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I think, to be fair, Salvation is a relationship - it is neither solely God's work, nor solely yours: hopefully it is more God's!

Works of evil, works of good - how do you sit on the fence, without making a work of it?

I have come to the conclusion, that the best thing to do with an Evolutionist, is to hand them over to the Devil, that they learn not to pevert the truth. That is where it has come to. They don't need trust they don't honour, they don't need power they don't identify as having come from God.

The idea that paint is meant to be reflected on, but not when it is wet, is an interesting one. When we are young believers, our paint is still fresh, I suppose. By the same token, we should not paint ourselves into a corner!

Hi there, So something you may not know about me, but I have a habit of mulling questions of the faith, over in my mind. I basically do a stress test "do I believe enough?" "how would I express that faith differently?" I want a tight, easy to grasp relationship with God, with Jesus. But I was...

My objective opinion is that taking the holistic heal-itself process of the immune system, was only slightly helped by a vaccine and two boosters, once I got sick. I say this because I had symptoms lasting a couple of weeks after the infection period. If I had not had the vaccine and the two...

Hi there, So this is intended as a thread in which to share the burden of being addicted to McDonald's, but also to brainstorm ways of beating the addiction. Off the top of my head, it might help to meditate on MacDonald's food, as if it is decaying and dying - that is a Tibetan Buddhist...

As a rule, partially right most of the time is moral. So if you are swearing but not all the time, its closer to moral and if you are speaking sense enough to be partially right, it is closer to moral. Of course, in Proverbs it says "better to be condemned, than to not know what love is" (from...

It's a work if you believe it, to the end; unfinished faith, is not a work.

We may do work in addition to our faith... The works are all the more reason to believe we are saved, but they can't substitute our salvation. (By God's grace) both the works and the spirit of them! That's something you can't do, with faith on its own, but if its not working, you need more faith!

Tie a knot in the rope, if you like: the point I am making is that it can be used as a metaphor for understanding Christ's deity.

I'm just saying don't forget "the difference" over "the essence". If you need a rope, you can always unscramble a ball of rope, it's just harder to see it for what it is, if you do.

Now you are talking sense. The old man needs to learn to receive instruction, that's true. That instruction is there, when we get to Heaven. What you will have difficulty with, probably, is that having received instruction, the old man must learn to serve the new man.

No, you are not getting it. After you start with a gas car, you must steer.

Just that what is deformity of a rope, may be conformity to a ball of rope. You can't say "no we can't have a ball of rope, because we already have a rope" - that was the Pharisees' problem.

The letter of the law does not provide exact details on our ascension to Heaven, that doesn't mean we won't get there. We get there by faith. So it is by faith we say "I was saved". What comes is as what goes, Jesus couldn't say the exact time He would return to Earth, but that doesn't mean He...

Jesus is not just God or Word, but God or Word crucified or heard (respectively). It sounds complicated at first, but basically this is why the mystery of God is so hard to understand in principle. God is saying "I heard you because I have heard everything" "I have justified you, because I...

I don't understand why you have to make it complicated: the murderer had nothing against Jesus; having nothing against Jesus is bliss, if Jesus blesses you back, it's paradise? Jesus suffered the death of paradise, which went on to be the resurrection - it is the resurrection that gives hope...