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Sounds about right. I tend to restrict most of my reading these days to the scriptures, but I've read them for about as long as I've been able to read. I wasn't born again until I was 39 years old, and that's when my eyes were opened to the spiritual things in the scripture, but when I was...

I guess that you haven't been to the NY metro area recently. They may not pitch tents, but there are mosques in all the more heavily populated areas of the "tri-state" area. There are also large populations of Arabic and Persian peoples out around Idaho and Montana where large grazing lands are...

Hello Veteran, I haven't visited the forums for a while and was trying to catch up. I was wondering if you've read any of Joel Rosenberg's books. I've only read epicenter and found it fascinating at the time, but can't remember much about it anymore. It was the first time that I'd read an...

I'm curious, have you noticed the verse that says that Jesus was given the name above all names, or does the version of scripture that you use say "above all other names?" Religion will kill you, but when it comes to Jesus: let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by...

Ruth is listed in one of the genealogies of Jesus, but was not an Israelite. By modern Jewish law, her son, Obed wouldn't be considered Jewish, yet, the law of the kinsman redeemer was invoked upon her behalf as her (deceased) husband was left without a male heir to inherit his possession. It...

I believe that your doctrinal statement is broad enough to include those who are not from traditional protestant denominations that have "believed and received" and sharp enough to distinguish between professing "Christian" and those cults attempting to gain acceptance as Christian. Its...

The election has come and gone. The President sees his victory as a mandate to plunder the rich to give to the poor, a regular modern day Robin hood. Sandy slammed into us a few days before the election, but I guarantee that few took it to heart. It was just a mindless storm, or perhaps the fury...

Again, I say, I used your posts as a reference for response and didn't accuse you of a thing. I quoted your post, not you. Also you just stated that you answered my question with regard to a source for the notion that the angels named Michael and Gabriel are Cherubim in post # 9, but on the...

I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't believe in searching for signs, but the signs of the times seem pretty hard to miss. I'm sitting in my living room playing with my electronic entertainment while the power remains, and just 6 feet away, just outside my windows another storm of the century...

This is an interesting argument and I'm curious about how the two main contending point of views understand our political system. The government of the United States was initially formed not as a strict Democracy, but as a democratic Republic with "representative" government. The earliest...

I actually didn't accuse you of a thing (once or twice.) What I actually did was quote two of your postings as points of reference for my own posts. My own interest in the thread is in the examination of heretical doctrine and its sources. I don't know of any source that I would call reliable...

Okay, where do you find the doctrine that Michael (the angel) and Gabriel are Cherubim? I'm not saying that they aren't, but where do you find such a doctrine? In the book of Daniel and chapter 9 verse 20, Gabriel is described as a man and the only description I find of a cherub in scripture is...

Interesting ideas, but as they point to a created being rather than to the creator, even Jesus Christ our Lord, they remain unsound ideas. You need to take time to spend some time alone with our Lord. His Spirit is given to reveal things about Him, not about Michael, or anyone else. His Spirit...

I'm curious, where do these doctrines about Michael come from? They aren't found in the scripture and there are no other reliable sources, so where are you getting them? I was named after the archangel (supposedly, but I think that I was actually named after my mother's early heart throb) and I...

Acrylic painting on canvas (over another acrylic painting called "the return" which just didn't come out the way I wanted it to: too dark.)

Oil on canvas. I took the idea from a sunset that I observed (although this is nothing like it, nor could I duplicate it.) Completed this last May and haven't gone beyond more than the idea stage for anything new. I titled this "Horizon" because the word speaks of where the heavens...

To be honest, on the occasion that my wife and I felt that shaking thing going on, I was actually expecting something to happen. the Baptist churches that I've attended don't celebrate "Pentacost," but I had been reading the book of the acts of the apostles a week or two before that service and...

The Holy spirit intervenes directly with every person who is ever born again. Entrance into the kingdom of God is entirely dependent upon the intervention of God in the person of the Holy Spirit. We tend to think that because God is revealed in three persons, that these persons are entirely...

Hi Veteran, I don't know, but it seems to me that Saul of Tarsis rejected the gospel repeatedly. I know that he heard it when Steven gave testimony just prior to being stoned to death as the first recorded martyr of the church. It seems that the church gave up on Saul, and did their best to...

I won't disagree with your here. Even our Lord taught that the Kingdom of heaven included those that oppose Him, but pretend to belong in His kingdom. You find these things in the kingdom parables, but you also find special admonition given to the servants of "the man who sowed good seed in his...