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My position and my actions and reactions are hardly his although I agree with him on many things. What he does and the way he does it as I see is mostly from the Lord, if only for the purpose of making people stop and think about where they really are in God. I could not do that like he does...

What is the punishment for him if he is really guilty? What is the punishment for me if I am really guilty? "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom 6:23 Disagreeing with someone else's belief does not make a person guilty unless...

Whether smoking is a sin or not would depend on the person and exactly why he is doing it, wouldn't it? "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." Rom 14:14 We have...

No, I did not miss your point. I was simply amplifying with my own. Give God the glory!

Those changes happened because I went all the way to the bottom again [that lowest room of Luke 14:8-11] and prayed for God's will and agreed to do things His Way no matter what the cost. The cost was high as the flesh understands it. No instantaneous changes, but beginning then in 2002 the...

Actually he is not vague to me on many issues he brings up. I have encountered many the same questions in my experience and been given many of the same answers. On some things, he is too deep for me which means I don't understand the issue or in those cases, him. Whether I need to or not, is...

We need to reconsider the meaning of these verses: "When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take...

Or perhaps as led by the Holy Spirit to accomplish both and thereby please God!

What about what he is to do or is doing in us? Are these not what it is about for us? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:12

Jesus dead on the cross prior to his resurrection was dead. He was like an unopened unread Bible. He was like a Bible read by person without the Holy Spirit quickening within him what he had read. Sincere atheists read the Bible and do not understand what they read.

The judgment of the Lord holds fast, but that does not mean that you know what it is. Only as our "eyes" are opened by the Holy Spirit can we and do we move from seeing through a glass darkly to seeing "face to face". Until we can always see "face to face" [apostle Paul admittedly could not] we...

And being led by the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with making the correct judgement at all?

Precisely, but when people hear this they then want to divide what God was in the OT from what He is now. This is the God that never changes... except according to some He put us on easy street in the here and now once we have repented that first time. Hmmm? Consider that Joshua and Caleb made...

Amen! We must be ready for whatever He has for us. People may make it through with somewhat less, but to proceed with such an expectation would likely in itself be redirecting themselves toward a bottomless pit. We cannot purposely lean back on our laurels as that is taking the middle road...

@justbyfaith Pay attention to what @bbyrd009 is saying. This is perhaps the primary reason you disagree with others and they disagree with you even though you and they are students of the same Bible.

The "hard-headed" ones are those who are unwilling to seriously question their own beliefs. There is no real danger in that. On the contrary if a person is right, will not God confirm it in His own heart. Jesus toward the end effectively stood alone with God. All of his closest followers were...

"Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil."...

A lot of words simply to support your own position which someone holding the opposite view from you on certain issues might write exactly about himself. Remember what Solomon wrote? "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." Prov 21:2 What he wrote...

Was Hitler a liar when he claimed to be a Christian? According to his own definition perhaps he was a Christian, but how many who fought against in WWII and now on all sides of all issues effectively do the same thing? "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written...

I believe that Helen's @"ByGrace" intention, when using the expression, "it's what we signed up for" is that it should be, but actually many who start out on milk stop as babies never progressing to the meat which would really prepare them to undergo whatever it takes. Not every believer in...