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Two very good verses. I agree with God's intent in both of them.

@ BreadOfLife Sorry for not communicating well. When I was Catholic only small portions of scripture were read in a language I could understand. I used to wish that someone would read more. I was just a young lad, and while being hungry and thirsty for His righteousness I was seldom fed what I...

I was not going by you had posted of his, but by my own experience. All of the masses were in Latin when I attended. Reading of the Bible by laity was discouraged at my parish even though I have come to understand that that was not the position of Pope Pius XII. Women played no part in the...

Guess what? I am a tongue talker from way back, but not from before it ceased. Unless I am way out of order tongue talking has not ceased. I do not believe that I am. I pray each to the Lord. Sometimes I pray in English, but I always pray in an unknown tongue because I don't want to leave out...

Thank you for that. I had only read the OP without reading all of the posts after that.

I haven't done that. It would be nice if the writer of the OP would provide his definition of the words. I might guess at their meaning, but I really do not know.

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be...

Unlearning things is often very necessary before one can be correctly taught. I remember when God first drew me in to Him in 1976. I had to have layers of my college education stripped back to expose the bare bones that lay beneath. Then with the help of sometimes well-intentioned men I began to...

Of course, "catholic" simply means universal and so we might still ask what was his intention when he used it? There were always some who disagreed with others and we know that there was not an established protestant church early on. This doesn't mean that such a thing was not already in...

A lot of study? Yes, I studied a lot for years and then I backslid and forgot much of what I had learned. When God drew me back to Him, then He began to teach me some things. I know now that I don't really know much at all, but God does, and when I am yielded to Him and He wants to use me then...

When did God speak? When did He have to repeat what He spoke? "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11 Before Moses or anyone else...

Using scripture is a good thing, or it can be. But, more important than quoting the Book [any translation or language or version] is having the Word of God written in our hearts so that God's principle is in us and a part of us. There are some who cannot accurately quote what is written but they...

Those verses remind me of what we too often witness on this and other Christian forums. The chapter involved in no place mentions the name of the king, but he was a king of the northern 10 tribes and not one of their kings was a faithful servant of God. It was like the "pot calling the kettle...

When a person is really led by the Holy Spirit in what he says, he really is infallible. Of course, just because a person says that he is led doesn't mean that he is. On the other hand, how does a person correctly discern that another person is led by the Holy Spirit except that God show him...

The Church is people. Are they not the hands of God attached to the arm of God, which is Jesus? Is there not a "right hand" of God as well as a "left hand"? Which one, or with which one, should we want to be? "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" Isaiah...

Infallibly? Their words were as infallible as ours when and if they or we were/are allowing the Holy Spirit in us to quicken God's Word in our mouths. Because they were early and because they were apostles of prophets called by God does not mean that they had already overcome all of "the lust of...

We are what we eat as an old saying of men goes. Jesus told us that if we did not eat his flesh and drink his blood we had no Life in us. Eating anything else, spiritually speaking, will get us to the wrong place, to death that is. "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened...

Even if we are right in the point we are trying to make with another person on a forum, we are wrong if the spirit with which we approach him is other than the Holy Spirit bringing the point in the Love of God as clearly described in I Corinthians chapter 13.

Well we will continue to disagree at this time on some things, but if we both believe in God and work as we are able to let Him move us closer to Him, probably we will meet together with Him at some point.

Is it the first church ever? How would we know that? How could we know that? Was there no Church in the days when Saul/Paul was raising havoc with the churches? Secular governments did not really endorse Christianity until the time of Constantine, which long after the death of all the original...