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Or perhaps we are already in hell and are simply going no where else due to the lack of effort on our part.

Our problem was quite simply that before he came and paid the price we were dead. To approach God we cannot be dead. No dead allowed, but it is not necessary that anyone remain dead. "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and...

Yes He did, thank God! Since we have it then we can stop this senseless tussling. Give God the glory!

You keep on gnawing like this twinc, you may break the skin and where will you be then? "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh." Ecc 4:5 A person's own flesh is his own doctrines rather than that which is of and from God. All of us have had them early on as we began to...

...satan is our adversary and for me that means my own flesh and the ways of my flesh. You honor the adversary within yourself by capitalizing the word, satan as if it were created separate being. You speak of Churchianity and call people Churchoids, but then you your self hold fast to something...

The never ending comparison and research could be a good thing, but without the Holy Spirit at which you seem to frown is it worth all of the trouble? Was not the apostle Paul a very learned man who has studied the scriptures with great teachers before he met Jesus and was filled with the Holy...

If anything is really good only in part should it is not necessarily be thrown away? Ever hear the saying warning us not to throw away the baby with the bathwater? All of us have learned things which were in part not good. This is where my college education fits in... Some was good keep but...

What God calls perfect is not what man calls perfect. What God calls perfect He has provided the means for us to attain. The perfection I believe is not in the fullness of our brain with scripture and doctrine, but the willingness of our heart to receive whatever He wants to put in there and...

Yes, it is very idealist. Consider a person was really always moving upward toward God, but his ending point on the surface seemed to be lower than the starting point of another person who never moved at all. Would not the former would have ended up closer to God than the latter? Absolutely...

Ah yes, that kind of winter. I've been in many places where there was some snow during the winter, but the only one I can recall with lots of snow which remain unmelted over a very long period was during the one winter I spent as a student in West Berlin [1969-1970]. Once the first real snow...

@bbyrd009 While everyone needs to remember that God is the only one who in the end of the matter gives any real increase [toward Him], it must also be remembered that God will work through people to increase other people. How effective this is depends upon how much attention the teacher and...

Sometimes those leading the way away from Catholicism were really moving toward God in what they knew even if they really did not know much. Yes, they carried much error with them, but their intentions were still usually aimed in the right direction. The more serious problems were likely to...

I do like that about those who seem to be "in a life or death struggle to determine who is right" and so forth. As to you, you do know more about what you are talking about than many I have seen, even if none of us know very much at all... LOL Give God the glory!

Why not indeed? I have a old Book of Mormon my brother [who was a Mormon at the time] gave to me. I read it when I was quite a bit younger and compared it with the Bible. Much of it paraphrases the Bible, so it is not all throw away stuff. If it was a phony someone spent a lot on it in any case...

Well I suppose I don't because I haven't really been there other than my time in the Catholic Church which was well over 50 years ago. What you call "Churchianity" is what a small group of people I know call Babylon. Why Babylon? Because they are confused in their understanding as were the...

I read in part because I enjoy friendly discussion. When it gets too unfriendly I need to strive to withdraw from it. Unfortunately I am also human. I don't anger easily, but if someone pushed the right buttons it can be done. Ask my wife. She used to get mad at me because she could not make me...

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other...

Again, yes, for this is what I do. There are lots of posts and I do belong to other forums. If I want something read there is no shortage. Skipping posts which are difficult for me to read is an easy step to take. Probably everyone who posts anything is hopeful at least in a measure that...

Absolutely, but sometimes such posts may have had a nugget of gold in it. Too bad people don't realize that what they use to catch a person's attention may turn them off without a hearing [reading].

I certainly agree that there is too much unnecessarily personal stuff for which no one apparently is at least warned and at worst banned. If they were we would know about it because the person disappears or cleans up his act. When people use a lot of capitals and mixed colors it requires more...