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Aha! Yes, I could possibly enjoy reading that. There was a nun in Mexico during the time of the conquistadors who wrote many beautiful things even though her original reason for being a nun were not what one might expect. I cannot recall her name now, but in a time and a culture where women...

Nothing drove me from the Catholic Church. In 1961 I went off to attend university in a large city. When I attended a mass their something was not there that had always been there in my home church. I skipped church services from that point on. The only other time I tried it was when I was...

"The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish." Psalm 112:10 "All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that...

Thank you for your consideration. I haven't read although I have heard of her. I am always on the look out for good books about God and the testimonies of real people. I'll be watching [looking] for this one. The one that most frequently comes to mind for me is "The Hiding Place" by and about...

You are speaking foolishly and not in response to what I wrote. What I meant was final judgments on people are God's rather than mine. Sometimes when God works through one person to help another He may reveal something personal to be used in the work. I don't expect such a revelation from Him...

But your chart has a different meaning than the one entered from @"ByGrace" . Every believer when he first comes to God enters the first level of the Tabernacle, the outer court. The more wishy-washy Christians will move into that outer court and back to the world [outside the Tabernacle...

I did not originally consider myself such, but as my beliefs developed that is what it seems that I am.

Very good, it is much as I see it. The three levels of the tabernacle also correspond to the three levels of Noah's ark.

Even so... "For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out." Prov 24:20

"Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die." Ezek 18:4 When the dirt is thrown over our face, if we have not claimed and received the Life which Jesus is, then we are dead in our sin and our soul according to...

The only secular evidence I have is what I have read in men's books. How much are they worth? Not much really, as I see it. However, I have read in scripture how men are when they do what they want to do... even men who sometimes serve God. David was such a man, called a "man after God's own...

I cannot speak for your heart unless it were revealed to me from God. It has not been. You are the one who has to live your life. Just remember to do so as Solomon wrote it here: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;..." Ecc 9:10 Also always, whichever place you place...

A lack of charity toward one another. That is the center idea of I Corinthians chapter 13. Jesus said it here: "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is...

Both the Catholic Church and the reformers who left that church erred in their part. It has always been people who erred. The correct answers only come from God. He really is willing to share them with anyone who is really interested. You won't accept them from Martin Luther or me or the...

I believe that many in many churches have thrown away things which conflicted with their blurred vision but have failed to fill the resulting space with what God has. I live in what people once regularly called the Bible belt in the United States. Maybe some still do, but what I see around me...

How can we argue with what a person already believe that he/she knows? Only God can do that if the person's mind and heart is open to Him. The natural children of Jacob, the Israelites of old closed their minds and hearts to God, except for two men: "Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and...

My criteria? No, it is God that gives what is needed or not... Not me or any other man. If you know all of the answers, I am glad that you do. That should simplify the way for you. As to not being double minded, everyone who walks still in the flesh in this world of men until he is an...

The contradictions and confusions that exist, exist in the hearts of believers who in a measure are double minded. I did explain this in my post #151. You quoted a few lines of that post right above your own question. Being double minded as James uses it means a person still thinks with his...

Amen! It's there, but it needs to be here, in my heart or yours or theirs. The reason people don't simply accept this is they acknowledge or understand the followers [sheep] of Jesus must recognize His voice as opposed to any other voice. We can study the NT and the OT for years and still fail...

The Holy Spirit does not teach contradiction or confusion for as the scripture also says: "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." I Cor 14:33 The confusion that exists come from man and resides in man. Unfortunately people often do not realize...