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A person can be well versed in the Bible and selected doctrines without knowing Jesus... without being able to see his face clearly. Where was Saul/Paul before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus, seemingly an honor student who would never have moved up higher? He had sat at the feet of...

We all have much to learn...and UNLEARN. We need to learn to submit to Him and follow as He leads. God does have an order. He showed Moses the detailed pattern, but Moses did not build the tabernacle in the wilderness all by himself. We have copies of the Book, which might have at least an...

Certainly I believe that different persons being different parts of the Body of Christ have different functions as well as being at different places along the road set before them... But a vision [of what?] is needed so as not to perish even if it is still some distance from being face to face...

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecc 1:9 This is how it is in the world, for certain, but God did provide a better way. When we see the same things happening so often here on a...

While it true that the revelation comes through the Holy Spirit, people on both sides or even more than two sides will claim to be led by the Holy Spirit. Then alone comes someone like our good friend @Marymog to ask how one is to know which one of them, if any, is right. People will certainly...

Some say that Trump's election [the one he won] delayed worse things that are to come. Seems like this would be a very good time for every confessing follower of Christ to humble himself to God. But... we don't see much of that even on this supposedly Christian forum much less on the part of our...

Must one be on "America's" side in order to be on God's side? Which political party is God's party? During the Civil War or the War between the States back in the 1860s people on both sides of the conflict claimed to be on God's side. Did God win that war? From your answers to these questions or...

You are talking about people, not God in people. A carnal person can be changed, one way or the other, but God cannot be changed. Don't try to put man's frailties and failures and mistakes on God. They don't fit.! When a person who really has received the gift of the Holy Spirit begin to treat...

People who are hard hearted and/or do not understand God message may drive someone away from a particular meeting in a given assembly but who can drive away from God someone who is really hungry and thirsty for His righteousness? If your assembly had treated them wrong, it would have been on...

Does this lack of "theologizing" on this or any issue automatically make it right in the eyes of God? The majority has never had the final say with regard to the things of God. God, as I understand it, looks at each heart. This includes looking closely at each person and what he has knowingly...

Thank you! For me... he was a good fellow, even though for others, including my wife, he was hard to take. He died before this thing of separating distance came into play. Perhaps that is why God called him at the time, for I suspect he would have struggled to bind himself according the rule of...

Yes, because sometimes I am seeing something in the person that is appealing in spite of our differences in specific individual beliefs. As you know I have not been a formal Catholic in a great many years, but I still have Catholic friends. Even on this forum, if you follow your fellow Catholic...

It is really not the norm in our home, but it is a refreshing change of pace.

I understand and realize your purpose. Just wanted you to understand which apparently you do. We must also give consideration the purpose of others. We are not all the same part of the Body of Christ and need to strive to follow His lead for us even if it may rub others a little bit [or a lot?]...

I know as you do that he and others have the 'right' to do these things, but that does not automatically equal approval in the eyes of God. In and of ourselves we may do a lot of things against which we have no personal conviction, but we always also need to be very aware of the influence...

I lived with my mother until August of 1963, just 4 months short of my 20th birthday when I joined the US Army. After my 3 years active duty I was back with her on and off when I attending college in California [some in Germany, some in Mexico]. I was 28 when I got married and never lived with...

Well I have not see that in a church setting, but then I don't attend much since they removed my pastor. I was visiting a few places but then they started this virus isolation thing. Now I pretty much stay home with mama and get on a couple of Christian forums. That is my socializing and my...

In the world of unbelieving men I expect to see almost anything these days. As bad as it is here in Oklahoma today, the supposed Bible belt, it was this bad when we left California in 1985. What really hurts is to see worldliness creeping into what people are still calling the Church. I know...

Over the years I have had only a handful of friends [not on the Internet] who were also really striving to serve God. I have loved it when I had one. My last one was a friend for many years, but I was his only friend though he had many acquaintances. People did not like him... only tolerating...

Here in north central Oklahoma we had severe thunderstorms with hail a little while ago. Off to our east they same storm system set off tornado warnings. No tornados near us although we are right in the midst of what they call "tornado alley".