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Who am I? I am a man who believes in Jesus. But I have a whole load of history, of opinions, of actions, of work, of family. As I grow and shift, at which point am I this individual or that? When we stand before Jesus, which person of who we are, will be standing there? If we get dementia or...

Are you Jesus? Where you there when He spoke? As a simple reader of what Matthew wrote of what Jesus said, He said But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and...

Leadership. I have seen church leaders who want to do the obvious thing God is calling them to, hate the idea they are answerable to a congregation who obviously have no clue what God wants because the leader is Gods anointed and so he knows. Every politician I have seen goes through the same...

As an outsider you might be right, the FBI could be corrupt, and everyone is out to get Trump as their enemy. The point about a judicial system and investigation branch is for them to be neutral and to judge things by the law. Is it a crime to search someones property to see if there is...

Our first reaction is always dismissive. Who are you kidding Jesus? Be perfect like the Father. So I studied is this absurd? We cannot be like the Father in his knowledge and attributes. And what is the Father actually like? How often do we study His approaches, His goals and aims? I raised...

Charles Wesley believed as believers we are called to walk a holy life. Whitfield his friend was a calvinist believed sin was forgiven past, present, future. So this argument is centuries old. It hangs on the interpretation of Christs sacrifice for sin and what this means. It is somewhat...

The idea that all sin in the present and future is forgiven is done on the premise we are incapable of change and bare no guilt for our bad behaviour. It splits the human soul into two, the part that desires to walk righteously, and that which delivers our sinful behaviour. But in all honesty...

Paul summarizes our dilemma very well Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Cor 13:11 The whole of the temple is about cleansing and forgiveness through offering sacrifices. The Lord did not demand perfection...

Is this within the gift of God? When addressing this question some will say, I am cleansed from the past sin, and am now righteous in Christ. But what about unknown sin, things that are unresolved but hidden from the individual. And what about circumstancial sin, ie life is easy so its easy to...

I have met a lot of people who claim their anger is "righteous anger" My question would be to anyone who puts this forward is have they a history of conflict and anger in their past? Are they picking battles because of how it makes them feel or because it is real? Do the targets of their anger...

There is a term, called reductionism. It is very useful in science when a complex system can be reduced down into its essentials, and then behaviour explained from there. I am not the Lord, or able to see the layers of how He works and why He works, other than to bring love through and His...

I am wondering what you mean. Fear is caution of something that could be dangerous. We have fear of many things, like the dark so fear is a basic respect for the unknown and learning the realities of what is safe and what is not. John emphasis that when we perceive Gods love and how it works...

I agree with you that there is an open question, what is it that if cleansed we can commune with Jesus and otherwise be doomed to judgement. Paul is trying to describe the two states, without Christ and with Christ. It comes down to what are we, how do we make decisions and approve of certain...

Two different perspectives Paul gives. Some left his ministry and went back to the world. Paul had believers opposing him and preaching to get him into trouble. His answer was to praise the Lord the Lord was being preached. He avoided judging anothers approach or faith, but said simply we...

Is learning facts a life transforming experience, or does it answer fears and worries or just a nice to know? I think believers need to learn what justification is so they can boldly pray to the Lord and know in faith He will answer. Esther went before the King, and if he did not extend his...

I was thinking about you suggesting you do not know anyone caught in their emotional background. I know hundreds of people like this and was once one myself. Part of therapy ideas that help people, is we do not realise the emotional assumptions and reactions we have built up, until we start...

There are semantics, in sentences, which can be taken more than one way. And yes to see a phrase you can interpret into all the possible options it could mean, and then filter out the ones one commonly understands. Some languages are better at this than others. I hear Arabic is very bad at...

You are right, being caught and not listening to Jesus can happen to anyone, at any time. Jesus described this as people who were in the vine but no longer abide, they become like a dried up branch, that is broken off and burnt. Learning from Jesus is to know we are all vulnerable to sin and...

I hope I can summarise what you are saying. Man is in sin without committing sin, so being human is to be in sin. Selfish means sin. But what I said was simply to be alive we have needs, which could be called selfish which Jesus equally had. As Jesus was sinless this definition does not work...

I suspect the whole structure is emotional language of reality, and people trying to do something they do not want to do, but feel God is asking them to. If as people everything in our lives is pinned down, and we know God is asking us to "love" our enemies, we can try very hard to do it...