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BUT WAIT...there's no more??? (I hope that is not taken to be in poor taste.)

Oh, I get it now. For you are basing your conclusion that Mr. Agrawal is probably right about Google AdSense being more inclined to reject a Google Blogger/Blogspot blog than a WordPress blog upon the fact that when you do a Google search of "Blogspot Rejected By AdSense" that you will get around 97,000 hits. I actually got 94,700, but I get the picture.

You could further bolster your position by adding that when one does a Google search of "WordPress Rejected By AdSense" that they will only get 25,700 hits. Well, at least that is what I got.

I also did a Google search of "Bigfoot Is Real" and I got 1,920,000 hits. ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS???

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Did that article happen to mention why all of those Blogspot blogs were rejected? I couldn't find it myself. Would you care to provide a link?

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Bingkee is exactly right about Google owning both Blogger/Blogspot and AdSense, and this makes Mr. Agrawal's whole article suspect in my mind. Of course, anyone on WordPress would think it's great.

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AMEN!!!

Okay, maybe something got lost in translation or I just plain misunderstood what you were meaning. For what I thought you were advocating was copying what someone else has wrote, which is stealing. Whereas, following their example is not.

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Do you and your readers really think that it is cool to steal things from others? Granted, what you are advocating may not be prosecutable, but it is still stealing.

Yeah, many are well able to laugh all the way to the bank after suckering someone. I hope you are not one of them.

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I would like to express my sincere appreciation for allowing such a discussion to take place. For on far too many sites, it would not have been. God bless you, my dear Isaiah!!!

Okay, I understand where you are coming from, my "friend" (this is in reference to you signing as "A Friend." For you are referring to the elect being more worthy in the sight of our Heavenly Father than the reprobates, but what I was referring to is in regards to the elect being called to come to Christ and the reprobates not, which would have to be a huge advantage since only those who are called can come to Christ {John 6:44}.

Be assured that what was promised to Abraham and his descendants also applies to all who are truly in Christ {Galatians 3:26-29}, and it is in this that we can be confident. For our Heavenly Father wants to spend all of eternity with those who want to truly be His children by faith, but all who do not will be cast into the Lake of Fire, come Judgment Day {Revelation 20:15}.

Please understand that I am not insisting that all will be saved. For only those who want to truly be who we were all created to be will be welcome to spend all of eternity with our Heavenly Father in His Kingdom of Heaven as heirs to all that is His in glory.

No, it is not a failure of our Heavenly Father if not all want to come to Christ when they are called. For it is true that Satan cannot steal any of His children by faith away from Him {John 10:25-30}, but this does not mean that they cannot leave out of their own freewill. For it is truly is as it is written: For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame. {Hebrews 6:4-6 NAS}

Hence: the source of our Heavenly Father's great wrath. For despite all of His efforts to prove Himself worthy of receiving all of our love and trust, far too many will still ultimately reject Him.

Come on now, how can it be said that the elect do not have any advantage over the non-elect (innate or otherwise) if they are drawn by our Heavenly Father's Holy Spirit and the non-elect are not? For who can come to Christ unless they are drawn?

Why would you-all want to believe that our Heavenly Father would want to do such a thing? For there is no disputing that He can do anything that He wants with what He has created for His own good pleasure, but there is no reason for Him to create some for glory and others destruction.

Yes, Romans 9:16-25 poses that very question, but be assured that it is a rhetorical one. For God has bound ALL men over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them ALL {Romans 11:32 NIV}.

Would you be so willing to accept such a doctrine if you were convinced that you were not among the elect? For I can see where being amongst the elect would certainly make you feel really good about yourself, but in what light does this portray our Heavenly Father?

I must admit that my previous question was plumb stupid. For I fully accept that none of us can come to Christ unless our Heavenly Father allows and enables us to.

The question that I meant to ask is in regards to what our Heavenly Father has revealed to me about the subject as opposed to what many who openly profess to be Calvinist preach. For our Heavenly Father has revealed to me that all are called to come to Christ. Granted, some are called to come early in their lives, and others are not called until way later. In fact, there are even those who are not allowed and enabled to accept Him as their own personal Lord and Savior until they are on their deathbeds, but the bottomline is that all are called.

Now, this is not to say that all will accept Him. Tragically, more will not than will, but no one will be able to honestly say that they were not given more than an ample opportunity to be saved from receiving what we all deserve, come Judgment Day.

Perhaps I have been deceived about what I understand. For what I keep hearing is that many Calvinists insist that only certain ones are allowed and enabled to come to Christ, which are the elect.

Okay, why would the elect always choose life over darkness after regeneration by the power of our Heavenly Father's Holy Spirit and not the non-elect?

If the elect, according to Calvinism, have no choice in the matter, why would our Heavenly Father create us as we naturally are in the first-place?

Yes, Romans 3:10-18 serves as a fitting description of my natural self. Then, our Heavenly Father became real to me, 28 years after I had been "saved and baptized" according to Southern Baptist doctrine, and now this passage also applies to me: For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. {2 Corinthians 5:14-21 NAS}

Included below is the urls (links) to a couple of articles that might help explain what I have been given to say about our freewill.

http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/20...

http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/20...

Why is it so hard to accept that all are predestined to be His children by faith, but since it would not fulfill our Heavenly Father's purposes to force anyone to spend all of eternity with Him in His Kingdom of Heaven as an heir to all that is His in glory against their will, He gives us the freedom to choose?

He still failed to explain how the elect are determined--did he not?

Be assured the expository prayers give our Heavenly Father the blues--regardless of the content.

Oh YEAH!!! Was that some Beatlesque guitar rifts that I was hearing at times???

Does it not make sense? For the Russians know that Obama will not stand up unto them like McCain would. Therefore, they would want to do whatever they could (within reason, of course) to help the so-called foreign relations rookie get elected.

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It all depends upon what we want to believe. For unto those who do not want to accept that the souls of all aborted babies go straight unto the very bosom of our Heavenly Father, abortion is an abomination that should be stopped at all costs.

Now, unto those who want to believe otherwise, it should be made clear that making abortions illegal again only exacerbates the problem. For our Heavenly Father does not distinguish between those who directly participate in the committing of an abortion and those who refuse to recognize that natural life begins at conception. For the reason why we want to do something is more important unto Him than what we actually do!

Therefore, it is the changing of hearts and minds that all Christians should want to be of help with, and this cannot be accomplished through the passing of legislation. For if our Heavenly Father’s own Law is powerless in the flesh to effect righteousness {Hebrews 7:18-19}, what can even a constitutional amendment achieve?

Yes, it can be argued that preventing abortions from happening would save participants the added shame of having committed murder after they have come unto their senses, and I am quite sure that many would be most grateful. Nonetheless, if just thinking that there is nothing wrong with having an abortion the same as actually having one in the Light of our Heavenly Father’s absolute Truth, what does it really matter?

But lurking is so cool, and once you're out of the shadows there is just no going back. By the way, have you heard about this: http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2008/08/jes...

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I don't understand why the possibility of there formerly being life on Mars would be a threat unto Creationists? Yes, I understand that most of their beliefs are based upon what is contained in the Bible, and that there is no mention of physical life being anywhere but here in this world. Nonetheless, there is also no mention of the Western Hemisphere of Earth in the Bible, and it most certainly exists!

No, I cannot provide anything scientific unto the discussion, but I can leave some food for thought. For when I asked our Heavenly Father about whether He had created "others" somewhere else or not, He explained that whatever He may have done or not done anywhere else has nothing to do with us in this world.

Wonderful post!!!

It sounds like this is a good time for this: http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/20...