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My understanding of the Sadducees and Pharisees is that they strongly opposed to each other, but then along came Jesus and they both wanted to get onto Him. On the one issue of contention between them in the gospels it seems that Jesus was actually on the side of the Pharisees, but he never...

@GallyTrot Welcome to the forum!

What I see is a sometimes serious lack of communication between people in this thread, which moved on to calling names. I will probably, Lord willing, start a new thread on what Life is versus what life is, as I understand them. Are we all so far apart as this? I know how naive I am. Help us Lord!

"Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." Matt 13:30

No, everywhere that people gather together.

Interesting! Your insertion of the more specific beginning of the gentile turn to God via Jesus I had not heeded or considered in this way. But it does fit also considering who the Samaritans were. They were generally more ignorant of correct biblical details [law of Moses]] than their southern...

In other words we might say all the pruning and dying needed for each of us as individuals must be complete before we can a part to be fitted perfectly into the Body, so there can never be trouble with gangrene in the Body.

Of course that was involved then... and it also involved now. Too many Christians it would seem are more concerned with obtaining rewards and avoiding punishments than in simply loving God as He loves them. 'Who wants to live forever?' was a question asked frequently in one assembly where I was...

No, they are never purposely evil. But... some of them may be trained to act in better or worse ways according to man. Two of the smarter ones according to what I learned in school were dogs and pigs. Remember who was in the lead of the animal revolt in George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm"? The...

The Body, the real Body, will not reject any of its parts simply because they are different. If there really is gangrene in one part of the Body, only the Head can decide to have that part removed to save the Body. Jesus is the only Head of the Body. None of the other parts qualify.

@Enoch111 Fairly recent according to your research and history as written by men. I don't doubt you were unable to find much or even nothing written for earlier periods of time, but that does not prove it was never there. I'm not saying it was, but a lack of information is hardly real...

There should not be, but in fact there often is. When we are all overcomers as Jesus was an overcomer then there will be no difference because everyone will be like Him.

I have not said that and you won't hear me say it. Too many people presume that others believe certain things, or don't, because of a presumed affiliation. You from your own experience should know that is NOT how people are. Some or even many will follow the leader or flesh, but not everyone...

And what does that have to do with my post? "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:" I Cor 10:32 You cited the verse but failed connect it to my post. You would say the scriptures are the complete Word of God but where in your words do we find...

God edifying others, or people edifying others? God only speaks truth, but one has to hear Him to be edified. When a person does speaks God's truth, likewise, one has to hear him to be edified. Some people will presume anything coming from someone on the "other" side must be in error or a...

Not only the Book of Revelation, but the entirety of the scriptures. Nearly every one of those people involved in those debates without regard to which side they are on, will use other scriptures outside of Revelation to support their case. The parable or the unknown tongue are ways that God...

Amen! To presume that our emotions should never be involved when we are supposed to love God because He first loved us would, I believe, present a real problem.

Using anyone's interpretation of it? Would you receive as truth the interpretation of scripture provided by an avowed atheist? If not, why not, if the scripture by itself is all of the Truth of God we need? Where went Sola Scriptura?

And the Church is His Body, is it not? He is after all only the Head. And while you see Jesus quoting the OT in the gospels, you never see him quoting the NT. What is it that you call the Word of God? Is that not Jesus? As the Word does He only run from Matt 1:1 to Rev 22:21?

Stay strong in the Lord and never deny the truth that you have. The difficulty people have on this subject and others too often is fostered by short sighted ministers leading without knowledge or vision. And then too many people simply jump on that band wagon instead of going to God themselves...