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    Is my faith only a figment of my imagination?

    I'm 78 and have been saved since around age 40. Like many my journey has not been easy with many stumbles and doubts. Even when I am engaged in daily prayer, I feel the subtle influence of the evil one who tries to take my mind off my prayers...which is when I ask the Lord to give me His peace...
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    All things are permissible for me....

    1 Corinthians 6:12. I'd like to hear a bit of opinion/discussion about what Paul says here. What do you think about the context of his comment? Was Paul talking about all the rules and regs of the OT for Jews Vs faith in the redeeming of the repentant by belief and acceptance of the birth...
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    what christians dont understand about....

    Each of us is different but as the body of Christ our differences join together to make that body function with Christ as our head. Parts of us are ugly and some beautiful. Yet we are all the body of Christ. I was saved 40+ years ago and have struggled with my habits, some more than others...
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    TI

    Thanks for your encouragement. I am familiar with much of scripture...it's just that maybe we sometimes look at them as words rather than personal messages in spite of the counsel we get. I have found in just the last couple days that the power of faith is something I knew, but is something I...
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    TI

    I hope I'm not derailing this thread, but I saw it had to do with Faith. I've been pondering something since yesterday about that. I've been born again for around 40 years and am always amazed at simple insights that occur from time to time while in prayer, reading the bible, or just thinking...
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    Is God omnipotent and controls everything?

    Isaiah 55:8 is a scripture that sort of puts a light on some of the questions we have about God and his ways. He tells us through Isaiah that we can't know all there is to know about him when we're in the flesh. 1 Corinthians 13:12 also sheds some light on some questions we have. We can read...
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    Guilt from the past

    Thank you especially for your advice, as well as the others, too. It's been a great help.
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    Who was Jesus

    I didn't scroll through 5 pages so maybe this is a duplicate: John 14:9 9Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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    Guilt from the past

    For the past nearly 40 years since I became born again I have been plagued by my memories from when I was a young married man. I betrayed my wife by drinking too much and having one night stands with various women I picked up in bars. When I became born again, (it's a long story) I confessed...
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    ANGELS: Spirit Beings? Do you believe in them?

    I've had two separate occurrences that I think I saw or was in the presence of an angel(s). I'll try and be brief. The first time, about 40 years ago, I was lying in bed in the afternoon in sort of a nap state, where one isn't sleeping, but also not awake. (I could hear the TV in the...
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    A life free of guilt.

    "Wow! that changes things. Do you mean to say that God looks at me as if I'd never sinned? Answer: yes." That is a powerful statement. Does that remind us that when the Father looks at me he sees Jesus?
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    What did Paul mean and one other thing I've been thinking about

    Hedrick, thank you for your very thoughtful and very helpful response to my question. As to my posting here, I really didn't know where to post the question and this particular place seemed about right, especially since I don't particularly follow any specific denomination of our Christian...
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    What did Paul mean and one other thing I've been thinking about

    I appreciate the thoughtful and enlightening comments.
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    What did Paul mean and one other thing I've been thinking about

    Just a short background. I was raised Roman Catholic. Then I drifted away but became a born again Christian when I was around 40 years old. I'm nearly 77 now. I've read the bible many, many times, had it on tapes, read portions of it when I'm moved to, read many books by many authors about...
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    How Could God allow this?

    If we did not know what is evil, how would ee know what is good? If there were no bitter fruit, how would we understand the tasting of sweet fruit? The Lord God created a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve ate of it and then knew one from the other. Prior to that there was...
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    I'll have what he's saying...

    I read this thread and "goose and gander" and "plank and sliver" keep coming to mind.
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    Please show me how to correct my wrong thinking.

    Philippians 4:6-7. Read carefully to see just what you are asked to do and what the Lord promises. It's not worldly success...read the 7th verse very, very carefully for what He promises for your action in verse 6. Accept that promise and then live your life the best way you can. With this...
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    Trump's cavalier attitude and lack of planning led to this crisis in the US

    I read a commentary by an American who immigrated from China. His informed commentary is that the Chinese Communist Government is absolutely at fault here. Not the Chinese people, the communist party. He said they are culturally arrogant and deceptive and because of that this disease was...
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    Not voting this year. How about you?

    My earlier comment about not understanding why anyone could be a Democrat is not meant to somehow justify the R party. A few comments ago, it was mentioned about how one goes out and whistles in the wind to get a sure loser on the ballot and in doing that was some sort of victory. The real job...
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    Christianity that Works

    If I'm praying for something, it is usually asking the Father to heal the members of my family which I name. I ask Him to heal them by drawing them to Jesus that they find Jesus and repent (if they already haven't done so) and ask Him to heal their bodies, (name their problem) heal their...