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I am reprinting this from another thread because there it only addresses the one issue of salvation--which is huge. But the principle is all encompassing, so I wanted to address it head on instead of as an aside. Please start here by reading about the principle as it applies to salvation, then...

1 Corinthians 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. I suppose this could be and has been said differently, but the above verse is a great rational for our new spirit life--our new...

Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Matthew 24:34 Of course there is more, in fact all of Matthew 24 is referred to in verse 34. This issue that has now been going on for two millennia (50-80 generations) is that the signs Jesus...

:( So much conjecture. So much opinion. So many blind leading the blind. So many blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. So many teachers without the gift from God. So many false witnesses. So many false prophets. So many false accusations. So many with a spirit of crucifixion...

God is a god of revelation, and does so in the fulness of time according to His purpose. A good example is the mystery that Paul was given to reveal several millennia after it was first given by God, which was in the beginning...the mystery of marriage. What was practiced for so long without a...

They say changing ones beliefs is like divorce or death. Most would even say--even of all generations, but certainly of this generation, that these are times of change. And they are. But it is not yet perceived by many that the times in which "knowledge shall increase" foretold by Daniel the...

Embracing "All Truth." However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13 So...Jesus in preparation for leaving his disciples and...

It is not a question. Paul was explaining, as will I. The issue is when Christ comes (again). The quotes below are from another thread, so as not to highjack that other thread, but to pick up at that point and give an answer. Here is the passage where the apostle Paul explains: Now if Christ...

The answer of course, is-- Not the Holy Spirit. But it is painfully obvious that we struggle with what Jesus actually said regarding the Holy Spirit, that other "Helper", and just what it is that He has arranged for us and these times in which we live, since He spoke it: “I still have many...

The Master and John His servant said: He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Revelation 22:20 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. Revelation 1:1 ...And...

To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. Hebrews 9:28 Ignoring for the moment that this passage tells of the second coming and the "quick" return of Christ-- What does Paul mean by Jesus appearing "apart from sin?" It means that the sinful...

Much is lost and confused by the misunderstanding of the difference between the will of God and the I am of God. They are not really different...but are presented differently. What is meant by "the will of God?" The will of God is what is written, and why it is written. As one reads the...

Most want to take the words of scripture "literally"...that is, as according to our own understanding. This we do in spite of God's own clarification, that the words are rather spirit, and are spiritually discerned. And the result is, we are potentially completely off when it comes to...

This reminds me of the saying: “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” And yet, while some of that applies with dealing with the increase numbers of homeless--that is not the answer. If you give a man a fish or give him a...

I suppose this comes under ethics.. I just told someone off in another thread, and it occurred to me that there is a HUGE difference between having a difference of opinion and divisions amongst this Christian house. Differences of opinion are like what flavor of ice cream--completely harmless...

The gender issue keeps popping up.. And those even with the best of intensions of being true and faithful to the word of God, still refer to Paul's commandment for women to be "silent in church" as if that smaller purpose of which Paul spoke was also the greater purpose of God in His word to...

We’re fighting because Christ has divided those He must bring to the Father into two groups (Israel and “another fold”, meaning the gentiles), but preached the good news of the kingdom of God in one gospel narrative that according to the apostle Paul, must be “rightly divided”…and many...

By definition salvation (being the gift of eternal life), is forever. Still, there are many who are confused by the ongoing sin of people who claim to be saved. This is a great misunderstanding-- but it does not mean that salvation can be lost. And yes, there are many scriptures that can be...

@Edward Gordon ... I thought I would pull this out of the General Discussion area to address. So, are the writings of the apostle Paul not included in the Veridicans canon? And if not, why, since he is the only one in the Christian Bible that claimed of himself, "for me to live is Christ", a...

2 Timothy 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." I will wait to comment, but it would be good to hear what people say and think...so: What say you? What does that even mean?