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Not all have or want faith. Satan has all the facts; more than we will ever have yet he has irrevocably chosen to stick to his own ideas of God....those ideas manifesting in the desire to be preeminent to the point of desiring the death of God.....the consequence of those ideas being ongoing...

My trust in Jesus and his ability to save to the uttermost is my hope.....because he promised. My feelings and the thoughts that surface often want to doubt this but I have learned he is faithful and true in spite of myself....and this I trust.

Paul considered himself the chief of sinners. He had an innate sense of his unworthiness......and that so because he was humbled. Only pride boasts of having no sin; pride, lack of self awareness or ignorance. We all fall short in many things. Confessing them is acknowledging this reality...

Let me ask the question another way; what is it we are to overcome?

what do you think it means to 'overcome'?

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow. James 1:17

What you have done to the least you've done it to me......Jesus 'But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment.....' Matt. 5:22

Jim, do you really know yourself?

1. Jesus rose on the first day because he rested on the seventh 2. Jesus appeared/ spent 40 days with his mates after the resurrection. Does that make each day a Sabbath? 3. Gathering any particular day does not give that day sanctity. 4. So what? 5. So what? 6. So what?....and giving on...

You are free to revere any day you like tdickensheets yet you don't give that freedom to others. Does that say something about your prison?

Fundamentalist Christianity is fear-based? When we believe that God required Jesus to be killed to forgive our sins we set ourselves up for a fear based view/ interaction of and with God. Jesus was murdered by us because we could not tolerate his revelation of God. We still do it by insisting...

Knowing Jesus is the objective of inspiration enables a person to take pause and hear. Without that knowledge any piper playing an 'appealing' tune is danced to.

it certainly doesn't come across that way!

Those who wish hellfire on others are playing with hellfire themselves.

they are absolutely wrong....absolutely!

If one are persuaded that God kills if people don't dance to his tune you can be assured one will not be able to tell the Christ from the Antichrist who disguises himself as an angel of light. One will play right into the hand of the masquerader.

Jesus is the full revelation of the Father. How then does Jesus save us from the Father?

Read the account of Judas after his act of betrayal.....who tortured him? was it God? When folk reject what they know is right the torture comes from themselves, not God. Have we got it that wrong? God is in the Salvation business; life and love, joy and peace....not eternal torture. That is an...

.....and there will be plenty lost whose mantra is 'the bible, the bible!'

....and did not Jesus craft the story of the Prodigal Son? ....and who do we suppose the older brother represents?