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After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, some of the witnesses went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and plotted to kill Jesus. They were afraid that if they let him go on like this, everyone would...

Promoting spiritual growth is the opposite of dominating, intimidating, manipulating, and seducing.

Obviously there are good Pharisees and bad Pharisees. If you had family that were persecuted and killed because of the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus before he became the Christian Paul the Apostle you might well have an issue. Paul describes himself as a Pharisee in several verses of the New...

Take it easy, @Behold. Some folk have been raised in denominations that don't rightly divide the Word of Truth and are theologically disadvantaged as a result. That doesn't mean we can be rude to them, especially given numerous Biblical exhortations to edify one another in love. Rom 14:19...

They get judged, but good works alone don't meet God's criteria for salvation. If they did Christ's death was unnecessary. Heb 3:12-13 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (13) But exhort one another daily, while it is...

Trusting in works for salvation is evil. Faith without works is dead, but works without faith is iniquity. Mat 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. (22) Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord...

I'm assuming they are considered Godly because they observe a moral code and do good works, but neither of these give access to heaven and eternal life. Romans 5:1-2 (STANDING) Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access...

Let's narrow it down to saved and unsaved. No-one is born saved. The sacrificial death and shed blood of Christ is sufficient to cleanse and save every sinner, but not every sinner will be saved. There are many reasons why people reject Jesus as their Savior. Some people do not think they need...

No-one had Bibles for a few centuries, and when they were produced many couldn't read.

It's actually down to the world, the flesh, and the devil that some are willfully hardened to the gospel, not because they have missed out on the gift of salvation by divine decree. 2Co 4:3-4 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, (4) whose minds the god...

Before we got the internet I studied anthropology, sociology, and psychology alongside theology. For all that I'm often vexed by the adversarial aspects of group dynamics, particularly among Christians. Fortunately the resolution of conflict and restoration of relationship are major themes in...

I believe all Christians progress from being unproductive to being productive, as you suspect, and the reverse can also be true if the soil of our heart is not kept wisely. From my notes: SOIL CONDITIONS FOR SOLID CONVERSIONS As in the natural, so in the supernatural, or vice versa from...

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You're still quite new.

Parable of the Sower.

Called Preachers Today . . . I know people who call Billy Graham a preacher. You sayin' he wuzn't?

Is there an echo?

What about Billy Graham?

The command was to Adam so the consequences are to him also. Gen 2:15-17 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. (16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; (17) but of the tree of the...

Sharp. See this also: Rev 12:7-9 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, (8) but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. (9) So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old...