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  1. Runningman

    The Case for Eternal Security

    There is still a wall that everyone needs to get past after all the creeds, verses, and commentary are said and done. Each one will be judged according to their works. On a works-based judgement eternal life is either given or not. Romans 2 6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.” 7To...
  2. Runningman

    The Crippling Effects of Christian Dogma - Mindless Parroting of Apologetics

    It seems to be a matter of people trying to make God bow down to their credal idols.
  3. Runningman

    Why didn't god give every soul as much time as it needed to become good? Why send so many to hell?

    I can understand your feelings on the matter since the mainstream doctrine of hell requires a stark contrast to the God of love and salvation the Bible says He is. The matter is that hell isn't a place of eternal conscious torment where those with the most seemingly small of unforgiven...
  4. Runningman

    Does it matter which version of the Bible you read?

    Thanks and I have to say the topic you've brought up is excellent because it's not only something thought provoking, but it's something many people feel passionately about, including myself. So I actually read a lot of different Bibles just because it's so easy to do that online and most...
  5. Runningman

    Does it matter which version of the Bible you read?

    Yes it matters. For starters, some Bibles are translated with bias and agenda. There are sponsors who hire translators to make a Bible a certain way. There are some 100+ Bible translations and versions in English. There are also different base manuscripts from which the various Bibles are made...
  6. Runningman

    Why did Jesus have to suffer and die?

    Yes and it's important to note that it wasn't only a human body that died or else any body would do. For it is not the physical body itself that sin originates, but from the heart, from thew soul itself. Jesus never sinned even in his sou so that is what was sacrificed, not just a body. When...
  7. Runningman

    Why did Jesus have to suffer and die?

    And the last part that says "...to the glory of God the Father." It's important to give God glory where glory is due. Jesus won't be getting that glory for it belongs to God alone, the Father, the only true God. (John 17:3) Philippians 2 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to...
  8. Runningman

    Your Soul IS Immortal, Until...

    Hello Davy. Do those in hell get eternal life? Perhaps we can glean something about the mortality of the soul from Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians. 1 Cor 15 53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
  9. Runningman

    What are the main doctrinal differences between Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Christianity?

    As I said before, God is Holy and Spirit, but His Spirit isn't a separate person to Himself. There is nothing conclusive about Acts 16:6 that says the Holy Spirit made a decision or if they were prevented via the power of their Holy Spirit anointing. You have not demonstrated the Holy Spirit is...
  10. Runningman

    What are the main doctrinal differences between Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Christianity?

    Or the Holy Spirit isn't a person in the Godhead since the literal reading of the verse you quoted and I quoted allows for that interpretation. The "Holy Spirit" is sometimes a designation for God Himself, aka the Father or YHWH since God is Spirit and is also holy then He's Holy Spirit, not a...
  11. Runningman

    What are the main doctrinal differences between Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Christianity?

    That also proves the Holy Spirit is not a third person in the Godhead of the "trinity." If no one has seen the Father except the Son then the Holy Spirit hasn't seen the Father. If you would like, I will go an extra mile with you until you understand this. Matthew 11 27All things have been...
  12. Runningman

    What are the main doctrinal differences between Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Christianity?

    If you're one and only God isn't the Father then you have an idol. It's as simple as that and I didn't write the Bible. John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 4:6, 1 John 5:20, etc. Their day is coming. Revelation 21 8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and...
  13. Runningman

    What are the main doctrinal differences between Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Christianity?

    While JWs got a lot of things wrong, it was a grand slam on their part that they successfully identified that Jesus isn't God. Therefore, they don't have the idolatry problem that all of the Protestants and Catholics suffer from.
  14. Runningman

    Your Soul IS Immortal, Until...

    Close, but it's actually that only God is immortal.. until... He gives someone the gift of eternal life. Those in hell do not have the gift of eternal life. Therefore, the human soul is only conditionally immortal. The condition being God's decision. 1 Tim 6 16He alone is immortal and dwells in...
  15. Runningman

    Hello Walter. May God bless you, brother. I hope you're doing well. Love, Brother Runningman

    Hello Walter. May God bless you, brother. I hope you're doing well. Love, Brother Runningman
  16. Runningman

    Who is Jesus Christ?

    The answer about who Jesus is, as revealed by the Father in heaven, is below. I say don't add anything else to this. Since Peter was praised then you will be, too. Matt 16 13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”...
  17. Runningman

    What are these orbs people are seeing?

    I looked, by the way. I don't have them. I recall deleting them some years ago.
  18. Runningman

    What are these orbs people are seeing?

    They might be on my very old digital camera collecting dust in a closet somewhere. I will make it a point to check later when I have time.
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    What are these orbs people are seeing?

    I don't know with certainty, but I have seen them before in a house I lived in. I told my room mate there is something crazy going on. Managed to catch a few on camera and sometimes if you zoomed in close enough you could see a face in them. All of their expressions looked menacing. If they are...
  20. Runningman

    SALVATION: BY GRACE OR BY WORKS? A FALSE DICHOTOMY

    I'm glad you quoted it because it was already on my radar if you denied the rest of the verses. It only supplements the point of being judged by works, i.e., the things you do whether good or bad.