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No one can hate like a Christian can? That's a...nasty and ignorant point of view. It hasn't been Christian theocracies that have killed nearly 100 million people within the last 100 years or so but atheistic, communist regimes. Stalin, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-il - all of these men were...

Well, why would you continue to pursue something you don't believe in? Do you want to pretend to Christian belief and values? That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it? So, why don't you believe God exists? What's halted your interest in knowing God and walking with Him? Do you just want to live...

No. As Carl Emerson has already pointed out, the Bible clearly forbids such a thing: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with...

The Wall Dwellers: An Allegory Concerning the False Convert

- Well, He brought me into being and sustains my existence moment-by-moment. (Colossians 1:15-17; John 1:1-3; Acts 17:27-28) - God gave His only Son, Jesus, as an atonement for my sin, through whom I can be reconciled to God and adopted into His eternal kingdom and family. (Colossians 2:1-14...

Not so. At all. You have only to read my past posts to this thread to see the scriptural basis for my contradiction of your words here. One doesn't reprove another thinking to compel them to salvation. Who has said this? I haven't. Only God saves. But we are called as people of the Light to...

Christ in Gethsemane: The Ultimate Lesson in Submission Three thoughts come to mind as I consider what you've written here: You weren't made for you. You were made to know God, and in knowing Him, to love Him and in loving Him, to enjoy Him, and in enjoying Him, to glorify Him. It is for this...

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Yes, agreed. Well, hang on, now. I've not held anyone in my family to my own, peculiar, personal expectations. But I have held them to God's standard, the very same one to which I hold myself. And I do this because God in His word has commanded me to do so (see my earlier posts to this...

Christ in Gethsemane: The Ultimate Lesson in Submission But I Just Can't!

I suppose some do. The purpose of separation illustrated in 1 Corinthians 5 isn't punishment, though, but remediation. The putting out of the sinning brother from the Corinthian community of believers was intended, in part, as an incentive to forsake his sin. And the disfellowshipped brother in...

One of the important results of walking with God is that you become ready to die. He helps you to see that your life wasn't made for time but for eternity. Your life on this planet is just preparation for what is to come beyond the decease of your physical body, you see. The Big Show begins when...

If I experience the Holy Spirit in my daily living, progressively expanding into every region of my life and bringing those regions under His constant control, I will increasingly reflect him, his "fruit" (Galatians 5:22-23), in my life. Under the Spirit's control, I am transformed by him...

Okay. So, why not refer to submitting to the Holy Spirit instead of "heart knowledge"? Not much, no. Hmmm...Again, this sounds like you're talking about "heart knowledge" by way of its effects. The effects of a thing, however, can be utterly different from the thing that caused those...

Well, fear has its place in bringing us into reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ. But having been reconciled, there is nothing now to fear from God. 1 John 4:16-19 16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love...