Dr. Phil will answer for himself but you seem to be confusing "biblical" evil with sin (man's folly!). They are not one and the same for if they were God would be the author of sin which is impossible.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

rhymnrzn2zion wrote:
Observation Post said:
"but when it comes to prophetic interpretation we'll need to part ways"

Ah brother, What is that to me? I would keep the whole testimony that God has most certainly given me, but you do not recieve it: such is this whole generation.

Lance Eccles wrote:
Alternately, one could see it as a desire to share in Christ's sufferings.

Isa 53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.... if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead (Rom 4:24)

Icon O'Clast wrote:
When will we wake up?!?

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17:26-30

Rom 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

Jhn 6:28-29 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

It's not how much we can do for God in the form of good works and publishing lists of new sins to merit His favor (for those filthy rags will send one to perdition because it is blasphemy and rejection of the Holy Spirit) but if we live by faith, trusting in Him alone, He will make His abode in us and work His works through us for without Christ in us, the hope of glory, we can do nothing pleasing to the Father.

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day: (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them): Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deut 29:14-2

Deu 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Lisa wrote:
Im not sure im claiming to be any different.

Lisa wrote:
(John Calvin Commentary on John 3:16)

Just an observation-i hear the name John Calvin worshipped on sermon audio at a ratio of perhaps 3;1 compared to the Messiah of Israel.