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Everything we do is a direct result of what we are. Changing what we do does not make us better people, because what we are is not a result of what we do. All we can do is modify some things, and hide others, but we stay essentially the same. Sinners. We are sinners by nature...we are not...

You do realize that occupying oneself with a purpose, like work, is healthy right? A brand new being without a clue as to why he's here, is given purpose and a sense of accomplishment after a day's labor. Not hard labor like today, there were no thorns, no weeds, just fruit everywhere, and all...

A God of love who desires to share everything that is good about life and relationships with His created brings did not want a forced subservience. Love is always a matter of choice. God was offering Adam and Eve a choice. It was actually a very easy one. One tree amongst thousands forbidden. It...

Nope. Nor would I agree with those numbers. Nominal Christians maybe, but the genuine article wouldn't amount to more than 10-15%, maybe. Like Jesus said, by their fruit you shall know them. How many Christians do you know living up to their profession of faith? The Bible is true alright, but...

You are correct, with a nuance that Barney mentioned. Catholicism is predominantly preterist, while protestantism is predominantly futurist. Both hermeneutics, believe it or not, developed and popularized by 2 Jesuits during the counter reformation, both being extremely short-sighted...

I would be interested in your understanding of this... KJV Revelation 12:15-16 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up...

And how is all that a reflection of biblical Christianity? Are not all those things affirmation that society is drawing further and further away from biblical Christianity?

Now it's getting clearer. No wonder you don't believe in God. The God you describe above? I don't believe in him either.

Your question is irrelevant seeing you aren't the one offering me eternal life. The Christian hope of a future life of joy and peace and happiness, without fear, or death, pain or sorrow, is founded on the character of the one who has promised. Not on the promises of someone who can't deliver.

So don't throw everything into the rubbish heap on account of error in some religious paradigms.

My relationship isn't with an internalized belief, but you refuse to accept my word. My relationship is with a risen glorified Savior, Jesus Christ, who is now representing us as High Priest before the throne of the Almighty Father. That's the truth. You don't have to reinvent what I'm saying to...

The threads on Daniel 9 always bring out the worst in prophetic understanding, and this thread is going from bad to worse.

Another assumption. You are assuming that God doesn't have your best interests at heart. Scripture says however that God is love, and He proved that on Calvary. KJV Romans 8:31-32 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own...

Why would you assume I don't have relationships with those around me?

I absolutely totally believe there are 3 divine persons in the Godhead, so I do not believe this thread poses a challenge to the forum rules... At least I hope not as I believe this topic is worthwhile discussing...it may however challenge your present understanding of the trinity as taught more...

What many are missing here and overlooking, is that simple belief doesn't remain, mere belief. Belief turns into relationship. It's relationship that God seeks with those He created. He established the way, all you have to do is walk in it. The rewards, including eternal life, are worth it.

Don't forget that prophecy and history coincided when the church went into the wilderness to escape persecution. Their wilderness experience didn't mean a loss of spiritual strength or connection, but rather the opposite. Going into the wilderness for Jesus, John and Paul was a time for...

And all those things may have different applications to different situations and to different people in their different stages of growth and experience. One thing I love about God... He will ever remain the same, His standard of righteousness, the way of salvation will ever be the same, but...

My testimony is that I have received far more than just a second blessing. I have lost count of the number of growing revelations regarding the character of my Savior, the work of the gospel in the heart, the depths of sin and the habits, even addictions, in my life, the overwhelming love and...

Worse. Daniel said... KJV Daniel 12:1 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be...