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Instant gratification is the allure that Satan dangles before us... The exact opposite to the "patience of the saints that keep the commandments of God and having the faith of Jesus".

And ain't that our problem today? Thinking there is potential benefit from sinning... However temporary such benefit may be?

I would like to recommend to you a book that has changed my worldview almost as much as scripture. It's history. From the first century to the 19th. Some of it isn't pretty. Most of it is controversial. Much of it is unknown to most. But all of it is hugely edifying, encouraging, revelatory, and...

So who should I complain to? What body governs the moral direction for auto -correct keyboards? Okay, never mind. Getting way off topic here. Sorry Barnes.

Having a Christian President may make your life easier, but is that what is good for the church as a whole? From my observation from history, whenever the church joined in any relationship with the world, in particular its politics, it tended to make both parties weaker. Like the iron and clay...

I'll take it. Of course it is. The only guarantees in scripture are covenantal promises. So God's word that says, “What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. ” Nahum 1:9 KJV https://www.unfeignedbible.app/Nahum.1.9 I would...

You aren't helping.

I agree. But I read on this very forum professing Christians calling Jesus Lord, but claiming the ten commandments are voided by Jesus' death... It's okay to have marital relations before marriage... Is okay to drink, smoke, attend rock concerts, wear tattoos, insult those they disagree with...

What's going to be real good? Blood flowing? Aborted baby's blood? Or someone else's blood? How can any conflict involving the flowing of blood be good?

My perspective... Your founding fathers for the most part lived in the late 17th and 18th centuries right? You believe they were writing and advocating a worldview that sought to restrain government from dictating to the church, but approved of the church influencing the state. Now keeping in...

I know that may sound shocking. I don't blame it on any particular doctrine like OSAS, but I know 2 women personally whose husbands abused them and the marriage disintegrated. I am living in a house once occupied by one of those women, and work with another. Both were elders in their respective...

It's quite easy for us in the Antipodes to laugh at all the shenanigans that has been going on, but we are talking about some extremely evil goings on here, the likes of which has only been previously reported in corrupt "banana republics", and then only by a select few leaders in that place. It...

With all those rorts going on, little wonder the former administration so vehemently opposed a new admin, and was accusing Trump of the very things they themselves have been found implicated in.

Is trust, to the extent we do surrender, a learning curve that God takes us on throughout our lives... Is that an intrinsic part of sanctification? Is that learning curve for everyone, or only for those willing to take the first steps, then the next step, them the next and so forth. If we baulk...

Why don't we trust Him enough to surrender all?

And/or beat up their wives and/or children

YES!!!! Exactly!! My daughter once got a message from me that read, I love your hips. That is not what my finger intended.... I love you heaps.

Well, I think the decision making of our earliest ancestors was good, until it wasn't. I think the first thing we need to establish is that God is not going to take away our free will. He made us creatures capable of choosing right from wrong. That won't change. I believe we will be no different...

Which they inherited from the Greeks.

Many in this thread believe a new body makes the difference between sinning and not sinning. What happened to good old better decision making?