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No, God does not, but people do take themselves into darkness after having been in the Light. The Catholics do believe that or they would not have their sacraments of confession with penance following. Believers do believe a mixed message. This is why John the Baptist said: "He must increase...

I go to where God leads me, not to where I choose. No one place teaches 100% truth all of the time. Teaching is by and through the Holy Spirit. When a person is in the Spirit and is obeying the Spirit, his message may be right on the money, but no one that I know does that all of the time...

I did not invent. God led me when I needed Him and called out to Him. The Catholic Church proved itself too far away from where God wanted me to walk. For others it may still be a good place [that is not for me to judge], but for me it would cause stagnation.

There is indeed good and bad in them. What needs to be avoided is something we know is likely to lead us away from God or toward sin, which is likely the same thing. But each person's besetting sins or most attractive temptations are likely different. There is one episode of Gunsmoke in which...

@BreadOfLife We obviously are in disagreement here. You have me as someone outside of the church which is your foundation, while I have you as one of the blind and the deaf to the things of God. May God shows us both the Door to enter in with Him.

While I don't watch too much TV like my wife does, but I do get into books at times which are fictional. The difficulty is always finding something that is interesting without stepping over the wrong lines. What are the lines? I would suspect that they are different from person to person...

I have no personal experience with it, but my dear old pastor [now 92] has traveled to Israel more than 30 times since 1962 when he made his first trip. He explains that that sects within Judaism are more numerous today than they were, according to what we are able tell from scripture, during in...

I understand your explanation and I understand that others see a difference, but my point is that there really is no difference in scripture. This is why I exchanged the words above in a few verses to show that there really was no difference. We can say we have to have faith or we can say we...

I presumed nothing. Where are the other 11? You indicated that apostles are bishops. So why aren't there 12? Someone changed the rules? OK then so when and why? Why are there more than 12? It is a very simple question. You say that there are still apostles? I ask why are there more than 12...

That is exactly what I mean! "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have...

All of them probably are working to brainwash us even if the originators of the programs do not realize what they are doing. This is not however something new. Even the seeming innocent old B westerns and the early Walt Disney cartoons, were also working on our minds, forming them to a certain...

Take simply one step at the time, one decision at the time, and one day at the time. Consider the words of Isaiah: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he...

For a long time... perhaps always ...I have considered the two words synonymous as I have read them in scripture. However, I realized long ago that some other people do not support that view and act as if the two words were different and insert that difference into the way they use them...

Is may be possible for you and hopefully for me, but unfortunately some people too strongly go with "it's my way or the highway" and insist that that is also God's Way. We may all believe that in our own hearts, but if we refuse to admit even the possibility of error in ourselves and/or our...

You really don't understand at all from where we are coming, do you? No need to answer that. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Prov 3:5-6

Yes, in this day the TV programs which today are so heavily dominated by zombies and blood suckers, bring home clearly the real mindset of probably most of those who walk around us in the flesh. People who doubt the death of Adam and Eve when they ate of the forbidden tree, for the most part or...

I was baptized Catholic at age 6. I recall the ceremony and with it my first recollection of my recognition of God. If I had remained Catholic or were to now return I would wonder what relationship I could have with such stalwarts as these... They do not have a clue as to why such an occurrence...

:):D Many things are very apparent to some while others remain very blind indeed. They keep forgetting Jeremiah's words [if they ever knew them]. "I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23 Jeremiah writes of a man who walks in...

Absolutely old friend. I am always returned to the writings of Solomon. God did give the man great wisdom and we should periodically familiarize ourselves with them and if possible apply them to ourselves. They do us carnal good as well as spiritual good especially when we seem to be getting too...

Precisely my friend. I also could present some ideas of why certain numbers are used rather than other ones. Some people make long studies to determine why. I don't know for sure the reasons, but I am also quite sure that God has His reasons, even if He hasn't always shared them all with me or...