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Welcome Psalty! I hope you enjoy the discussions here on Baptist Board. You’ll find many very serious biblical researchers, devoted pastors, brave missionaries, studious scripture lovers, dogmatic disciples, and enthusiastic doctrine slingers. Some topics can turn into convoluted debates...

Regarding Obama’s wars. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. Obama’s lawyers claimed authority to continue war indefinitely across space and time, devising formal legal frameworks for targeted...

Rather than debate hypotheticals, let us simplify: how salvation happens and how we KNOW for sure we are saved. Salvation is a new birth. I do not see how that new birth could be aborted. Instead of worrying about losing our salvation, let us focus on loving God and neighbor. Trust and obey! If...

This is a very good list of ways to keep youth and youth ministry leaders safe in church settings and activities. Thanks for sharing.

I would like to know your definition of “good”.

The real question to start with is “what is my absolute undeniable assurance that I really am saved, born again, converted into a child of God?” Each of us likely has some anchor of the soul that seems to prove that the Holy Spirit truly resides in them. Once we are fully convinced we are true...

Gandhi said he liked the gospels. When a racist church turned him away, I wish he would have started his own New Testament Bible study. Gandhi was heavily influenced by the extreme pacifism of the Jain faith. So his anti-militaristic, non-violence perspective on the Prince of Peace, who...

Again, my remarks may not be comforting or chase the gloom away. But what I try to do is take the 21 years of sweetness that my deceased wife put into my soul, and transmit that sweetness to others. Being a hermit pretty much, my lack of human interactions limits my opportunities to bless...

Repenting and trusting in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for our sins, believing God raised Him from the dead.

You say “the whole world…must be limited to the ones atoned for, saved”… but that is not what the scripture specifically declares. Whole world cannot mean only part of the world. The verse of 1 John 2:2 could have said “only the elect in the world”, but that is not what it says. You have to...

Brightfame52 you accidentally proclaim universalism by claiming that “the whole world” is “the elect”. If the elect is the whole world, everybody in it, you got some universalism going on up in there. ******** 1 John 2:2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours...

Philippians 1:16 The latter do so in love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. I Peter 3:15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with...

Very sadly true. Mega church leaders and conservative pastors seem to be dropping like flies. The religious landscape is littered with fallen Bible teachers. Even my favorite preachers have some scandal or serious deficiency attached to them. I reach back to the Philokalia and ECF early church...

The fact that you’re tired of living these days without your wife is a mighty testimony to how much you loved and enjoyed each other! What do you miss most about her? I miss my wife’s voice, smile, laughter, and her sweet, peculiar mannerisms, quirks, and expressions. If I talked too much...