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I take all of the scripture as God shows it me and thus far that has not left me trinitarian. But, most of that which you call church is perhaps heading to the same end that most of the children of Jacob headed in wilderness instead of toward the Promised Land.

Perhaps! I have not studied Islam and of Judaism I know only some as a result of studying the Bible. In other words, I won't confirm or deny your statement. I am very slow to call anything Christian or cult without knowing what is meant by the words. For me a Christian is one who follows or...

Perhaps according to your definition of Christianity, as I certainly don't follow the Christianity defined by many people by they way they practice it. By definition I don't mean 'dictionary wise' but 'action wise' according to the example Jesus set when he walked on planet Earth about 2,000...

Perhaps for you they are not, but what many supposed Christians seem to do is simply 'go with the flow' of others instead of getting to where they can hear and follow God. Are Islam and Judaism wrong? Is it any worse to get caught in their ways than it is for people bearing the label of...

@justbyfaith Sometimes I guess people read without understanding because they are already wrapped up [tied up?] in their own set of doctrines or beliefs and are unable to clear the way even for God. God does speak through us, sometimes to ourselves and sometimes to others. We need to be always...

Yes, the battles rage daily within us. When we let the weariness of the flesh rule the roust for even a moment, that moment may be the moment we sin one more time. God loses no battles, but when for whatever reason we quench the Holy Spirit in us, then we lose and sin. As you say, we need to...

The only exception to this would be the person who had already overcome the world as Jesus overcame the world. Among men, who but another overcomer would definitely recognize such a person?

I accept the Holy Spirit and anyone teaching under the anointing of the Spirit. Remember that God can speak even through the mouth of a donkey. Go slow on condemning a teacher who is not supporting your own pet doctrines. Back in the lowest room my friend is where the answer lies.

Did you not read where I said that I had read them? But... that is NOT where we receive truth anyway. Solomon wrote what we would receive through a whole lot of reading and study as a chosen means of approach: "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end...

I do not reject the truth of scripture that I know. I set on a shelf what I don't understanding waiting the need for which God will give me any needed understanding. Darkly is how Apostle Paul was seeing along with us except where God has/had given him or us a clearer vision.

If I were on a jury of men judging man, I would want to consider man's law and God's law as I considered the evidence presented. Do jurors have to be lawyers? As to the creeds, I have read them. I take them as Abraham Lincoln did... or as I understand that he did as per Mario M Cuomo in "Why...

What I said stands. I believe that the scriptures were written as men were inspired by God to do so. I have no way of knowing whether any, or all, or none of the writers of those ecumenical creeds were writing under God's inspiration... unless He told me they were. He has not so spoke to me, so...

We do not "see" them one way or the other, if we are blind to the things of God.

Of course, each of us can form a conclusion, but only God is always be right in a discussion or debate unless a participant has already overcome the world completely as Jesus did. Then, the overcomer is most certainly also right. Were the winners of those debates overcomers? Only God and another...

If they were wrong someone has indeed debunked them even if it has not been written up in anyone's declaration of victory in a debate manuscript. The truth, God's Truth, when it is really written [as the scriptures themselves], is written in a person's heart by God. Sometimes a man who has it...

No, it is not as many make it, but the only correct clarification and explanation of the whole thing comes from God. What is we are to believe in order to have? "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have...

Is that the only reason Jesus came: To pay a price we could not pay? What about this? "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10 What is this Life? When we have received...

So then you are saying that two or more people debate hard enough and long enough to an extreme they will that way find God's truth? When my older brother was in college he was a debater and very good, winning a lot of debates, but he did not know God at the time. Do you suppose that his...

So what was the difference between those men in the OT who found grace and those now? Why was it that Jesus came?

So then as certain traditions are held up very high by some, should we hold up these "ecumenical creeds" along side the written scriptures? The scriptures were written by inspiration as I believe, but should I believe these "creeds" also express clearly God's truth? Why? Will not the Comforter...