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I guess my point was that if a person lives wrong until the end of his course [his allotted period of time] because of a delusion he received for failing to love the truth, in the case of annihilation, he would never come to know that he was wrong. In a very real sense almost everyone, or...

@bbyrd009 I would recommend learning to hear and understand and obey His voice. This can be easy or hard depending on just where you are at and on where you are really willing to go. I had in mind the following verse: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for...

I won't argue with that. It still leaves open to me just where and why the beginning began as it did. Were men made hateful by God or did they make themselves hateful?

What God did before the foundation of the world of men was speak His Word. What He spoke was good, because He was good. He made men also "very good" but He allowed them to do something nothing else in His creation could do: disobey Him. We did not have to disobey, but when we did we did...

Of course a person can read it to mean a building, but the apostle Paul did no strengthen buildings. Did he come along and add physical supports [lumber or concrete or other physical materials] to make the building more resistant to bad weather [tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.], or did he strengthen...

Yes! "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Gen 1:31 God loved all that was "very good". But man using his ability to go against God perverted part of the "very good" making things and even people hateful. God...

We all I believe are equal in the eyes of God in our opportunity to please Him. What we do with all that He has given us is where He will make the distinctions between us. No one else could do it fairly. Remember Luke 12:48 [...much is given... much is required...] Yes, and not everyone sitting...

It is confusing because men changed what they meant by "church" [or the word they used for church in their own language] over time. I would not try to go into the meanings and the history, but it did originally in scripture as I understand it speak of a group of believers: people. Originally...

Yes, but we should be working on kicking the bad guy out. Alone, we cannot do it. Some believe that being in the right church group will solve the problem of getting rid of the bad guy for them. I would move very slow in that direction, if at all. Sometimes we may lose track of which guy is...

A real question for each one of us is, How well do we know God if we know Him at all? If we do not know Him at all then perhaps we also do not know at all what love is. If, on the other hand, we do know God in a measure then wouldn't it follow that we only know what love is in that measure? So...

Nor I. Some people may say that they don't even have to worry about the second death taking them. If they are shown to be wrong, I wonder if they will ever know it? Even so for every one of us who had finds real Life and endures to the end. Yet would not some say that enduring to the end is...

As you say, sometimes while it is late, it not quite too late. Consider the workers who were only sent out to work beginning in the 11th hour. They nonetheless received the same penny at the end of the day as those who had worked all of the long day. A real learning aid for people is the "good"...

Becoming as a child is one thing and putting away childish ways is quite another. Too many people sitting in the pews and standing behind a pulpit continue to engage in childish ways. Or perhaps it is that they still drink milk through a nipple after their 21st birthday. They often so not even...

@bbyrd009 Yes, some insist that much, or even all, of what Jesus said in the gospels was directed only to certain delegated recipients instead of to everyone who would read the written record. I just cannot believe that that is so. It is probably like those who would have been sent to the...

Even so! People are not usually so insincere in their actions or inactions that they would say or believe that they were playing games. Probably some would believe that you and I are also playing games here. This is perhaps why doctrine, as I see it, is so very unimportant to God in the final...

And also: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places." Psalm 109:8-10

And what is this Love, which is God? "Charity [Love] suffereth long, and is kind; charity[Love] envieth not; charity [Love] vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but...

God hates the thing [doctrine of Nicolaitians] but does He hate everyone that holds it? When I read the word, world, in the scripture it always makes me think of the world of each person although there may be another connotation of that word [world] also at times intended. The world of me was...

But... even if we cannot open it ourselves alone, we alone have to give permission to God or ask for His help. That is what people call "free will". In free will there are only two choices, our own way or God's Way. This is the dominion that God gave us in the beginning, long before Jesus was...

It can be a hard question and the answer a hard message, but I will hold on it for now.