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I’ve run across them. You’ve run across them. They might even, at times, be us. Who are they? Christians who aren’t acting Christlike in the conduct of their conversation. Why does it happen? There are several potential reasons but the one that I would like to focus on is instruction. No one...

* Bold move. Flirting with disaster. *

Nothing like getting it straight from the horse’s mouth. https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-faith/ I’ve personally only met one. He didn’t believe what I believe.

Fire isn’t a living creature; worms are. Both were present in the refuse disposal area of Jerusalem in Jesus’ day. Worms are quite capable of consuming decaying flesh, hence the idiom about the dead being “worm food”. The fire doesn’t die until it completes its work; neither do worms. This is...

“His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 3:12, NRSV) What happens to chaff that is burned up? It is consumed by the fire, it goes up in smoke, it is...

“Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble; and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of hosts, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah...

“Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers, for they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.” (Psalm 37:1-2, NRSV) ”For the wicked will be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.” (Psalm 37:9) ”Yet a little while, and...

“See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with...