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So God does not make his love, mercy, grace, majesty, holiness and power known to those he has chosen in such a manner that they think they have chosen him?

If by that you mean the same church that sold salvation for cash, that was so United that it had at one point three holy father's in office at the same time all excommunicating each other. That took the revolution of Luther etc to make it reform it's corrupt ways. That is still mired in...

And have All men who have lived since Jesus' resurrection been saved? Are Jesus' words about a place of torment ( hell ) meaningless.

Fortunately we worship in Spirit and in truth and not according to rites and rituals. God knows when someone sincerely worships him and forgives there errors in approaching him.

Splits an d separations are always painful and are a bad witness to those outside of he organisation. I have to say I am not surprised, as my experience of the Methodist church in the UK is one that is very loving and caring but which does not know where it is going or what its purpose is. As...

Or there is another view. It is God who saves, giving to those he has chosen the faith to believe in Jesus and it is this same love and grace that will not quench the smoke ing flax or break the bruised reed who's faith is weak and not as the Bible says it should be...

The context are the verse preferring and following any verse quoted that give mean to that verse. Isaiah 45:11 quoted on its own appears to say that we can command God. The context shows that this is not the meaning of this verse.

Ah another sinless living a perfect life. The law written in our hearts says ' Love the Lord your God with All your being, mind, body and soul.' Tell me and everyone here when you have ever done this? If you are not always obeying this law you like everyone else is committing a sin.

To illustrate your folly, Jesus called himself a door. Do you believe that Jesus is a series of wooden planks fastened together to form a door, or is it like the passage in judges you quote merely an illustration.

It is not a case of what I or you feel, or want, but a case of what Jesus has said. I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life NO One come to the Father but by ME. God accepts all religeons, beliefs ways of living that point people to Jesus and encourage them to believe in and follow him.

The words are singular he created one man and one women as Paul makes crystal clear for in Adam All sinned. If there were other people alive in Adams day then all humanity cannot be fallen. It does not call them a tree or trees.

There are many Christians with doubts and questions who are not being helped by there churches to find answers to there questions. Exhortations to ' have faith ' and similar rubbish helps no one. But the results of clever spiritual men writing books about there discoveries and answers to...

It is interesting that everyone who has reacted against J k Rowling's, the liberal tolerant elite, the stars made rich and famous by her books and intolerant Christians here. None have actually read her words. She as a woman has suffered abuse from men, and is intelligent enough to know that...

As always the context is key and this is one of regulator those seeking to talk back to God.

Who are you to order God, have you never read romans 9:20.

We cannot have mercy on people who have not attend against us. We can certainly pray for those who abuse and misslead vulnerable people to believe they are of the wrong sex. May God have mercy on these destroyer of lives and ruiner of futures. The treatment for becoming transgender means...

God expects everyone to repent and accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour. That is a global message.

How much comfort does that bring someone who has a broken bone? How useful is it to tell a depressed person to think positive thoughts and pray? Just as the person with vivid needs medication etc so someone who is mentally ill also needs medication, therapy etc rather than be told ' just have...

And Jesus condemned the Jews who merely obeyed the letter of the law. It does not matter how well anyone keeps the law if they do not have Jesus as there Lord and Saviour. All you keep saying is obey the Law. That is worthless.

This has nothing to do with the posters claim that the trees of the knowledge of good and evil were in fact people.