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This brought to my mind that God equipped us from the start for this fire. Conscience judges our works and dispenses punishment or reward.

Yes. When we suffer for Christs sake it's a great opportunity to forgive. It's fruit of the Spirit I received when I was Baptized. We die with Christ and we will rise with Him. Recall Steven the first martyr. He didn't miss his opportunity to conform to Christ. Steven's prayer asking...

I thought you knew I'm Catholic. I'm a bible reading Catholic. I don't have a choice. The Church I saw in Scriptures is still in town. A light on a hill so to speak. I'm not sure I know what you mean offering a theology of my faith. I know my faith easily offends many of my separated brothers so...

In the 1 st centuries Romans and Christians lived as neighbors. Romans witnessed their Christian neighbors suffer persecution. I read a statement written by a Roman. They apparently found their neighbors behavior peculiar. They wrote; "The Christians rejoice when persecuted for the opportunity...

Jesus taught we must abide in Him. What about those who had received the Holy Spirit but we're going back to the old covenant? They would need another savior right? A wife has no obligations to her husband?

I don't judge a teaching by the faults of it's members. Jesus didn't accuse Moses of error just because wicked men sat in his chair did He?

Ok. Only tell the real martyrs. You remember Peter telling Jesus He didn't have to go to Jerusalem to die? Because your beliefs provide an obstacle to martyrdom Jesus would say the sam thing to you that He said to Peter.

Unnecessary distinction. I didn't have false martyrs in mind. Why do you?

Really? No one will think I'm a heretic if my faith is without error?

Tell that to the martyrs who climbed up there already. When they entered eternity did Jesus say " you didn't have to do that."

Careful. There would be no hell if Satan was God.

We're all somebody's heretic aren't we.:D

I enjoyed your post. Yup fire burns what remains is pure. But who ever completes this process ?

Then they deserve to know what they are and the iconic legacy of evil they will leave behind. True. Lying would not be able to happen because nothing is hidden before sin. Unfallen human life with nothing to hide possessed the ' internal gaze'. Jesus could see what a person was made of because...

Jesus didn't inherit the limitations that death imposes on everyone else. Jesus had supernatural powers at His disposal. Besides it was a difficult task, if possible even, to look Jesus in the eye and lie. You can't lie to someone able to know your thoughts. Jesus knew a person's thoughts...

Human life is meant to know truth and so every human person deserves to know it. But God takes care of that in the end. That's why I qualified my statement with " always". In court we give an oath. Then I've given the court the right to know what I know. I may be morally obligated to...

Yup.:D Grace and peace.

Luke1 18 Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.” 19 The angel replied, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 But now, because you did...

I would tell the Nazi' soldiers, "if I see one of those ****ty Jews around here I'll kill them myself!" Then offer them some milk to drink and ask them to sit a while and take a break. I think Jesus would feel what the Jewish family hidden in the attic would feel hearing that.

Paul wrote , for me nothing is forbidden but not all does good. I know for myself that even if I out right lied to the Nazi soldiers I would feel like I did a very good thing. I think the answer is found in this scripture Ecclesiastes 3 1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every...