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On the contrary, my friend, I do not hate anyone, because I do not know anyone who without doubt is a reprobate. God does, of course, but until He points one out to me, I must love them.

You may right, but then, thank God for any exceptions!

Perhaps a complete reprobate would not be my neighbor? "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates." II Cor 13:5-6...

In case you didn't notice, there was scripture in my post, which you failed to quote here. My point in any case is that man doesn't have to "work" his way into hell [although he can do so.]. The place is already his if he fails to believe in the Son of God. Death is wages for wrongful work, but...

I am afraid my friend that we on completely different pages. Give God all of the glory anyway!

You have received some very good advice so far, but I would like to add a bit more. Every man has his time in the sun. During that time he can whatever is within his natural power. He has that right given to him by God. This, I believe, is within God's prupose for us. His purpose is to find a...

I do not disagree with the verses you posted. I did answer each question that you asked of me, but you failed to show me clearly your view on the scriptures that I posted previously. Perhaps you do not yet fully understand them! That is OK, for each of us is where we are with the Lord, and at...

Indeed, what is speaking in tongues? "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;" Mark 6:17 A new 'tongue' may be another language other than your own native one, but it may also be replacement (spiritually) of...

If that is the case then how do explain this? "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated ." Rom 9:13 And this? "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall see...

The only people we, as followers of Christ, are to hate completey and absolutely are those that are clearly and absolutely in every way opposed to God. Are there such people? Perhaps, that is what a reprobate is. Perhaps that was what King Saul had become when God rejected him. I do not know a...

Does ANYBODY care?" Usually we write things on forums like this hoping that someone will notice and "care" or "complain" or "praise" or somehow simply "take notice" that WE, the writers, exist. Man is born a very selfish creature. At birth the selfishness is there as a survival mechanism but...

Absolutely and amen!

Maybe the only hell is the hell that each of us faces every day that he lives here in this corruptiple body of flesh. Then, for those who do not for whatever reason please God, God is still merciful in that He lets and end come to their daily miseries and they finally rest in peace in the hell...

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Gal 6:9 Of course, no matter how well a person does there will always be others ready to jump on him. Jesus always did well and He never sinned, yet it was the religious leaders, those supposedly being...

You're right that Jesus will never forsake us, but too many of us will forsake Him and there is a point of no return. There is a limit to God's mercy toward an individual. We see the shadow of our limit in the natural children of Israel who after 10 rebellions were denied access to the promised...

Scriptures speaks more clearly about 7 spirits than about 7 heavens. The 7 spirits of God are mentioned in Revelation [Rev 1:4, Rev 3:1, Rev 4:5, Rev 5:6] and perhaps identified in Isaiah 11:2 as: 1) the Spirit of the Lord, 2) the Spirit of wisdom, 3) the Spirit of understanding, 4) the...

The question is perhaps the wrong question. Should not the question be, how does God expect us to "take it" and how close are we to His Way in this as in all things? All of us should desire to be "away from evil " as Jesus prayed: "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but...

Give God all of the glory always, my friend!

Why don't you tell us how you take it, friend? We are waiting patiently for your teaching so that hopefully, we will be edified! Give God all of the glory!

Even life on this planet earth would simple [read: "easy"], if we trusted Him completely all of the time. The problem is that we, with our natural minds, think too much about how difficult it is just to exist in this place. Peter was no exception. He too was only a man, in spite of his calling...