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That's well said. A complimentary parable is that of the ten virgins, a woman also being used in scripture as a symbol of God's people, but again depending on context. Babylon the Great is representative of a church, but one would not suggest that church is God's church, although He does...

Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst. This takes Christ's presence to another level beyond being only in the believer.

Previous to Jesus declaring "your house is desolate", He had described the temple as His Father's house, and My house. Here, He said to the Jews, is now your house, and My Father has abandoned it. His presence will no longer be found there. It's empty. Void of any spiritual advantage to either...

A AI can be useful, it can also be useless when you begin to rely on it for spiritual truth. Access to God was refined at Sinai as a national focal point because everywhere else, literally, was wholly given over to idolatry. Israel was set apart as a nation to bring hope and revelation to...

Example. When a young Christian and just learning what truth and the gospel is, having emerged from being raised in Catholicism, I was visiting a friend and he had a book on the coffee table in the living room. I had never seen it before. I picked it up and flipped open the first page and...

Joseph and Benjamin were the sons of Jacob's first love, Rachel. His favortism toward Joseph was simply bad parenting. [Joseph's] mother being dead, his affections clung the more closely to the father, and Jacob's heart was bound up in this child of his old age. He "loved Joseph more than all...

Yes. Unmistakable.

The Holy Spirit.

Two more questions. If the whole work of Christ was finished at the cross, then why the need for the resurrection... pentecostal... second coming... intercession before the Father in the heavenly sanctuary? Please explain how three judgment is already come at the time of the continuing...

As Amigo said, the goodness of God (His grace) leads is to repentance. Once we accept the sacrifice of Christ being a personal propitiation for our sin, and receive Christ into our lives, we must continue to grow. We can never presume upon God that all is hunky dory while we continue to live...

You think any speech, talk, and word of man has higher or even equal authority to the Word of God?

From family who have visited the middle east where the religion is predominantly Muslim, they say they felt safer there than in America, or even here in Australia. More honest also. There were examples of course where the women were clearly second class citizens, as were the lesser ranked...

I can't give a specific date, but it was a slow falling away from true faith in Jesus. When the Holy Spirit in response left the church deplete of power, the church sought the assistance of the state to make up the deficit. This isn't new however. That's precisely how the Catholic Church...

Nicely articulated Nancy.

What does that mean?

Sadly, he didn't completiy succeed. There are Paul onlyists on this very forum.

You are correct, the Truth is found in Christ. He is the Truth. And Christ is in His people. Where are His people?

Ask things are naked and open to Him. But what about the 2/3 of the angelic population that remained faithful to God and refused to rebel? The one planet in the universe that rebelled and sinned against God, why should God not reveal the fairness and justice behind His decision making in power...

We know what will be deemed hate speech. The gospel. Any preaching on the second coming. Any suggestion that Christ Himself and His word are our sole authority.

No succession there at all. Toss of a coin. And your statement that Peter was appointed as head of the apostles is assumption... on the basis he talked a lot. James was the spokesman for the Jerusalem council in Acts.