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And what of those who treat God like Nehushtan? Should they also be banned from Christian forums?

I used to search the used the book stores for old Christian books and obtained a few that way. Not living in a large city the selection was not great. I seldom go to those old stores any more. You remind me of an old habit I enjoyed [visiting such stores] but haven't practiced in a long time. I...

Well, I have not read much of C.S. Lewis. Many years ago I picked up a used copy of "Mere Christianity". I read it then but alas no others. That one has gathered dust for these many years. Reading it now would likely be like reading a new book. The good thing perhaps is that I still have it...

Well many people have also never read the Bible... or am I wrong about that? I know one fellow who knows quite a bit about the Bible, but he admittedly has never read it all. He studies favored places and searches things using a lexicon but especially in the OT he has never gotten around to...

A yea for the former and a nay for the latter.

Consider how well most of the prophets in the OT were received by the natural Israelites. Not well at all. Moses himself even when he accepted the assignment and led the people was continuously under attack by those people he led. The Levites attacked him. His own sister and brother, Miriam and...

Approaching the scriptures subjectively or objectively will accomplish nothing good for a person who is not at all hungry and thirsty for God and the things of God. To someone always led by the Holy Spirit, the words of scripture will become perfect as the Spirit brings them to Life in that...

You talk with different people Dave and lose track of what each one has told you previously. I do understand that. I have told you what I believe before but apparently it did not stick. Seemingly you believe that the written scriptures themselves are the Living Word of God. I don't believe...

I had been trying hard where I attended for so long because it was allowed by the pastor. He's 93. He was forced to leave as pastor displaced by others at the end of this past October and I had to leave as well. They shut me up... Since then I have been looking as God leads me to different...

Thank you! I don't mind people using acronym or abbreviations, but explaining them initially for those with slow heads like mine is not a bad idea.

What is a BAC? I haven't a clue...

God is perfect, but the scriptures are not perfect, until, and if, they are brought to Life perfectly within us. Consider that the man Jesus grew while he dwelt on planet Earth. Was he approaching the perfection of his Father or was he already there when born to Mary as a child of flesh? Why...

You say it as if it were an insult. If it is not where God wants me, it is. If it is where God wants me, it is not. You don't even know the truth of it. You are simply insisting on pressing your belief onto others. Jesus never did that. God never did that. I don't think of God at all in terms...

@Soverign Grace With regard to the OP and the ways of men, in churches or not go back to Jeremiah's words: "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23 Man could not do it when Jeremiah wrote that and he cannot do it...

Deny? That word is too strong to describe my doubts concerning your beliefs. I live for God by faith rather than by knowledge and I admit to knowing less than God. How much like Him are we to become? "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know...

You want to nit pick me and others to death on this. Well you are certainly not the first and probably won't be the last. Even your questions are not looking for the truth but for support for what you already believe and probably call absolute truth. I am not frozen in place but to let you...

People are afraid to let go and live by faith in God. They have formed habits by which they trust in doctors, medicine, science, lawyers, governments of men, etc. If it were only a few members of congregations doing this they would or should still receive reminders or teachings to direct them...

What part of scripture have I rejected? You should read more carefully what I have written here. Am I a "oneness" believer? Where did I say that? What does the Apostle Paul write about who Jesus is? "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" I Tim 2:5

I never suggested that I was a modalist. But consider what it is you believe and what it is that you know: "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon...

Certainly, "not grounded in the Word of God"!