Recent content by FredVB

You are welcome to show me the passages clearly showing that, in proper context, without our cultural values today imposed on those. My point though was that there is not text saying our original ancestors Adam and Eve were ashamed then of their nakedness. It does say they were afraid, and we...

There are things many believe from passages in the Bible that are read out of context, and the passages on their own are misunderstood. I really hate seeing those taught as if doctrine, that others should believe. And worse, there really are things that were put into translations of the Bible...

I am generally very careful to not read into scripture passages that I am reading anything else. And that Adam and Eve were ashamed of their being naked after eating the fruit they should not have is not there in the text. Go ahead and look for it. They were afraid, and that which was meant was...

Jesus Christ as the Word with God who is God is always in union with the Father. The only time that he seemed to not be was when he bore the penalty of judgment for us, for the atonement made available, on his way to where the cross would be, and on it. With his reign there will be the great...

I do not think there is a perfect church. Perhaps there is a church where a believer will best fit. They may help it be a better church. But like others they are likely not perfect either. But I have seen insurmountable problems in churches before, and left where I saw it would lead to greater...

Jesus would not give an answer when the answer should not be given. Some things asked may not have an answer with any meaning we can understand. But Jesus does have answers for anything that does have an answer. He may give that to us with our right approach with humility and thankfulness when...

I see doing what commandments from God say for us is important. This is what repentant believers, the ones really saved, come to with growth that all of them should have. And God's will for us is beyond that, which should yet be pursued. But none of that is saving us. We would already be saved...

To obey God's will for us with our observance of it is quite important. But what is it? I would say what is revealed earliest is, and things revealed later differing with it is accommodation or compromise for us with our sinful nature and stubborn ways, that God will not continue to hold against...

The diet of Adam and Eve had after the fall was still from plants that grew, most of that from what they could manage to grow themselves, it still was not eating things from animals, anymore than what was in the very good design from God to start with. And we are not in better health with using...

These approaches are all good for general practice in communication with any others. Media has done well in places to have users forget ways to speak with each other that they would have with any in person, and there is negative reinforcement that grows. I am on X too, I have the profile Fred...

You greeted me here among others welcoming me to this forum with you telling me, "I would like to offer up some advice for you, for me and for all I suggest we become more concerned with what OFFENDS GOD rather than what offends man. For what offends GOD damns man." I would say it was wrong to...

There is little if anything people in general have as information on what their descent really is. It is almost entirely unknown. Fortunately, regardless of any interpretations, God is not willing that any just perish, and makes the way of salvation not difficult, that any with repentance can...

What I am must be more than my body. But what is it? How do we define what more there is besides with a word we use for it? What would someone be like if they could be physically alive and moving, without any soul?

The true church, that of all the real believers, is not visible to us, not being any of the recognized organizations. There are disagreements among all, but not all those are about essential stuff, none of us are inerrant. The body of all real believers will all be reconciled in the restoration...

I believe it should be a general practice to help or rescue animals where we happen to be there when they are in need of help or in some trouble they cannot manage themselves. And I think there is something really wrong with animal abuse.