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Following that.….. Not one of us was baptized in the same Aramaic name Mary or the Apostles used when speaking to the one we call, Jesus, in the English language. See why we need to be careful when we start playing these games we were warned not to engage in? (Not directed at your post...

That's a little unrealistic. Because anyone has to feel what they are reading and trusting in is right, or else they would likely be a bit insane to say they believed it.

Did you know that all English translations of the Bible printed in the sixteenth century included a section or appendix for Apocryphal books? Matthew's Bible, published in 1537, contains all the Apocrypha of the later King James Version 1611, in an inter-testamental section. The 1538 Myles...

Does anyone understand that the "Bible" we stand in pulpits, pounding, and hollering that "We are told to read no others!!!", didn't even exist when those words we feel we are standing on, were written? All that existed then were the Jewish Scriptures, and a few other books we discount and deny...

I was curious if anyone here had ever looked up a photograph of Armageddon. It's about the size of a good-sized Shopping Mall. (Just an interesting point to ponder.)

"The Rapture" would be the first and most obvious. Christ being born on December 25th would be next. Whether or not Jesus drank alcohol. If God can look upon sin or not. Then, maybe.... when John wrote Revelation. None of those questions affect Salvation a bit.

So once you become a Christian, sinning is no longer sinning? It is just a mild form of being naughty... called "a trespass?"

Up till now, I had considered you one of the smarter people here, but you're making me wonder with a statement from way out in left field like that one. Go back and re-read what I said, trying the best you can to distinguish between the words, "Believe" and "Know."

Sorry, you're going to have to go to some of the other members here to get someone to whip you. I will only try to help you keep walking forward while leaving that baggage in Christ's hands.

You went through a lot, didn't you?

Well, yes, if you limit your thinking, I guess you will probably put constraints on who and what we are.

To start with, Yes, ending a chance of someone, anyone, any age, to live a full life is the same whether in a hospital room or a rice paddy. And, again, "Yes", I think the emotional state, financial situation, family relationships, maturity level, psychological condition, and even the...

Mary, If you asked a specific question such as, "Wasn't I right in aborting my baby?", I couldn't answer "Yes" or "No" until we knew one another well enough to have talked about it for perhaps weeks, and I knew pretty well most of the thoughts, fears, expectations, and circumstances surrounding...

You are missing the point of all the typing I have been doing. Neither you nor I "believing" something makes it a universal fact or truth that the other of us has to agree with. So, what could it matter to you what I believe about some obscure point of doctrine? Will it change what you...

If I find beauty and peace in the mountains, and you need to live by the beach, and Helen loves the desert, are we out of Unity? Some spend their lives helping the homeless. Some others go to India, or Russia, or Japan and each preaches to very different classes of people. Are these not all...

Oh, that. Well, you already know I don't find that secret "pre-rapture" anywhere in the Scriptures, so there is no point of even bothering with all that.

Then how about elaborating.

Why do you feel any of our beliefs have to be "superior" to someone else's? Is it not sufficient for you to believe that God shows you what He wants for you, and shows Helen what He has planned for her, and shows me what He desires for me?

If that is what you believe, then believe it.

Didn't I just tell you that "none of US" knows for certain? We can only trust in what we "believe." I hope you didn't think my answer would change because you asked the same question a second time.