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Any scene in a church that you describe above is no doubt madness. It's an embarrassment to the witness of the Gospel.

Here is the relationship.... God's energies are bent in communicating his character, precisely because men have a faulty understanding of it....and what's more, they insist on maintaining a faulty understanding. The Gospel communicates good news and the purpose of tongues is to do exactly the...

I would say 'other tongues' is primarily the message of the Gospel. It is a different message to anything heard by the people of that day. In the same vane, we today can also speak in 'other tongues' to the general narrative of the times. ....and what is the general narrative of the times? Is...

'Blood' ole mate, is representative of life, just as you quoted Leviticus 17:11. Jesus gave his life. He gave it, it was not taken from him. He gave it willingly. John 10:18 'No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the...

We are broken people, some more than others, either physically or mentally or spiritually, yet we are loved with an everlasting love. In other words, God's tenderness towards us does not run out. Repentance is about realising the futility of disfunction and choosing to want it better than it...

It does. Would a similar question be 'what is the appropriate and correct interpretation of scripture? Are the two questions connected at the hip? ....and secondly, God asked Moses after he kicked up a fuss about not being able to speak well, 'who do you think made man's mouth?', in other...

Satan's claim was that God was selfish. Everything God wanted he made with a word. The only way Satan could be disproven was to allow men and devils to throw their worst at him. If God was selfish he would surely retaliate in some violent form .....so God humbles himself and becomes a man so...

I speak in tongues, two to be precise but I usually only use one. However, what I speak is for the purpose of glorifying my Saviour and yours. When the boys spoke at Pentecost, what was it they spoke? well, it tells us they spoke of the wonderful works of God. It emphasises the subject...

There is much I could say re your post here BL. However, it will suffice that I comment on one item of your post, the underlined, 'show his glory to defend himself' This might surprise you; Jesus did show his glory on Calvary's cross and it did defend him. It verified the nature of God and...

hello, what happens after the 'hi'?

Yeah, well, the figuring process takes time. It's just too easy and tempting to draw conclusions with insufficient info. / knowledge Using your description of Peter, I can confidently say God does not hold a person's natural disposition against them....particularly dumbo's....of which I'm grateful.

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G'day Pierac, Would you consider that God doesn't need death to satisfy anything. Death is as foreign to God as light is from darkness. Why on earth would God want death? God is far far above the pitiful rational of fallen man who glorify death as 'sacred'; as if God requires payment.

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? Could we also substitute the word 'have' for 'need'.....it's no doubt the same idea. I don't think Jesus needed to die except for us to see the lengths that God would submit himself to convince us of his affection for us. He would allow us to kill him rather than hurt...

Man naturally shrinks from the holiness of God. It is a consuming fire. It exposes our failures so we invent our own meanings to the word 'holy'. This satisfies the carnal nature......and so the 'religious' mindset is furthered. When Jesus returns with all his angels, those eagerly waiting for...

I guess he saw the serpent as a serpent ....just as the Jews still do today. As for 'sin crouching at the door', I guess he figured that if Cain didn't get a handle on his attitude towards Able, matters were going to escalate. I have no doubt God spoke with Moses yet Moses filtered what he...

I find it helpful when I understand the perspective Moses wrote from. Unaware there was a devil and their' God is one' mantra, they attributed everything that happened (both good and bad) to God. So this being the case, (in Moses's mind) of course God caused the flood. Jesus reveals to us there...

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? Because men couldn't stand his holiness.

This is an anthropomorphism, ie attributing to God characteristics of fallen man. Genocide is a man made devil inspired activity. It is foreign and opposed to the revelation of God in Jesus. I think the antediluvians were sharper than we give them credit. In my view they experimented with the...

The Flood is attributed to God. The reason given is all the wickedness prevalent. However, God is omniscient, ie, all knowing. The Flood made no difference to the trajectory of men. Evil surfaced within short space. If God was the instigator of the flood and he knew it wouldn't change the...