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But what is this canon? Who decided it was complete? Why is the Protestant canon different than the Catholic one? Who decided the canon was closed? You apparently agree with the ones who decided it was closed, but as you see on this forum and elsewhere I am sure, there are people who disagree...

I think this what we, you and I, in a discussion long ago called a scarlet thread. It remains unbroken from the time of Jesus to now.

You believe this perhaps, but you state it as if you know it. The only way you could know it is if you had a personal revelation from God, the kind you seem to be saying doesn't happen any more. When did God move you from seeing through a "glass, darkly" to a "face to face" vision?

Verified to or for whom by what means for what purpose? God has spoken to me and that is good enough for me. What difference should it make to me that someone else doubts that He has? I can verify that to an unbeliever as well as I can verify that Jesus rose from the dead to the same unbeliever...

You should not ask such foolish questions! It is what it is, whether it makes good sense to everyone or even to you alone, or not.

Indeed, Helen, but even in the Local functioning Body of believers not everyone is where they need to be. For example when four meet together regularly but only 3 of them are always "in His name" so where then is Jesus? Then again in that small select group of 12 hand picked so to speak by...

But in no other way? Have you never looked at any part of His creation including the creatures? Do you not talk to God? If and when you do, does He never answer you in any way?

I do hear you here. Some children are unfortunate in having parents who did not love them and whom they could not love. In this I was blessed. Yet, my parents for me were always apart as I was too young when they were divorced to have any memory of them together. I loved them both, but they...

Again you are wanting to put words in my mouth. I did not say "against the flow of scripture". Those are your words. What I meant by going against the "flow" was to do as what Jesus did when He walked as a man in spite of the opposition to Him. This can be seen especially in times after...

But according to your faith is how it is. You say you are not limiting God but in yourself by what you don't believe or what you do believe you have limited Him even as they did in the OT. The limitation God put on Himself was in giving man the ability to disagree with Him and to limit God...

I hear exactly what you saying. Whether I see it I will give it a great big very definite Maybe! There is also this my friend: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the...

I remember the wafers and drink but have not been a member of a church that did that for more than 30 years. I was also once a member of a church where we really did take a bucket of warm water and wash each other's physical feet. While I don't do those thing any more, when I did I was blessed...

I remember one very faithful brother losing his beloved wife. He had her cremated and kept her ashes in an urn on top of the mantle of the fireplace in their bedroom until he died some years later. Was that also strange?

Yes, but it says it says it in the OT long before the Holy Ghost was poured out. Did that make a difference? Also we see even that David, the shepherd boy become King, was told to seek His face. Would he be told to do that if it only meant death? Then again the Apostle Paul writes that there...

And what is the world is normal? We all probably have used the term but it means different things to different people in different situations. Probably in a sense, few "normal" people know the Lord and want to know Him better!

Safe? Is anyone safe anywhere if he is not in the arms of God? If he is in God, where is he not safe?

I have never visited anyone's grave but I can certainly understand why some people do that. Perhaps it is why we have and keep pictures of people, especially people who are physically dead.

Well maybe I was talking with tongue in cheek. However, if there are no tongues or cheeks in heaven [3rd] what does that mean? The question is, what message is God sending to us... talking with an audible [man's definition] voice or in some other way? As to a future scenario what if the future...

People do hear God's voice, be it audible according to some scientific definition of audible or in some other way. That may constitute what you or other call "conviction" as in convicted in my heart that this or that is God's will for this particular occurrence or situation or...? If a person is...

Why do you want to put words in my mouth. I believe I said what I meant. As for hearing an audible voice, if you ever heard any man speak God's Word and it touched your heart, you have certainly heard God speak in an audible voice. Do none of the men of God who teach and preach and minister...