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I like your sentiment, but how do you show faith to a fool, if you don't make a distinction? I think it is progress, because an atheist will have a much harder heart than an agnostic.

I want to be able to reach people, with the "mark". I'm not prepared to condemn them. In the same way Paul urges us to be "in the world, but not of it", I am urging us to be "aware of the mark, but not for it"?

After which tribulation? and why?

I liked what you said at first "The spirit wars against the flesh and vice versa." - I've never had a sense that the flesh "fights back", but it does!

Not just choice - but the fruit of that choice!

Just to address the meaning: the "time of Jacob's trouble" refers to Jacob wrestling with an angel of the Lord. The struggle is that Jacob desired a blessing from God, but he tried to get it from one of His angels - so he struggled until God took pity on him and gave him the blessing. The point...

The "mark" is essentially the forbidden fruit of the following Age. However, I do not agree that the temptation to receive it constitutes the tribulation; the temptation is equally to accuse people of wanting to take it or taking a liking to sharing it with others who want it more than you -...

The first coming, for the Cross; the second coming, for the Return in the air; and the third coming, for the Return on the ground.

I don't have any problem with the OP. The tribulation will be more than you think, but thinking you know that: is not it. Essentially Man goes to war with death and starts to lose, but God saves the faithful.

I've had a thought that might help: I am not going to eat McDonald's unless someone is with me - if no-one is with me to eat McDonald's, I won't even think about it! Make sense?

NEWS: God has established that when He considers a Man for his strengths, He considers his "adaptability" (not his progression from one species to another). Dying to yourself, to make way for better adaptations, is more important than surviving, unless you can't follow. I may be holding...

Live by imagination, don't die for glory! If you can humble yourself, good; if he doesn't want to humble himself, also good. You were both responding to your imagination.

The second coming comes with tribulation, is the third coming the same?

Hi there, So this thought is just going around and around in my head: the Holy Spirit will teach a greater degree than Jesus. Jesus essentially taught the "fear of God": repentance, righteous judgment, atonement - we were expected to understand that our fear of God should in fact be a...

Hi there, So I have been wondering for some time what happens in the lead up to the tribulation and one thing I cannot account for is the notion of the Rapture - which I think may mean that a lot of people on Earth (of all faiths, meaning everyone) will "be called home" (die). It's something I...

Hi there, So I guess I am just putting this out there, because I have spent a lot of time meditating but never really had control of my brain. The point is simple: the brain is more willing to obey under certain conditions, than others. The condition the brain specifically responds to, is that...

The Earth is flat when you stand on the Earth - the same way the Sun is flat when you stand on the Sun.

Me: I have to meditate. Closeness to God, in stillness, transports the soul to higher realms.

[the power of] Consciousness is a vibration in the soul. Just as we are told God created with His Word, so He creates consciousness - which is essentially a vibration caused by that Word.

Yes ok, but you are saying there are two comings: does the third coming come with tribulation for those who are on Earth?