Recent content by FredVB

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...

I would say that the unpardonable sin is dismissing God's revelation as lies. Just like those who said God's works which were seen were from Satan. There are ways to respond rightly to God.

What you call the left is nothing united, many separate movements having hardly anything to do with each other get lumped in the terminology as the left. I can recognize this without being among any if those getting termed together as the left. I seek being obedient to God's commandments. Do...

This is not with recognition of the fruit of the Spirit. This is what spiritual growth involves. Our redemption is involving being brought out from sinful lives, to living more in the way of God's revealed will with our responsiveness, which comes with that growth. One can grow to conform to...

What did Button say that would indicate he is not a believer who is born again and needs to stop being self-absorbed and self-serving? That's an assessment of what is general in our world, it does mean we should make effort to move out from such, and it is not wrong that what we are led to...

There were more disciples besides the ones that were appointed and those that became apostles. There were possibly 500. There were separate times that Jesus appeared after the crucifixion and death, one time, Thomas was not there, another time he was there. Luke seems to have been writing about...