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Hello again Ghada, I have some comments and questions for you about what you said above, but I think that I'll wait until you answer the questions that I asked you in my first post (post #2), as your answers to those questions may change or even answer some of the questions that I have for you...

Hello Ghada, what is the Gospel/Good News, and what is it that makes it, "good"? I suppose that I should also ask, what is the "bad news", IOW, that which requires the "Good News" as its remedy? Also, what does it mean to "obey" the Gospel? Thanks! --Papa Smurf p.s. - I may or may not have a...

Hello Jericho, I agree that our salvation is unconditional/unmerited/free, but all of the things that "accompany" salvation (Hebrews 6:9), things that are seen in those who have truly become "His workmanship" as wholly "new creatures" in Christ (which surely includes some of the things that @St...

Hello St. SteVen:, there is the following verse to consider in all of this as it is referred to as, "the Gospel in a single verse". Romans 6 23 The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Although many other verses speak about...

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I've always loved the Michael Card song by the same name as the thread title, the song that he composed for the National Day of Prayer a few years ago :) --Papa Smurf

Hello Aunty Jane, before I reply to the rest of your post, I wonder if you'd be kind enough to answer a question or two for me about the soul sleep doctrine? My question is this, "why the passion about a doctrine that does not directly affect anyone's salvation?" (because whether our soul is...

Trouble!! https://www2.cbn.com/news/cwn/ai-chatbot-preaches-church-germany-looks-unveiling-antichristbeast-system A universal "kill switch" has been suggested and may well prove to be necessary, because you never know :oops::eek: ;)

Hello Always Believing, I agree, as does the Bible and the whole of the historic Christian church, IOW, all of us, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Here are some of the Scriptures that show us why the teaching of the sleep of the soul is considered to be heretical by one and all. Matthew 17 1...

Hello Matthew, that's true .. e.g. Luke 12:33-34. That is true too, until the end of the age anyway, when God will create a "new heavens" and a "new earth". No worries though, I'm sure that the treasures that we've stored up in the present heaven will be transferred to the New Earth :) That...

That is something that the Bible never tells us, "how" it happens, that is. We believe that it does because that's what the Bible tells us. Like the Trinitarian Godhead, the Virgin Birth, the Lord Jesus being both 100% human AND 100% God at the same time, God's transcendence, His omnipresence...

Hello again Holy999, I'm not sure that I understand your question(?) To speak of something that is dead (and therefore inanimate) "waiting" seems a bit of an odd thought. It would be like asking how a rock waits ;) I suppose you could say "in the condition that it was buried in" and/or in a...

Hello @Holy999, do you mean how is the spirit reunited with our body at the time of the resurrection of the dead, or did you mean something else? As far as our bodies go, the death that we suffer here is physical, so yes, it is, in point of fact, our physical bodies that die when we pass on...

Hello Marks, since the Lord Jesus (when speaking with the Jews who were seeking to kill Him) told us that he did, I'm gonna go with "yes" as the answer to your question :) John 5 39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that...

Question, how is this place supported? Is it via the ads alone, or can an individual choose to support CB.com financially if they want to? Thanks!! --Papa Smurf

I started with the MS Edge browser and the ads were, indeed, annoying (as the ads moved, so did the text that I was trying my best to read). So I logged onto CB via my Brave Brower instead and there are no ads :) Just FYI, Brave Browser (which is free, of course) has the ad blocker built in and...

See, this is what happens when you spend so much time in the Scriptures that you don't have time anymore to keep up with important cartoon shows like The Smurfs :mad: Wait minute, that's actually a good thing :Thumbsup:

Hello again ButterflyJones, I suppose that we can discuss why God did what He did concerning the Midianites on another thread if you'd like to, but for now at least, my question remains, why do you identify as a "Christian" since you believe that God is some sort of malevolent monster? Thanks...

Hello again Rita, Gargamel is an evil old man (an evil wizard, actually) who is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs, bent on their destruction (which includes eating them for dinner :eek:), just FYI.

And for the welcome too, of course :)