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Reverence to nothing nevertheless.

The Virgin Mary whom RCs worship is nothing more than an idol conceived from someone's imagination. Paul says that an idol is no god at all, and absolutely nothing. The real Mary, mother of Christ is in Paradise along with the spirits of all other deceased believers awaiting the Second Coming...

Faith is a word that has to be accompanied by action. Merely believing something is nothing more than mental assent. If a person has faith in something, his actions show his faith. I can believe that my car will start on a cold morning but I haven't exercised my faith in that belief until I...

Paul and James are not in conflict with each other. They are to be viewed in harmony, because Paul is talking about faith in the finished work of Christ that justifies a person before God, and James is talking about how a person demonstrates that faith in his subsequent converted state. When a...

After around a year of being off the site, I asked for reinstatement, and they were kind tome and restored my membership. So everything is okay with them now. I just have to keep away from controversial topics like evolution and the RCC.

I read something interesting in Calvin's commentary to 1 Corinthians where he writes about church ministers. He says that it is not the minister who grows the church. He quotes, "I planted, and Apollos watered". He says that Paul sees Apollos as the guy who holds the watering can to ensure...

So you stay in bed and remain as God's undercover agent for the whole Saturday for fear of doing any work and thereby sinning?

So, if you get out of bed on Saturday morning, make it, then make your breakfast, then you are sinning by doing work on the Sabbath?

So you'd be sinning the moment you got out of bed on Saturday morning and made breakfast for yourself, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, touched up the paintwork on the house, put out the trash, because that would amount to be working on the Sabbath. Oh, you can't catch the bus or take a taxi...

Oh? Did you know that along the statistics of domestic violence in our communities, the stats for domestic violence among church members is only one percent lower? Also, it is a well-known fact that spiritual abuse by church officials and leaders is rife throughout churches of all...

I assume that you have not read my other posts where I have made the comparison between following a mentor as they follow Christ, and rejecting someone who is an authoritarian spiritual bully.

Walt Disney was a businessman who made movies. His "mission" was to make money, and he saw his market and exploited it. The trouble is that some gave him some type of halo, that he was an all-American good guy. But while he was alive, he did have some standards, and his movies were good...

Coat his back with lard and he'll go downhill much faster!!

Off topic.

A person who has no conflict in themselves about engaging in the works of the flesh as listed in Galatians 5, cannot show the fruits of a true conversion to Christ. A genuine convert to Christ knows that he or she has a moral responsibility before God to hate sin and treat it as their mortal...

I was having a conversation with the Lord about authority and discussed about a church pastor who tried to tell me to come under his authority, and how I gave the puffed up peacock the bum's rush. A verse of Scripture came to me: "You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men" (1...

Justification and sanctification are intertwined. We can't have one without the other. God is not silly. If a person means business with Him concerning salvation, then he must mean business about living a holy life afterward. Genuine conversion to Christ is the transformed heart changed...

I use a butcher's steel knife iron to sharpen my carving knife before I carve the chicken.

I get instant constipation if there is no lock on the toilet door.

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