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Oh yes, they are, unfortunately, most everywhere. The worst ones in my experience were definite not Catholic. It has been too many years since I was a regular practicing Catholic to say a lot about what is happening in the CC today, but I have sampled many Protestant churches. A lot of them I...

Over the years I have belonged to several church assemblies and visited many more. I have never found one without some of that friction. One place in scripture that comes to mind is here: "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and...

And probably on many points @bbyrd009 he does not know either. Perhaps that a bit more of honesty than many others manifest. Confused? Consider the Tower of Babel: "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they...

Praying for the survivors as well as the friends and families of all involved.

"For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." Matt 19:12 "For I...

Truly. Others sometimes read.

Sometimes we keep on wanting to try. Is it my flesh pushing me or is it God saying he needs to be given another opportunity. Hmmm?

Reasonable is not the word I would use. Until I know for certain, I would leave it as possible, while thinking in my own mind that it is unlikely. We do still live by faith, do we not? How much knowledge of the things of God do we have? Absolutely yes to both questions. And what my earlier...

Just so! With me my first problem was unlearning a lot of the things I learned in college. Then later I had to unlearn many things I learned from Bible teachers. I grant that I retain some good things from both sources, but when we decide to take and keep the whole loaf that any man of flesh or...

Also joining in prayer here late!

@yasoooo You wrote to me and I answered each question you had for me. You did not take the time or make the effort to do as much. Rather you went right back to your pre-conceived general ideas about Christians as if I had not written anything. That is OK as you have the right to do what you...

Consider this prayer that Jesus prayed: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."...

Of course you are correct, but who knows which is which in each and every case? Give God the glory! See you around the forum!

@VictoryinJesus I may need to brace myself when discussing "unknown tongues" because I know some people have decided no one should be speaking in such a tongue today and that anyone that does is not of God. When I state on a mixed forum like this one that I have been praying in unknown tongues...

When each of us is presented with a situation where there is a need to describe, we will describe a Christian according to what God has already placed in our heart, according to what we already know or believe. He will have to deal with the apparent discrepancies between you and me and the other...

Absolutely, but even to judge fruits can be problematic. What appears to be a good apple to one may appear rotten to another. God always knows the heart of the matter. His sheep do recognize voice as well as the voice of a stranger. Scripture calls it discernment. There are sheep and there are...

It was still only expressed in questions. You think you know him so well that you are qualified to judge. I am fairly certain that he would disagree. Only God has without a doubt the correct answer. He probably did not consult with either one of you get it.

Ah then who is to decide who should be called a Christian or not and who is to decide what it means to be a Christian? The word, "Christian" is only used twice in my KJV. According to the Strong's lexicon it apparently means a "follower of Christ". If a person is really striving to follow...

Actually we are not so far apart of some things for the one point. Is it minor? I won't even try to make that judgment. God knows. May God richly bless you as you continue to strive to follow Him.

That 100% trust is what is needed and alone we cannot get to it. We need to ask God to help us to trust Him still more. I do not doubt the possibility. On the contrary, I know that if God can do it then it can be done. People still so often do not realize that when they say we cannot become...