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But, denominationally, what might you have been if you had not been in the geographical and parental position in which you became a Charismatic Episcopalian Member?

Did a genuine range of questions really deserve such a response?:( Or was it not me that you were reckoning to be lukewarm?

Many thanks Bill. I found your post to be vitally corrective of my hitherto overview of Scripture.

I am thinking of the range between the extremes of ‘disbelief’ and ‘faith’. On the side of disbelief you have the range between those who are proactive atheists, through to those who, whilst not being ‘anti’, simply have never given a single thought to involving in any form of religion. On the...

7 pages in 24 hrs seems to confirm the following extract found via Google search. Revelation has been loved and hated by Christians and has served as a paradise for those who give their own peculiar interpretation to the symbols of the text. Yet it has also been rejected by many Christians as...

Presumed knowledge (interpretation of scripture) shall pass away. "We only know and prophesy in part, but when He who is perfect comes, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now we know in part; but then shall we know even...

I am moved to say "Little children, don't worry about it. God is always there to take maximum advantage to work within you. And he will do so in like measure to your openness to allow him". The Bible is jam packed with potent exhortations and, at every point in your walk of faith, God's Holy...

When I was a young Christian (70 years ago) the buzz word was 'constantly abiding' and I well remember how fantastic I felt when I was able to look back on having achieved a long spell when my thoughts (worshipping God in spirit and in truth) had not been interrupted by anything that I was not...

The thought that the 'atonement' is God's side of the 'salvation' equation, whereas the experience of our consequential 'New Birth and Life' is our side of that equation, often pervades my quiet times of reflection.

Maybe another reversal would be in order. A reversal whereby we take the emphasis away from ourselves and onto God himself. As blessed as Heaven (The New Jerusalem) might be for the heirs, it is also the final glorious accomplishment and "satisfaction" of the work of God in Christ.

Long before I began the downward slide into old aged oblivion I concluded that when one reached 'the end' one might just about have learned enough to make a new start. Or maybe that's just the process of reaching, from successive mistakes, the point where one is ready to meet Christ face to face...

Thanks for John 9:31 I needed the reminder and it helped me.

I'm a partial internet dumbo, being self taught in respect of doing a few things (probably far from the shortest and cleanest way) and clueless in respect of everything else. For instance, how can I get to see my blog condensed in MS Word Format? .... I don't have MS Word downloaded and have to...

I realise that this thread died away a year ago but , being 'new', I have only just discovered it. and am much taken by the vast range of divergent scripture based opinion re the OP, that the forum possesses. But this is just a small example of the vastness of divergent scripture based opinion...

See the last paragraph of PAGE 5 of My voyage in search of the hidden treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven. Is that us in agreement with each other?

Bless you Nancy, This over sensitive old fogie was so fearful of being misunderstood and kicked back.

[ Is that referring to a 'few' people, 'many' people, or 'all' people. I hope it's not the latter because that puts you firmly in the elitist company of "only I/we have seen the light" folk. Even referring to the second category puts you on the fringe of 'elitism'. I'm not sure about the...

I'm sure that if there were a 'thumbs down, dislike' option, its use would cause less unpleasantness than some of the bigoted remarks that might prompt its use.:(

Bless you for adding those vital words "As I see it"..... leaves room for the vast array of differing convictions that go towards building the multiply membered 'Body of Christ'; so much 'truth' being personally perceived, as distinct from the mainstream stuff which needs to be as universally...

My first choice (in the words of the Hymn) would be to "Find a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God"; A place that I would call 'God's Mercy Seat' From every stormy wind that blows, from every swelling tide of woes, there is a calm, a sure retreat; 'tis found beneath the mercy seat...