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When we are in doubt about who is due respect or honor or even double honour, we do need to be careful in how we treat them. I agree that every sect, Catholic or Protestant of my experience has had a hierarchy of some kind. I believe that it would be wrong to speak against a person holding a...

Of course, God calls who He calls. Sometimes the ones He has called fall way short of the mark. This is not God's fault. He called them and would have supported them if they had paid attention and asked Him for help. We see examples in the Old Testament of people anointed by a man of God who...

Yes, the Holy Ghost is the teacher of the things of God. The Holy Ghost teaches and leads us for we are unable to correctly lead ourselves to the place where God really wants us to be. Where is it that God wants us to be? "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be...

I have not said that, nor would I say it. My experience with the CC was very important to where I have been since and where I am now. This does not mean I should go back to it. I have been increased in the things of God, but He is not finished with me yet. Whether or not I come to the end of my...

Yes, Jesus was a good follower of the laws given to God by Moses. He rejected that which man had added or changed. The Jewish leadership was not pleased with the truth which Jesus expressed by his very life and by his words. If we are able to always follow his example, we will please the...

@kepha31 My friend, I was baptized RC when I was 6 years old. I served faithfully as an altar boy until after my graduation from high school. During those years, no one could have convinced that the RCC was in error. God has take to many places since then. The RCC was not the first group to...

Thanks to everyone here for their prayers.

I am not against God's institution, but the question for each us would be, 'What and where is it?'. Jesus effectively rejected what the natural Israelites [Jews] had done with what God gave them. I believe He would do the same with most of what men have done with God gave them through Jesus.

Haven't you then defined the hierarchy, which as you say is walking in unity. Each of us is to do our assigned job, which is not as a boss over other members of the body. The apostle Paul describes it here: "But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him...

Indeed, the Church without the Head in place is mindless. Jesus, of course, is the Head: "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." Col 1:18 So the authority belongs not to the headless...

Yes, Jesus was/is that Living Book: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 The Bible is a help to become like Jesus, but the Book itself will not do it without God's help. For this reason we need the quickening...

Always, if we have something "good" to offer it is of God, no matter who or what we are. Jesus said that there is "none good but God" and so I believe it to be. Try not to get caught by man's definition of good or of evil. Look to what God says that good is or that evil is and go from there by...

Yes, one can know God without the Bible, but when one has the Bible, should he not use what he has been given? "But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have...

Sorry to be slow in responding here, but my wife has been in the hospital for back surgery so that I have been occupied. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my...

The surgery went well She was in the operating room about two hours. They had her up taking a few steps the same afternoon. She was released from the hospital late this morning. She have to wear a back brace for 6 weeks. The doctor says everything went very well. My wife says she has had not...

The Book needs to be understood. This is not really possible without the Holy Spirit. The Book [the Bible] is the dead flesh of Jesus that needs to be eaten as per John chapter 6 for Jesus most certainly is the Word of God. The Holy Spirit is the blood that needs to be drunk. When Jesus was dead...

From my own understanding of scripture, which is limited @liafailrock , you are correct. In the law God gave to Moses, it is spelled out clearly that the tribe of Levi was special belonging to God standing for the 1st born who were spared in Egypt when the first born Egyptians died. From out of...

Your heart is understood and appreciated, my dear friend. We are to trust in God alone, ultimately the only Healer!

Thanks for the PM on that forum. Now it comes back. I meet many people on forums. I used to keep a list on my computer, but it got too long and I was too busy to update it. Hope to see you around here.

So many views, but what is it that God wants from people? Did He not confuse the tongues of people at the tower of Babel? It wasn't that speaking a common language was wrong. It was they were unified in a cause that was offensive to God. Perhaps by confusing their natural languages some of them...