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You are going back to pagan roots, twinc. People have believed in reincarnation, but when you speak of Bible support for it you express your own ignorance of scripture. You have listened to or read the writings of some man or men who twisted the scriptures to support his or their declarations...

I see it both ways. The rituals can get in our way as we move supposedly toward God, but they can also be used as vehicles to carry us to the something better where there is no need of such a vehicle. My morning prayer time to me is vital, but as I use it and allow God to use it to build me it...

@forrestcupp I am completely on your side as far as what things should be, but as we already know there are too many people who believe not only that they are right [for who does not?] but that they must press their position onto every other person they encounter who even seems to believe it...

You were perhaps speaking of semantics. Hopefully I am really speaking from and about the heart: "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Prov 4:23 "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." Prov 21:2 Let all of us...

I do like this latter part of your post and although not exactly the same, it is closer to where I am on this subject than many others on this forum. It seems that every time I actually write down what I believe, it has changed since the last time. If this growth toward God it is good, is it not?

No argument on my part. This thread, I believe, is about unifying in Spirit even if we still have differences. No one here has suggested compromise, which is one of man's ways.

I guess my post was indicating a lack of submission to the Holy Spirit by so many who name themselves as Christians.

I was essentially agreeing with your post. By the powers that be, I meant those who really could either change the abortion laws or allow those laws to be changed to protect innocent children. A primary reason for it not happening would be as you said, "Too much money is tied to abortion". Too...

No one is talking about compromising the truth. When two people are both saying they are believers either one or both of them may be wrong. This happens, I believe, because one or both of them has in their walk with God quenched the Holy Spirit. My point is that a heated argument to prove you...

So then since murder is a money maker the powers that be, [probably those who collect much of the money], will not easily allow salvation of the babies. "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after... and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." I Tim 6:10

Bending on both sides is required for two people with opposing doctrines to become friends. Love or charity is what we are talking about, but everyone still wants to be right and is unwilling to bend enough to seriously listen and so the fight begins all over again. If you did not already read...

Our purpose is where the truth [and I do mean "Jesus" when I say "truth"] really lies. There is a psalm that many people where I attend services frequently "paraphrase" which is full of meaning to me and apparently to some others... but not necessarily the same meaning. What follows is from the...

When you search the scriptures looking for "revival" also search for "quicken" or "quickening" or "resurrection" or "refresh" or "refreshing" and you will certainly get a fuller picture of God's message to men on the subject. Isn't this what God really wants to do to men: bring them back to...

O my! Consider for me that when I was called into God in 1976, my first encounter with the Holy Spirit as something within me occurred at a series of revival meetings at a Pentecostal church. Lo and behold in world of Christians quite commonly opposed to women in the ministry, the revival...

Ah yes, the witnesses. Good witnesses are good, but not all witnesses are good ones. There is such a thing as perjury. @APAK Thus far my impression of your witness is good. This doesn't mean I will agree with you on every point in every discussion, but it does means you appear to be sincere...

I was using computers on my government job long before I used the Internet much, but I was already from an old school in my studies and used my own books [made of paper] or visited the local library for infrequent deeper research. For years I had used the computer at work. I used for storage and...

Oh, I certainly don't disagree with your position. I was sort of trying to get a feel for where you are. Some of what you have said is not completely foreign to me. I read primarily the KJV in English and at age 74 I am unlikely to change that for a number of reasons. One thing that I had...

And what should a person do for scripture? Not all people are scholars in the original written languages of the Bible nor could they be, nor should they be. The way the scriptures are is certainly as God wants them to be... if He really has control over His plan as I do believe He does. You may...

@Jun2u You are right! God is not God of a dead book. Jesus is the Word of God, not the Bible. The Bible contains the Truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit the book remains dead. Books are not quickened by themselves. What is quickened, if anything are the words consumed by...

I do believe in purgatory, but not as the Catholics do. In spite of some who would dispute me I do know a bit about what Catholicism has been even if I may not know much about what it has become. Speaking of purgatory, the verb involved I suppose would be "purge". All of us have had garbage in...