withered tree,
a dried up stream,
a wilderness of weeds,
a starless night,
a chaos of beclouded thought,
a rebel's camp,
the shattered home of misery,
the region in which death reigned.

The eyes were dim and saw not God.

The face was turned away.

Each step led downward.

The hands were lifted in defiance.

The mouth was opened to blaspheme.

Man was a dying body holding a dead soul.

He moved as an unmixed evil--as a sin-spreading pest.

All this is sad--but there are sadder things yet!

This is tremendous woe--but deeper woe comes on!

This is dark night--but darker shades will deepen yet.

This is full wretchedness--but still
the cup may hold more drops.

This fleeting scene must end!

The earthly home must be left!

DEATH comes!

It drives poor sinners to their final home.

And what is that?

Reader, shrink not!

Withdraw the darksome veil.

Look down into the dread abode.

Ponder the lost in their low cells.

HELL is their everlasting doom!

Think not, that hell is the mere phantom of
brain-sick thought. It is no fable fondly framed
to scare weak minds.

It is a dreadful reality!

It is a gigantic certainty!

It is the sure conclusion of a godless life!

It is the gulf, to which transgressing
streams rush hopelessly.

And it is not far away!

It gapes before the feet!

Another step may plunge the ruined into this abyss!

But hearken! There is a Savior, who delivers from
this death. There is a friend, who bestows heavenly
life. Jesus appears, and on the cross endures the
death, and by His righteousness brings in new life.

"Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath!"
1 Thes. 1:10less

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body... JohnBartlett, you said: “God never "said" nor does the Bible say that homosexuality is sin. That is man-made superstition based on fear and ignorance, not scripture.”...sorry old chap, you’re wrong as usual. Homosexuality, besti...more

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body...

JohnBartlett, you said: “God never "said" nor does the Bible say that homosexuality is sin. That is man-made superstition based on fear and ignorance, not scripture.”...sorry old chap, you’re wrong as usual. Homosexuality, bestiality, fornication, adultery (even looking at another with lust is sinful adultery in the deep recesses of their heart) paedophilia, are all immoral sins of the immoral person, a sexually immoral person including those that commit the sexually immoral sin of homosexuality sin against their own body and against God’s Holy law. And they cause others to commit the evil wicked sin of homosexuality as well. Double is their woe...repent...the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through the LORD Jesus Christ, I AM.

Homosexuality and the Old Testament: http://www.biblebb.com/files/HOMOSEX.HTM

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Torment johnson, torment, your own and no one else to blame but YOURSELF...THE WRATH OF GOD: http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Attributes/attrib_16.htm johnson, flee, flee from the wrath of God that abides upon you...please.

johnson, change the word hell to the words "lake of fire" and that is where you will go if you die in an unrepentant sinful state. It will be eternal torment for you, the torment of knowing you were wrong. Horrors....: http://www.bible-researcher.com/hell6.html flee from the wrath of God that is upon you and repent of your evil sinful wickedness and you shall receive forgiveness of your sins...

“Homosexuality is normal, natural variant in human sexuality occurring in roughly 3-5% of the population. So what? Deal with it. Get educated.”...phoenix (ashes to ashes, dust to dust you shall go) homosexuality is an abnormal, unnatural, evil, wicked, disgusting, filthy, dirty, sinful variation in human sexuality occurring in those God only alone knows how many % of the population. So what? R...more

“Homosexuality is normal, natural variant in human sexuality occurring in roughly 3-5% of the population. So what? Deal with it. Get educated.”...phoenix (ashes to ashes, dust to dust you shall go) homosexuality is an abnormal, unnatural, evil, wicked, disgusting, filthy, dirty, sinful variation in human sexuality occurring in those God only alone knows how many % of the population. So what? Repent of it that’s what. Get educated, study the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, it is God’s Holy word and and He exposes crystal clearly the evil wicked sin of homosexuality for what it is really: SIN The wrath of God continually abides upon the unrepentant sinner who engages in the obscene sin of homosexuality and do you think God turns a blind eye to your sins? He is watching you even when you are sinning, he watches you while you sleep and while you are awake. He watches everyone all the time all at once....less

alafoli, you said: “Strange and creepy. I read your comment and can almost see you squirming of pleasure at the idea that people are homosexually raped in prison. I hope it is not the case.”...it's not the case at all...Homosexuality is a gross wicked unnatural demonic evil, it is the sin God gives people over to...whether it is the sin of homosexual rape inside and outside of prisons or the s...more

alafoli, you said: “Strange and creepy. I read your comment and can almost see you squirming of pleasure at the idea that people are homosexually raped in prison. I hope it is not the case.”...it's not the case at all...Homosexuality is a gross wicked unnatural demonic evil, it is the sin God gives people over to...whether it is the sin of homosexual rape inside and outside of prisons or the sin of homosexuality between consenters or the ensnared, by the wicked evil sinful human being that leads another naive and ignorant person, often young boys, if they can get away with it, into the pit of homosexuality...

Swept under the Rug
Ending the Scourge of Prison Rape

http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/11805-swept-under-the-rug

Ending Prison Rape
No Laughing Matter

http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/14569

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“....(101%) similar to the brain that KoneWone2 claims to have received from under his bed.”...101%? Did I really say 101%/ I think I meant 1.1%....sorry about that...roflolumss ho ho ho and bottle a rum....I ding donged me head when I fell outta me bed...

I think of myself heaps, I think what a rotten sinner I am worthy of death alone and to be cast into the lake of fire forever...do you desrve the LORD's grace and mercy? I sure don't..."Any man who thinks that he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows that he deserves hell, there is hope." ~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Lake of Fire”: http://www.biblicaltheology.org/lof.pdf will you end up there? I hope not...

pedophilia & homosexuality & beastility are evil wicked sins, all sin is sin, all sin is transgression of God's Law...the wages of sin is death, the unrepent sinner of homosexuality who dies in their sins will be cast into the lake of fire forever, no way out...

Sin is pleasure and it is hard to lay aside the pleasures of sin, what is a pleasurable sin to one person may not be pleasurable to another. Hyomosexual rape in prisons aint very pleasurable to the thousands raped inside the prison system each year no way no how...what a way to do your time in prison being homosexually raped every day, hells bells, a highway to hell...

I use 101% percent of me brain I think....

When God was giving out brains I thought I heard Him say trains and asked for a slow one, clackity clack, clackity clack,,,

"That's why I hold a low regard for Bible scholars. Most Bible scholars do not believe the Bible."...revran, I'd say Bible scholars that are not born again, not Christians, have a low regard for the Scriptures and do not believe the Bible to be true.

It would make a man to tremble... (Thomas Doolittle, "How we should eye eternity, that it may have its due influence upon us in all we do.") "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen." 2 Corinthians 4:18. The men of the world stand gazing at these temporal things—until their eyes are dazzled with them, and their souls damned for them! The good things in this world which are seen�...more

It would make a man to tremble...

(Thomas Doolittle, "How we should eye eternity, that it may have its due influence upon us in all we do.")

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen." 2 Corinthians 4:18. The men of the world stand gazing at these temporal things—until their eyes are dazzled with them, and their souls damned for them!

The good things in this world which are seen—such as riches, pleasures, honors—are things of time, and only for time; therefore we Christians are not much concerned whether we win or lose them. And the bad things in this life which are seen—such as poverty, imprisonment, persecution—are at longest but for a short space; and therefore we are not much concerned whether we endure them, or are freed from them.

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:18

That which adds weight to the things in the other world, which draws our eyes toward them, and keeps them fixed thereon—is the eternity of them. It is the observation which believers make—that all seen things are temporal; while unseen things are eternal; and this influences them in what they do. They realize that all worldly things are but temporary toys and trifles!

We seriously consider and weigh in our minds—the vanity, insufficiency, and short continuance of all visible things, both good and bad, whether profit or poverty, honor or disgrace; and the fullness, excellency, and everlasting nature of things unseen; and therefore prefer these eternal realities.

Believers are lowly in heart; but they look high. The men of this world are of a haughty spirit; but they aim at low things.

Take, then, a summary account of all that wicked, worldly men have—all is "but for a while." See what the richest among them have: their grandeur endures "but a short time;" and then is past and gone, and has no more existence. See what the merriest among them have—pleasures, mirth, carnal delights and joy: and this is "but for a season;" their merry bouts will be quickly over—and then follows weeping and wailing forever! Upon all they have, you may write, "All is temporal!" They had riches—but they are gone. They had honors and pleasures—but they are gone. They had many good things in time—but, at the end of time, all have an end! And then, when their endless misery comes, this will be their doleful tune, "All our good is past and gone!"

It would make a man to tremble, to think what a sight these sinners shall have, after death has closed their eyes; when their soul shall see an angry God, a condemning Judge, the gates of heaven shut against it, and itself in everlasting misery!less