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In my opinion, a testimony forwarded and received by someone you don't know means nothing. If you have an online relationship and want to share your testimonies, that's fine; but you cannot know whether forwarded testimonies reach people when they are open to the Lord or whether it turns them off.

I have problems with a lot of church traditions, which is why I attend a church that has very few. We observe communion and baptism, but that's about it. Yet, we're an apostolic, New Testament, post-modern church. My problem with tradition is that it leads to legalism. Today's churches...

The Scriptures tell us to live so as to bring honor to God. We are to let Christ live through us. Probably the best representation of that is how we show our love to people we meet or work with. It's not how much we give or how much we know; it's how we present Christ while doing these...

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Coming from a religious background, I can say that it definitely interefered with my relationship with God. If you didn't look, talk, dress, and act the way people in church felt you should, you were not Christian. The church today has done what the Pharisees did thousands of years ago. They...

I don't believe God has deceived anyone concerning Creation and how the world we know 'evolved' from His original creation. The purpose of Genesis is not to prove earth's origins, but to introduce a God who creates the material universe and all that is in it. Most of Genesis is...

If your faith in the buttered side of the toast landing face down is based on proof that the butter causes one side to be heavier and thus causes it to flip in the air, could it be shaken if fat-free butter is used and it lands on it's side first? If your faith is in the cat who has...

When Paul wrote that Hymenaeus and Alexander were turned over to the devil to be taught not to blaspheme, he wasn't talking about a loss of salvation, but a loss of fellowship. As far as Judas, he was never saved anyway (unless he repented before he hung himself). Saul had the power of the...

Here are some scripture references to who the Holy Spirit is, although it seems you don't see Him as a person at all. The Holy Spirit knows and understands (Rom 8:27; 1 Cor 2:11); can be insulted (Heb 10:29); can be lied to (Acts 5:3), can be resisted (Acts 7:51), and can be grieved (Eph...

When you look at the Trinity, you think of God as the Father; His Son is the Word - or Truth/God's Law; and the Holy Spirit is the power of God. It was the Holy Spirit that moved over the void and created the earth. It was the Holy Spirit that gave Christ His powers. It's the Holy Spirit that...

The scriptures teach that God will hold us accountable for what we did with the truth we knew. It also tells us that we're all given an awareness of Him; that His handiwork is all around us. A person who has never heard the Good News of Christ will be judged according to the relationship they...

I've never heard her speak of a certain type of wicca. She does use rune stones, tarot cards, crystal ball, worships nature; celebrates the Feast of the Dead, that sort of thing. She's visited mediums and I think dealt with potions. She is intelligent and educated. She supports Green...

You're right, we can sit here arguing all night and accomplish nothing. I'm going to bed.

First of all, I have not raised my daughter to fear her mom's faith. She chose to follow Christ, she accepted Christ, she was baptized because she wanted to be. She has never heard me demean her mother, nor her mother me. You read between lines that aren't there. There are people on this...

That was not a personal attack and if it violates the forum rules, then there is no room for real communications here. My ex-wife, with whom I am still good friends, is also an ex-Christian. I lived with her, I know her ways, what she believes. I know her Wicca friends and how they live...

My exwife is Wiccan. I believe that God took me out of our marriage so that I could get closer to Him instead of continue in the way I was headed. I believe that any religion that doesn't recognize Christ as our Savior, and our need for salvation, is from Satan and is intended to deceive as...

LuckyCharm, if I followed your logic, I would surmise that God causes us to sin. There's nothing in scriptures that supports this (other than His hardening our hearts once we've rejected Him over and over). Still, that doesn't equate to His causing us to sin. For that matter, if He did indeed...

LuckyCharm - my heart goes out to you because this has happened to me; except it was my wife at the time. I think what we have to realize is that that person who has hurt us has the same 'right' to disobey or dishonor God as we do. By exercising our rights to sin or not to sin, we impose a...

I'm not disputing the reality of the Catholic faith concerning baptism as a requirement for salvation. I will simply point out here that in my church, and in most Protestant denominations as far as I know, when Jesus said that we must be born of water and of the Spirit, the water birth happened...

;) Thank you VOW. I may never become a Catholic, but I do want my fiance to know that I care about her and want to be able to understand how she bases her life according to how she understands her faith. God brought the two of us together and He knows that any differences between our faiths...