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When I am like that I do better by just getting up. Usually I will read the Bible, talk to God and play the piano. Eventually when I start falling asleep I will press a little longer and then head for bed. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I will suddenly be wide awake again lying there waiting for...

Thanks for your effort here, Helen. I read it through twice and none of it penetrated. I'm still foggy from a very bad night. I was only in bed about 5 hours and I was always half awake. Hopefully tonight my exhaustion I'll be able to relax and sleep. If I can remember and find it I may try to...

Indeed, but we really must also continue to grow toward God. What was sufficient for yesterday may not be sufficient for today because we have increased in knowledge. What God will require of us will depend on what we do with what we have... including knowledge: "But he that knew not, and did...

I guess the difference with Jesus' parables was who he was and where he got what he taught people. He never made a mistake in this because of what he knew even he presented his knowledge in the form of a parable. If we have definite knowledge of all of the possibilities will also never miss, but...

@Mayflower Every step that we take toward Jesus is walking on top of the water instead of sinking into it. This is considering what the water represents. It is something we must keep under our feet as not to fall back into a spiritual death. To walk on H2O like Jesus did would require a good...

Sorry, but that is as clear as mud to me. You will have to try an example why in your own case it would work . Until I can understand what you mean I really cannot say, yea, or, nay. Give him greetings as well. It has been a long time since James' forum, I guess. I've gone there a couple of...

No, not all the same when we are finally and always with God. Remember the three of levels of the Ark that Noah built to the specifications of God. It had three levels of saved creatures, the unclean beasts, the clean beasts and the 8 of Noah's family at the top. Those beasts are men at their...

Hi Helen! Well anyone who never obtains Life is simply dead. Into the grave or the cremation process. The end! Amen! Remember Helen that I am really more an annihilationist on these points than anything else. If I am wrong I seen nothing yet that was very convincing. Most people when they...

LOL Simply, where a person is in God makes a difference. How much knowledge a person has in the things of God makes a difference. How much experience a person has in the things of God makes a difference. Babies in the Lord may not know enough to realize what it is that they are doing that to...

Thank you my friend for standing where you are without condemning those not in the same place. Give God the glory!

I am glad you inserted the word, "possible" for almost any you have listed could be a sin in a real life situation or NOT. It is pointless to name them since your statements are hypothetical. In a real situation there will be no, maybe yes, or, maybe no.

At least apparently none that you have seen or heard previously from any man. Following the Him and hearing His voice is essential, is it not? Have you never heard His voice? Do listen only to the voices of strangers? "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth...

Why would I think the reality of you is in a mirror image of you or in a statue sculptured to look like you? Indeed, which is why based on my own convictions I do not partake of the bread nor wafer nor cracker in any communion services, nor of the wine nor grape juice of same. I eat rather...

I'm sorry about that. You are not the only one I have seen insist on toeing the line with the accepted traditions/beliefs of mainstream churches. So it was in Jesus day on planet Earth when the many of his followers left him and he then asked his closest followers, "... Will ye also go away?"...

But would it not be better to partake of that which is represented or symbolized than those representations or symbols? Why eat or drink the image instead of the reality? "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood...

Oh Helen you forget, do you not, that in order to never die we need to eat of the Tree of Life and who is allowed to do that other than overcomers? "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 tree of life, which is...

No, I am afraid not. We were there for only about 8 months, when my job transferred from my place of work in Richmond, CA to Merced, CA ...too far away to commute. So we moved. That would have been in about 1981.

Thank you for being up front with me. I do disagree with your statement about losing one's salvation but I am not pushing for more from you on that than what you have said. I believe I understand both sides of the question and am uncertain that another discussion on here and now will necessarily...

Not trying to trick you into anything here. I do believe one way and some of what you say seems on the same track, but I was hoping you could clarify it for me. So then are you not saying that a man, [as foolish as such a choice would be], still has the choice at any time to go with the old...

Does this new self dwell within each of us simultaneously with the old self? Are you saying that we Should or that we Must choose the good and righteous action? So, would you then you say that if we, having put on the man, do not practice our faith in or by righteous works, the old man would...