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"They are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: But, In Isaac shall the seed be called. Therefore it is not they which are the children of the flesh who are the children of the real Israel: but it is the children of the...

What'll you do Jerry if you can no longer find some way to 'trip me up'? Mike.

I want to be led aright with all my heart....please believe me. It's just that with absolutely no denominational affiliation who could expect me to endorse all the sacred cows that have devloped over 2000 of the most drastically changing years of oppression and theological warfare that have...

Well if that's it then I must bring forward what IMHO would have to be my final overview. The Old Testament was for the old 'Israel', to lead them as a schoolmaster to Christ, yet still served , in the case of Timothy to make him wise unto Salvation, and still served in the various ways quoted...

Mike.

Bearing in mind that there was no ‘Bible’, as we have come to know it, until Constantine and his State adopted Church (later to become the Roman Catholic Church) decreed that a selection of the Apostolic writings should (hundreds of years after Christ’s launch of his church) be added to what we...

I was referring to the last 27 posts......but only because they happened to be there. This is bit like you saying that I am intransigent in my opinion that Christians ought not to be intransigent in their opinions. Good fun ain't it? Mike.

This is an intriguing thread and maybe an eyeopener to the nature of the site. For the first 20 posts the thread remains on topic but thereon becomes a battle for supremacy between two somewhat less directly related points of view regarding 'Debt' From post 30 onwards three or four others begin...

Ah yes, but the difference is that my 'speciality' is to not hold anything with an assertiveness that does not give due cognisance to the darkened glass. About the essentiality of that in a believer's life I have indeed "already decided". Mike.

I find that some of Bullinger's convictions match my own. I find that some of Bullinger's convictions conflict with my own. I find that I am intriqued but unabe to fall in line, with the remainder. I find that to be the case with many 'theologians'. I imagine that there will be many who find...

Way you go then.....I was only trying to help. Mike.

My brother Clint, Unless Masonry has changed dramatically you won't get into one of their meetings let alone be allowed to ask questions. You worry too much about too many things.....The human instinct is to wallow in mystery and to exalt in pretending to its mastery. The same propensity is...

Like it or not, lump it or protest, the fact remains that we live in a time of incredible denominational division of the Church of Christ. And that is exactly what was foretold by Christ in his parable of the mustard seed that grew into a great tree, the branches of which then ultimately (in...

Aha, Hyper dispensationalism if I remember correctly.....I'll click into Jerry's link as soon as I get a mo. Many thanks....Mike.

This is what happens when you use human words in relation to God who is a Spirit. Exactly like I have just done. Mike.

"Words build a wall around God until he can no longer be seen" Theophilocrates

Not for me to be assertive about the 'Bible'. What I am assertive about is that whatever may be the case with the Bible, it is not a part of the Godhead, whereas the Holy Spirit is......and that the appointed task of the Holy Spirit is to convey the Living 'Word of God' into the fleshy tables of...

Hello Irish, Maybe we need to talk together about the Kingdom. The way I see things 'Eternal Life' is 'gifted' and spans between opening the door of one's heart to Christ, through to finally entering and remaining thereafter in God's New Jerusalem. I see that as being in two phases i.e. 'in...

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. At 74 I look back on a life of successive failings and I conclude the ultimate purpose to life is to be brought so continuously to our knees of ambition that when we finally see...

Howdy Clint (now that I know your name) I see, from several posts, your emphasis on what you see as dangers to our faith. If you quench not the Holy Spirit of God many of theses dangers fall into subordinate concern. He is appointed, since Pentecost, to be the communicative essence of God's...