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I like it better than the Left Behind series. The series is still incomplete at this time. There will be between 10-12 books when the series is finished. The author uses scripture to back up his take on the end-times. The books are shorter and more to the point than the Left Behind books.

I responded to the poll. I don't see an issue with sons having earrings, personally.

Well, since I, in your words "spouted nonsense like that", which of Jesus' words should apply to Christians and which words do not? Please enlighten us on this. I didn't think as Christians that we would pick and choose which of Jesus' words apply to us.

Matthew 24 definitely speaks of the tribulation saints.

Fortunately, I haven't had any issues like that when reading my Kindle. I have found my Kindle to be great for reading fiction. For Bible reading, not so much. I prefer to have a physical Bible in my hand when I'm reading my Bible. But I did get a free ESV bible through Amazon for my Kindle...

The Chaos in The Blink of an Eye series is available through Amazon. When I had a free Kindle Unlimited subscription earlier in the year, I read the first 5 books for free. There are paperback editions available on Amazon, but the Kindle copies are cheaper. The Kindle edition offers the 5...

Everything Jesus talks about in the Gospels are directed towards the Jewish people. Christians weren't called Christians until after the crucifixion. Acts 11:25-26 (ESV) - "So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they...

It makes sense. At this point in my life, though, I'm getting closer to 50 and getting another tattoo at this stage in my life isn't for me.

It was Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins who wrote the Left Behind series.

I read the Left Behind series when I was a brand new Christian in '05 and found the books to be at least a fun read. I learned later after the fact that there was a fair amount of criticism concerning the theology of that series. I recently re-read the series last year, and started a series...

That was the intent of my post. I'm not in disagreement with you.

Holy moly, we were on the same scriptural wavelength!

Jesus is aware of the existence of "false" Christians. For example, Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV) - “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not...

I have no intention of getting another one. My cross tattoo will suffice. Besides that one hurt! LOL

Thanks, farouk! I've been getting a feel for how the conversations go around here before really digging in!

It was a looser sense in terms of spiritual battle, and not limited to addiction. I used addiction as just one example. We all have our spiritual battles, but not necessarily in terms of drinking the cup of devils. As an old pastor of mine once said, "Satan likes to play games with us."

I was 37 when I got my first and only tattoo, so there may some bias in my vote LOL

At the risk of sounding simplistic, I think it's possible for a Christian to have a demon. There's the demon of addiction, whether it be drugs, alcohol, pornography, etc. We all go through spiritual battles.

It's not made clear if they were married prior to being saved, so we can only speculate. 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 has some good advice for a husband married to a non-believing wife and vice versa. This is in the ESV translation, by the way: "To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any...

And that's a very fair point, @farouk. From my experience, and I realize that some of you here have been going to church and believed longer than me (15 years), but I see the simplicity of church being overanalyzed and made complicated by humans. The temple laws that were in place when Jesus...