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Your observations are good, but your conclusion does not explain the truth of "Why" these things are so. Indeed, all have fallen short of the truth--by design. The reason for this, is that since the world began until the end, every generation is to get a fairly similar opportunity of believing...

Interesting history--thanks! I suppose the Original Post should have perhaps used the term "perverse" which many translations have replaced with "gossip." The KJV translates Strong's H8419 in the following manner: froward (4x), frowardness (3x), froward things (2x), perverse things (1x)...

...and it is hard to correct a nice, well-meaning man. :(

Gossip is one of those things that people "mean for evil that God has meant for good." Part of the reason that God created the world dividing the light from the darkness (evil), is that "the man of sin is revealed" in us all. Which by gossip a man of sin does to himself. The KJV translates...

It is true that God has allotted our whole lifetime for the purpose of salvation, which can be misunderstood to mean that it is actually not finished until the end of our life. However, there is also given an exception to it being a lifelong process, which is that "today is the time of...

Jesus also told some not to "tell anyone" about the acts of God that He did...but it is rather the rest of scripture that declares that Jesus (the Word) is God, saying from the beginning, "In the beginning God...", and that "All things were created through Him and for Him." It is also written...

You speculate as a man, a natural man. Have you not read where it says, "the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual?" Thus, indeed the flood of Noah was natural--but what was to come was not natural, not by natural flames, but by holy fire. As for the...

What Solomon wrote is indeed true, as all who are born of the flesh into the world are as dead, and only praise the Lord when they have heard the good news of His coming. The passage does not mean that the dead are in heaven, for the dead do not enter heaven. Therefore the message from Christ is...

That is not true, as it is written "you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world", and "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world", and again "they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." As for Paul not teaching the joy of...

Again, there are other factors that answer your speculation and belief in something that does not exist. Time ended "today" for both Jesus and the thief on that day, as time does not exist in "Paradise"--"no shadow of turning." Meaning, it was not "future."

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Indeed--"Today is the time of salvation!"

Jesus was speaking to those of that time and that generation to whom He spoke, saying to them in particular, "You" will see these things come to pass. Which should have been enough to identify just what He meant. However, having said that, history tells us that they did not actually "see" those...

And the enemy is often--us. Like the kingdom of God, the battle is often within us, in which case we do well to seek Him, for it is He who is the victor.

Each generation gets its own allotment of challenges and progress in serving the Lord. But it is a two steps forward one step back routine leaving us personally not much more advanced as when we started--by design. Yes, we carry the water of the gospel and if we are determined we will gain in...

Relax. The battle is God's and we are only a part [by choice], which is to except the gift of eternal life and live forever. But the battle is already won. If you do not know the end of the story that you are now living in the midst of, keep reading of it. Otherwise, you have little more to do...

All things are given in parables. We have gone out from God and may or may not return. If we believe, He will see us through both. It is a promise of safe passage.

Again you turn things around. I do not have a question. You said only time will tell indicating you could not actually answer, and I have given you the answer to the question of when Jesus would return, after you were pressed and revealed that is what is keeping you from believing all truth...

Now you bring another passage with accusations. But what was Jesus' answer? He spoke of things that have always occurred, saying "Take heed that no one deceives you." He spoke of the dangers they would see in taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, saying "but the end is not yet." Then He...

Say what you like from that lofty place you assume looking down your nose, but I have stated the matter plainly and without the ceremonial confusion of these many ages, not of my own sentiment, but from God.