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Do you really believe that intense debate will resolve an issue according to God's will? It seems to me the decision would go to the best debater even if he happened to be an unbeliever or a believer holding onto error. Without the Holy Ghost leading him the best debater in man's world would...

What is the proof that is acceptable to you? Anything derived by proper application of the scientific method? What method did Jesus use to speak the truth? Are we not to be like Him? Do we follow his Way because he was the best of students? I don't think so.

My friend there are many denominations today based on the same scriptures who stand diametrically opposed to each other. The scriptures alone are like Jesus dead on the cross before the Resurrection. No power, no glory! Without the quickening of the Holy Spirit, the scriptures themselves are...

My daily and even more frequent [praying without ceasing] communication with God is how I know I am heading in the right direction. Who holds absolute truth but God? I move toward it by being led by the Spirit of Truth. When I follow my own spirit I am in trouble. When I follow only what someone...

I have drawn conclusions as you say, and more than once later God showed me another Way. I have necessarily changed my conclusion in order to line up with God. This has happened even when the old doctrine or creed was also based on scripture. The only Way to be corrected when we are in error is...

As Pontius Pilate put it: What is truth? The Truth stood before him when he said it but who today knows that Truth completely and without error?

Creeds may be sound doctrine according to some, but I will always make my own affirmation of what I believe at the moment when I need to do so and hopefully always as I am led by the Holy Spirit. Many people will affirm some essentials or a creed and then sit back and let God pass them by while...

Yes, I was a Catholic for a number of years and used to know one by memory. I have read others. I have read the essential doctrines that some church groups stand behind and even at times insist that a person affirms to become of member. Does God require these things of us?

"To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him...

No the truth does not change, but people have always often missed the truth or at least part of it. The writers of the creeds were men. Perhaps they were good men who served God well, but I did not know them and cannot know them based on their writings or on the creeds in which they stood...

Your answer here, I believe, would be the wrong answer even if the JWs and/or the "oneness people" were right [I'm taking no position on the specific groups named.] Why would the decision made by those as you say, "back in the day" be more right than the decisions made today by the powers that...

Sister I was taught that all I needed was a little splash of water on my head that first time. Later I was physically dunked twice based on different teachings. I guess I could teach a lesson on what this one says or on what that one says, but what is it that God says? That is what matters, is...

This "one" would be the important one no matter how we read the others or what we do with them. On this we agree. I have been water baptized not less than three times. Must a person be water baptized? That is another question I won't try to answer. That a believer should be baptized in water...

Was Jesus speaking in this verse of immersion in water or in the Holy Spirit? He only speaks of one: "And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall...

Yes! Was not the "face" already there in the OT even though it was not seen? In the NT we began to see it but it really indeed was already there. We simply have better eyes to see \and ears to hear] than did Moses or David: "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun...

Indeed, God is always looking at the heart of people. According to what is in the heart when the person starts smoking or stops smoking or makes an effort to stop will God judge. What is clearly sin to one person may not be so clearly sin for another who apparently makes the same choice with...

This blind man who required two touches... "And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw...

But then again not all clouds have water, do they? "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots"...

"I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his...

"And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up...