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I remember a while back, when I was ill, that I had pitched a bed in my downstairs conservatory so that I could look out over my garden. One day whilst I was thinking how lovely nature was, a ‘homing’ pigeon landed exhausted in my garden and my cat must have thought it was his birthday. For the...

At 85 I've become a very nostalgic person and I long for the days when Churches were packed with worshippers like those in the following video:

And just as I was trying to see the 'better side of you':(

Much the same is said about Universal Reconciliationists, but surely it all hinges on whether one loves Christ for what one gets out of it, or out of sheer devotion for what He did for us. In any case surely those blessed with Eternal Life as a 'Gift' of faith will be so overwhelmed by the...

With provisos we may well be in agreement. As an Annihilationist I believe that 'lost' simply means to 'perish' and be no more, as per John 3:16, and to do so in the 'second death' (as distinct from being tormented day and night in a 'second life') as per Revelation 21:8 (where "having their...

I have a feeling that many of us might see the 'better side' of David if we try hard enough. And I hope the same might be said of others (me included?? )

I feel very humbled to think that I might have been used of God in any way in bringing blessing to a few lives. May God grant that I continue to do so in my present guise. But I guess I will always be a 'marmite man for God' in his purpose of bringing the sword that divides rather than peace...

All that I think, write, or speak, comes from a heart this is a mixture of good and bad. I believe God to have given me a new heart, but that until I hopefully put on immortality in the resurrection, both the old and the new heart contend with one another, with supremacy being dependent on my...

“Trust in God with all your heart and lean neither unto your own understanding, nor to that of any other man, for the race is not to the swift, the battle is not to the strong, knowledge is not to the wise, riches are not to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but everything is...

Everyone's perception of God is really a reflection of themselves. We create 'our' God in our own image. If you are a legally minded, unforgiving, and penal person then that is how you will perceive God to be. And ditto for the opposites, and all the shades in between. The 'Hellfire' scriptures...

Looks like a SDA choir, whose youtube singing I regularly enjoy.

Surely you don't expect this 'Oneoff' cessationost to believe the same as other cessationists? Maybe I do, maybe I don't. I just believe that the range of special 'miraculous' experiences were only necessary for as long as it took in order to 'kick-start' something as radically new as the Gospel...

I'm not sure how this 'cessationist' should see that as a challenge to cessationism. But then I'm only a cessationist out of 'peeve' at not enjoying gifts such as 'tongues' !!:(

Do you not also agree that God, having set in place certain parameters (whereby the whole of creation groans and travails in pain whilst waiting for the redemption of the body, when this mortal shall put on mortality) that, except in special cases of his sovereign choice, he will not negate...

Particularly true of the freedom of Gentiles such as myself: "The Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, in that these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves, showing the work of the law written in their hearts."

Who opened the canon of Scripture, and with what authority?

I know of many mature Christians who, like me, have grown so disenchanted with the many denominations of Christendom that they have concluded that 'the day of churches', might well have passed (at least for them). There is even one denomination that proclaims that to have dispensationally...

IMO God is not limited as to the channels of conviction that he might use; especially when they are the ones that are near and handy, and to which the recipient might be most responsive.......even a 'donkey' (like me :rolleyes: ) for instance!!

It's what I refer to as "constantly abiding" ..... just about the highest, and hardest, aim of my life.

I spent a few weeks in fellowship (to the degree that I was permitted) with our local 'Church of God' (Needed Truth Brethren). Like others their denomination claims to be the only true Church. But eventually I had to face up to the fact that, if after 70 odd years of Christian commitment, I...