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But how can I know if I love believers? I like them, I like their company, but love? Agape love? That hasn’t been tested to the point of great sacrifice-and I don’t know what other than a great sacrifice can show love beyond a doubt. I’ve seen that video; I’ve been looking into this for quite...

And I have read about Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, and John Bunyan’s stories, although I’m not quite clear on the details of Spurgeon’s.

I have problems with not being sure if I am saved. I have asked for advice for this on another thread, but something I would really like is to hear how God has rescued others from the same place. Have you had problems doubting if you were saved? Do you know someone who has struggled with that...

Would you mind telling me more? Hearing how God helped someone else with my problem could be really helpful for me, and lines up with what Paul said about how God “comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” (Part...

I know! But it’s being actually confident in Him for salvation through His dying for my sins that’s so difficult. Maybe it’s weak faith, maybe it’s a wall of unbelief, and I don’t know how to tell the difference, or if there IS a difference.

Thank you for the advice; it feels like I’ve heard a lot of what people are saying before, but it is always important to be encouraged to leave sin, even the millionth time. I’m going to counseling already, with a Christian. I’m not sure how to get a grip on step two; how should I go about it...

My understanding of salvation is that to believe in Jesus is to look to Him and trust in Him for salvation, essentially. I had been a false convert for 2/3rds of a year, thinking I knew the Gospel and was saved, but I had twisted it in my mind, and fell into secret sin of a magnitude that I...

Stop buying it. Cut yourself off. It might be a pain at first, but it will help you. Don’t think about willpower not to use it, just don’t put in the effort to buy it.

In 1 Kings 13 is a story of a man of God who was told not to eat bread or drink water. He was told by an old prophet that an angel had come to him, and told him that he was to give the man of God bread and water. The prophet was lying. The man ate the bread and drank the water, and was then...

Yes! And faith is only seeing that and trusting Him for it! The importance of it being faith THROUGH which we’re saved is that it’s leaning only on Jesus that characterizes faith-and an understanding of Abraham believing in God and being credited as righteous is important for those times when...

Read Galatians, and make sure you understand what it says about the covenant between God and Abraham, so you’re certain that the faith Abraham had and nothing else is required to be counted righteous. That book clears out all confusions about whether anything more is required, as long as you...

Isaiah

Cornelius was saved without praying a prayer for it in Acts 10-it was at faith, not at any action of his. Faith is looking to Jesus and trusting in Him alone, not performing an action and declaring that because we did that, God saved us. The only requirement for salvation is Jesus, and when...

If it is only a spiritual death that is brought on by sin, how did Jesus’s physical death pay the price we would pay by spiritual death? Also, why was sin in the Old Testament often punished with physical death? And why did average physical lifespans gradually decrease from Adam onward?

On what reasoning do you say death is the natural course?