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You are conflating the ideal, with the practice. What is moral, is neither of these things (neither ideal nor practice). The model Christianity has, when facing death, is Stephen's: he exclaimed "Father, do not hold this sin against them" when they stoned him - every Christian who dies, in...

It has dawned on me, reading this thread: if we have such diverse beginnings (of faith), how are we ever going to agree? I suppose by sharing fruit, we get part of the way - but its going to take a concerted effort, on our part! If only we understood what it took, to help our brothers, the...

Also, you have to remember "you don't need to keep repenting, if your witness is bold" (selah) (the purpose of repentance, is firstly to create a connection with God, but then largely to build up courage)

God loves the Ten Commandments, but He loves the New Commandment more. (selah)

I addressed this: here.

Yes, God is Creator, but as I was trying to say "He is a (Creator) God, by faith"

The Holy Spirit was poured out; I am talking about the Holy Spirit being "sent".

Within myself, yes (for others, not within me, no) No They are to be regarded at a distance, the Bible is not the immediate basis for acceptance At what time? In Heaven? Yes. In Hell? No. In Heaven? No. In Hell? Yes. Does Heaven make Hell false? Does Hell make Heaven false? Context (and to...

"Whoever sins, is the slave of sin" "the beast goes into perdition" = whoever sins goes into perdition; and whoever goes into perdition sins If you have power over this, you have power over sin (to some extent); if you have power over sin, what you want most is sin to live (hence the...

If Jesus says to do something, in principle there is at least one way to do it. If believers ignore having even one way to do what was asked, they are lukewarm and will be spit out. Now if there is one thing to do, and the Holy Spirit has not asked you to do it, there is still time. But it...

The falling away (of the Church) is far slower, than men expect (selah)

Yes and how does he (the anti-Christ) deny the Father and the Son? By resurrecting "sin" (as I said? note?)? The point is that as believers we resist the sin that is in the world, by identifying what manner of sin it is and confessing the righteousness that is appropriate - until we have the...

This statement inspired a work of faith, in me (repentance) thankyou!

The more I think about this, the more I am disturbed. You can say "Humanity can choose" all you like, but ultimately you end up saying "Humanity can die"? Or is that because the Devil rejected the choice?

Jesus said whatever we give up in this life, we get a hundredfold in the next with persecutions. So we may ask for whatever we want, but at some point we won't want the suffering that comes with it. Jesus also said "the Day is coming when you will ask Me nothing" which I suppose is because we...

Hi there, So, just to show you that God can turn things on their head: the coming of the Holy Spirit, will be like a burning bush: that everyone but the Holy Spirit can see. I am a little dumbfounded myself. This of course refers us back to the burning bush, that Moses saw. The time is...

To summarize: if we have been forgiven, and rebuked the Devil for creating the temptation, and having burned the sin in the lake of fire - the anti-Christ has nothing more to do with us.

Your faith has helped me, thankyou. You have the eye of the Holy Spirit, I don't doubt that.

@GEN2REV has got the Holy Spirit's faith!

Hi there, So I worked out what it was that makes the anti-Christ the opposite of Christ. He does not merely want to oppose Christ and His resurrection; far from opposing Christ, as one would imagine was death, the anti-Christ resurrects sin. If the anti-Christ resurrects sin, then the danger of...