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It is discussed in the Bible, but there are different functions for different parts of the Body of Christ as we see when we read I Corinthians chapter 12 with Jesus being the Head subject to the Father. You ask me specific questions and if I know the answers I may be able to give them to you...

In my understanding of "saved" versus "not saved" versus losing "salvation", I remember that God has never changed, so I look for one good example of a man of God in the OT, who lost his place with God. Did he lose his salvation? 1Ki 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by...

God works where He works, not where we decide He is able to work. During the lifetimes of the 12 original apostles [Judas replaced in Acts 1] and the belated apostle Paul, there was no written NT available for believers. Did this mean that God was not already writing His Word on people's hearts...

Likely too many people really believe that they have no need of Him and some of them carry to the point of denying His existence. They would also disagree with me on this.

Precisely! God inspired the writing of scripture just as He did to give us examples of the situations in which we might find ourselves. What is the answer? The answer usually is that there never is one pat answer that fits all cases. There is one answer that fits your case. To know that answer...

"And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were...

I agree that this is not as it should be. Some people get to the point where they simply will not attend church services anywhere. They might really want to, but they cannot a place where people including the ministers are really striving to put God first. Our purpose in serving God should not...

I don't think that using Greek is going to be meaningful to me. I have never studied it at all. Most of us are dependent on others in some measure to do the translating from the original languages to a language we understand. For many years I translated documents into English from German and...

I do understand this point of view, but if we are growing, should we not eventually always know our Master's voice even if He is speaking to us through a person? "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." John 10:4 I do...

We could give you scriptures which would describe him, but if you misunderstood them what is it that you would really know about him? If we have a vision [for we must have one in order not to perish], should not the vision being improving from "through a glass darkly" to "face to face"...

Must? A person can get his feet wet and even drown because the water's deep and he cannot swim. But, on the other hand if a man is told by God to open his mouth, will not God fill it with any necessary words whether the man has read the Bible or not? Man is limited, but God is not. If we are...

Yes, men were inspired by God to write His Word, but this doesn't mean that anyone who reads it will understand. Atheists and even believers reading with the wrong purpose [spirit] can read scripture and completely twist or misunderstand God's meaning. As it took inspiration to write so also...

I believe that every person born of woman has a little light, which if followed will lead him/her to the greater Light, which most certainly is Jesus and Light. The little light is just enough of a vision to realize that there really is more if the person comes to God and pursues it. The...

Sentiments? No, most of what was in my post was scripture. What God does with the scripture in us is what makes the difference. Understanding does not and cannot come from study alone, or only the best and most qualified students would please God. I don't believe that is how God works. God...

@"ByGrace" I also wouldn't pretend to understand all of the details that you wrote above nor the meanings [with good intentions] of others who have wrote about what we are. I have studied some of them in the past, but much of it has faded away. What did catch my eye [my heart?] was your...

"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore...

@GISMYS_7 We can give the command, but if we do not believe in our hearts that it will be so we may with the father in the following verses need to ask for help: "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the...

I was "jumped" back and forth. My father and all of his immediate family were always Pentecostal Holiness. They remained so the rest of the lives. My mother left my father divorcing him near the end of WWII and moving to California where she married an American Portugee whose family was always...

I am afraid my answer to this question will raise some eyebrows on both the Catholic and the Protestant sides. I don't take communion as the Catholics do, nor even as most Protestants probably do in the natural sense of eating a bit of bread or wafer or cracker, nor of drinking a little grape...

Yes, this is one problem with calling yourself a Christian. If everyone who did so really understood what Christ was like and was really wanted to become like him it might be OK, but...? Of course, many do go ahead and ignorantly take on the label and then act as if that alone is making it all OK.