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Originally Posted by Tallen

Children's Catechism

1) Who made you?
A. Yahovah, who is our one true God.

Verses to learn:
And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Yahovah: I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of El Shadday (God Almighty), but by my name YAHOVAH was I not known to them. (Exodus 6:2-3)

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2) What else did

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God in a Box?, Chapter 2, God is Pleased with His Creation

I could say a lot about this chapter. At this point, I'll skip the concordance section where Chad found numerous verses related to pleasure and concentrate on what may be considered a heretical statement.

On page 24, Chad writes, "It pleased God to create man high in the created order; to create man in His image with His nature and dominion over all the works of His hands (Gen 1:26-28, Ps 8)."

The ...

God in a Box? Chapter 3.

Chad Marinelli's Deception

As Chad starts out Chapter 3, he quotes D.R. McConnell's "A Different Gospel", Page 143. Chad uses the 1995 edition.

"The Word of God is subject to the will of God: it is not an independent force to which God must dance. God is faithful to his word, but he is not enslaved to it."
Now Chad goes on a rant that any real Christian would agree with had he quoted McConnell accurately and contextually. ...

You will note that the author only took a small piece of the quote. Here is the whole quote:[/B]

7. They deny that it is ever said in distinct terms, God decreed that Adam should perish by his revolt.50[5] As if the same God, who is declared in Scripture to do whatsoever he pleases, could have made the noblest of his creatures without any special purpose. They say that, in accordance with free-will, he was to be the architect of his own fortune, that God had decreed nothing but to

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An expanded thought on a comment made by Chad Marinelli, God in a Box?

In his section called, "Sovereignty, Sin and Suffering", Chad wrote on page 20, "God does not ordain every sin we commit as Christians, as Calvinism teaches 15. This would make God the author of every sin in the universe."

His foot note reads as follows:

15 “God not only foresaw that Adam would fall, but also ordained that he should … I confess it is a horrible decree; yet no

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