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To get back to that primitive godliness and death to self will take a revolution. Not the kind of revolution a society expects or wants against this worlds rulers, but against the one ruling the heart of the individual Christian. We need to decide who is Lord.

Here's Jesus speaking to His children in the church of Ephesus... KJV Revelation 2:2-7 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: These are...

I wonder why that is? It's the same in NZ, and in the US. The so called Bible belt is conservative and predominantly rural, opposed to the more liberal cities in the north and the coasts. What makes rural folk generally more conservative than city folk who are more regressive and liberal? (I say...

The fallen angels have intimate knowledge of what is truth, and what isn't. Ain't gonna help them. So while Truth is essential, there necessitates a deeper experience.

A little protest in Rome perhaps, but much protest elsewhere. Only in those areas where Rome had jurisprudence, yet even on Rome's doorstep, there were 'heretics' (according to Rome) who were faityhful to scripture and sharing the gospel as best they could in the midst of Catholic persecutions...

And ironically it took another leader to expose the deception and hypocrisy of the false. That's the 3rd time that exact quote has come up in the last fortnight. I searched (knowing a part of the quote) for it and used it in a bible study last Wednesday week, the Pastor used it in his sermon...

I have seen it now and again in the past, but didn't think it essential that I know what it means, so ignored it. My life did not turn to custard as a result of my ignorance. I think scholars make up words like this in order to make their bosses believe their investment in these studies are more...

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I feel it incumbent upon me after saying so much about everything else, to say something about truth.

Unconditional love motivated the gift, but the gift itself has conditions. The beauty of that though is that none of the conditions can be met under our own power. We can do nothing without God. That's why believing is just the beginning. Belief must turn into trust. That's real faith, without...

Memory can play tricks, especially after such a long time. I was an altar boy for many years. I could recite by heart most of the mass in Latin. I remember in the pulpit was a massive Bible used by the priest when delivering his sermon. But that pulpit... And the Bible in it, was out of bounds...

As it stands. Now you're going to ask me, how can the Son be God yet there be one God? Does not that make two? No. Because Jesus Himself said, I and My Father are one. The Weymouth New Testament translates John 5:18 this way “On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to...

Chief over the angels... Literally archangel. But not a created angel liked those under Him. Certainly He pre-existed, the evidence is overwhelming unless of course you have an over powering preconceived bias against such an idea. Like your president. Biden I believe is commander in chief of...

We choose whom we surrender to.

I'm not a trinitarian in a creedal sense. I simply read scripture and accept it as it reads. And try very very hard not to go beyond what is revealed there. We as humans were created in God's image. Created to breed, as are the animals, and bring forth life after our own kind. If we read in...

Thinking about this again this morning, I am thinking that perhaps(it was 65 years ago) I was more afraid of my grandmother than the Bible itself... Or a bit of both. Why afraid of my grandmother? Maybe I was characterizing her the way I had learned of the priests and brothers who taught me. I...

I am sure you are right. But not even remotely? Let's call it an hyperbolic illustration to make the point that if Jesus' genetic roots came from anywhere other than the Father, we would be identifying Jesus as such. Whether it be a Martian or from Ganymede. We know He was from Mary in the...

I can think of a very long period in history, continuing to this day, when a number of powerful people in authority are actively trampling truth into the mud.

No. He was right... Not too kind. :) Always refreshing to read such transparent honesty.

I was educated throughout by Catholic education. I didn't know what a Bible was until I saw one on my protestant grandmother's book shelf. For some reason it scared me. I was about 14.