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In many ways...we will meet the God who we believe in. To the merciful, He will be merciful. But to the hard...He will show Himself as hard. Ps. 18:24 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. 25 With the merciful...

I'm not saying that there is nothing beyond the fear of the Lord. But it should be there. People throw it out, normally in a bid to be confident in their salvation. The difficulty is that very often the truth is presented as a dialectic whereby there seems to be opposite sounding poles ....like...

A human belief is basically an opinion. So many people I talk to...even on this forum, never go beyond their own opinions and beliefs. I ask them how they know they're "saved" and all I get is a verse reading or no answer at all. Where is the testimony of an experience of the risen Lord?

There is a case to be had that the closer you get to the north pole....the fewer cases of rape there seems to be. Coincidence? I think not!

And yet these claim to be justified by believing in a God who justifies the ungodly. But after they are converted, God stops justifying the ungodly???

But not all are wicked. Mr. washer is a poster boy for this nonsense....and false teaching. Otherwise he wouldn't be popular in this time of the great falling away from the truth. Look out for what the itching ears have raised up as a teacher. Be wise. Some people are wicked. Some are...

The Calvinist agenda is that people don't have any chance. God, in this case, does not hear prayers. He pre-determines who is saved....and they have no choice in the matter. And He pre-determines who will burn in hell....with no say in the matter. So the whole point of living this life is lost...

Any one sided theology should be refuted of course. A wilful blindness to all the verses that overturn the stated extremist view...shows that this is something of an indoctrination...where the use of free will has been set aside for religious purposes. But all such purposes do not serve the...

But what about a God with no favourites....a God of mercy? A God who is righteous and shows His loving kindness to all? The Calvinist scheme/agenda makes no such allowance. Can you say....a false witness of God?

Now the bible uses comparisons to teach us kingdom values. But we must first eliminate the false comparisons that many have been taught. The idea of heaven and hell (The tile of a heavy metal album) is false. The true comparison is heaven and earth' There is light and darkness. Truth and lies...

One of the most basic building blocks to sound doctrine is the fear of the Lord. It is something that one sees immediately in a person's behaviour. It is also the beginning of wisdom. But who wants wisdom these days? So if this be true than arrogance is out. Smugness is out. Self-interest is...

I have posted this topic here...for reasons that will soon become apparent. Let me begin by saying that sound doctrine is that which PERMITS us and INFORMS us to be Christ-like in our thoughts and actions. Opinions matter for nothing...unless to take away our potential for entering into Christ...

I realize now I wasn't looking for God Himself...just for God to help me fulfill my own dreams. That's where I come from. But over time God has weaned my from all things other than His glory. This is by no means my first choice...well...now it is! :)

But how many are really qualified to teach others concerning the kingdom? I mean beyond the most basic message? Didn't the Pharisees also indoctrinate those who came to them looking for the unique God? So then one must actually know Christ and have walked with Jesus to teach others IMO...

The fact remains that men create extreme doctrines based on a lack of understanding of God's ways. So then if your experience or your understanding lines up with that man-made identifier...then people hop on board now convinced that they have the truth in the matter. The fact is Jesus did die...

I was 21 in a city (St. Boniface part of Winnipeg in 1980) with no friends...when I began to weep over my sins. My own heart was crying out....without any calculations on my part. I was being convicted of my sins....hounded by God. My girlfriend had left a new testament in my apartment...

But the issue is ....how do we get on that list? Our own say so? Our religious certainty and pride? Wouldn't the kind of humility it takes to get there be evident rather than the kind of pride that God resists? No humble person argues the case for their own humility. But a proud person...

Quite a scary thought....people won't accept the idea of a loving God.:(

The word "believer" is not a magic word that stops people from being misguided and foolish. The only thing that distinguishes the 10 virgins in the parable is whether they are wise or foolish. So it is that very notion that believers can't fall into the ditch....that naive notion, that gets...

Grace fulfiils the law. Love fulfills the law. Lawlessness has no place with God. Lawlessness is rebellion.