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How this "dichotomy" different than the "double mindedness" mentioned the book of James? Is not everyone double-minded when they first come to the Lord?

Nothing wrong with consulting the commentaries. It is only different from consulting a brother and sister on this forum in that the writers of the commentaries cannot amplify any more nor do they respond to specific questions you might want to ask. Those writers likely some of time wrote down...

Really? When Jesus was coming up so hard and deep that many of his followers were leaving, He was perfectly willing to stand there by himself. What does the scripture mean then when it says that we will be like him? I am not saying you are definitely always wrong with this, but we should not...

As I see it, we were all of us born dead to our natural mothers. So, yes, when a person really is born again, death is behind. Confusion sometimes comes into play because people don't all have the same meaning in mind when they speak of death or of life. There is a physical death of the...

Well it was nice to talk with you. I wish the outcome were different but I don't try to force feed anyone.

This is a good understanding based on what you are working with... as I see it. Without help you will be unable to go much farther and will simply increase by those tiny increments until there is no more time left for you. You can call me childish. Many people do call me naive and insofar as...

I guess a little bit of it is good for anyone who enters college at all, but there's probably not too much of a financial future in it. Probably it should be that way with those who seemingly are followers of Jesus... but what we see around us will probably result in many questioning that...

@Duane Clinton Meehan I took a quick look and skimming it a bit was more than enough for me. I remember fondly the first Philosophy course I took when I started college in 1966. I enjoyed it thoroughly and gained my two best friends for many years to follow. Thinking to myself, 'some's good...

Thank you. Seeing the link and checking back I see that you included it in post #9 to Philip James but never to me. I will take a look at it.

Reading through the thread I came upon this within a response of yours to another person. Perhaps you intended to provide a link, but checking back I have found no such link.

Yes, and some people in such situations will get weary in their well-doing and presume they are OK because Jesus has done it all for them. Jesus did overcome the world, but it was NOT your world, or my world or their world. It was only the world of Jesus, the man of flesh. He opened the Way...

@VictoryinJesus Remember that we are to be as Jesus. In His case the Word was made flesh to dwell among us [see John 1:14] so that He could be the Light among us so that we could see. In our case, we need to get to where He started. He was the Word at the beginning on his walk among us. We...

The ideal is of course really holding all things in common. What is really happening necessitates alms, but why? "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matt 5:48 Perhaps there are some who are not yet perfect!

I've already extended my knowledge in different ways in areas which I know you have not encountered although you might dispute that. Each day I talk with God and hear from God... and perhaps in your own past you have had a small taste of that now set aside by your conclusions. Each day I also...

Thank you for your consideration. I could look up the words that I don't readily understand, but it would require some effort and the chances are good at my age that the final result would sooner or later get left by the wayside by my aging brain [76 next month]. Still if I felt it to be an...

What is written in the scriptures certainly would lead a person believe that the Word of God is alive. However, are those written scriptures themselves that Word of God? And then when we 'hear' from God in other places and ways, other than in a written Bible, is that not also the Word of God...

To you it indeed may seem to not be nonsense, but to someone who cannot understand, or has difficulty understanding, what you have written, such as myself, because of the words used, it certainly is meaningless. Who then is helped by that?

As often happens there are communication problems between people. I agree that 'suicidal' indicates hopelessness as the word is normally applied. I was responding to our friend @bbyrd009 and he used the word, suicidal, but not with such a precisely negative connotation. I did not make that...

Yes indeed! But... "I am the LORD, I change not;..." Mal 3:6, and are we not eventually to be like Him. How close can we come? As close as we allow Him to bring us. But again, there are many it seems who become their own pathfinders and in their deceptions get lost along the way. This last is...

@bbyrd009 What just came to my mind reading the question, 'why we suffer, is Saul/Paul's first recorded conversation with Jesus: "And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." Acts 9:5 What was Jesus...