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First, actually coming to FAITH in Christ would help too. ;)

God Himself testifies in His word and speaks into the spiritual realm to the powers and principalities about His greatness and ability to not only know the future but to be sovereign over it. But you need to be born of the Spirit and have His Spirit in order to have any understanding of these...

Amen! And also we have the witness of the Holy Spirit who draws us to read the scriptures, and often quickens passages to us and ministers to us through them and witnesses to their veracity. He is leading us into all truth and showing us things to come.

The parable of the sower illustrates how things go with some who receive the word. This is not complicated and doesn't require us to overthink things. Like others here are saying, I also know a couple of people who came to faith and then fell away back into stone cold darkness and disbelief...

It's clear in the bible that Simon was a sorcerer in the past and that he did come to faith. However, he then erred in his heart and was rebuked and likely chastised by the Lord for it (in hopes that he would be purged from it). Christians can err, that is a fact that we see all the time -...

Yes, I agree. Force and laws is a way that seemeth right to man/flesh but leads to death. It's basically what the Lord yoked ancient Israel under in order to teach them of the need for a better way (the gospel), and it held harsh punishments for transgressors. I have wondered if the mark of...

you didn't finish your statement there, but I agree with where you're going. If his information is wrong, then feel free to correct that. People don't have to time to look up and research everything that gets written on forums.

They had to invent more lies to cover up their previous lie...? My oh my! Instead of just acknowledging their error and learning from it!

Yes, but you're talking about the church, and I was talking about people in the world/society, not the church. We can get too caught up with politics and making laws, when that is not our mandate as the church. Sinners used to be persecuted and murdered in Christian countries in the name of...

On the contrary, scripture warns of this all over the place, and doesn't say anywhere that someone cannot lose their faith.

This verse doesn't mean we will know ahead of time when He is coming - it just means that if we are ready for His return, by not being in darkness (sin and evil), He will not come upon us as a thief to take away what we had (eg, like the unprofitable servant or those who were saying Lord, Lord...

I don't know anything about this Miller person, but I do know Jesus said He is coming when we DON'T expect. He wasn't lying.

I agree, and unfortunately "religion" in the "name of Christ" has proved to be oppressive and sometimes horribly so. Whether on a large national scale or small scale within individual churches. This is still the gospel age and I hope we are not in the business of trying to force people to be...

We're glad to have laws that reflect and uphold the word of God, and help to keep evil at bay, however you are so right that in a democracy the majority gets their way, whether for evil or for good. Thus the only answer and hope for our respective nations is for hearts to change through the...

That kind of reminds me of this in the old testament as well: Hos 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Yes, make sure He is still in us, that we haven't departed Him, thus causing Him to depart from us. Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Amen - we need to have some fruits to show for our faith, otherwise faith without works is dead. And obedience is better than sacrifice - we need to be obeying His will for us individually as well as obeying His word generally. We serve a living God, not just a dead letter, who leads and...

Amen. It all needs to be preached, not just the easier parts - God's word has power to continually wash us, which we need.

Grieving the Holy Spirit doesn't always mean He departs irrevocably, but if we were to keep on grieving Him in grievous ways without repenting, He may. Look how He departed Israel....Ichabod. These things happened to Israel for OUR example and warning. We just can't myopically look at some...

Many fish are caught in the net, but some prove not to be good for eating and get thrown back into the sea. And Jesus said to the unprofitable servant who buried what he had been given, that even what he has will be taken away - this is why Jesus is coming as a thief. Not everyone who says to...