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Only perceiving 5% is certainly more likely to be the case. Yes, we are agreeing. You have emphasized in several posts on different threads lately the inability of people to encounter absolutes in the scripture or in God that they are able to quote from scripture. This goes along closely with my...

This is closer to what I thought you meant in spite of words. People get very concerned at times about which Bible translation they use, but then they often miss God's message or if they do understand the message they still excuse themselves from following what they have understood. What good is...

Many of what are called Christian churches are based too much on democracy. God's kingdom is not a democracy. Democratic principles will not get us closer to God.

Even all of those who are in the churches regularly do not serve God so well as that, do they? Not every person who sits on a pew on Saturdays/Sundays will be a part of the Body of Christ. Not everyone who serves Him while almost never sitting on a pew will be a part of the Body of Christ. What...

If God is in us leading us, we will do it all the right way, His Way eventually. But... as we get closer when the finishing touches are being applied, the sandpaper must finer than when the work was first begun.

You use the word "naturally", but I would only use that word if we were to it as "according to God's plan". Then I would answer it is happening. Where each of us is in it is up to us. Even in the best of organized church groups, we cannot simply numbly and blindly follow the human leaders, no...

"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone...

This somehow reminded me of Moses when he asked to see God's glory and was told that no man might see God's face and live. Moses was hidden in the clift of a rock to protect him from the fullness of God's glory and then was actually only allowed to the back parts of God [Exodus 32]. In another...

Sometimes we hear the right call but our faith is not in it. When my wife and I transferred with my job from California to Wyoming in 1985, we had decided that we were not returning the UPC [church] in Wyoming. When we arrived and settled in a cursory look around Rock Springs and Green River,WY...

None recently, but more than 40 years ago when my wife and I were quite young in the Lord ourselves in California we knew a young man who had been a heroine addict. He testified that when He received the baptism of the Holy Ghost he was freed from his addiction. When we knew him he was already...

Give God the glory! We do have to go through what is before us.

You will be missed. As Helen @"ByGrace" says come back and visit once in a while when the time is right. May God richly bless you and yours.

Sometimes what you say makes a lot of sense, but that which doesn't agree precisely or seems to diminish or tear down another person's strongly held beliefs/doctrines/essentials may well get you into trouble. This is OK so long as you are Ok with it and God on your side is OK with it. I am...

And so do people today, I believe, who have come to know Jesus, at times act like fools when they fail to continue what He started for them. What I look for is God's plan. He had a plan all of the time from the time He created those two up to and including you and me. How well do we know His...

"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." John 10:17-18 Jesus did it for good...

Why would Adam and Eve with the blessings that they had disobey God? But they did? Were they our of their minds?

Blind only until and if we have had our eyes anointed: "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. "...

Just as you are walking comfortably down the highway of holiness, one side or the other or both put the squeeze on you. A little less wobbling from side to side is allowed.

And is there no pride in your presentation of your belief in this matter?

Every time we turn on the boob tube to partake of its garbage or turn our head to hear the wrong kind of story, etc., we eat of that tree one more time. If no one after Adam and Eve had eaten of it again, would things have gotten as bad as they have with mankind? When the tree is gone, will not...