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And without love we are...? "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove...

Who has eaten the manna, that is the hidden manna, which consists of...??? "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no...

I've made a note of the Book by Melody Beatie. I found it on Internet and saved the site but really don't like that approach. I am a regular at the library so I will check there for a copy to check out and read.

Perhaps Saul become Paul is one of the best example in scripture. He was a well educated man, educated in the scriptures themselves and with all of that knowledge he was nothing in the sight of God. Until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus how well did all of his knowledge help anyone much...

The following is the door/gate of which you speak, I believe: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Rev 3:20

Why is it that we need Jesus? Is he not the Door or the Way or the Gate. "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." John 10:9 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."...

Offended is not the right word. Rather I am sad that you really don't care to even discuss and hopefully work to edify one another in the things of God. The others here you usually support simply call people names without visible cause. I had hope from some of your words that you were different...

@prism You were quick to complain when you thought I had gotten away from the topic of your OP, but since I took the time to re-read the OP and respond to you in detail in post #152 you haven't replied at all except indirectly by giving "likes" to those who were critical of what I wrote. I...

That's purposely I would guess trying to do what we cannot do, or at least what we think that we cannot do. Maybe the cause is the selfishness of men undiminished. Being selfish as a child is one thing while being selfish as an adult is quite another. "Therefore doth my Father love me, because...

Codependency a word I learned from you. I look it up each time you mention to try to get it to stick. Maybe it applies but I am nonetheless stuck where I am while my pastor lives. He knows pain but I will not be needlessly a cause of additional pain. I will do what I can for as long as I can. I...

I left in support of the old pastor who will be 94 next month. It was primarily because of him that I began attending here in 2007 with a 50 mile one way commuting distance. I finally moved here in 2012 to help him more when his wife died and to cut that long commute out of our schedule. They...

Yes, but look at what our friend Episkopos posted: The wrath of God and the consuming fire which God is... Consider: "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Gen 3:24...

@Mayflower "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Gen 2:7 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." I Cor 15:45

In each one of the places where I was, I believed initially that it was the right place. Later I may have changed my mind, but then by now I may have changed it back again. This does not mean I would go back now to Catholicism for example but rather that I understand that me being there when I...

Jesus sent them out that way and they simply went not really questioning... at least aloud. Would they have done it on their own? Did they ever do that later when they were on own... at least without human companionship on their journey? Have I ever done it? Not really in the physical part of...

Some people use the word "cult" in different [better/worse?] ways, if that were possible, than others. If they like some of the things I say they may back off a little when they know I am around so as not to offend me, but I see in other conversations they will continue in their old ways. Am I...

@AustinS Welcome to the forum!

There may indeed be other enemies but striving to defeat them without defeating yourself would ultimately be a wasted effort, would it not? God will take care of the rest of them, but if we by the power of God in us do not with His help defeat the beasts within ourselves we will never benefit...