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We are all going to appear before Christ in the Judgment. I have realised that there is not two judgments. The Person on the great white throne is actually Christ. It cannot be the Father because the Father is a Spirit and invisible. No man has seen Him at any time. What this means is that...

According to what I see in Genesis 1 is that the earth was created first and surrounded with water. What we see is that the earth was without form and void, and the Holy Spirit moved across the face of the waters. This was also before God said, "Let there be light!". The sun, moon and stars...

That's interesting. Just for my information, what is it that makes you believe you are not good?

You'll like this one too - I put it on another thread. What is yellow and was the apostle Paul's companion? Bananabas.

"True discipleship" saving a person from their sins? How does that equate to "By grace are we saved through faith, not of ourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works lest any should boast"? I'm not doubting your faith, but just wanting clarification.

"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Romans 3:10). One sinful person cannot forgive another sinful person. Only a person totally without sin can forgive a sinful person.

Absolutely! :-) What is yellow, and was a companion of Paul the Apostle? Bananabus.

I used the reference to show that if a brother or sister in Christ sins against us we forgive them. But if they sin directly against God and not us, they need to go directly to God and ask His forgiveness. I think that confession to another believer, such as a priest is a good thing, because...

We will come back to this one once we have completed our survey about whether we are good or not. I am including myself in the questions, by the way.

Now, I won't be judging you at all, or doubting your faith in any way, okay? Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever taken something that doesn't belong to you? Have you ever looked at a person with lust? Have you ever used God's name as a swear word?

I don't think that a bishop or a priest can forgive sins of other people if he has sins in himself that need forgiveness. The Scripture says "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God", including bishops and priests.

The only person who can forgive my sins is the person who has never sinned, and therefore is not a sinner like me or anyone else.

Jesus is God so He would use the same ones.

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. If a person is a professing Christian, I treat them as such unless they demonstrate to me that they are not. I won't even accuse an atheist of being of Satan.

This is why we need to base our faith securely in the written Scriptures because they are the only authority that decides between truth and error.

From the dead person's perspective, the moment of death and the moment of resurrection would be instantaneous, because there is no sense of the passage of time when asleep. Rip van Winkle slept for 100 years. But he wouldn't know it when he woke up because for him, he was previously awake an...

True! So before accusing anyone of being of Satan, we need the witness of the Spirit, confirmed by the written Scriptures that they are actually of Satan.

I have never said that Catholics are friends of Satan. That would be right against the rules of the forum and I would expect to get a warning about a comment like that. What I said was that someone accused ME of being a friend of Satan. I went back and checked my post to make sure and...

Such as television evangelists who are in it just for the money.

He used Scripture to show His listeners that they are sinners and that in the Judgment God will remember every sin they have ever committed and will judge them according to them. He will find them guilty and they will suffer the eternal penalty.