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I believe the one baptism is alluding to being born again........where Jesus said we must be born of water and the Spirit to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Certainly agree with that. But, for an example, do you think if an unsaved person of our aquaintance was planning on robbing a bank that not judging them means it would be ok for us to kindly and non-judgmentally accept their invitation to drive the getaway car if they asked? Or would it be...

You know, I've struggled with that passage, thinking it must be referring to saved Gentiles. But now I see that it doesn't have to be talking about saved Gentiles: Rom 2:11-16 For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law...

Yes, I think that could be what Paul was alluding to. And it might be one reason why everyone really knows there is a God deep down in their heart, but have rebelled against Him and the truth, since all were tempted in some way and have sinned. We are even part of that creation in which God is...

Yes, I understand, thank you. The devil does like to pervert the things of God. We as believers need to watch our attitudes, with one another and especially towards lost souls who generally "know not what they are doing", lest we bring the gospel into disrepute. I don't think it's our place...

Maybe we can beg a little forebearance for just a tiny bit more on this...? I would like to know if we are in agreement about the idolatry part, or how you see it.

Yes, I agree. And would you agree with the following...? Because "Astrology" is such a widespread and endemic form of idolatry around the globe, leading many souls to perdition, I think it's important that nobody be careless or dismissive about this subject. God condemns such practices...

I was just discussing and trying to express one possible aspect...yes just an opinion, not well expressed and I was forgetting that I do agree and believe the stars are one way the Lord told the story as a witness to the plan of redemption. (lol, getting old) And I don't doubt it is one thing...

No I sure haven't thrown out the OT, it is instructive for our inner man when it is used properly (ie, in the new way of the Spirit) and speaks to the gospel in types/shadows, and not to mention it glorifies God. But to the Jews the old covenant has become a snare and a trap. and makes them...

Only as we abide in the Vine do we partake of its life-giving sap (blood). We have nothing of our own....without Him we can do nothing. To my understanding His Body on earth is "a kingdom" of priests. Only one kingdom. But men want to be kings and are seen building their own little...

"Signs" as in signposts, as in navigation for travel, and to mark the seasons? Because the stars are reliable and predictable and their courses (ways) are unchanging? That sounds like He who created them, He who changes not, who we look to for guidance and navigation through life and that...

I dont' fear Astrology, but I do fear the Lord. He may have used the stars to speak to fallen man a long time ago but it is not the means He uses today. If we keep trying to consume what has passed its expiry date, it will be rotten and decayed. Like the manna that the Lord commanded the...

There seems to more than one rabbit hole here......I would like to try and parse them all one by one, but I just dont have the stamina right now.. Maybe I can just comment on this for now: << King Satan's KINGDOM has many lessor KINGDOMS in it. And the devil offered them to Jesus in the...

Very interesting stuff and I appreciate you sharing it. Well, what may be known of God is written in creation, which includes the stars. Astrology takes it too far though, and doesn't glorify God.

In answer to your question, I believe it has both been defeated and put under the feet of Christ, but also that we do not yet "see" all thing put under His feet, according to 1 Cor 15. Satan is prince of this world, so his kingdom is this fallen world and we see that it is still divided against...

That is so wonderful, makes me worship the Lord. It's so lovely and faithful of the Lord that He remembered Abraham's other sons/descendants so many centuries later to guide them them to the Messiah when He was born. Guessing that Abraham would have told those sons all about the promises God...

It might even BE the mark of the beast. It's a spirit.......but we who have received Christ are marked in Him by HIS Spirit.

I agree... but it is a pattern in scripture of God's ways....for example, the Israelites were told by God to wait until the iniquity of the Canaanites had come to the full (or words to that effect) before destroying them. Mystery Babylon is another example......she filled up the cup of wrath to...

I believe the unity meant transgression had come to the full.....it became ripe for a harvest of judgment...it had filled up the cup of wrath. And it meant it was ruling the whole planet and human race and gave them so much power that the Lord wasn't going to allow....because though He will...

I believe Christians may "work" in government, but that is not them "ministering"...that is just them doing their jobs and earning a living, hopefully lawfully and justly. I think we know a Christian policeman for example, who shoots a fleeing dangerous criminal is not "ministering". (And...