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@Truth Continuing to read along here and keep you and your wife in prayer in such a trying time.

You hit others without success on this. Do you suppose my answer will change anything? The only time I ever embraced the Trinity doctrine was when I was a sincere but very ignorant Catholic who thought he knew a lot. Now I know enough to recognize there are so many gaps in my knowledge. Jesus...

We have all been contaminated by something if we have lived on planet Earth according to our own ways instead of God's. It is not only the sin that must be removed but also the ways and habits we have developed that will lead us to sin again... even after we have met the Master. We continue to...

Perhaps he cannot, but that like us changing ourselves from a seemingly without hope sinner to one set apart by God [a saint]. It is possible for God if it is according to His will. Most leopards however will probably never change their spots. "Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many...

Perhaps a better question, Dave, would be do any of us now have any errors in where we now stand? Do I or do you have any errors in what we now believe? Unless a person has completely overcome the world already as Jesus did, the answer should be, No. Until we can say, Yes, if that ever should...

As I said your words could almost be my own at certain times, but still we are quite a ways apart in a number of things as seen by our discussions here. Only God really knows the reasons for that separation... One thing I will say is that I take in what the scriptures says often by simply...

I am not sure which forum that is. I have never used that 'handle". Other than Amadeus sometimes with a number added to it, I have used, HisServant, BottomRung, diosmeama, Diostebendiga, soydedios, and Lessthanany. I believe that is all of them.

Simple as that, huh? Maybe this is the problem people have with identifying who satan is and where he came from...

Thank you. Presently this one is the best one for me all things considered but when I have time I can and do visit some of the others.

I had a couple of young Mormon girls here once, but I had met them prior to moving and was able to call and advise them of our new address. But when their mission time ended they went home. Since then with my wife's especially poor health and my own occasional health difficulties I have never...

No, I was in the US Army Signal Corps operating a microwave radio station on the Danang Air Force Base which provided communications for military personnel and civilians for the entirety of South Viet Nam. We used to joke about providing communications for the Viet Cong as well. It was true...

I do miss the discussions. A few years ago we moved from our home to a semi-gated community where no sales people nor missionaries are allowed without an specific invitation. Unfortunately that rule has locked them out. So these days I have either have to attend a church building or get on the...

Does it? Without looking it up I would define orthodox as what I call mainstream Protestants which may include several denominations but certainly a very large part of the US population. Catholic I would define as universal although it definition through usage has changed for people not...

And if person belongs to many smaller unorthodox church groups today the mainstream "Christianity" people consider him a member of a cult or even a heretic. On and on it goes.

Sorry no experience with any of those. I only ever tried marijuana [in California] and Hashisch [in Germany] and those were short lived experiences. My only regular natural "highs" were from alcohol on purpose and once from paint fumes by accident. My lesson with the pastor was that I simply...

I would guess that the religious leaders of the Jews in the time Jesus walked as a man in Jerusalem considered him effectively a member of a cult for his "heresies". I haven't belonged to any church group since leaving formal Catholicism that was not considered a cult by someone. If we have to...

The word "darnel" makes it difficult to understand but perhaps you mean to eat something that is not best but is at least a step above starvation. That could be a painful lesson, but if it really was learned...?

My current pastor has taught me more by his Spirit than any other pastor has ever taught me using the Bible. When I was very young in the Lord under my first pastor I came to believe that when I did not understand which way was the right way to go I should follow the pastor. Eventually as I...

Without the direction of the Holy Ghost we would never be able to tell the difference between that which is true and that which is a lie. Our brains alone cannot do it.

Indeed, my old pastor tells of his mother being booked to cross the Atlantic on the Titanic. Because the ship was overbooked they had to wait for the next available ship. If it weren't for that overbooking that old man now 93 years old likely never would have been born.