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Slightly unrelated but something came to mind here regarding one of my former pastors. I was working for him helping him to fix up houses for resale [flipping?] when that wasn't such common thing as it seems to be today. When we were cleaning the "garbage" out of the house certain types of...

Too much of a supposedly good thing can be bad or...? The last time I looked into it one can or glass of beer was supposed to be good for you. I remember when my wife was pregnant with our first child she had an old Dutch obstetrician who advised her to drink one can of beer daily during her...

Is it easy to see three persons? Perhaps for you, but not for me. Should I believe in the Trinity because you do or because so many others are saying that they do? Is that a good reason for having faith in that doctrine? I have never casually dismissed the Trinity although some people have...

I took it to mean perhaps a pitcher of beer. Between wrongly expressed thoughts and typos we are having a communication problem. Those are of course in addition to any communication problems that may exist when our thoughts are properly stated and flawlessly typed.

My mistake! Instead of presenting two apparently opposite goals or desires, I repeated one using different wording and left the other out completely. I have input a correction.

Admitting that is a necessary step in the right direction as I see it. Until we admit the possibility that something we believe or that something which we do, or want to do, could be in error, God is blocked. He cannot [I believe] force anyone to serve Him in every point as He would like. That...

As you say "even what we might call 'good' habits" we need to pay closer attention to... This lack of attention leads I would guess to a weariness in well doing which needs to be avoided. When we are doing 'well' according to God we should not grow weary. When we seem to be doing just that it is...

Yes, I am also included among those who are as you say, "no different" yet...? The course, our courses are, your course and my course is, not ended yet. Sometimes we may yearn for the end but at other times we seem to desire that we could be allowed a bit more time. No filet nor pitcher for me...

Just to be clear (LOL) the phase highlighted in blue and underlined may well be clear to you, but it is not to me even though I may be able to see where you are coming from on it...

I guess the difficulty is even in really understanding what it means to be God or divine? Could God make a person, one of us, into a God or to a god? My own understanding of Jesus being God or god [a God or a god] considers all scripture but one place I frequently look for a type or shadow of...

And since no one among those who strongly support a Trinity can really explain it so it makes sense to anyone, why should anyone insist that another person must embrace it as God's Truth? Are we to have faith in God or in people?

Consider also the greetings in most of the NT epistles recognizing the Father and the Lord Jesus, while the Holy Spirit, supposedly an equal part of God or a third person is usually neglected and not included in the greeting at all Why would the Apostle Paul or any of the writers treat any part...

At the first he challenged me greatly admittedly in part because I could not understand his form of shorthand. When I finally got past that, I found sometimes he was quite close to where I was in some things or better yet raised questions in me that really had not occurred to me before. His...

Actually everyone building that Tower of Babel was confused [Gen 11] and everyone today with less than all of God's Truth for man is confused in the measure that he has less than all of that Truth. What man besides Jesus, who names himself, the Truth, has already the whole loaf now? So then the...

But... NOT the backbone a those who really are striving to follow Christ. There is certainly a difference, isn't there? "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then...

Perhaps some having received the same Spirit, have simply quenched that Spirit within them so often that they do not recognize God's voice within anymore and go along their own merry way assured only in a delusion onto which they hold fast in place of that first encountered love of Truth! This...

I noticed that he was not posting regularly a couple of days ago, but I have discovered just today that he has removed himself from this forum. I came against him on more than one occasion as did others here, but now let us ask God to help him in his walk and let it always be a walk in pursuit...

Is this not too much of a generalization? You certainly are aware that there many thousands of Protestants groups without undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of members. Who knows them all much less the hearts and intents of each individual among them but God? "That be far from thee to do after...

Just always remember that neither your nor I can save anyone. Only God gives the increase [I Cor 3:6-7]. If someone is really hungry and thirsty God will fill them, whether He uses you or me to accomplish it is up to Him... He is Director as well as the Increaser: "Blessed are they which do...

It is certainly more than simply mouthing what we believe His name is: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matt 7:21 And the Father's will is...? "And this is the will of him that...