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    Faith issues

    James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. This would define me. Too often I'm praying for things that will make my life easier to deal with when it is God's intention to better my character (James 1:3). I was reading in Philippians...
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    Is masturbating without fantasizing a sin?

    Always looking for a loophole. Do I think it's wrong to lust in the heart for another woman? Yes. But I'd rather have fantasies and lust and touch than to commit adultery w/ another woman in the flesh. It is simply my nature - even tho that nature has changed, I still live in the...
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    heaven and hell

    2 Corinthians 5:1-10 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Read these passages and see if they help. In Revelation 20:11-15 there are two judgments that take place. One for the saved and one for the unsaved. This is the seperating of the wheat and chaff, the sheep and goats, etc. Hell or Hades or Sheol...
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    What is the point?

    God created us for His glory, honor and pleasure. I'm curious, what to you mean we can't do anything we want to do? Do you think you are doing what God doesn't want you to do? There are a lot of Christians out there doing God's work because they feel it is the right thing to do. They don't...
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    Help with controlling temper.

    If you are saved, you should allow the Spirit of God to control you. In the past and even now, I remember James 4:1-3 when I become angry. Most anger is in the form of pride. Some of it may be righteous anger, but James 1:20 tells us man's anger does not produce the righteousness of God. Jesus...
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    What happens when you feel that your walking Solo?

    Read James 1:5-8. So you are saying that you feel like the only one living for Jesus? If so, so did Noah, but Noah actually was. Church (in the American sense of the word) can be disheartening. I would encourage that person to study the Bible deeper and trust/believe in the guidance of the...
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    Can you care too much

    Who can really define "care"? Everyone recognizes love differently. You can treat someone the way you want to be treated, but would they recognize it? Some people react to discipline and others to kindness. We do have some examples of what it is to care about people in scripture, but "love" is...
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    unwanted pregnancy

    Doesn't matter if it's more traumatic or not, it's murder and it's not God's way.
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    unwanted pregnancy

    I believe your mother is asking you to sin. There are other alternatives to abortion. You can still have the baby and give him or her a good home to parents that have been waiting for a baby to raise. Don't let this happen. Get help from a local church that can talk with you and your mom. It...
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    Does God really answer prayers?

    I believe God answers prayer because James has stated in his epistle that God answers prayers. However, I too have often wondered why I even pray at all. I do believe God answers prayers because He says He does and there is plenty of evidence of prayers being answered in the scriptures and in...
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    How much control does God have?

    It simply means God has a plan. The plan will be followed. Why? Because God already knows what is going to happen from day to day. God does not exist in our time frame, He transcends time since He is the beginning and end. I don't know that I've ever really understood how it is God has...
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    Tithing and taxes

    I think 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 sum up what I believe about tithing money. I don't think a percentage is the way to answer the question of tithing. I think tithing is answered by what you have decided in your heart to give. Either way, whatever we decide to give, we have to live with it. If too...
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    Does God really care about abortion???

    Sure He'll be the final judge, but does that excuse what they've done here and now? Do you think God did not appoint judges to deal w/ the here and now (Romans 13:1)? The problem w/ the American justice system is that the punishment never fits the crime. If the punishment fit the crime, you...
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    Is it really a choice?

    I've asked myself this same question in the past. I also remember how upset I get when the rules in my house are broken. When things aren't done the way I want. Can you relate to that? There are consequences to breaking the rules. Rules are set in place for protection. When they're not...
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    Does God really care about abortion???

    I don't even pretend anymore to try and understand what God is doing. I believe abortion is wrong because murder is sin. However, I believe a judge who sentences a killer to death is just. It really bothers me that a judge would pass a death sentence on someone who has done nothing wrong. Think...
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    Twisted Salvation Message.

    Growing in our knowledge and love of Jesus Christ is a process. People seeing Jesus Christ in our life takes time. But the inner change is immediate and those who have been changed will cultivate that relationship because the change was genuinely of God and not an empty profession. We will know...
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    Any Thoughts On This Story

    it is the double standard that bothers me, but even more so if terrorists are linked to those building that mosque as the article reveals.
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    Would like some opinions.

    i wonder if this might have to do with revelations or visions some might have had after Jesus' resurrection and that it isn't talking about a literal return to earth. paul may have seen Christ in all His glory on the road to Damascus and John most definitely saw the glory and revelation of...
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    This...to me...is a very interesting article..any thoughts?

    not trying to rain on anyone's parade here, but why do some folks continue to try and figure out Jesus' return? i thought Jesus had made it clear (acts 1:7). please don't think i have bad tone here, that is not the case. only making a plea. :thumbsup:
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    Faith and Works

    regeneration, redemption, adoption, the act of being saved, etc.; - are all parts of saving faith. this is one type of faith i believe. the second type of faith is our actions. our actions give evidence to the saving faith. they are inseperable entities even tho they are also seperate...