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You should not be so touchy! My mind is not good on remembering details about other people on this forum. I respond most often to the single post rather than to the person because very often I mix up details about individuals. I know that I have conversed with you before but I cannot remember...

Your time spent there and you knowledge of the group is unlikely to change my position, which is neither pro nor con on Mormonism. I try to take people one at the time without regard to what denomination, if any, they lay hold of... Sometimes they insist on certain things because of their...

I have been on not less than a dozen forums in the past 20 years. I don't normally even use words like Arianism or Docetism [I would have to look up the meanings again to understand them.] I grew up Catholic and served as an altar boy until I finished high school in 1961. That was my trinitarian...

I agree with what we read in this verse: "For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven." Psalm 119:89 However, you speak of doctrines "already established and solidified from Scripture" by men. Men led by God of course can be right, but that men are also sometimes and even many times are...

You are still talking about SDA specifically whereas I was responding specifically to what you thought of the word cult being a "dirty word". Remember that God has never changed and He also inspired Solomon to write these words: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto...

As in every history of every war to get a fuller more accurate picture of what took place reading something written from the other side's point of view is a good idea. It does not guarantee encountering the truth, but it should give us a better idea if we really want the truth rather than...

Who is looking at the Bible alone? Not me! I look to God and His Son. I expect to be led by the Holy Spirit as I read the Bible and as I walk through this carnal existence moving or being moved toward Him. As to there being a "liar" in this thread, the Apostle Paul quoted the OT when he wrote...

Considering what you say in your second paragraph, your first paragraph is a strange thing. You say begin with "the idea of the Trinity" a as if that were a most important thing in the scriptures. Even many Trinitarians do not make embracing the Trinity doctrine a primary or necessary thing in...

To revive someone means to resurrect them. It seems that is discussed much in the Bible, but this is a praise thread in the praise section and not a place for discussions like that. You should ask your question in an appropriate sub-forum!

Even the word, Christian, at times may cause trouble. If your actions and reactions along with your explanations or lack of explanations do not fit the criteria for their definition of a Christian, then for them, I guess you would not be a Christian, even if God disagrees. I sure would not...

To this point I was not standing contrary to you...as not all of these things are in my head. What is in my heart from the Lord with regard to the good things of God, was written there and quickened by the Holy Spirit. But... is that all that God has for men, even while here in this carnal body...

I believe that there are absolute truths, but while we are seeing as through a glass darkly how definitely may we even express them? Or being able to express such truths in words you ask how far from them are we? Consider these verses from Matthew chapter 5: 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit...

Actually I was only agreeing that the discussion was at an end. We remain somewhat apart on some things!

In someone's opinion! But what does God have to say about it? He who looks at the heart of a man without regard to all of the absolute "truths" people have found that were not where Jesus was...!

Yes sir!

How do you know what another person believes without a personal revelation from God about the person? "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written..." Rom 3:4

This I guess is even closer to the reason why I don't use the word, "cult" to describe religious groups... because of this 'dirty word' factor. It is usually a generalization, which according to the definitions intended [not necessarily those according to Webster and such] should not, I believe...

No, actually I am saying it is not my job, and I would be surprised to find that it was yours, to decide finally the basis for another person's salvation. Your question scarcely computes. What is a "real" man? Do you mean was he born with the same qualities and parts as you or me? Who has...

You used the word, cult. I am aware of dictionary definitions, but people quite often have their own definitions according to something in their own minds and their own set of beliefs. This is why I asked for the definition to see what your basis was. As for myself, I have not used the word...

Thank you! I don't know about the JWs, but I do not believe the Mormon and SDA teach that only their members may be saved. Perhaps that is a rule written into their official doctrines, but with the SDA on this and other forums I have never heard such a thing. On the Mormons my only full...