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  1. Mike Waters

    Better late than never

    And to we come to 'Crunch Time'; in as much as I have completed my Blog, and folk can now see the extent of my Heretical 'Inclinations'. But please, please, bear in mind that they are only 'the best of a bad job' borne out of years of trying to make sense of the vast range of denominational...
  2. Mike Waters

    When were you created

    1 Corinthians 9:25 "every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things". Or at least they ought to be. But should Christian Forums be an exception?
  3. Mike Waters

    When were you created

    That seems like a somewhat unkind inference of dogmatic bigotry.
  4. Mike Waters

    When were you created

    I was brought up in a chapel that taught the 'Gap Theory' but to the best of my remembrance its scriptural basis was very thin.
  5. Mike Waters

    When were you created

    I have to admit to never having been able to sit comfortably with much of the heavy thinking that seems to derive from the hyper-dispensationalism of E W Bullinger ..... not that I am a reliable authority.
  6. Mike Waters

    Judaism or Christianity?

    For me this threads opens up the wider question concerning the entire cosmos that we now know to stretch right around the globe to the far antipathy of the Mediterranean confines of the earliest Abrahamic religion from which Judaism and Christianity morphed. Accepting that God created the...
  7. Mike Waters

    The Lesson of the Fig Tree==Wake up! Time is very short!

    I was beginning to think that you'd never respond. Your response is quite an 'eye opener' ...... it's good to begin to know about your somewhat unique beliefs. God bless.
  8. Mike Waters

    Absolute Truth

    I hope you're right rather than sceptical old 'me';)
  9. Mike Waters

    Absolute Truth

    In effect that's often what happens whenever someone claims "thus saith the Word of God" with bigoted dogma (often via cherry picked scriptures that disregard other scriptures that can be taken conversely ....and indeed often are, across the denominational and theological spectrum).
  10. Mike Waters

    Absolute Truth

    To put the proverbial 'cat amongst the pigeons' I believe that the majority of 'truth' is personally relevant, rather than universally absolute. Reformation Protestantism is strait-jacketed by the early (almost 'pre') age of enlightenment Statements of Faith re "all scripture being God breathed...
  11. Mike Waters

    The difference between Christian music and Worship Music

    And I much admire those who make that the parameters of their fellowship. For my part I feel that my 'gift and calling' is to discuss the very deepest points of theology (albeit with great deference to the 'darkened glass'......my aversion being towards those who do so with a bigoted dogma that...
  12. Mike Waters

    How Comprehensive are the Ten Commandments?

    Jesus did not come to negate, or in any way nullify, the Law on which the Old Covenant was based. His purpose was to lift every aspect to a new and higher level of ‘Spiritual’ observance. The Key is in Matthew 5:17-20 “ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come...
  13. Mike Waters

    Better late than never

    Doubtless you'll remember 'Oneoff' as one of my usernames. I suffered most from the frustration of trying to moderate the forum which insisted on the ethos of total small 'c' catholicity. Where a particular Australian, despite having registered in agreement with that ethos, then went on to...
  14. Mike Waters

    The difference between Christian music and Worship Music

    Thank you so very much Nancy. May God bless you.
  15. Mike Waters

    The Lesson of the Fig Tree==Wake up! Time is very short!

    I was asking in the context of the 'first and second resurrections', followed by the 'second death' as per Revelation 20. With particular emphasis on 'works', and on the relationship of one group of persons who only die 'once' (having been part of the 'first resurrection), compared to the group...
  16. Mike Waters

    Better late than never

    I guess I should say a formal hello even though many already know me from my own attempts at launching various forums over the last decade or two. Forgive (please) my left of mainstream oft perceived heresies, which will inevitably emerge over the course of posting (especially evident to those...
  17. Mike Waters

    When do you feel closest to God?

    This is a great thread with more uplifting replies than Naomi expected. For me, like Helen, it's the 'quiet place' of utter solitude in the glory of God's creation. After all Romans 1:17-23 tells us that those who never get to read a Bible, or never get to hear what we know as 'The Gospel...
  18. Mike Waters

    My voyage in search of the treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven.

    60 years ago i embarked on the production of a regularly updated journal detailing the re-examination of my faith that had been shattered by the implosion in controversy of the chapel in which I had first 'come to faith'. Hopefully I will be able to download a page by page summary, beginning...
  19. Mike Waters

    My voyage in search of the treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven.

    60 years ago I embarked on the production of a regularly updated journal detailing a re-examination of my childhood faith that had become shattered by the implosion into controversy of the Chapel in which I had first 'come to faith'. Hopefully I will be able to reproduce it herein, page by page.
  20. Mike Waters

    The Lesson of the Fig Tree==Wake up! Time is very short!

    Who understands the eschatology of the first and the second resurrection?
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