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On your first point, let me say this: 
Jn 1:9 "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. "
Jn 3:14, 15 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. "
Jn 12:32 "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
Jesus lights every man that comes into the world, and from Calvary, He drew ALL men to Himself, giving ALL men the ability to believe on Him unto eternal life. No possibility that Jesus' death was only sufficient for some. It is sufficient for all, efficacious for those who believe.
On your second point, the death of Jesus Christ paid the price for all sin, period. Not only some sin, ALL sin. Not 'sins', but "sin". All was paid for. Jesus is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the WORLD. No qualifying additions to make it only the elect of the world. And no, I said it would be cruel of God to demand anyone do something, but not make it possible for them to obey. If we MUST believe unto salvation, then God makes it possible for ALL to believe. If God says, "If you do not believe, then you will go to Hell!" But then, knowingly has made it impossible for most of humanity to believe, THAT is cruel and that is not the God of the Bible, though it surely IS the god of Calvinism.

Absolutely, because none of us deserve it. However, He has not, as Calvinism believes and teaches, secured some for salvation and secured some for damnation. Again, if God "commands all men, everywhere to repent", while not allowing a majority to obey that command, then He is, indeed, unjust. To dangle eternal life before those that he has willingly assured cannot have it, would be cruel and wicked. That is not the God I serve. If He tells all men everywhere to repent, He gives all men everywhere the ability to do so. 

On your first point, let me say this: 
Jn 1:9 "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. "
Jn 3:14, 15 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. "
Jn 12:32 "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
Jesus lights every man that comes into the world, and from Calvary, He drew ALL men to Himself, giving ALL men the ability to believe on Him unto eternal life. No possibility that Jesus' death was only sufficient for some. It is sufficient for all, efficacious for those who believe.
On your second point, the death of Jesus Christ paid the price for all sin, period. Not only some sin, ALL sin. Not 'sins', but "sin". All was paid for. Jesus is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the WORLD. No qualifying additions to make it only the elect of the world. And no, I said it would be cruel of God to demand anyone do something, but not make it possible for them to obey. If we MUST believe unto salvation, then God makes it possible for ALL to believe. If God says, "If you do not believe, then you will go to Hell!" But then, knowingly has made it impossible for most of humanity to believe, THAT is cruel and that is not the God of the Bible, though it surely IS the god of Calvinism.

Absolutely, because none of us deserve it. However, He has not, as Calvinism believes and teaches, secured some for salvation and secured some for damnation. Again, if God "commands all men, everywhere to repent", while not allowing a majority to obey that command, then He is, indeed, unjust. To dangle eternal life before those that he has willingly assured cannot have it, would be cruel and wicked. That is not the God I serve. If He tells all men everywhere to repent, He gives all men everywhere the ability to do so. 

At the risk of sounding flippant over it, bear in mind, even when you get out, (I assume you are where you are because you are living with family) the entire world is just like your living situation. Sometimes the Lord allows us to be in less-than-ideal situations, to strengthen us, to strengthen our faith and trust in Him, and to help you learn to keep a good stand for Him despite your surroundings. Paul preached in many places full of terrible idolatry, like Mars Hill, and it just led him to proclaim Christ all the louder.
Second, despite your good intentions, I would say it is wrong for you to steal and dispose of things that are not yours. In love, let your light shine to them, rather than being always offended-you love them, not their stuff; so love them. Again, Paul preached in Ephesus with such power, that the people brought their idolatrous books of curious arts together and burned them, at the value of 50K shekels-a lot of money. THEY burned them, not Paul. So I encourage you to seek to have that sort of godly influence, rather than resorting to theft, which is still wrong, even if you think it is for good. In that case, it is only your conscience that benefits, not theirs.

I am curious if the early church was tempting God to keep them safe when they met, and evangelized while living in an environment when either Jews or Romans might arrest or kill them at any time. 
I wonder if the Chinese or Middle Eastern believers, who have to meet secretly, in danger of arrest, prison or death, are tempting God for meeting.
In fact, we have an excellent 2000 year history of believers choosing to assemble in Jesus' name, and dying for the privilege. Why is this any different? Is God's arm shortened that He cannot save? Can we not say, as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said, "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.  But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." 
Or maybe we ought to say, "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the Covid 19, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O Governor. But if not, be it known unto thee, O Governor, that we will not cower in fear and skip the assembling of ourselves together, , nor bow before the pandemic which thou hast set up."
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15).

As for the issue of infants, Paul, I believe, made this answer clear, for those who will hear it: Romans 7:
7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8: But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9: For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10: And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Look particularly at verse 9: How was Paul, born Saul, under the law of Moses, alive once without the law? Simply, as a child, before the law came, or came to his understanding. Once it came, then that sin, which was present, (but ineffective, sleeping, dormant?) REVIVED, and he spiritually died.  This can only speak to the idea that, while present, sin has no effect on that person until they understand the law, or if you will, right and wrong, and can sin willfully, (doesn't mean they do, just the understanding of it awakens), at which point, that present sin revives, and that person becomes spiritually dead and in need of salvation. It isn't about an AGE of accountability, it is about understanding, which brings accountability.

As for the issue of infants, Paul, I believe, made this answer clear, for those who will hear it: Romans 7:
7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8: But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9: For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10: And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Look particularly at verse 9: How was Paul, born Saul, under the law of Moses, alive once without the law? Simply, as a child, before the law came, or came to his understanding. Once it came, then that sin, which was present, (but ineffective, sleeping, dormant?) REVIVED, and he spiritually died.  This can only speak to the idea that, while present, sin has no effect on that person until they understand the law, or if you will, right and wrong, and can sin willfully, (doesn't mean they do, just the understanding of it awakens), at which point, that present sin revives, and that person becomes spiritually dead and in need of salvation. It isn't about an AGE of accountability, it is about understanding, which brings accountability.

By default, if God chooses who will go to Heaven, then he has also chosen who will go to hell, thus taking the choice out of man's hand. 
 

The night sky from my farm in Herlong, CA. You can see my 69 VW bus there in the lower left.
 

Let's say no one would ever record and publish our singing. But singing in harmony and together was not our goal. Because of lags being different in people's computer we might call it 'making a joyful noise' rather than singing. It was fun, we laughed and congratulated each other.

We livestream our services, even when we are meeting together. We get more online than in person, though I continually stress the need to assemble in person at some point. We actually have folks who stopped attending our church years ago, who are mow regular online, so not sure what that's about, but we pray they will one day all gather together again.

In fact, there are still many American missionaries going forth to the world with the gospel. In fact, I just got a letter from a missionary today, in Thailand, who was telling of the many souls being saved and lives changed, even in the face of great persecution. The door is still open. Unfortunately, today, America is becoming almost a new mission field, as Christ is little preaches in many of our own streets and churches.

I believe the concept of the "universal" church is present in scripture, BUT, I do not believe it will be actually realized until the end, when we are all assembled together under Christ, directly. Since a church must be assembled to BE a church, with order and leadership, the universal church will not fully exist until that time.

There has been a conspiracy since the beginning, in the garden of Eden, when Satan began a campaign against the truth of God, and has continued unabated to this day.
The Catholics worked hard to keep God's truth from mankind through use of force and fear, and by killing anyone who dared interpret the Bible into the common tongue, or anyone who dared own a copy. When that failed, they sought to murder King James while his authorized edition, the shining star of the English Language, was being produced. When that failed, Satan put it to the hearts of two heretical Anglican priests to produce a new Greek text that had 'never been seen before, in heaven or earth", and we got the Westcott/Hort Revised Greek text, based primarily off of two (probably fake) manuscripts that disagree with each other more often than they agree, and this text was the basis for all the modern versions that have brought confusion and doubt to God's word ever since.
Yeah, there is a big conspiracy, just one most don't realize is so. Been pretty successful, I think.

I disagree-Trump voters voted in person, I don't think any sat around saying, "Oh my, Daddy Trump said not to vote by mail! Whatever shall I do?? Where is my milquetoast?"
https://thenewamerican.com/journalist-repeatedly-claimed-to-destroy-thousands-of-trump-ballots/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-virginia-mail-carrier-admits-attempted-election-fraud
https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-poll-worker-in-erie-pa-admits-to-throwing-away-over-a-hundred-pro-trump-ballots-on-instagram-video/
https://www.diamondandsilk.com/breaking-two-men-facing-charges-after-allegedly-forging-8000-voter-registration-applications-4/?fbclid=IwAR0Z_K8tEGuMVjhv3Qq8tfcY61iUYiozkwlwLSU4ziKfzY61iyRG0g-sZqQ
It is very easy to find-people seem pretty happy to admit to their fraud. These are just a very few. 

In large part, I agree. Trump had potential to be much better than either, and in fact, was better, but he kept some of the swamp denizens as advisors, which was a mistake. He DID need good advisors who understood politics better than he did, but he chose some poor ones. I think a second term would have given us a much better Trump.

https://neonnettle.com/news/13219-fec-chair-drops-the-hammer-the-results-are-illegitimate-
 
For over a month back in the 2000 election, not a single Democrat complained that Gore was demanding recount after recount, and delayed conceding for that time. Not ONE democrat insisted our country would never recover, or that irreparable harm was being done to the democracy, (we aren't a democracy, but that that's a different point). But now, its been barely two weeks and Trump is DESTROYING AMERICA! 

As for proof, sheesh, I have seen at least 2 videos of poll workers admitting they destroyed ballots: one tore up a Trump ballot on screen, the other said he had personally destroyed over 10,000 ballots, and knew his fellow counters had done the same. Of course, now they say they were kidding, but, are they? Or are they just now realizing how stupid they were to admit what they were doing to social media? It is these things that can be used as clear evidence of, at least intent to commit fraud.
 

There has been a conspiracy since the beginning, in the garden of Eden, when Satan began a campaign against the truth of God, and has continued unabated to this day.
The Catholics worked hard to keep God's truth from mankind through use of force and fear, and by killing anyone who dared interpret the Bible into the common tongue, or anyone who dared own a copy. When that failed, they sought to murder King James while his authorized edition, the shining star of the English Language, was being produced. When that failed, Satan put it to the hearts of two heretical Anglican priests to produce a new Greek text that had 'never been seen before, in heaven or earth", and we got the Westcott/Hort Revised Greek text, based primarily off of two (probably fake) manuscripts that disagree with each other more often than they agree, and this text was the basis for all the modern versions that have brought confusion and doubt to God's word ever since.
Yeah, there is a big conspiracy, just one most don't realize is so. Been pretty successful, I think.

Have you ever experienced Sphenopalatineganglioneuralgia?
It is the term for 'cold headache'. You know, when you gulp something cold and the middle of your forehead hurts. It is caused by the vasodilation of blood vessels. 
Great trivia question.

Someone totally unrelated to your church may have seen it and decided to just report it, just to be jerks, and of course, Facebook probably will do it, just because they're jerks. 

Generally, so would I, but it would serve as a defense against the JW's seeking to make what Jesus said somehow a piece of fiction, while still agreeing its a parable. Jesus spoke no fiction, and the lack of outrage by the Jews against this "mythical" place called Hell, as the JW's see it, shows that they fully understood what it was, and they agreed with its existence.

Someone totally unrelated to your church may have seen it and decided to just report it, just to be jerks, and of course, Facebook probably will do it, just because they're jerks. 

Why is it not a parable? Do we assume parables are not actual, true events? Do we assume Jesus made up just-so stories to make His point? That the God of creation, who knows every event in history, and beyond, in perfect detail, needs to make up stories to make His points? 
Or does He use actual events, with actual people, to teach eternal truths, every time? Why would a story like the woman who lost one of ten coins, be less an actual event, than Lazarus and the rich man? A parable is simply an earthly story with a heavenly lesson to it-that doesn't mean they aren't true and factual, as well.
When the JW's say this, they miss the fact that Paul, in Galatians, used an actual, historical event, with actual, historic people, as an allegory to teach a biblical truth, being the story of Hagar and Ishmael, and Sarah and Isaac. Being used as allegories didn't change the fact that they were true people and events.

From a simple, direct reading of the passages dealing with this, to me, it seems clear that it is directed at, specifically, a pastor/Elder/Bishop, whichever you'd like to use, the leader of a local church, that he be married to only one woman, ie, not have multiple wives at the same time. I don't believe it is saying that an unmarried man cannot be a pastor, (particularly with what Paul has to say about it being good for a man not to have the need to be married, so he can concentrate his mind on the Lord and His work, solely, as opposed to being pulled two ways, between a wife and the Lord). Nor do I believe this is a command against divorce; clearly divorce is not ideal, nor is it how God designed marriage to be, but that, in both OT AND NT, the Lord gave acceptable reasons for divorce, I don't believe that it keeps one from being a pastor, or that it is, as I have seen it practiced, the unforgivable sin. At absolute worst, it is a sin, and such sin can be placed under the blood and forgiven.  
Now, if a pastor is found to be unfaithful to his wife, it should be the church to hold him accountable, and consider, if he cannot be faithful to his spouse, ought he to be trusted with the Lord's church?