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  1. amadeus

    Dogmatic Certainties

    "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23 But you keep on trying seemingly all by yourself. Looking for another moderator imposed vacation from the forum? That seems to be your direction. We hope not for when it...
  2. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    God!
  3. amadeus

    Something Beautiful

    @Mike Bishop @mjrhealth @everyone else on the forum who loves God All the time that we have was given to us by God. When a man travels through this land, the things will happen as the verses of Ecclesiastes 3 say. Elsewhere in the same book, we read this: "I returned, and saw under the sun...
  4. amadeus

    Alphabetical Name Game

    Patrick from Pittsburg Parroted the Proselytized Pentecostal Patriots.
  5. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    You could call it a 'blueprint', but I might call it a 'scarlet thread'. It runs unabated from the Truth Jesus manifested in flesh 2000 years ago until now. As it was for Rahab and her family [Josh 2:18] before Israel so it is, or can be, for us. There are now many threads but not all of them...
  6. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Heb 11:6
  7. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Even now you are changing or misunderstanding what I said to you. You speak of plain reading of what God inspired men to write and miss even what I, a mere man, wrote to you. Do you really seek the Holy Spirit or is it some other spirit you have misidentified as you move into a place of...
  8. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    You are using human reasoning and logic to figure out God's message. Look around you! It doesn't work like that. There are how many church groups or denominations now, all saying their beliefs are based on the Bible and on this forums you see how they butt heads and insist they are right. The...
  9. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    No, but when I am in the Spirit I do have "eyes to see" and that is Not through a glass darkly. I am not bragging on myself. Alone I can do nothing... none of us can. Allowing God to work in us and lead us is essential, otherwise we lose. Yes, to the flesh it probably appears the same. I am...
  10. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    My friend do you know where His face is? Of course you don't! Like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus you are so wrapped in the happenings you see with the natural eye, you are not even looking for Him. When you don't see Him you don't see the Truth. Many of the others here on this forum...
  11. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Not to God! He sees clearly all of the time! When we see always through His eyes, by the Holy Spirit, there is no subjectivity to it. Because we don't, we mess up. Until you admit that about yourself and come really to God daily and help Him to work on you to make the approach to prayer without...
  12. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    An accurate literal thing he may be doing, outdone here perhaps only by yourself. That is not a compliment. I have dealt with him as much as I have because I saw a glimmer of Light, of honesty in him, in spite of his efforts to show his "tough love". On the other hand I recall a previous...
  13. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." Prov 21:2 I really wish I could believe you, but repeatedly you go back and do the same or worse things. It recalls to me what the Lord told Samuel when he continued to mourn for King Saul after God had rejected...
  14. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    That which you have derived through your own study and logic from the scriptures. You have made Him like unto the same bloodthirsty god which the atheists and pagans criticize so harshly. You simply say that is the way that He is. He is not. He is Love and Truth, and don't try to tell me again...
  15. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Actually you have, from what I have seen on this forum, shared very little scripture. Often when someone has asked you for a verse you have said you already posted it. More than once when you did that I went looking and was unable to find such a post by you. Sometimes you make only short or...
  16. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Thus far I don't believe I have expressed a definite position regarding the OP. I may not! I guess I need to start hitting the report button. I have in the past, but I don't like to if there is reasonable expectation of a change for the better without it. Just about not there now!
  17. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    My guess would be that he would not answer that question either. I really hope that he is learning to dislike himself just a little. That would be a good beginning. In order to kill your own old man requires the Holy Spirit, but who that likes his "old man" is going to allow that?
  18. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Fortunately for @mjrhealth , you, in spite of what you believe that you know, are not God. You do need to learn to communicate. That requires not only a knowledge of what you mean but also a knowledge of what the other guy means. On the first part for me the music has stopped because you...
  19. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    It was not your supposed rebuke that was the problem, but stating as facts, things about him which you do not know. See numbered points 1,2 & 3: You may believe those things, but you do not know them! You are the one that I have most often seen using the expression "ad hominem" against other...
  20. amadeus

    Do I Have To Go To Church?

    Precisely!