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This the problem. What you speak of is not really discussion. You might have such a discussion with another practicing Catholic but with someone outside of your church you really don't even listen. That is not discussion as I understand it. I was going to say that you have been properly brain...

I generally don't lean toward belief in a serpent or devil or satan outside of man himself. As to the Tree of Life, I usually will say simply that it is Jesus along with the following verses written by Solomon to help clarify: "She [wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and...

I know enough of what the Catholic Church was when I was a part and what it is now to agree with you. Discussion is difficult because with exactly the same words we often we are expressing very different meanings. Communication? But I have met a couple of honest Catholics who really will...

I agree it is what people sometimes call free will. But, they only really have two choices: God's Way or their own ways. Without freewill there would have been no sin and no condemnation. Use of the word flaw might cause misunderstanding and I apologize for that. I am also only a man. Jesus...

@bbyrd009 They are saved when they have repented, but... To clarify where I stand on salvation and this is nothing new for those who are not believing in OSAS. Very simply I have been saved when i first repented, I am being saved for other things of which I am now repenting and I shall be...

I believe that you really do care, but we may disagree in how to do our part. When we seek His kingdom and righteousness first it does not mean that we do nothing with regard to the specifics you mention. It means rather that those things are really the First things. If we are paying...

Thank you for remembering and asking. She is still uncomfortable but that is expected considering the surgery she had. This week she finally began her physical therapy. Hopefully as she progresses through this she will regain some of her lost strength and be able to do a few things again.

Quite likely to be so! I would let him explain himself but that is what I understood. In a sense it is, but I see more than that. Oh, but I do. I was talking about most of the Christian churches of which I have knowledge. I belong to another one and I have a pastor who does have authority...

My, my you are hard to get along with. Who cares indeed? Doesn't God care? If He cares, how can we not and be on His side? Was God's whole plan then a "pipe dream", or was it focused on making things OK for Americans living in America in the year 2017? I should solve the other problems? Well...

@bbyrd009 I do not believe that God's forgiveness is equal to salvation but it may take more than one verse to show why. But then what is salvation? Without God's forgiveness of our sins we cannot be saved, if final and complete salvation means being always with God. But, being forgiven is...

What I would like is for the nation as a whole to repent and turn to Jesus. As that doesn't at the moment seem likely to happen. Apparently you would rather that we or someone take matters into our their own hands. On this point, I am very much afraid you are correct. Even if we could as you...

@aspen I am praying for the continuing problems for your niece and everyone that is impacted by her troubles, including of course yourself.

@"ByGrace" I just read your updated problem, and I have advised my wife. We are praying for you now. I will also send a copy of your posts to our old friend Nancy so she can join us in prayer on this. Our God is in control of the situation.

@BreadOfLife Very strange that in this response of yours to me it showed my words as being those of Aspen. Some fluke the forum program, I suppose. And this proves what? That they are different from one another as well as being different from Catholicism! It does not prove Catholicism is right...

God knows all of the answers to all of the questions we may ask, but sometimes He simply does not want us to have those answers. I understand this and I just keep on keepin' on every day because I believe that He is and that He is deserving of much better than we are able to give. No, He does...

It sounds to me like some others here have at least doubts about who the serpent and satan and the devil and lucifer really are. Did God not want us to fall? The very question when I consider it carefully brings forth a quandary in me. I guess the reason for that is the way that God made me...

You don't really pay much attention to what anyone else thinks or believes or says do you? Well have a nice day!

You know as I know that if it did happen it is not likely to be such an easy thing. I have seen more than one thing occur in my lifetime which to my mind was unconstitutional, but my mind on the thing is meaningless if the courts decide otherwise. The courts are not always doing what they should...

But... is it OK to call a brother on this forum an idiot? "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall...

Yes. I agree that it is by the Holy Spirit, but what is it that the Holy Spirit does in a man? And what verse(s) of scripture did you use to draw this conclusion? And what happened to this? "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have...