Recent content by FredVB

After the creation from God with everything of this world called very good, there was the rebellion to God with the sin from the first of humanity, and the image of God that was tied to the stewardship to this earth with the dominion did not continue, there was curse spreading in this world with...

Have you ever said you were wrong? That you are sorry? Well, then. Now has Trump ever done that? You would need to find and link proof of that. He himself says things that are a clue that he doesn't ever do that.

Can we be free from sin? In this world we likely never know. But we should become free from known sin. Once we know things to be sin, being contrary to God, we have no excuse to continue just as much in those, and not being free from them. We can trust God that it is possible to turn from those...

I was playing soccer in phys ed when I was a kid, and doing surprisingly well at it for a brief period, which I enjoyed. But I was growing quickly at that time and lost advantages I had, and did not continue with that. I wasn't much into watching others play.

All the church is not the "true Israel". Promises to Israel were really to Israel to whom God made the promises. Gentiles who come to Christ are grafted in to be included as the people of God. But they do not even observe all the things for the people of Israel, they should though observe the...

There were such forbidding marriage, in churches more recently, I think Shakers were like that, in Bible times there were gnostics like that. Now vegans get accused of that, but it is totally untrue. Though divorce may be easy today there is divorce that could be completely justified. There are...

We credit ourselves much more than needed for what is really up to God, we just may do our part, with what God gives us. God will still be fair to everyone. If somebody rightfully needs to be burned in fire God can have that happen. But I would not depend on imagery from what is full of...

Wanton sexuality is not what God meant for us in this world. Marriage is the institution for a couple that would have them committed to staying together, with the sexuality to remain between them, and this institution is to be applicable to any. Sexuality is not to be held in contempt, but be...

Doctrines in the early church were not all completely right, even if more that were in the church then were really believers. Much about what the earliest believed is forgotten by most now, though there are separate accounts from around that time that give clue about what they thought...

What I see is bread and circuses, such will keep people in general content and distracted, that they do not see anything worth it that they would protest and maybe revolt for.

God cares for all, I am sure all are given some opportunity, though we who have come to the reconciliation God provided should help others have more opportunity for this too. Any of us should act with love, which would not go contrary to God's will, being in the heart of one in the new covenant...

God is absolutely just, so that means God is absolutely fair. We should not want to settle with God's fairness. Our problem is that we do not see how contrary to God we go and how horrible we are, in rebellion to God and what we do to others. Fairness will involve our unhappiness in what comes...

There is God's grace for failure... on our part. It is giving us further opportunity. It is not for disregarding what God said. It is opportunity with God helping us to grow, that we do as we should. Love and compassion are not excluded.

If what that is would not be hell, how would it be desirable? I am sure it would be most desirable to avoid it however fair it is, for what God freely provides for us which was at great cost.

So there is Hades and Gehenna... this means there is no hell? I would not argue that there is torture from God. What is imagined from imagery on hell is not a part of belief that I speak for. Yet we all basically start off at enmity with God since the ancient fall, taking on culture around us...