Recent content by wayofthespirit

.Thankful, Is that you saying that we are both on pretty much the same page....or are you suggesting that I am in need of further correction? Mike

I just try to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling and I don't have a problem with God doing whatever he chooses without my permission or ruling on whether it accords with something that others consider him to have said and be bound by. If per chance someone cannot work out...

I'll discuss things with Agnostics, Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, whoever. IMO, when Christ came it was to open up the way to God for the entire world.....not just for the few believers within the 31% for whom Christianity is their 'native' religion. I believe that there will be multitudes...

'Truth' seems to be on much the same page as me on the question of 'Hell' The word ‘Hell’ did not exist in the days when the scriptures were written. It didn’t emerge until the KJV took three completely dissimilar words and loosely translated each of them to mean something that medieval...

I did a BibleGateway search through the Epistles on the word ‘avoid’ in order to find the verse re marital fidelity that I half remembered. It was interesting that the word also only occurred in three other places in Romans, Timothy, and Titus and each seemed to me to be very pertinent to a...

"Rev 19:12 says, speaking of Christ, "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. But ......I do. EH???? I am getting long in the tooth, and with old age comes the tendency to repeat oneself, so please...

Our sovereign God is working his purpose out using both his servants and his enemies in order to do so. And that is regardless of whether they do so either willingly or knowingly. Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things...

This morning I’m thinking in particular about the way in which God speaks to us (well…… the way that he speaks to me) For me (acknowledging that it’s different for others) God does not speak via my five human senses (in that he doesn’t do so by written words that I can see, nor does he appear in...

I mean ‘between you and God’ One thing that I feel strongly about is that both the question and the answer is ‘between you and God’ and ‘between me and God’, and ought not to be between you and me in terms of each telling the other how it should be. But that is how I feel and whether or...

An amalgumation of all the 'One anothers' from the Epistles. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Owe no man any thing, except to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. Let us not therefore judge one another any...

Be my first thought every morning and my last thought every day, and in between this vessel fill, to think and act ‘Thy Way’ Then when to sleep my soul returns, may the dreams upon my bed, reflect the wakened moments, till my circle of life is led At every point Christ’s love to show, in all I...

I was raised by parents who, as a result of two extreme tragedies, insisted that 'God' should never be mentioned in our home. Yet I can remember being so certain of the existence of God that I carried a miniture New Testament in at all times and superstitiously relied on its presence in my shirt...

All I can offer is a re-arrangement of the same English words in another way. But the meaning remains unchanged “It is as equally useless as it is unseemly to discuss the most solemn truths publically in a careless or fiercely argumentative way.”

I came across a brilliant quotation that is so appropriate to Christian Forum Discussions yet it was from the lips of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman almost 200 years ago. He said: “Now, we allow ourselves publicly to canvass the most solemn truths in a careless or fiercely...

Fivesense, The Bible surely exists for the benefit of those who are able to read it rather than for the benefit of those cannot. For that reason the vast majority of its content concerns those can read it, and only a small amount concerns those who cannot, However two passages refer to the place...