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You call it a stretch, yet I call this body a temple given to us by God as stewards. Anything we do to affect a change on it is God's business. How much authority over it have we been given and how much have people taken themselves acting on the erroneous presumption that it was their own body...

I read your OP and see no edifying purpose to it. It is simply confusing to anyone wanting something other than a supposed exercise of logic. You won't help someone who is already a believer and you may simply further confuse someone who is doubtful about becoming a believer. Since this is a...

This goes back to Romans 14 to which you referred. The judgement of someone who has tatoos and has not asked for our opinion or assistance is not ours to make: "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be...

Methinks Romans 14 makes no mention of the temple of God. If you don't want to answer my question that's OK. I have pressed you because you have pressed people with comments which give me the impression that you believe getting a tatoo might be a good thing to do. If you are doubtful about the...

Liberty? We are free to serve God or mammon. That is our liberty. People can make choices and may be ignorant when they do of God's will for them. Some people may even believe that getting a tatoo is not defiling the temple of God. Are you one of those?

Perhaps I should not admit it, but your apology here made me laugh.

That would be their testimonies, not yours. I am still of the belief that we belong to God and that would include the bodies we inhabit: "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" I Cor 6:19 "Know ye not...

@shnarkle Since you insist on logic, you have started at the wrong place to really discuss what it is that we do believe and why. First a person must believe in God and then if he wishes to proceed further, he certainly may. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that...

Perhaps! But I haven't heard one personally testify to that effect.

The key is the foundation. Even with the very best of building materials put together with the most skillful of hands, without the proper foundation, will not stand: "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." I Cor 3:11 Our foundation must Jesus Christ, the...

This is why we do need the Holy Spirit in our lives and helping us even when we read the scriptures. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John...

No, that's a hypothetical for which it may seem there is only one correct answer, but actually either answer could be correct in a real situation depending on a person's heart. In your example, of course, you have already defined one son as being wicked and one being good. But consider this...

Obedient certainly but also acting according to God's will. Sometimes we ask for things that God will not do for His reasons. If we are paying attention as His sheep we will hear His voice so that we know something is NOT His will.

Remember how Moses as a high ranking person in Egypt also was in a hurry. Getting ahead of God he killed an Egyptian and eventually ran away to spend 40 years as a herdsman. What did he accomplish for God during those 40 years. He helped his father-in-law, got married and had children, but of...

@Nancy Dear practical Nancy, don't beat yourself over the head with it. It is right here, but how well do we see it? Jesus came down from heaven [3rd] with His Father to hell with mankind to make a Way where there was no way. Unless we are actually in the midst of sinning, you and I and those...

We've talked about this before, Helen, and even though you are on one side and I on the other on certain not now mentions issues salvation can still lie ahead of both of us. Doctrines [so-called... see @Willie T thread on it] can be good and helpful... but sometimes they really do stand between...

I am a Bible student and I love the Bible... reading it everyday, but what the article indicates has been done to a single word I see as having been done to the scriptures themselves. If we trust only the written Bible without having a direct connection with the one who originally inspired men...

I was an active Catholic and an altar boy until I graduated from high school in 1961. During elementary and all through high school my best friends were all Catholic and most altar boys. Those were some of my best memories. We never had trouble with priests like we hear on this forum and other...

"And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." Mark 3:33-35

I don't know about unity being restored. I am not certain that it ever existed among all of those who are to be part of the Body of Christ at the end of the road. Perhaps between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to their disobedience there was unity, but after that...? Jesus came and...