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People are the ones who like boxes. They want a black and white set of rules so they can "please" God by standing exactly right according to those rules. Probably most of the natural Israelites in the wilderness usually obeyed the letter of the law [613 rules] as God gave them to Moses. But...

I always loved my mother, yet I remember clearly that I had unspoken questions when she told me to remember that all of her grandfather's fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and we should say anything against them. She reacted strangely when we visited her place of work with some...

One very good thing is that none of us here on this forum will decide the final judgment of God for another of us. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Gen 1:31 God made it "very good" and when and if we...

When indeed have we all killed our beasts? Have we killed any of them? "She [wisdom] hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." Prov 9:2 And who or what are these beasts that we must kill? "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of...

Are there a lot of teachers here? Hopefully, they are anointed by God and then always pay attention to what He is speaking to their hearts so that when they open their mouths, it is His Word that comes forth as was the case with Jesus. Of course, everyone who believes, even those who are often...

You must go with what is in your heart. Our problem sometime is that we listen to God, but don't listen long enough. When we stopped listening, had He already finished talking? As to who is right, consider that we, we believers that is, are all likely at different levels in our walk with Him...

If it did come from God and you have done what He told you do with it, why do you need to do anything else? Only God changes people when people allow it, it God sees that a change is needed. Perhaps then on this point it is simply time to move on to His next job for you..

People do quench the Holy Spirit of God and for this reason sometimes draw conclusions which differ one from another while each claims to have received his teaching from God. The solution is not to argue or run each other down but to lay it before God. If an answer is really needed as God sees...

Actually what @pia said ...did come from scripture: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26 "For as many as are led by the Spirit...

Many of the "reformers" were probably not really reformers at all, but people looking for an excuse to do what they wanted to do. This does not excuse the established organized church which failed in that they provided so many real points of criticism for those who really only wanted to know God...

God does have and always has had a plan. It includes all of the things seeming to be the same and the things that seem to be in contrast one to another. For some at some level of their walk with God it may also seem to include contradictions, but God does not really contradict Himself, does He...

This is unfortunate, but I know it is so. As in the law of man, "ignorance is no excuse". In the OT it is made clear that even for sins committed in ignorance, when the offender becomes aware of his sin, he must make atonement for it. God has never changed the way He looks at things. Sometimes...

I consider just what God started with in the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve messed up by disobeying. The place where they were was clean and unspoiled. If they had eaten of the Tree of Life first and then left the Tree of knowledge of good and evil alone, would they not now be or be...

God does not force feed anyone and neither should we. To discuss can be a good thing, but then both parties to the discussion have opened themselves up to it. People can live like the devil for the devil and that is there choice. God may talk to them about it, but if they choose to contradict...

My point is, unless for some known reason, God has made it to be our business, it is really none of our business. What I do is between me and God. If I am submitted to a minister of God, then it may also be his business. If God has spoken to another person to get involved in it, then it is his...

Thank you for your kind response and consideration.

kepha31 said: Personal opinions are always likely to be filled with things that are wrong. There really is a leading by the Holy Ghost, but when I point out the scriptures to knowledgeable Catholics, they say that those verses were not directed to me. I have seen and read much from...

I grew in the CC as I have said. I have been to mass since that time but could not find in what I once found. Yes, I recall very well that I always looked forward to the short selections that the priest would read from scripture. Yes, it was a short selection. Apparently the current practice of...

In looking for why Jesus said to sell their garment to buy a sword, we might consider the cost of the pearl of great price: Mat 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Mat 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all...

I wish that I had had not experience with someone who had so avoided his calling from God, but your experience rings true to some of my own. Presently, I sit under a pastor who is true in his heart and strives to yield to God and to do always God's work. He is 92 years old and was called to the...