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It is more than helpful. I was say rather that it is essential and it is the reason we have so many different viewpoints on the scriptures and so many different denominations.

Consider the God given words spoken by a man who conspired to kill Jesus: "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all," John 11:49 He had missed the Way, but God still spoke through him as he was still the high priest and Jesus...

What people, [believers known as Christians], do today is effectively what the children of Israel did in the wilderness. When they recognized they had sinned they took an offering to the priest. To do this they entered into that outer court and the priest went through the necessary steps of the...

Not disagreeing with all that you have said, but also consider your first questions in connection with this: "For our God is a consuming fire." Heb 12:29 What do those words mean according to your literary definitions? What is God? We can find other verse of scriptures which seem to describe...

We have gone this part before, so to me it is an unwinnable game. Sorry you have the only answers from me now already! Only God gives any real increase, so why would you expect more from me? Either I am right or I am wrong, but no one who disagrees with me will know which until and if God gives...

If I could that might make you happier for the moment, but I cannot... Patient Mary who wants to define the possible answers as if they were the only possibilities. Should I change my beliefs in order to be able to answer in line with your definitions? I cannot do that anymore than you can. We...

@Marymog Continued: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" II Tim 4:3 Would you presume that everyone on this forum who has disagreed with you is coming "after their own lusts" in...

You are simply talking about people, be they Apostolic Fathers long returned to dust, or Protestants on this forum, or Catholics on this forum. I would say without hesitation that no two of us are the same in all respects. The Truth, according to everyone of this group, who believes in God and...

Well it certainly applies to me. I just past my 47th anniversary to the same woman. Neither of us have ever been married to anyone else: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a...

If that is what it means to be a Pentecostal then I am not one. This thread was started by me to explain my position and belief, not what some official Pentecostal group believes.

You are still arguing against me for something I did not say. If you do not understand my position, please re-read what I have posted. Go argue with some Pentecostals who believe that.

Since when did the majority decide what is God's Way and what is not? Since of the 7.7 billion people on planet Earth about 2/3 are NOT even designated a Christian should we scrap the Bible and all of Christianity with it? We certainly don't have a majority!

No, I never said that and I am not saying it now. It is not part of my job description from God to decide who is or who is not part of the Body of Christ.

No, the Word of God is objective truth, God's truth. The scripture, misunderstood or misinterpreted is a subjective thing and is NOT the Word of God. God being not respecter of persons does not mean we are all exactly alike. We will be distinctive parts of the Body of Christ with different...

You can say that, but be certain you understand what Jesus meant when He called upon us to eat His flesh and drink His blood? When does it apply to you?

So do we my friend!

And what did they say about Jesus? "... He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils." Matt 9:34

If you have the Word of God in you and share it with others, then, yes, people who gladly hear you effectively partake of you [Christ in you]. But if you are NOT walking the Spirit, you are like Peter when Jesus rebuked him calling him satan, having no Life in you. "Then Jesus said unto them...

Yes, that is the "old man" of you who when left to himself will sin again rather than follow the Lord. As you decrease in yourself and He increases in you what do suppose is going to the end result?

When I speak to an unbeliever, I rarely have opportunity to plan what I am going to say or even to look up Bible verses to cited ahead of time. We simply have to always be ready. Being ready means always leaning on God rather than leaning on our own understanding. Every morning and at times...