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We could or should be the place for Him to lay his head if we were really waiting on Him. All of the time we have is really God's that He has loaned to us for us to invest on His behalf to accomplish His purpose, but from His viewpoint, for the most part we are burying it in the sand...

Certainly not as a rule and as even the world sees it, but when it is, or is supposed to be with regard to God, should we not have a different Spirit in it? Who has it all right? We can probably agree that Jesus did, but even among true believers and followers of God, there will be differences...

Only those who have overcome all of the "world" already as Jesus did, are not my friend.

Some have argued that because we are on a debate forum, on the Internet, we do not have to practice charity that God would not even expect it. I would say it would be difficult to find support in scripture for such a no holds barred winner take all contest. Who but the devil would be the winner?

You may be correct that we should not be psychoanalyzing those disagree with us, but demanding answer, whether we get it or not, won't necessary fix any problems, will it? Perhaps it would edify someone if it were given in charity... but is that what you see? Is that what you are looking for? Or...

When I started up on Christian forums I was out to conquer the world of men, but I had already been humbled in a large measure. I still had to be knocked down by God a bit harder more than one more time. There are many people who know a lot scripture on these forums, but a lot of them don't...

@MattO Welcome to the forum!

Yes, I often find myself going back to I Cor 13. Without the charity/love described there no matter what else we have it will effectively in the eyes of God amount to nothing. Too often people get so wrapped up in what they believe they know of the things of God that they lose, or overlook, or...

"I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts." Ecc 3:18 "Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Psalm 49:12 "For that which befalleth the...

Even when I belonged to a church group that believed it and was only beginning to read the Bible myself, I had serious doubts about it. As for the books and movies of the OP, I have never read any of them or seen any of them. So I try not to comment directly on them with a yea or a nay. You are...

Hmmm? I wonder about this. What happened to Adam and Eve when they sinned that first time? Did they not take on the nature of beasts? What are the beasts in a man? Are they unclean or clean? For some it may be some of both at the first but then when the uncleans beasts have been killed is he not...

Yes, but then there are some of us that put it in a place with OSAS for essentially the same reasons. Don't have to go through the trials or purposes of God for mankind. Why was it that He created us and put us into this place... so that we can walk through it without really even being burned or...

When and if they are double minded or double tongued are they not switching back and forth? "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the...

The scriptures speaks of submission: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." Eph 5:22 But then what is included in the two greatest commandments? "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy...

God never misinterprets or misunderstands a thing. If we follow Him can we go wrong? Trusting the interpretations and understandings of men is what has always gotten men into trouble with God. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways...

Is he? But who among us is not? "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." Rom 3:4

Indeed! So it would have been in the beginning if they had eaten of the Tree of Life and left the other one alone. But... God had a plan and He had mercy and sent His Son so we could still obtain the more abundant Life.

Aye, so it should be. God made everything "very good" in the beginning. All of these things around us are for our benefit. God does want us to enjoy them, but to do so requires that we do everything in the way that He guides us. Too many see what they believe to be greener grass on the other...

Anyone who really wants to stir something up is usually able to find something. What was it that Solomon wrote? "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity." Ecc 12:8

I just came across it on another thread. This seems to be it: