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Both clean and unclean animals were saved with Noah, but who was posted to the top? Similarly a lot of Israelites were saved out of Egypt, but who was allowed to enter the Promised Land? Now we have our unclean and clean beasts to deal with so as to be elevated to the top. How do we do that...

And where is this heaven people will ask, and I will ask of the questioners, which heaven do you mean? "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." II...

For one who understood so little, Job, to me, seemed to understood more than many who claim today to be saved as a result of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost. How did Job do as well as he did without the Holy Ghost? As you say if he were to see what we are witches to him we would seem to...

Women probably had a little something to do with that. Room enough for all the unbelievers. Perhaps the boat needed would be closer to the one Noah built, filled mostly with unclean and clean beasts. There were 8 at the top and how beastly were they? How clean were they? What is it God is...

But, of course... my church never teaches anyone to quench the Spirit and follow the law. All the rest do! Help us Lord!

Yes, normal is the unbeliever and... the believer. Is there no problem with this? The people following Moses had a literal black and white law and they failed miserably. Today people [believers?] are building or have built a literal black and white law. Why would they suppose they would not...

Precisely! Sorry if I misunderstood you. It was difficult for me to understand from your post exactly your intention. I thought it was a partial disagreement. My bad. I do not always expect to be right. God has changed or should I say corrected my vision too many times since I first believed...

This likely is often the case. How many dismissed Jesus in spite of the miracles performed and that "man never spake like this man"?

@Richard_oti My point was not that polygamy was not allowed under man's law. It certainly was. Even the law God gave to Moses did not forbid it, but Jesus's words to me indicate that God was moving us back toward what it was before that first disobedience. Man over the centuries perverted more...

Ah yes, it is not hard for all if we put it all in His hands... I see of course what you mean with the "church". They teach people to quench the Holy Spirit although they may not even realize that that is what they are teaching.

Amen! I am spoiled by the KJV because it was my first Bible read. Is there no bias in me with regard to the KJV? As over the years I have found what at times may appear to be flaws or inconsistencies in it, I have asked of God. Sometimes He has answered. The other times? Perhaps I asked...

My marriage has only lasted 45 years thus far. But we are not yet finished with each other. Give God the glory! I am also not doctrine free.

@101G Thanks for the interesting read and food for thought, and/or meditation.

I do believe that God hates the evil and if a man has no redeemable thing within him, will he not then be hated of God? What that means exactly is hard, if not impossible, for man to understand. How can a God that is Love hate? People hate, but it is not the same as God hating. Who can explain...

Not me! It is a tool like a hammer is a tool for a carpenter. When the physical weather outside is miserable, it is good to have a place of comfort in which to meet. God certainly would not frown on it, unless it became more important to us than Him. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and...

No argument from me on what you say. One needs to be able to read between the lines of the Bible and this requires a personal communication with God Himself. The Bible is still a dead carcass. Maybe there are some dead parts that cannot be quickened, but who am I to point them out? My own way on...

You are of course too right. There are exceptions, but that is the problem, isn't it? I don't look at the Bible as the Living Word, but I do see it as the dead flesh of Jesus which the Spirit in us should be bringing to Life. If we never eat, what can be quickened? How many believers purposely...

I am remembering my father. I lived with him only as a babe in arms. My mother divorced him primarily, I believe, because he loved God and she loved the world. [Don't get me wrong. I loved my mother and I believe she turned around before her death, but that is another story.] My father attended...

Indeed, a man's real witness does not necessarily come from his mouth when he stands to testify among a group who believe approximately what he does, but what he does when only unbelievers [or God] are [is] looking or listening.

It is harsh, but whose fault is it? People, [and this certainly includes me] do not really understand how very evil they have become since the first man sinned. David was the apple of His eye and/or a man after His heart, but David had how many wives? "And he answered and said unto them, Have...