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God have mercy with some of these Bible names... and Rahab is certainly one of the easier ones.

@hishandmaiden I also get the point here, but if we recall Rehab helping the spies of Israel in Jericho, did she not commit treason against her nation and was then found pleasing to God? In the Book of Joshua she committed treason but in the Book of Hebrews she was commended for her faith. Can...

@hishandmaiden Welcome to the forum!

No need to apologize. Thank you in any case!

Here again is your problem, my friend. You speak of "historic standards" instead of God's standards as if the two were necessarily the same. Man's written history is from what I understand very unreliable being filled with errors and holes. These are your historic standards. You insist on them...

Why does anyone die since we were all dead from the first man Adam until and if we received Life from Jesus?

Everyone I guess has an idea of what is important. To me reading the Bible is important. Other books with regard to religion sometimes interest me, but an in depth study of the so called TULIP would accomplish what? What would it likely find or conclude beyond what several people on this forum...

Why? How many -isms are we supposed to understand? Was it really? Wouldn't it be rather to move closer what Jesus was and what He taught? I read them a few minutes ago, but already I could not tell you what they are. The one thing I remember is that they seem to contain or support the OSAS...

wadr = With All Due Respect

My first encounter with atheists was not of the harder nosed variety which seems to abound today... but hard enough. When I was released from active military duty in 1966 I entered a Junior College in California and took a basic philosophy course. Two young men in that class befriended me taking...

Yes, the scriptures speak of God writing on our hearts. This what I meant. I strive to always surrender to Spirit of God, but sometimes I stumble and the carnal man grabs hold to support himself. This has always been man's problem Without Him we can do nothing.

No, no Catholic school. I attended a public elementary school in a primarily Catholic town. The nearest Catholic school was in another town several miles away.

What can I do? I am what I am which is certainly less than God is able to make if I allow it. You want a black and white answer to your questions, and I simply won't do that, not because I have no answer, but because I have learned to strive not to generalize. I know I have mentioned this before...

I just reread this and wanted to clarify that my parents did not raise to believe in God by teaching or by example. My step-father, a Portugee, had always been a Catholic nominally but I cannot remember him ever attending church or a mass. My mother became Catholic when she married him before I...

No, the lessons were all taught by nuns and I have no recollection of a Bible ever being used. The priests at that time read a short passage from the Bible during the mass when they gave their sermon [if that is the right term here]. I understand that after Vatican II things changed considerably...

In my public elementary school [in California from 1949-1957], one day a week we had what was called "religious release". Each church group or denomination could arrange to walk children of their persuasion [with the parents permission] to their own building/church to teach them according to...

Anywhere you go or stay Frank there is likely to be trouble. I have been in several church groups as a member over the years. In each one I learned something good about God, but God also brought me out each one of them for His reasons. I saw reasons myself but I never really left for those...

And what is the answer? Did Jesus ever trespass against his neighbor? The question was put to Him: who is my neighbor? [Luke 10:29] Jesus proceeded to tell the story of the good Samaritan. Can we understand from that story who our neighbor is? Then what is a trespass? What carnal man sees as...

@Frank Lee Know that you do have friends here at all times. Sometimes we too are weak but hopefully also on the approach to that perfection which can be seen in the Father by those with eyes to see.

Even so my friend! We cannot always support even our friends, but we need to be sincere and honesty in our pursuit of God and Truth... and in what we share with others. Someone who is really seeking God's kingdom and righteousness will then be allowed to see something good in us. If our hearts...