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Some of us are more sure than others.

Yes, there are some who would latch onto such a label to make themselves something special in the eyes of people. God undoubtedly gave some particular gifts as found in the descriptions of those five, but that does not make them above others without them in God's eyes. It just gives them a...

No attack coming from me because I don't believe you are deluded. Lots of people are and I guess they like their delusions as they make no serious attacks to get something better. From the unbelievers, I guess we might expect it, but from the church goers it does make a person wonder a bit who...

Yes, but not so hard for God. He is simply there. We are stuck making choices and must really decide, His Way or some other way. Sometimes people get so involved in trying to figure out what God's Way is that they never really get there. Knowledge is not an evil thing, but it alone is not the...

We are in complete agreement on the mutual respect and friendship. Give God the glory!

And what was God's purpose in allowing people to disagree harshly? Was it not all according to His original plan? God who made us as we are and foreknew everything had a purpose and understood His purpose. Consider what I Corinthians chapter 13 says. Are men unable to love each other while they...

Amen!

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Gen 1:31 "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the...

The Bible is exactly as Jesus was when he was dead on the cross prior to his resurrection. It is dead and does not speak. It may come to Life in a person when something he has consumed [read] is quickened by the Holy Spirit. This is why atheists can study the scriptures for their own purposes...

Perhaps according to you and to some others. I disagree, but you needn't pay me any mind. I won't argue the point. No doubt, but to limit God to any one scenario could be an error. No doubt, but sometimes God shows mercy when seemingly the letter allows for none as with David when he...

Yes, indeed! Not enough people relate to that as being a lesson to themselves.

Absolutely, but for the most part they are not in the United States and probably most people in this country who call themselves Christians could never become martyrs because they really do not love God enough... That is only an unsupported opinion based on what I see around me. Do I? That is...

I am not saying not to study. On the contrary I study and believe in it. My point is that if we believe by studying the Bible enough we will get smarter in the Word of God, we will be sadly mistaken. I did it so I do speak from experience. As we are studying scripture or simply reading it if...

Because I suggested it might be easier for doesn't mean that God would give you whatever He saw fit. Fasting is a few and far between event for most Christians. When I was much younger I did it only occasionally as a Protestant. My health now makes it easy to skip the fast. For Catholics, when...

In the beginning of their walk people often do need help especially if they have been badly misled. Consider Ephesians chapter 4 verses 4:11-16. Who are the apostle, prophets, teachers, pastors and evangelists... or where are they? Many are named pastors, but few really strive to work in the...

Well, God knows our limitations better than we do. The hard question for anyone who claims to be a follower of Christ, is would he [I do not exclude myself] be willing to lay down his life if there were no doubt that physical death was the only way to stay on the Lord's side? There apparently...

Almost even naming a zealot in that sense a Christian seems a contradiction, but we have seen the all kinds of "Christians" or so called Christians, have we not? How many of them are really striving to become as Jesus is/was? Hmm?

Oh, but I am rich, but not in the way that most people count riches. I know what you are saying. According to men's ways we have nothing because it's not ours anyway. What I am saying that really, in spite of what the banks may say, or the courts, or the statutes, or the precedents, etc., I...

I wish I could simply say you were delusional AND seriously mean it when I said it. LOL! I guess you know where I am with that.

I suspect strongly that there are no coincidences without purpose. God has always had a purpose, if we could but always understand it. To do what Noah did with what Noah had was a marvelous thing. And Abram heard God. What does that mean? People today sometimes say that they hear God and I...