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I agree with your post. It is what the Lord's taught me in my readings, but I'm not sure that this one conclusion is warranted. The kind of political insanity I've been seeing regarding American politics is a proof that some people can be tormented by opposing ideologies, but I'm reasonably sure...

The Dragon was the imperial symbol of China when it was still ruled by emperors and the use of its image was restricted to the emperor and royal family. In China the Dragon was revered for its wisdom and power, and its domain was heaven.

Not really. I grew up being dissatisfied with myself. Other kids some times made fun of me, the way that I looked, and I was extremely self conscious until I was in my teens and discovered that people are prone to meanness out of envy and jealousy. God created us. He made us to be what we are...

Our hearts (feelings) are easily deceived and according to scripture : “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? " Jeremiah 17:9. Yet the Lord wants the full commitment of our feelings: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your...

Thanks for the sentiment. I'm glad that the Lord delivered me as well. I do believe that if He hadn't acted at that time, I'd most likely be dead and reserved for judgment now.

I'm not familiar with the original languages, so I can't actually verify it to be true, but in the first version of scripture that I read, the King James version, when Jesus spoke of the tribulations that proceeded His return, the English word "travail" was used in the description. "Travail" was...

Before I was born again in Christ, I studied a form of Chinese "dance" called Tai Chi. My teacher (sifu) was a black belt in Wu Shu and Kung Fu, so he taught Tai Chi Chuan, the use of Tai Chi form in martial arts along with the "spiritual" aspects of developing " chi" (breath) and "shen"...

So, do you think it's worse than having your head cut off?

God isn't just sending a plague, but also wars and famine. If you want to believe that He would force the weak, women, children, the impaired, the despondent and the heart broken to suffer the trials to come, then it's unlikely that I'll be able to change your mind. However, that's not my job...

Nonsense, my x wife had it and has recovered for the most part. She's 65 and experienced flu like symptoms and intermittent loss of her sense of taste. I know personally of 3 fatalities, all over the age of 70, and the vast majority of fatalities nationwide were because of complications with...

If given a choice, I'd rather have a rock the size of a mountain land on my house, but death by asphyxiation caused by respiratory disease is relatively common and happens quite frequently in nursing homes from infections like pneumonia. The doctors you mention obviously haven't done much...

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 The great tribulation is by no means common, but...

Maybe God wants to see older saints die relatively peacefully from this grim reaper virus rather than have them live through worse things to come. (if they know Him, then they'll be with Him.) Perhaps this is God's way of keeping them from that hour of trial to come upon the whole Earth. All our...

While I'm generally inclined to agree with your biblical perspective, Daniel 11:21-35 was previously fulfilled, at least in part, by Antiochus Epiphanes. The abomination of desolation as mentioned by Christ and in reference to Daniel is described in the Law of Moses as that idolatrous object or...

There's an old document called the Westminster confession of faith which was written in 1646 as a sort of standard of faith for the Church of England. The first church that I attended regularly, after being born again in Christ, an independent Baptist congregation, used that document as their...

From what I've read I'd say a form of deism has become a part of fundamental doctrine in the modern "church" at large. It's not that people reject the existence of God in the church. The majority just seem to believe that God no longer speaks to His people, leads His people, or does any work...

How so? And how are human instincts a measure of what is fair, good, or righteous? Human instinct is that of the beast, cruel, unkind, without mercy, and wrathful.

Interesting vision. The word of God was Identified by the Apostle Paul as the "sword of the Spirit" and it is the word as applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit that brings conviction of sin and of truth, appropriate to the circumstances described and a worthy testimony .

Not exactly, I listened to "grace to you" for about a decade while working. John McArthur doesn't teach that we have no choice, but the opposite. However, the "bondage of the will" is no new concept and goes back as far as the writings of Martin Luther, considered the Father of the reformation...

I believe that you're referring to what most evangelicals would call "common grace," as opposed to "saving grace." And I don't think any evangelical would dispute the idea that all good gifts are from God, regardless of the recipient: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and...