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Acording to my reading of Scripture from the Old Testament, there are many occasions where God demonstrates His Love, Patience, Endurance, Wrath, and Purpose to have a people of His own that would worship Him and Him only.I don't see any evidence to make me conclude that God's Justice was ever...

Hi Letsgofishing,All you have to do to settle this question is to look at the words of Jesus in John 17:12, "While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction (perdition), that the Scripture...

Hi Catholic Crusader, There are 66 books in the Canon of Scripture. Most of the Evangelical Christian world does not accept the Apocryphal books, sometimes called the Deuterocanonical books, as legitimate books of the Bible. Only the Catholic Church includes those books.(39 books in the O.T and...

Hi Kalixx,From your words;[COLOR=Magenta]"For example: One pastor working in the same church that I work for believes, and preaches, that Jesus was just a man, that the resurrection is only symbolic, that there is no 2nd coming, that there is no life after death, that there is no such thing as...

Hi Catholic Crusader,This is the first time I have replied to one of your posts. It's nice to have the opportunity to discuss our faith and our understanding of the Word of God. We certainly must be students of the whole Bible, since the Bible teaches the meaning of the Bible.I'd like to respond...

Hi Beano,Jon-Marc gave a good answer to your question about retaining your salvation.John 5:24, "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgement and has passed from death to life."Sounds rather complete and...

Hi Jon-Marc,You're right about differences within a specific church that should not be there. People, in their self-centeredness, get lost in needing to express that instead of discussing different understandings of the Bible -- which is the important thing, after all.I especially like the truth...

In viewing the various Posts about church and denominationalism in this topic, I notice that there is a back and for debate about church and following the Bible, really.I have experienced 4 or 5 different denominations and can tell you that I came out of them all because the only Truth we have...

Hi Kalixx,Your Words from your Reply to Stlizzy: "but it is even harder to place this tree in an evolutionary setting where there would be lots of other humanoid and sub-humanoid beings that had also evolved to this point. Would not at least some of them have also eaten form this tree of life...

Hi stlizzy,I like your Reply about your belief in God's existence or non-belief not altering the fact that He exists. That's good! And we could add to that that, if He didn't exist, nothing else could exist either.Ex nihilo nihil fit = out of nothing, nothing comes.Good logic. And I appreciate...

(Morning_Joy;40444) Wayne--I see your point in your post, friend.but may I ask another question?You stated that Christ died for those whom the Father had given Him. And you also stated that not everyone will receive the gift of faith. If Christ only died for some people, why did He only die for...

Hi Kriss,If you want to debate Scripture with me and other members of this Christian Message Board that is great! That's what I believe we are all here for . . . to learn by searching the Scriptures and coming back to the other person with our proof of our point and being willing to accept the...

Hi DrBubbaLove,Just a quick comment on these words in your last post:"Genesis1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."God said those words BEFORE the FALL. There was no sin of disobedience yet. Adam was a...

Hi Kriss,First of all, I understand what you feel about Christ dying only for the Elect. It really requires us to not only believe in God, but to believe God.By the way, the doctrine of Limited Atonement is not Calvin's; it's the Bible's doctrine from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22.You say that it...

Hi Adam,I agree with you that believers have been commanded by our Savior to go out and teach the Gospel of salvation to everyone we can. We agree here.However, I'd like to comment on these words from your Post:"The Gospel is for everyone to hear, and anyone can accept Him into their hearts...

Hi DrBubbaLove.I know what you mean about not wanting to see an infant as a sinful being. However, when do we start being human? At the time of conception actually, and certainly it's obvious once were born. We inherit Adam's Fallen nature for sure, but God is merciful. Look at you and me. We...

Hi Dukester,You're right! The whole world wants everyone to want everything possible.We must continue to separate ourselves from that world view. Romans 12:2 gives us a pretty good guide to follow, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be tranformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing...

Hi 2445,You actually have two questions here. Your title says, What If God Didn't Exist? The answer to that question is that you and I wouldn't either. We have received everything we are. We didn't create matter, animals, people, etc.But the other question involves my belief in the existence of...

Our Mediator between God and us had to have eternal worth in order to offer Himself as a pure and unspotted sacrifice to God on our behalf.Throughout the ages of the Old Testament, God's Justice had been veiled, somewhat, by His infinite patience in enduring man's sinfulness, even though...

Hi Kalixx,About evolution versus creationism . . . we can't have it both ways. Since we are Christians, God have given us the faith to believe that His Word is perfect, without error. And God says in genesis 1, 2, and 3, that He made every species to be its own kind and to remain that way...