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So the psalm quoted in the OP applies, but the verses I cited do not? If you are saying that a person cannot quench the Holy Spirit, why did Apostle Paul warn us not to do so? "Quench not the Spirit." I Thess 5:19 Should we throw out all of the verses which do not fit your doctrine? You did...

You say that children of God do not host demons, but what if they by their lack of yielding the Holy Spirit, they effectively invite them in? Without the Holy Spirit who can resist a demon? Either we are to be led and taught by the Holy Spirit, or we are taught by whom? How many...

"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Yes, His mercy endureth for ever, but to whom does it apply at any time? "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." Matt 5:7 "For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and...

Most every place does it in some measure when they establish rules with the idea of controlling what people can do or say and when they can do or say anything. God does not need help to operate in people. People can however stifle the Holy Spirit with their rules supposedly established to...

Indeed, this is believers being effectively taught to quench the Holy Spirit of God. When we start to quench the Spirit, we begin our long slide downward... "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return...

@Giuliano Thanks for the information. I've copied it to my computer for reference.

The "cultist" in all of us is the "old man" in need of crucifying. While he remains the fight between this doctrine and that one continues. When he is finally dead in all members, all of us who remain will be one in and of God. All of this is so in a measure, but there also some who simply...

You missed my real question, I guess. There are people who know the scriptures very well, but know God scarcely or even not at all. The apostle Paul was like that before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. He was a Bible scholar and a Pharisee, but he did not know, did not recognize Jesus...

Yes, one step at the time, one decision at the time. The scriptures and God will help with this if we are asking for help AND paying attention! If this is so, it is not surprising. My quick search on the Internet did not find it. In my own experience I know that God has forgiven likely many...

I do agree and would look also to the OT for types of the same problem expressed. Not easily or quickly will God abandon us to our own resources... but when we say to Him, no, too many times, the limit to God's patience and mercy with us will be found. "Because all those men which have seen my...

She helps me in very different ways. I've always been quite naive about many things especially in the secular world where we dwell. She, on the other hand, is wiser and never naive. She recognizes quickly the wolves attired as sheep and warns me. She was doing this before we started actively...

Yes, after 47 years of marriage to this old man! God blesses me with her.

Is our friend Mr. Snarkle like a bee and honey? Unfortunately he is educated in ways which too often trip up unwary believers. Always we must keep our focus on the Lord so that such things even when they sound good will not cause us to look away from Him and along with Peter begin to sink. We...

If I ever say anything 'good', you already know that it comes from the only One who is good, God! Paying attention and growing in and with Him is the Way. Like others, however, I also have my bad times and days. This comes from doing a thing I along with Paul warn against: Quenching the Holy...

That spirit, of which you speak, may be going in at least two directions (two spirits?). There are those [probably few] who really were stifled where they were in their walk with and toward God and had to leave. [This leaving would apply not only to leaving the CC, but others (Protestant) as...

Scared may be the word for it, but everyone, as I believe it should stand firmly by what he really believes... and being both willing and even anxious to talk about it when someone may be edified by that discussion. There is an admonition about not casting our pearls before swine... but that is...

The Reformation occurred a few hundred years ago, so your underlined words for the most part speaks of people who had already finished their time on planet Earth long before any of us here were born. But... perhaps it could speak to a few, like myself, who was once a very sincere Catholic. Those...

Perhaps we might be content with what we have already been shown with regard to these things considered as contradictions. Of course, my understandings and yours are unlikely to make everyone else content upon hearing them. Does contentment also come from God? "Not that I speak in respect of...

Nothing wrong with visualizing. On the contrary: "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." Prov 29:18

Oh yes! My wife is also one of those rare "housewife's" who for the most part stayed at home during our marriage life [47 years now], took care of the kids and me. Now we are both home bodies since my retirement 19 years ago.