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Seriously! I don't know how serious you are about this. "Oxymoron" is one of those words I learned on a Christian Internet forum. Another one was "hermeneutics".

Twinc I am praying for you and your situation. All of us have down times and all of us in our flesh don't like it when no one seems to appreciate our words or even always criticizes them or perhaps worse ignores them. You have held onto God for many years in spite of these things. You and I...

Indeed, if it has merit due to the inspiration from God for someone to write it, should it matter whether or not it is declared by anyone as officially as the Word of God or a written copy of what God said? How many thousands do that for the Book of Mormon and how many millions do that for the...

What can I add or what can I argue? God is still in business but so is the adversary. I have listened to many preachers and teachers over the years and as led, I believe, by the Holy Spirit to do so, I taken on some of their message and some NOT. I continue to read scripture and to pray to God...

Your language or no conversation? No discussion? You do not really want to discuss, do you? You want to be the lecturing teacher with no questions allowed that would suggest you might be wrong. I know that all Catholics are not like that. Somewhere down the line you will understand better how...

You really did not answer my question. Is it what you often have called dodging? Impractical? Drawing straws or lots is simply letting everyone know that the decision belongs to God alone. Whether it is only two or a thousand, what is impractical for God? Jesus chose twelve but he had other...

You are quite welcome! Give God the glory!

Apostolic teaching? With a history of one Pope [apostle?] rather than 12? What became of the other 11? Did the Catholic Church draw lots to appoint each new apostle as they did to replace Judas in Acts 1? When they lost the missing 11, why did they not replace them?

They are really not precisely the same. I also do not reject the trinity although I do not believe in it. To reject it would mean I absolutely see no possibility that I am wrong in my belief. It is a belief rather than knowledge. Since I have been wrong in the past in some of my beliefs as I...

@Miss Hepburn As we bind or loose the ways of this corrupted flesh [bit of earth] and the corresponding ways of the heaven us [the "new" or "inner man"] we are also bound or loosened in the Way of God. This is the process of overcoming which would have or should have begun when we received the...

Alas, our friend, the writer of the OP is no longer here to respond to us. Whether it is by his own choice or the choice of those who have such power over others, we cannot know. He did ask some interesting questions but often as I saw it he was dodging some questions put to him. But... hey, I...

It is all of that and more. James helps us also to understand: "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth...

Most people would not know what "oxymoron" means.

@mjrhealth @Dcopymope You say they saw with their own eyes and then confuse your statement with the words, "whether in the spirit or in the flesh". Before receiving the Holy Spirit in themselves those disciples were nearly completely blind to the things of God. Mostly they were only hungry...

@Frank Lee Good to see you back here again. Thank you for sharing the OP with us. I will be praying for Keith.

@mjrhealth Very good with regard to your post #82. [It's the only one I read.] Then people will ask, If I can connect directly with the Lord like that... Why does anyone bother to read or study a Bible? Consider that God has according to the Bible and according to the testimonies of people...

We may see a literal explanation and/or a spiritual one. I will briefly describe my understanding: "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same...

People are confused to the extent they don't understand God's will for them so they walk according to their own will. If this is due to anything within believers it is their quenching of the Holy Spirit. Consider these words spoken by Jesus: "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they...

"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." Prov 29:18

Of course I started with Jesus from a different place than you. After receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost I, who had never read a Bible before, immersed myself in the scripture. It was probably after 15 years of reading and studying that I backslid. I backslid because I was eating too much...