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Why do you keep on dredging up history? I have not been a part of a oneness Pentecostal group since 1987 and even when I was active in such assemblies God was calling me out as in "come out of her". I was never ever stuck in the prescribed doctrines of the man-made organizations, there or...

Yes, there is a lot of that but much of problem lies in quenching the Holy Spirit of God. Church [excuse the usage of that word] service are frequently and probably always in greater or lesser measure structured [programmed] ahead of time allowing no, or almost no, leading in the service by the...

I have explained why my position is what it is already on this thread. [You may wish to read my posts before continuing.] I am not going to change simply because the majority may disagree. The majority of the leadership in Jerusalem were opposed to Jesus, but he was always willing to stand...

Start by reading the verses I quoted in post #6...

It is easy enough to "listen" but when a person walks more according to his own fleshly ways than by following the Holy Spirit, what is he really going to "hear"? It isn't so hard to both listen and hear if a person doesn't have too hard of a head or too stiff of a neck. Jesus said it this way...

I understand the question and the basis for it, but what no one has clarified is how those who never acknowledged the Master [Jesus] and never accepted the Life that He brought for them can be said by anyone to Live in pain and suffering without end? I may not have an easy answer that everyone...

"...until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God..." And how may we, [you and I and any others], reach this unity except we are completely subjected to the Head, which is Jesus? "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things...

You did not answer my question. Without a specific answer I am uncertain as to your meaning. With an answer I may still be uncertain. I might come up with a definition of a "follower of Jesus" but to me it is a very big jump from there to the conclusion that a "follower of Jesus" is a...

Those without hope may simply be out of time and have no hope and also nothing else. Another possibility is that they have truly blasphemed against the Holy Ghost: "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost...

Is a "biblical Christian" equal to a "follower of Jesus"?

On the one hand it does not have to be something special, but on the other hand it certainly is something very special. Is God special!

I am afraid that your words make no sense at all. Nothing and no one is like God. Those walking with Him may be on the approach, but those not with Him will eventually lose all hope and therefore everything: "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." Col 1:17

I most certainly do hear what you are saying here. Give God the glory!

Well work on getting some real sleep my friend. I, who have had lots of trouble [and still do have], getting enough sleep can relate to this.

I never went through that type of a phase, but early on I did want people to know I was a Christian... that is a follower of Christ. My reasons were the wrong ones, but I really did not know that then. I was looking for my own glory instead of His. Even when I much later on began to understand...

@Episkopos Perhaps I could always wear shirt and pants with the word "Christian" printed all over them; and then just in case that missed, I could also have tatoos of the word "Christian" placed on all exposed and unexposed skin. If those things did not catch their attention I guess I could...

@Vince Communication is our problem, that is yours and mine in this little discussion. I used the word "decided" but while you read it as a simple past tense depicting a single decision made by God, that is NOT what I intended it to be. God is not like that. Man is. God doesn't think about...

Indeed, often in the scriptures when we see the word "forever" or "for ever" in English it pertains to for as long as God permits or prescribes. [what can it or does it mean to a God with no beginning and no end?]Men use their own ideas of what the word means rather than realizing or seeking...

Even more emphasis needed on this unending Life. Sinners cannot have it unless they receive what Jesus brought. Many simply do not receive it and remain dead. Dead people are dead. When their allotted time is ended nothing of them remains at all.

If you have not seen what I believe on this, I must then leave it in the hands of our God, the only One who gives any real increase!