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I have a simple question. Is it our place to worry about people who follow one teacher or theology or another? What I mean is, if Jesus calls us and we listen and follow we enter the Kingdom. It is something born of God which man cannot take away. It can not be faked or adopted, it is...

Born again is a spiritual reality of turning from the mortal to the eternal. It is a mystery, something that only occurs by Gods grace and will. We barely understand our own consciousness. The prophets talk about evil in the world and evil people being like chaff that will just be burnt up...

The Kingdom of God is in His people, as they mature in Christ through their loving walk with Him. Rather than complicated and mysterious or riddled with plains and mountains, it is simply living out love in the world. We find this very hard because our selfish hearts always want something else...

I have shifted my understanding of the Lord, because the Lord has changed me. The bible is a kind of authority but only if you meet the maker. The bible lays out Gods intent and His dealings with people and their reactions, good and bad. The Pharisees thought through knowing the words they had...

Jesus was actually quite specific about His sheep. Those who listen to Him and follow. The spiritual conundrum is who is in the Kingdom and who is not? Jesus's answer is it does not matter. His people will grow and mature the rest will just tag along causing problems, but to separate the two...

We are commanded to do this "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:30 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' Luke 10:27 God is...

There is another view. In revelation the beast and his followers are tortured eternally in the lake of fire. For this to be significant, it suggests most sinners are actually destroyed not tortured. If you take a sinner who stays lost in their sin and never resolves the contradictions and...

There is more to consider. Are we judged as souls without a body, or as beings with a body? Jesus said the Father destroys body and soul in the lake of fire. We obviously lose this earthly body, so to be judged or have consciousness we need a body to function. Jesus was given a new body on...

This area leads me to the principle of fault and punishment. A part of christian thought is everyone is on the same moral plain of choice and responsibility. Clearly people have many different levels of perception of others and their own self worth, and how they respond emotionally to the...

This is a walk of a lifetime. I used to ignore people when they were rude, and it tended to mean people felt I could be ignored and walked all over. There is often cultural and social interplay to understand another or find out if they are joking or being real or just playing around. I found...

I know the film the Shack. Its theme is very good, except the idea that love will always speak through to peoples hearts. I have seen people pass away resolute in their position. The proposition is, faced with the Lord and His life people will fold, except the Pharisees heard and saw Jesus and...

Thank you for this. Emotional reading of scripture. I am commanded to respect my parents, which for many is very hard, especially if they are abusive and been serious harm to their development. Jesus when comparing love for Him conflicting with love for family etc. we should love Him and hate...

I have some interesting experiences on this. I shared love with fellow believers and was told this was just to make believers feel guilty and condemned so was satanic. In their particular theology and emotional place, they were forgiven while sinning, and sinning was forgiven in Jesus even if...

Jerks Before we met Christ we were all jerks. But Jesus loved us, and when we opened up our hearts and let Him in, our need to be a jerk started to work out, and slowly we have become people who love, share and encourage. I know I used to be very sarcastic and used this to provoke responses...

I am a jerk, the Lord loves me and I am working on it. I realised often I do not look in the mirror enough to work out what I am saying and how it is coming across. Often making others be put right, is just my own self delusion showing and I am just working through my own beliefs. A guy in our...

Watched some of this video. My criticism of this approach is simply the value is analytical understanding. The Lord declares from His position, and we can expand and honour and work out this declaration. Our thought process is linear, and relies on going from one concept to another. The...

Do interactions cause others to get angry? Yes. I experienced on forums others getting so angry they could not respond and had to go away for days to calm down. Let me explain. Some folk grow up in a world of rules which they follow to the letter, or as best they can. An incident happens in...

Love your enemies God blesses the righteous and the unrighteous alike until judgement. Love has limits, and the limit of love is the boundary between delusion of grandeur and the reality of the fruit of sinful behaviour and a sinful heart. We love because sin is slavery to a belief in...

39 But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Matt 5:39-41 It has...

"trying to hold onto my faith" - appears to be talking about something valuable that has been lost. Jesus's principle of life is about love and the gift of life itself. My experience of church goers is they have as many reasons as to go to church as there are people, and vary in their beliefs...