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The idea is not to convince God of your salvation...but yourself. So then if you are judged by your beliefs...then if you hold those beliefs strongly enough...what can God do about it?

Now the bible does say that we can't have a private interpretation. But if we make our own interpretations public...then they're not private anymore are they? So then by loopholes such as this we can find ourselves making the list in the book of life. We go AROUND the truth..instead of trying to...

Are some denominations more "saved" than others? How about the ones that say it more often? Surely by saying over and over again..."I'm saved" you start to feel more saved. But what if you say it even MORE often? Surely God hears our conviction and the repetitions make it more so.

The whole idea of being a Protestant is to read the bible the way YOU want...to reform it. So then this is an improvement over having to go to God constantly to figure out what He is actually saying. What if we don't like the answer...and after such a long wait? This way...the way of...

We are to be judged by our works. But if we protest against God doing this...being Protestants AND ALL...and enough of us do this...will that be enough to change the bible to suit our way of thinking? Otherwise what good is it in believing we're saved by our beliefs? Shouldn't OUR voices be...

Which denomination of Protestantism protests the best or the most? I would think the better the protest the better the Protestant...since it is based on protesting. Is it possible to protest too much? Like someone REALLY wants to deny he is gay? (As in...thou doth protest too much Overly...

At what point in the evolutionary scale of being a Protestant do we get to damn others to hell? Is that a privilege of clergy only because of certain college courses...or can a layman also enjoy this privilege?

Does God prefer one religious bent to another? Or is that about us? As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"

I think it's wiser to engage the non-believer on his own terms. At least usually. (there are times when a more direct approach is proper) Of course...unless a person can see that you are living a life in the supernatural realm...with evidence to that effect...there is really no point in...

Mainly the preservation of our temporal mortal bodies. Confused by many into a religious ideology based on presumptions.

2 Cor. 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. If our works are deemed to be bad...is this due to grace?...or a misapprehension of grace? As such we will have...

We each have been called to go down a different path than what is offered by the world. But we must be certain that that path isn't a religious one. The only safety we have in avoiding that path is to embrace humility, brokenness and the fear of the Lord. The good path retains these. The...

You should be very careful then... and realize you are passive aggressive.

Do you know that there is a difference between guarantee and hope? Who runs a race with a guarantee that they are going to win? Maybe if you have mafia connections?? o_O:eek::oops::rolleyes:

Stuck in our own minds means being absent from God. "And it will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit [that are settled on their lees - KJV], Who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good or evil!'" (Zeph...

The gift of grace: people receive grace as a gift...as if God was giving His gifts for nothing...to just be enjoyed by people as if God was a Club Med director. We like to see God as our servant rather than the truth that we are to be His servants. If He gives to us...then it is dishonourable to...

Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD.....“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.

New Discoveries: As long as we are enslaved by the ordinary routines and same old things over and over again...we avoid any possibility of new discoveries. Our comfort zone precludes adventure. Our spiritual advancement is stunted so that we remain as we always were. There is a hymn that says...

Attitude: The blood of Christ covers sins...but it can't cover a bad attitude. We fail when we seek to survive our failures...when we don't allow the lessons of life to sink in deeply enough. Do we have the same humility as the prodigal son? Here is a man who did wickedly and very wastefully...

One must understand God's ways so as not to fall under God's judgment. Look at your present boastful attitude. Look how you seek to justify yourself by your bible reading. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world...but He did not cover our attitude that leaves our pride and carnal ways...