Recent content by FredVB

Nobody knows about the rapture, they would think they do. We are to be responsible here, and not be distracted from that. We will not be delivered from our troubles in this world. If we are to come out from the ungodly and destructive worldly system, that is for us to manage doing. When we who...

God works in mysterious ways, probably few have much insight into those ways. Yet through everything it is for us to trust God, who has given much for us, and has good will for us who seek God and God's will for us.

The Spirit, God's Spirit, is who works with us for having us grow the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, with these for caring for others with compassion to be more like Christ, and there should not be limit to...

Salvation is with faith that is with repentance.

Are you living right with God? If you remain in ways contrary to God you should change when you see that, otherwise assurances for our eternity with God are not certain to apply. You know repentance is essential in faith we are to have.

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.