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Hello again @Br4nd0n, I thought that you might be interested in the following, as you and Luther now hold a common understanding about grace, faith and salvation (though in Luther's case, it was the Lord showing him what you just came to understand via Romans 1:17 instead .. see the passage at...

:Zek: I remember the day that God helped me realize this truth as well .. I was, and I continue to be, blown away by it, PTL. Sounds like a cool Papa Smurf :sunglasses: I coached my son's hockey team for a few years and that's where my nickname, "Papa Smurf", comes from. My hair and beard...

Hello @Br4nd0n, welcome to CB:kiaora:Thank you for dropping by to visit, and thanks even more for staying on and joining in the discussions with us :thumbsupx1 Thank you too for telling us about the mighty work that the Lord is continuing to do in your heart and life to make you more and more...

Hello @talons, and welcome to CB.com! Mayhem can be interesting at times:watching and waiting:, but I'm glad to know that it is at least your intention to use a little restraint (whenever possible, that is :funlaugh2). I look forward to seeing you out on the other boards! God bless you!! (1...

Hi Tony, I have a couple of thoughts about this. First and foremost, we cannot uproot all of those who we think/believe are not/never will be believers, because how can we possibly know that :contemplate: (we cannot see the heart of a man like God can). If we did so, perhaps those who are true...

Hello @NotTheRock, how often would someone have to do that (love the Lord their God with ALL of their heart and ALL of their soul and ALL of their mind, and love their neighbor AS THEMSELVES, that is) to make themselves worthy of receiving eternal life from God (apart from the shed blood of the...

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Hello again TheOneHeLoves, I'm not sure that children in the 1st Century were named in much of a different than they are today (granted, I'm not sure how things were done in the Bronze age when Daniel lived). However, the custom (in the 1st Century) was to name a son after his father or a close...

Hello @Jabre, I don't have much time to talk right now, but I wanted you to know that there is an answer to the problem that you are facing (at least there was for me when I was faced with the same kind of frustrating, painful and seemingly unending "thought-life" problems that you are now). It...

Hello again @TheOneHeLoves, it also occurs to me that there are many in the OT/NT who came to saving faith in the living God, but who also kept their given names when they did, even if they were named for a false deity. For instance, the Apostle Paul's brother in Christ, traveling companion and...

Hello TheOneHeLoves, you did indeed give me something new to think about (and that from an OT Book that I am VERY familiar with), so thank you for that :Thumbsup: This is the AMAZING story of four (probably teenage) Jewish boys whose Nation had just been overthrown, who had been separated from...

Hello RedFan, the Bible tells us that, Deuteronomy 29 29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law. This tells me that God has revealed everything to us that we need to...

Hi again Bob, that's good to know, but interesting in your case too (since you told us in your first post [#9] that Jesus is just like us, IOW, NOT good but evil). If I've misunderstood you about any of this (and it seems that I may have), please tell me what I'm missing or misunderstanding...

Hi Bob, Jesus chose to become ~like~ us (in a very real sense actually .. e.g. Philippians 2:5-8) by taking on a second nature, a human nature alongside of His Divine nature (in order to save us), but He, the King & Creator of the Universe .. e.g. John 1:1-3, 14 is HARDLY one of us ... and PTL...

Hello again Bob, in your first post you said the following things. Atheists are hardly alone in asking that question, but it is, indeed, one that they love to ask us (of course, sadly, they typically use it to make a point, not to further enlighten or educate themselves :(). As far as your...

Hello Bob, fortunately, for all who are hoping to be saved, the Lord Jesus ~never~ tells us that it is His Father alone who is good, nor does He ever tell us that He Himself is not ("good", that is). After all, it's on the basis of the Lord Jesus' precious blood (who is the...

Some of the many copies of the Septuagint that we still have today include the Apocryphal books, others just the 39 OT Books, so maybe it was not completely settled by the 1st Century? .. though I certainly agree that the OT of 39 Books was agreed upon by then as something that was commonly...

Are they :contemplate: I'll bet that we could find 100 people who, like you, believe that only certain parts of the Bible are inspired, and that these parts, the "inspired" parts, that is, are "obvious". I'll also bet that we would be hard-pressed to find 2 or 3 among those 100 people who are...

I see! So, a quetion then, where do you believe that our Bible came from? You're welcome, of course. As far as the final hour goes, the format doesn't change, but new ideas and facts continue to be introduced and taught, so it is a worthwhile use of the 90 minutes that it takes to watch it...

Hello yet again St. SteVen, I wanted to say something about this as well. If the Bible is only "partially" God's word, then how do we know which parts of it are Divinely "inspired"/breathed out" by God Himself, and which parts of it, then, are nothing more than the men's musings about the Divine...