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@bbyrd009 You ask a very good question. My answer could be simple or a long book. I bother to answer because sometimes I really think that someone might benefit, although often it is not the person to whom I am directly responding. If I believe God has given me an answer and I do not share...

@bbyrd009 Backslid is one of those words everyone where I have attended services uses. They had and have a fixed idea of what they meant, which may often have little connection with what I have at times understood in scripture. But, this is the way many people understand [misunderstand?] and...

I may not always answer and sometimes when I do the answer may be wrong, but it is usually based on scripture, at least, as I have understood it. If I had to I am sure I could use another English translation, but it would be an uncomfortable thing for me after so many years.

That single verse [ John 5:29 ] doesn't convince me that there is any resurrection for people who have never been believers. Jesus is the Resurrection. Anyone who never believes in him has no resurrection, ever for any reason. All of the other verses to me leave John 5:29 alone, so then I see...

Likewise! That is I also believe never dying for believers and simply continuing death for unbelievers. No rapture either. All of us were born dead... but some have not remained dead.

The rapture indicates that people will escape some pain and suffering, but people here and now are already very often in such pain and suffering. The only escape is in the Rest that God provides through Jesus. Does that mean escape from physical pain? I would think not. Consider what Stephen...

Thank God for that!

@Pipiripi Welcome to the forum. May God richly bless your time spent here.

How does one afflict oneself? If we do not, perhaps we should, but we need to know what it is God wants? For some giving up sports or amusement parks or drinking alcohol might be an affliction. Those won't work for me as they are long since, history only, for me anyway. Perhaps giving up...

It is like the Israelites who were saved out of Egypt? Instead of the promise of Canaan Land they chose death in the wilderness. Was that better than their slavery in Egypt? I wonder...

The message I see in that two part healing is the same message Paul was teaching when he wrote: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Cor 13:12 Traveling from "through a glass darkly" to "face to...

Although I had never thought of it like that I believe that that is what happened to me when a I backslid for about 10 years. It was seemingly impossible to get back because I was worse than I had been prior to be "saved" the first time. One man on an Internet forum caught my testimony and...

Ah, yes, but I am used the KJV even as you are used the special language you speak here on this forum. Truly while many of your more common usages are finally sinking in, I still have to get a translation for a few.

We could go with the method Nebuchadnezzar used with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The problem with it could be in finding any "most mighty men" willing to toss someone into the fire: "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire...

Indeed, anyone who has not met Jesus and has not accepted and received the Life which Jesus brought is dead. Jesus made this clear with his response here: "And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let...

Consider where all the Jews were when first John the Baptist and then Jesus came onto the scene. Some of them were really hungry and thirsty, but how many at the end of the natural life of each had encountered what they needed? Then after the death, burial and resurrection of the Jesus the...

Yes, indeed! Consider also what Solomon wrote long before Jesus was born in Bethlehem: "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift...

I should be very slow about translating it. God is the One who sends messages in dreams, visons, parables or messages in tongues, and then as He sees fit He also provides an interpretation. What interpretation does He have for each of us? Is it the same for every person every time? I would say, no!

Neither do I, but we were not discussing the final result for the children of Jacob. We were discussing whether or not God would always forgive. What I showed is that He did not forgive them and allow them to enter the physical promised land. I said nothing about whether or not they might still...

This one is even more of a can of worms and likely you know it as you don't delve much into it yourself. Consider what Joshua says here: "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other...