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I was witnessing to a young man who gave this rationale for him not praying. Although I know what the Bible says and I quoted various passages, I was disappointed in my overall response. So, how do you answer this question?

I was motivated to start this thread from another where a poster wrote about baptism as though it were some kind of mystic or magical thing. For the record, I reject mysticism and magic but to realize that with heavenly beings, we deal with supernatural powers. Do Catholics think there is some...

Not sure what got me thinking this. I heard on the radio someone in the Bible being filled by the Holy Spirit and compared that to me. It'd be a stretch to say I am filled by the Holy Spirit as I realize at times that I do not rely on God or pray as much as I could. I know I am sealed by the...

The CEV translation reads, "God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die." In this thread I want to explore 2 questions: If God gave his son, how can Jesus be with God still? Given God...

In another thread talking about second death and going through the lake of fire, I began to wonder about it's purpose. Without quoting a lot of Scripture, it is my understanding that hell is not the final location of the damned. Rather, hell is but a waiting room for the damned that on Judgment...

I just finished watching David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, which is a Leftist Analysis of World Population Growth. Two points I want to explore: Confounding Fossil Fuel Economics with Population Growth Downplaying The Death of the West via Suicidal Birth Rates Near the end of the film...

In my Devotional Reading yesterday in 1 Chronicles, I came upon a passage that always disturbed me. It was when God, through the prophet Nathan, told David he will not be the one to build his temple since he has so much blood on his hands; that he was a man of war but the one who will build the...

A video I watched several months ago rhetorically asked this question. While it is absurd to suppose "the Father" is not THE Father of Jesus, Scripture is crystal clear it was the Holy Spirit. So, on what basis does one answer the question?

Today's devotional reading in NSRV included Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; But when one copies and pastes it, one finds a deliberate altering of God's word via technological manipulation. Blessed be the Lord, my rock...

A number of years ago I befriended an old man at the YMCA. We became close. He's like a surrogate father to me now. At one point, his wife said that I am now a friend of the family. At 85 yo, she has suffered from dementia, incontinence and cannot walk and can barely stand. Looming large in my...

Trinitarinians deny the big reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he is the long awaited Messiah, chosen by God to reconcile humanity to God and was never about revealing God incarnate. (Every Epistle makes clear that God, in his unitarian nature, is the Father alone, whose will is carried out by...

This question came up on the radio on the way into work. The hosts said responding with 'none of your business' is overly aggressive. A caller said the question is rooted in fear and we should not respond to fear but simply answer the question, yes or no. The host objected to the claim the...

I've been wanting to praise various translations for some time because I have found not one translation always speaks the most to me. Just wanted to share a couple of verses from a few translations that came alive for me: VOICE A. Ephesians 4:29 Don’t let even one rotten word seep out of your...

In Healing the Masculine Soul, the author properly identified Communism as a feminine ideology. This is because it is rooted in theory (of equality) that goes against reality. He further states there is no more masculine trait than having the courage to express the truth of what is real, even...

In today's devotional reading, I came across David being betrayed by his son Absalom in usurping the throne, which made me thing about Betrayal In Bible & Loyalty in Today's Society. A few of many Biblical betrayals: David by Saul David by Absolam David by his concubines David by Joab (for...

In my Spirit led reading at 3 AM, which I wrote another thread to detail the event, I came across Zechariah 3:4. The NLT translation says the Angel has taken away sins. I read that Jews condemned Jesus for forgiving sins, claiming only God can forgive sins. Then later we read Jesus delegating...

So, I've been wanting to write this all day. At 3 AM last night I had a powerful dream. I have 2 dogs, a 55 lb Chow Shepherd mix and an 80 lb American Bull dog. In the dream I was living in a high rise apartment building with cinder block walls. I was on the phone, learning my dogs had escaped...

There is a Psalm that says woe is from the LORD. I find a big contrast between Jesus saying ‘love your enemies’ with the LORD sending an evil spirit to Saul in 1 Samuel 16:14, 18:10, 19:9 (NSRV). I’ve heard this metaphorically indicates Saul had mental illness but I’m not reading these verses...

This has been on my mind for a while. If someone is living right with God, they show it by living with such humility as to bring tears to those who are paying attention. I'll start off sharing 3 examples. Rush Limbaugh: Just heard the podcast by Bo Sneardly. The day he announced to his staff...

Once Saved Always Saved Forever Virgin Mary Absolute Equality Between the Father and the Son These are some topics that if you accept the doctrine, you can find passages that seem to support it. However, this is not the same as an explicit Biblical teaching, e.g., Roman 3:21-25. We are made...