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From family who have visited the middle east where the religion is predominantly Muslim, they say they felt safer there than in America, or even here in Australia. More honest also. There were examples of course where the women were clearly second class citizens, as were the lesser ranked...

I can't give a specific date, but it was a slow falling away from true faith in Jesus. When the Holy Spirit in response left the church deplete of power, the church sought the assistance of the state to make up the deficit. This isn't new however. That's precisely how the Catholic Church...

Nicely articulated Nancy.

What does that mean?

Sadly, he didn't completiy succeed. There are Paul onlyists on this very forum.

You are correct, the Truth is found in Christ. He is the Truth. And Christ is in His people. Where are His people?

Ask things are naked and open to Him. But what about the 2/3 of the angelic population that remained faithful to God and refused to rebel? The one planet in the universe that rebelled and sinned against God, why should God not reveal the fairness and justice behind His decision making in power...

We know what will be deemed hate speech. The gospel. Any preaching on the second coming. Any suggestion that Christ Himself and His word are our sole authority.

No succession there at all. Toss of a coin. And your statement that Peter was appointed as head of the apostles is assumption... on the basis he talked a lot. James was the spokesman for the Jerusalem council in Acts.

Yes I know Him. But I know myself also, that I am weak, having a propensity to sin and a love for the things of this world, doubting with deep understanding my own strength and knowing with clarity that without Christ I can do nothing. So having no confidence in self, but confidence towards God...

100%, but on the condition I remain faithful.

If you dig deep enough and in the right places you will discover that communism was established on behalf of the papacy in order to destroy the Russian royal family because of their patronage to the Orthodox Church.

Are you so seriously prejudiced that you believe Adventists, for the last 160 years, glossed over or were blind to Ellen White's duplicity as you describe? That we have to search through thousands of manuscripts and dozens of books and countless articles to squirrel out one or two legit...

How are those "successors" identified? And wherein does scripture declare that authority is bequeathed through succession?

So you, or the church, gets to inform God whether such and such is saved according to your 5 fundamentals? So those 5 requirements for salvation comprise your creed? I always nervous when someone or some institution offers salvation on conditions they stipulate.

See previous post for a major part, but there is more.

So long as Protestantism continues to cleave so tenaciously to futurism, a Jesuit invention, them Jesuit theology has won the day. They have succeeded in obscuring the identity of the papacy as being the true Antichrist, and thus the vast majority of Protestantism is deceived.

The image of Christ is that character that expresses the fruit of the Spirit. “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the...

Agree. Formulas lead to creeds, lead to qualifications for membership, lead to exclusivity, lead to persecution. One can follow that trail from the time of the council of Nicea in the creation and enforcing of the formulas for the Godhead.

Okay. I'll let you start.