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@jshiii I am glad you are able to put into words where you believe that are, but do not be surprised to find some who do disagree with some or all of your four statements while still assuring you that they also believe in and follow God. The way you worded your OP I guess you expect to receive...

Well thank you for that. Of course when I was older I spent time in New Jersey, West Berlin and Wyoming where the ice and snow was adequate, but alas childhood was gone...

I must say that generally when it comes down to many of those bearing the label of Christian it may be as you say. I am sure you have heard the following quotation before: "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ", Mahatma Gandhi Those...

Is not reasonable service on our part an important part of it? "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the...

Our common definitions, of course, don't need to be correct since ultimately the judgment of those supposedly working as ministers is not ours. However, because we or others don't properly identify all of the ones God has called, who are also striving to do things the way God wants them done...

I grew up in central California (SF Bay Area) where we never had the makings for igloos available from mother nature. I always wished for it, but it never happened.

Igloos!

@Grailhunter A "good" Christian life looks like Jesus. What anyone needs to do is, Listen to Him and obey. To listen you must be able to hear and then when you do Hear, obey! Hearing comes from...? "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Rom 10:17

Do you see any a more specific cure in these verses? "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of...

Good distinction my friend! Also when we go to do something, we need to be certain we are properly led/directed: "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 So then who is to lead us, to direct us? "Lead me, O LORD, in...

Give God the glory, indeed! My three were Catholic [from age 6] , Oneness Jesus Only [from age 32 to 43]and an unusual Duality group [from age 43 to 2018] which was seemingly better than either of the first two; so I thought, until they proved me wrong. Much of what I am and of what I am still...

@jshiii :):D

@jshiii Also praying for you here my friend. Everyone but those who have already overcome completely as Jesus did need prayer!

I certainly hear you here. I also have been in three very different groups, yet they had in common the practice of quenching the Spirit and effectively teaching people to quench the Spirit. The trouble was that few within any of them had even an inkling that that was what was happening. In the...

Ha! I remember once many years ago when my wife and daughter did that to all of my beer bottles. Believe me it hurt at the time.

Men's races are one thing, but are usually not good examples comparable to the race we are in or to be in... "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour...

Actually the blood of the "new man" of us is the Holy Spirit! As the natural/carnal red blood of a man gives/retains life according to the flesh to the natural/carnal body of men, so the Holy Spirit gives/retains Life to the "new man" of the Spirit. This last is the Life which Jesus brought...

Most certainly! He saw something that most others did not see. They could see the man Jesus bleeding and dying and let their fleshly way express their doubts and even mock him. This man saw better than all of them just who Jesus was . Jesus was always seeing the hearts of people. He saw the...

To keep it in line with the OP: Yes, the thief reminds me of the centurion about whose faith Jesus said what? And then about the healed blind man who effectively rebuked the Jewish leadership... What did he say about his own healing as compared all healing in the world previously?