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Hello @NewMusic We have every reason, considering present trends, to believe that believers would be able to communicate with and rally to help and rescue those in need, as we always have in the past. There is no lack of faith I can assure you. I know that God is able to do far more...

Hello @NewMusic, I live in the UK, and see on the news refugees fleeing from their countries of birth for many reasons, including war and conflict, and seeking asylum here. With rising sea levels, I can see the movement of people taking place both internally and abroad, who are fleeing their...

'For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged.' (Rom 3:3) Hello @Grailhunter...

Hello @NewMusic In the light of your request that we do not discuss this further, for it could overtake the main purposes of your thread: I will only say that though it is true that you cannot prove something by a negative; you are justified in taking note of it's absence in the light of the...

Hello @Addy, Yes, it was for, 'the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him' (the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ) that Paul prayed for first: for the readers of his epistle to the Ephesians, in Ephesians 1:17+; and in both that prayer and the one that followed in...

Hello @Taken, Yes, I agree that this warning is very much needed. The role of the parent is underrated, when it is the most important role anyone can possible have. To bring up a child in the way that he/she should go. Children are handed over to teachers who are duty bound to teach to a...

Hello @Addy, By the time Paul wrote his last letter, to Timothy, he was talking in singular terms, and not corporately. It had come down to personal faithfulness to the word received: for all in Asia had deserted Paul, and presumably His message. Timothy in Ephesus, was surrounded by dispute...

Hello @MatthewG, We know that ultimately there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth, 'wherein dwelleth righteousness' (2 Peter 3:13): in which God will be all-in-all (1 Corinthians 15:28). Before that we know that Christ must reign until all enemies have been placed beneath His feet (1...

'He hath made every thing beautiful in His time: also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.' (Ecc 3:11) Hello @Naomi25, Thank you for your response. :) Yes, resurrection is what we all look for, I agree...

Hello @stunnedbygrace, I am glad you have responded to my post, for I began to wonder if you had me listed as one that you did not want to see posts from, because you have not responded to my previous post. :) I meant neither yourself or @MatthewG any offense: but just wanted to clarify the...

Hi @Naomi25, I have only now read your OP, and have not read all of the responses that you have received, so if I repeat what others have said, I apologise. * My first thought is that the parables of Matthew 13 are described by the Lord, as 'The mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven' or 'of God'...

Hello @MatthewG, With respect, and a great deal of love, you are like a little hedgehog who curls himself up and hides when danger threatens. You do it by surrounding yourself with words. I am sorry that you feel threatened by what you have heard from myself and from @quietthinker, but please...

Hello @MatthewG, With respect, that is your 'thinking', your 'feeling', whereas this thread is dealing with the 'facts' concerning what happens at death. Feelings and thoughts are nebulous, it is only Biblical fact that has any soundness. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @stunnedbygrace, Yet, the thread is concerned with physical death, and not the state whereby the unbeliever is reckoned to be 'spiritually dead', isn't it? :) Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, The spirit is breath, the breath of life, it has no substance. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, Our spirit, or 'the breath of life' which energises us, goes back to God Who gave it. It is life giving breath, not a disembodied spirit. Our Lord Himself commended His spirit to God too, in Luke 23:46. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, I prefer to search these matters out myself through my own Bible Study, for only then can I be sure that the information I am receiving is sound. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

'And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' (Gen 2:7) Hello @MatthewG, God says in Ezekiel 18:4:- 'Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the...

Q) Where do people go to when they die? Hello @MatthewG The soul is not immortal, it can and does die (Ezekiel 18:14). There is only One Who has immortality as we are told in 1 Timothy 6:14-16. Ecclesiastes 12:7 tells us that the body (which is made of dust) goes back to dust, and the spirit...

'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' (Heb 11:1) Hello @I.O.U, * Believers of old believed God: and we believe God too, Whom we know cannot lie. We believe the testimony of God concerning His Son the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 1:1-4). * Also the...