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How can you miss this basic aspect of Jesus? :eek: Jesus told us to resist not evil....love our enemies...bless not curse...forgive.....etc The Christian way is not according to power in this world. The power that we move in comes from heaven. The weapons of OUR (disciples of Christ) warfare...

A Christian is one that uses things differently than others. We must divorce the gun from it's evil purpose...that of maiming people and taking life. I personally have a number of firearms that I have used for things like hunting, target shooting, and historical re-enactments. But I would never...

If Mr. Jack wasn't preaching...would Jesus still return?

The path of Christ is through a continuing forsaking of the world...as well as a continuing trust in His ways. We glory in the cross so that we are not seriously affected when things go well or badly. Both are in the Lord's hands. We don't draw strength from good happenings any more than we draw...

Your first statement is from your own opinion.....as you will not be able to show from the bible what you have accepted to be true. Do you just ignore where God says TODAY I have begotten you???? You tend to follow opinion and reject the biblical evidence that your opinions is...well...just an...

We must begin with a closer look at the personal level. I have come to see the following formula as true in regards to our personal faith and choices.... Our cross in our strength//// His cross in His strength. The first step towards a true faith in Christ is to forsake the world. There is no...

We have each been given a measure of faith. No two people have exactly the same amount. It is quantum. No one can control, manipulate, or limit the faith of another. God decides these things. Even what we do about that faith is up to each individual. The corporate Ekklesia is not about...

Scientists seek continually for the "Theory of Everything"...that is one theory that ties in and harmonizes the law of the Big (the ways of the universe, gravity etc...) together with the law of the Small (quantum theory). The subject is vast and is far beyond the mortal mind to grasp. I don't...

What you can't say is...Jesus was never the Father. God has said..."Today I have begotten You"...which hearkens back to a time where God divided Himself to give Himself a Son. In the OT the Name YHVH is both the Father and the Son (a number of verses state this by the wording)...until the...

Merry and blessed Christmas to all on the boards! <>< :) Our Saviour is born!

You are doing an important part of what it means to be Christian...living by the higher standard of God. It is like the parable of the 2 sons where one said he would obey but didn't...and the other said he wouldn't but did. Welcome to the forum! :)

Babylon....the religious system that men give official sounding names to. That would include personal ministries that are set up as businesses. Men tend to be ambitious. Babylon comes from such motivation. All ministry should come indirectly (or directly?) from God...through a human...

A spiritual person judges nothing of himself. Such a person uses a discernment from the Spirit...having no confidence in his opinions or POV's. What Paul cautions against, then, is a private or personal judgment.

Someone with a beef with Catholicism...:rolleyes:

Adam walked with God before the fall. We are to walk with God in a restoration of that relationship...not just because we are forgiven our sins....but we are walking in the power that keeps us from sin. No one can have a sinful intimacy with God. Either we are walking in defeat in sins....or...

Christ in you is a potential that needs to worked out into our lives with fear and trembling. Unless the outer man breaks...you will just be a spoiled sinner who thinks he is not responsible for the evil he does. We need to seek the Lord and continue on the path of faith with faithfulness...

Should we not be open to correction? Otherwise we have the gospel of unteachability.

The church could also be seen as a puzzle. We are as many living stones that need to fit perfectly with one another to form an edifice to the glory of God. But do we really fit together? Who will discover how that works? I know a certain brother...an older brother with lots of experience..who...

There is a very good movie called "Contact" which is really about faith. It stars Jodie Foster. This is a Holywood movie so don't expect all the themes to be proper. But there is a part where an alien civilization sends a puzzle of sorts. It is the design of a machine that once built provides...

The bible could be seen as an incoherent mess...with statements flying about in no particular order...with even blatant contradictory statements. Many claim to understand the depth of the word...but these overclaim their ability by simply leaving out or ignoring the verses that contradict their...