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I've been doing that for decades myself. :) (Holding my breath in elevators if someone coughs or sneezes, and when I pass people in grocery isles). The common cold would knock me around as hard as some people get the flu, so I've always been very cautious about any sorts of viruses and do my...

Good Morning @waterlilyoflife I am so sorry to hear of your broken heart. One thing I try and do - when I find myself with a friend and we start talking about things that concern us, or we hate - is to stop our talk about it - and go to prayer about it. If I can, may I please encourage you in...

I'm just looking back into this issue again now (as per my questions in Genuine Questions for Cessationist's ), but there's one thing at the moment I can't get my head around and that is the difference between blaspheming the Son of Man, and The Holy Spirit: Mat 12:31-32 Therefore I say to...

Thanks for that. If my view changes - it will need to be because I see it in scripture (and not to make scripture twist to my view - but be obvious. However - in saying that, I have found value in getting other's understanding of scripture. Many years ago when I was younger I did this with OSAS...

Hi @Anthony D'Arienzo Thanks so much for taking the time out to reply, and in such detail. Can a Christian be demonically oppressed (not possessed, but oppressed), and if so - could you please share some thoughts? Glad to see cessationist's have the same differences on some topics as the...

Quite true Joseph - you make a good point there, and thanks for pointing that out! I do note that these nations you speak of are different - in that they weren't Christian nations to start with, so there wasn't that legacy to fall from. I fully acknowledge your point though and my initial...

Thanks again @Enoch111 Would it be fair to say that cessationists follow "sola scriptura", in that because there is no more revelation (outside of scripture) that all we need must be found in scripture, and scripture alone? If so - I was wondering if you have any answers or insight to a...

+1. My thoughts exactly.

My apologies. I have not read the article mentioned at this point. If I may though I would like make reference to Daniel 10 where it appears as though there can be designated demonic principalities over nations (such as Persia and Greece). From my limited outside view of America, it appears as...

Thank you @Enoch111 so much for your reply. I really appreciated it. I'm sure I'll have more questions to come :) , but just to start with... ... I wouldn't have called it crazy laughter - just a good belly laugh (the kind when I see for the first time something surprising and funny - like...

Hi, This is a genuine (and probably unusual request), but I am hoping to have some fruitful discussions and gain an understanding of what Cessationist's believe - and why they believe it - from actual cessationists. Humbly, and fully respecting that this is not my forum - is it OK please if I...

I think we need to be very careful here not to read into scripture what is not in scripture. All we know is what you have posted - that "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven". This does not mention anything beyond that, and I will speculate that...

I suspect you're right - it's partly about money - but at the very top - I believe that the media is completely controlled demonically now. (And it's not the only institution that is). Money keeps the lower people in line - in check so to speak, but at the head of this - I suspect we're dealing...

Do you believe the Earth 6,000 years old, or 6 billion years old? Do you believe in Evolution or not? I don't believe it matters so much what you believes with this - I am far more concerned about why you believe what you believe. If someone has come to the conclusion by searching through...

Drop bears are a bit of a joke around Australian's as to a made up mythical creature, that's effectively a carnivorous koala that drops out of tree's onto it's unsuspecting prey. Basically part of our weird sense of humor. Basically in plague proportions from what I saw. Cause all sorts of...

I'm not sure it is totally being judgmental. (That is part of the reason for my question). Jesus tells us not give what is holy to dogs, or to cast our pearls amongs swine. (Matt 7:6). The disciples shook the dust off their feet from anyone who would not accept them. Acts 13:51. As I try to...

Thanks for that. I like the direction of discernment being about subject - not the person - but is there a time (and if there is, at what time is it) - that discernment will become about the person and not merely about the subject - (such as a false prophet, a wolf in sheep's clothing...

Oh we did in the end. And by being so late into the evening / night - the amount of wildlife we saw that we didn't see in the day was amazing. (And to be honest a bit concerning... Kangaroo's - hundreds of them like in plague proportion). No drop bears though thankfully. ;)

I thought I'd just share with you something that happened this weekend. I decided to take my family out 4WDing in an area I haven't been for decades. It was a remote place - very few places with a phone signal. It was a place I used to frequent - many decades ago when I was a kid on a dirt...

There's some really great points here - thanks all for replying, and sorry I haven't responded to all. Whilst slightly off topic from what I was considering, there are a couple of posts that rang with me: I love this. It reminds me - a critical person (critical in 'spirit') is quick to - and...