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One of our greatest tests may right here on this and similar forums: To discuss differences without getting hot under the collar or needlessly calling people derogatory names.

I tend to go the same way, but it was not always so. It took me years to really begin to get some understanding together concerning the scriptures as a whole. Now I am less likely to change my general outlook of God's plan with the scriptures than to change on the details of a single word or...

I have never used commentaries first. I have read the Bible and then sometimes on a particular point or verse where I have a question or a doubt I may check it against another translation and the using a lexicon. But I do have most of the popular commentaries either on my computer or in book...

Sometimes being literal can still get us into trouble because what is literal to you may not be literal to me. Communication can always be a problem. You agree that they are the same but disagree because they are not. In spite of communication problems I think I do understand. Maybe to God...

I apologize for my lack of clarity. OK. We must remember that even as you misunderstood my words here due to my lack of clarity others may also fail to properly express their position with words. This is one reason why God is the final judge. He never misunderstands us for any reason. No need...

@justbyfaith Your response tells me that you don't even know what I was saying. I may not always get everything right, but I never reject what I perceive as God's truth. A lot of people who love God may miss what you consider important, but still in their hearts God sees the love/charity...

Talking to God is always a good thing, but sometimes He will talk to us through people. The emphasis is however on the sometimes. Unfortunately some people who speak as it they had God's words, do not. Until you really know God's voice yourself this can be very confusing. Ask God to help you...

Even so... Jesus healed 10 lepers even though he apparently never saw 9 of them ever again. Was it worth it for the one? Give God the glory!

Try reading the book of Jonah. A very short book about a man of God who tried to run away from God. It really does not work. You cannot hide from God.

Most people who are not JWs themselves know very little first hand about JWs. There are exceptions but most people simply repeat what they have read or heard other people say, that is other people who are not JWs. This is a bad thing about a forum like this. One of the good things about this...

Don't let anyone bully on this point. Most everyone here, right or wrong trusts something in their walk with God. If you have questions someone here can answer, ask them, but don't let anyone push you into commitments or admission you are not prepared to make. God and God alone increases anyone...

Amen! And so we need to treat him as Jesus would treat him, not as a source or resource with regard to his church or friends or family... especially if it will cause trouble he chooses to avoid. Most information people want regarding JWs is available without pushing this young man...

All of these details and explanations. What is it we have to know? What is it have to believe? What is it we have to do? Jesus indeed descended into the hell, the hell where mankind lives from day to day, the hell where all of us have been since being born to our natural mothers. Jesus came...

People don't for the most part change. Does anyone see similarities between the squabbles of today's Christians and those of the Jewish sects of Jesus' day? Most people either follow their leaders blindly and some supposed believers simply keep their mouths shut. Probably those who are really...

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;" I Peter 3:18-19 Jesus preached to the "spirits in prison" for 3½...

I have read them many times over the years as well as when you referenced them here immediately before I replied. They don't change the situation. So again do what you believe God has told you that you need to do. You are warning people and I am simply asking you to be certain that you...

If we buy a foreign piece of machinery with the instructions written in Russian and we have no familiarity at all with the machine or the language, we are likely to run into a whole lot of trouble because we simply are unable to understand: "And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why...

How fast do we attain maturity? In the flesh we may be able to answer, but how about in the Spirit? In the flesh I am 74 years old. A long time ago I attained physical maturity and started the downhill run. Spiritually once a person is born anew he should grow continuously toward God never...

Has he? Who are those who understand other than those led by the Holy Ghost as they walk in the Spirit? Does every Bible student understand? Quite a call to make! Have you found a single person who has never lied about the things of God, even it was done in ignorance? "God forbid: yea, let...

Well if we can understand it there is this: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matt 5:38-39 But there is also this...