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And the Holy Spirit? Is there no need for the Holy Spirit to know Him more intimately? What is to your understanding the purpose of the Holy Spirit for men?

At the moment there is only one of mine in post #541. Actually not answering questions may not be a bad thing if you are certain of your belief and you feel no unction from God to respond. However, it was an impression, I had about you. Perhaps I was mixing you up with someone else. I've...

Sufficient, perhaps as far as writing is concerned for God is certainly able to have put all that we need from Him while walking in this flesh into a single volume, the Bible. Whether or not He did He, however is quite another question, isn't it?. If He did, 'How can a man understand it...

Well if that is what you believe then that is the way you should go. I don't believe that and cannot go that way. I am glad that God understands each of us better than we understand ourselves. He alone is qualified to do any final judging for or against anyone of us.

These days I read and study my Bibles daily and I talk to God. Every morning, 7 days a week, belongs to Him. I may not accomplish much, time wise, like I once did when I was young and strong, but God is also aware of my limitations. Sometimes He gives me things anyway. I haven't given even lip...

You scarcely ever answer direct questions, do you?

Thanks for understanding!

Aye, there are a few people I cannot even really talk with... I try to bend and change my way of talking, try to use different words, but it is still no good.

I can't really elaborate without trying to read it again. As I have said what you wrote may fine... it may be right [or not], but your point did not jump out at me and the effort tired me out. I'm 76 and only have so much stamina. I avoid most long and/or complex posts. I tried to make an...

You should be concerned with what God says... and perhaps you will say it always the same. For me it is most certainly not although in many cases what He says now is also written. How do you know which verse applies to your present situation if you do not hear from Him daily? Without the Holy...

Communication really is a big part of people's problem here. Oh there are real disagreements as well, but there phony ones. Sometime two people may not be far apart at all but one or both them misunderstand something and they effectively talk through the night without receiving any...

You may be correct as men often understand correct, but why should we be so concerned about what men think? When many people were leaving Him, Jesus asked of his closest followers: "...Will ye also go away?" John 6:67 If they had left then He would stood alone rather than compromise. Neither...

@justbyfaith Since I had trouble concentrating on and understanding your OP I will express here briefly where I am on God in this sense. As you pointed our [and others I am sure] there is only one God. I am more of a believer in some kind of a dualism if you need to put a name on it. It is the...

You seem awfully defensive here without at this point having attackers [I have not read past page 2 yet.] If you are correct and is all from God via the Holy Spirit then why are you concerned. "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

Well I guess that I am in trouble then. I read the first post carefully. I tried to read the second, but as often is the case with long posts, I lost track of where I was because I had not yet got hold of your point and you jumped to conclusions which I could not see... not based on what you...

I will look the posts over. As they are lengthy and my ability to concentrate for long these is diminished, I will look them over. No guarantees beyond that. I am with Paul in that after a way today that "they" [whoever they are] call heresy, it how I worship. By "Tritheism" you mean that...

You sound more like a school teacher than a minister of God! "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh" Ecc 12:12 How is one lifted up? Not... through study! "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be...

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Matt 5:6 "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:21

I understand. The following words in your post #151 caused me to believe you wanted to end the discussion.

Two things in the verse cited are necessary to have everlasting Life, to not come into condemnation, and to pass from death into life: Hearing his Word and Believing on the One who sent him. To hear speaks of 'hearing by the Holy Spirit' which comes by the Word of God[Rom 10:17]. Absent the...