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.Thankful, Is that you saying that we are both on pretty much the same page....or are you suggesting that I am in need of further correction? Mike

I just try to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling and I don't have a problem with God doing whatever he chooses without my permission or ruling on whether it accords with something that others consider him to have said and be bound by. If per chance someone cannot work out...

I'll discuss things with Agnostics, Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, whoever. IMO, when Christ came it was to open up the way to God for the entire world.....not just for the few believers within the 31% for whom Christianity is their 'native' religion. I believe that there will be multitudes...

'Truth' seems to be on much the same page as me on the question of 'Hell' The word ‘Hell’ did not exist in the days when the scriptures were written. It didn’t emerge until the KJV took three completely dissimilar words and loosely translated each of them to mean something that medieval...

I did a BibleGateway search through the Epistles on the word ‘avoid’ in order to find the verse re marital fidelity that I half remembered. It was interesting that the word also only occurred in three other places in Romans, Timothy, and Titus and each seemed to me to be very pertinent to a...

"Rev 19:12 says, speaking of Christ, "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. But ......I do. EH???? I am getting long in the tooth, and with old age comes the tendency to repeat oneself, so please...

Our sovereign God is working his purpose out using both his servants and his enemies in order to do so. And that is regardless of whether they do so either willingly or knowingly. Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things...

This morning I’m thinking in particular about the way in which God speaks to us (well…… the way that he speaks to me) For me (acknowledging that it’s different for others) God does not speak via my five human senses (in that he doesn’t do so by written words that I can see, nor does he appear in...

I mean ‘between you and God’ One thing that I feel strongly about is that both the question and the answer is ‘between you and God’ and ‘between me and God’, and ought not to be between you and me in terms of each telling the other how it should be. But that is how I feel and whether or...

An amalgumation of all the 'One anothers' from the Epistles. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Owe no man any thing, except to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. Let us not therefore judge one another any...

Be my first thought every morning and my last thought every day, and in between this vessel fill, to think and act ‘Thy Way’ Then when to sleep my soul returns, may the dreams upon my bed, reflect the wakened moments, till my circle of life is led At every point Christ’s love to show, in all I...

I was raised by parents who, as a result of two extreme tragedies, insisted that 'God' should never be mentioned in our home. Yet I can remember being so certain of the existence of God that I carried a miniture New Testament in at all times and superstitiously relied on its presence in my shirt...

All I can offer is a re-arrangement of the same English words in another way. But the meaning remains unchanged “It is as equally useless as it is unseemly to discuss the most solemn truths publically in a careless or fiercely argumentative way.”

I came across a brilliant quotation that is so appropriate to Christian Forum Discussions yet it was from the lips of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman almost 200 years ago. He said: “Now, we allow ourselves publicly to canvass the most solemn truths in a careless or fiercely...

Fivesense, The Bible surely exists for the benefit of those who are able to read it rather than for the benefit of those cannot. For that reason the vast majority of its content concerns those can read it, and only a small amount concerns those who cannot, However two passages refer to the place...

How sad. I'm simple looking at the scriptural position re those people who never get the chance to read a Bible and those who never get the chance to hear the Gospel message. Evangelical Fundamentalism pretends such people simply do not exist, and is so insular that it adresses the subject on...

I am sufficiently exercised by what seems to me to be the truth in this matter to have posted it on no less than six different forums; three of which ignored the post entirely. The others produced one response that did no more than throw back a quote from John 3:18 “He that believeth on him...

Taking scripture alone, it would seem that whilst what many Christians usually say about other religions is true of those who hear the call of the Gospel message of Christ's sacrificial atonement, those Christians really ought to lay alongside it the scriptural teaching that 'Faith in such as...

What if in trying to say it again you find it even harder to understand than first time? But I'll give it a try. I had spent a lot of time decrying man's intervention in trying to 'improve' the "faith once delivered to the Saints" The so called 'improvements' began with the original Jewish...

Mjrhealth, Gregg, and fivesense, Thank you all for doing the ‘Job’s friends’ bit in helping me see through the mists. Soon I shall be able to say with the hymnist “nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling” My ‘hand’ is already pretty empty of all but the grace and mercy...