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Yes, the Jews had been given the word of God and the light of it, but prior to that the vast majority of fallen mankind had no notion and no hope of heaven/eternal life.

Do you believe the second coming of Christ has already happened then? Really I have no idea why/how you believe what you believe since you don't seem interested in explaining and looking at scriptures together. Did your beliefs come from the Lord, through scripture or from man? What might be...

Hmm, should we respect someone's view or call it "fine" if we believe them to be wrong..? That would seem to be dishonest to me. We can respect a person as a person and respect their right to have their view and express it, without respecting their view. I'm wondering why someone would start...

The bible says in more than one place that men are like the beasts that perish. And nature/creation itself teaches us about the tragic finality of death (apart from Christ). Seems to be a simple question of either mortality or immortality brother. In Christ and following Him we are seeking...

It's good to know there are some places still serious about evangelistic outreach and making it a priority. It looks to me as though the cares of life in this world has choked the fruit in many church groups and politicizing has become the new evangelizing. We need to resist the temptation to...

Yes, I agree Israel was a kind of natural type/figure for the church. The point is that Israel fell away from the Lord and reaped judgment for it. And now the church is also falling away. Just as prophesied. Will the church escape judgment? ( and the society that once at least professed...

Oops, am I misunderstanding.......or are you missing the point of Israel being an ensample to the church.....the church is supposed to take WARNING from all those things which "happened unto to her for our admonition and example", that we not make the same mistakes. But instead, the church IS...

Not hard to see how people are being led by their emotions....aka the flesh. Just for the record, I'm only too aware of the mess my country is in and have never voted for Trudeau and his liberal government. Voted against him and intend to do so again. Even though I know that things are not...

Well the passage I quoted in particular, because of the point I was making with it........but if you want or need to bring in the rest of the chapter or even other scriptures, by all means do so.

Do you know of any scriptures that teach there is a second chance after death? I only see a second death.

Yes, that too. And it's not good when God's people look no different than the world and want to trust in the same things the world does. The Israelites weren't trusting in their invisible King, they wanted to put their trust in someone visible and tangible and strong in a worldly way. In the...

No I don't think you hate anyone at all brother. Yes, I agree that false doctrine and beliefs need to be corrected and challenged, and the truth needs to be preached. When the church starts talking and believing like the world and agreeing with the world, we have to know there is something...

Yes please....I would like to know how you understand that passage in Matt 13. Trying to understand where you are coming from. I assume your point of view is from scripture, how you are seeing certain scriptures..?

And to think this has been in the heart of fallen man since the beginning. We see it came to a head with Nimrod and the tower of Babel way back, as well. It's the difference between the righteousness of fallen man (self-righteousness and filthy rags to God) and the true righteousness of...

Amen. Believers are conflating/confusing/mixing mere politics and practical considerations of administrating political affairs with some kind of holy war. This is idolatry. MIXTURE is NOT of God. It is an ABOMINATION to Him. We are to discern and distinguish between the holy and the common...

How about just sharing how you understand those scriptures in Matt. 13? Are you saying they have already been fulfilled? Aren't they speaking of the end of the world?

Salvation is by faith. Without faith one is not saved. Saved from what? Saved from sins and saved from wrath. What is wrath? The wages of sin...which is death. Fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Our God is a consuming fire. We need to understand that God's justice is a...

Apparently not, I'm afraid........since there are those who "die in their sins" and "perish". "Not for ours only" refers to the Jews, who Jesus was born to and who the gospel was preached to first.........and "but for the sins of the whole world" refers to the Gentiles of the nations who would...

I think we're being tested to see if we will put our trust in men and chariots....arm of the flesh....earthly solutions to the threat....or instead will we repent of false or diluted gospels and sin in the camp and look to the Lord from whence cometh our help. Only HIS blessing addeth no sorrow...

Amen, or leading to it. There is more than one kind of deception but I believe it's all leading to a culmination. The elect are being tested too, but in another way.