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See pages 18 and 19 of my blog My voyage in search of the hidden treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven.

I hope I am right in highlighting (as a topic theme) the following extracts from chapters 3 and 4 of Peter's first Epistle: "Christ, was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered...

You won't be the only respondent to this thread who can only see the two extremes of black and white, nevertheless there remains the question of the "many mansions" in God's house, each of which has to be occupied by someone.

My implication about not needing to be aware of Christ's atoning work was meant to apply to those who by virtue of "Geographical isolation, premature death, or mental incapacity, never get to see a Bible or hear the Gospel Message". Does anyone think that such souls are damned as a consequence...

The way I see the question of ‘sin’ and its 'atonement' is as follows: Firstly, we all have an inherently sinful nature that needs to be atoned. Secondly, we then all commit actual acts of sin once we reach our own unique age of discretion, and those acts of sin also need atonement. Then I...

And what about those, past, present, and future who. for various reasons (geographic isolation, premature death, mental incapacity etc.,) never get to see a Bible or otherwise never get to hear the Gospel Message? Where do you place them in your 'only black or white' contention?

Think I may well need it....so yes please.

But, denominationally, what might you have been if you had not been in the geographical and parental position in which you became a Charismatic Episcopalian Member?

Did a genuine range of questions really deserve such a response?:( Or was it not me that you were reckoning to be lukewarm?

Many thanks Bill. I found your post to be vitally corrective of my hitherto overview of Scripture.

I am thinking of the range between the extremes of ‘disbelief’ and ‘faith’. On the side of disbelief you have the range between those who are proactive atheists, through to those who, whilst not being ‘anti’, simply have never given a single thought to involving in any form of religion. On the...

7 pages in 24 hrs seems to confirm the following extract found via Google search. Revelation has been loved and hated by Christians and has served as a paradise for those who give their own peculiar interpretation to the symbols of the text. Yet it has also been rejected by many Christians as...

Presumed knowledge (interpretation of scripture) shall pass away. "We only know and prophesy in part, but when He who is perfect comes, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now we know in part; but then shall we know even...

I am moved to say "Little children, don't worry about it. God is always there to take maximum advantage to work within you. And he will do so in like measure to your openness to allow him". The Bible is jam packed with potent exhortations and, at every point in your walk of faith, God's Holy...

When I was a young Christian (70 years ago) the buzz word was 'constantly abiding' and I well remember how fantastic I felt when I was able to look back on having achieved a long spell when my thoughts (worshipping God in spirit and in truth) had not been interrupted by anything that I was not...

The thought that the 'atonement' is God's side of the 'salvation' equation, whereas the experience of our consequential 'New Birth and Life' is our side of that equation, often pervades my quiet times of reflection.

Maybe another reversal would be in order. A reversal whereby we take the emphasis away from ourselves and onto God himself. As blessed as Heaven (The New Jerusalem) might be for the heirs, it is also the final glorious accomplishment and "satisfaction" of the work of God in Christ.

Long before I began the downward slide into old aged oblivion I concluded that when one reached 'the end' one might just about have learned enough to make a new start. Or maybe that's just the process of reaching, from successive mistakes, the point where one is ready to meet Christ face to face...

Thanks for John 9:31 I needed the reminder and it helped me.