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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...

@ Earth Wind and Fire — 21 years of life with my wife were spent in a paradise of bliss. She made my life wonderful in every way. I had nothing to worry about and lots of fun and companionship to look forward to each day. Now all that is gone, never to return in this life. My wife died 15...

I am adjusting my position. We are to choose to repent, it is something we do. But God also gives repentance, by His divine favor, as an attitude in our heart. It seems to be mutual. Repentance is achieved by us obeying and by God working within us. We respond to the gospel and turn to the Lord...

I see some really bad stuff about Calvary Chapel and Chuck Smith. Google any Bible teacher or pastor name with “controversy” added. Mostly discover how a church or leader has covered up or failed to respond to sex abuse type behaviors. Example: Allegations of covering up sexual misconduct by...

There is no such thing in true Christianity as being “given repentance”. We do not receive repentance. We perform it, we repent. And when we repent, then we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, the new birth.

Atheist Internationalists try to deprecate what they call Christian Nationalists. A patriotic Christian is not ever going to be credible to Atheist Internationalist one worlders.

Hebrews 4:3,10 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did...

If there were God’s robots who were forced to repent, and be regenerated, there would be no rewards in heaven, for all subsequent good deeds from walking in the Light would also be forced and not free will acts of love. I guess some people don’t want to obey God or choose to renew their minds...

@KenH said: If God "wants" all people that ever live to be saved, then all people that ever live will be saved. The creature is not stronger than the Creator. *********** Some people think the sovereignty of God means the coerciveness of God. They think if God wants every soul to be saved...

Scripture speaks of more than the 12 disciples of Jesus as apostles. Matthias replaced Judas Iscariot, so that makes 13. Other Significant New Testament Apostles Paul (Saul of Tarsus): A crucial apostle to the Gentiles, not one of the original twelve, but a powerful missionary. Barnabas...

The old covenant was faulty, though I think that means faulty in results, due to human imperfection. The "fault" mentioned here is not with the covenant itself, as it was divinely instituted, but with the inability of the people to uphold it due to their sinful nature. This highlights the...

Defending the Bible involves apologetics—which is providing reasoned arguments for its reliability and truth, addressing challenges like historical accuracy, contradictions, and ethical issues. Common tactics are using evidence, logic, tradition, limitations of science, discoveries of...

Sometimes people like to imagine God as love, a being who is always sweet and gentle, a God who has no wrath. They focus on the happy, pleasant side of God’s personality. It’s a non-biblical, one dimensional view of the character of God. They seem to forget about Noah and the flood, the...

I am not comfortable with female pastors or bishops, but technically, there apparently were women in leadership roles in the early church. Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ...

Matthew 29:23,24 23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Salvation is 100% by grace through faith when we repent and trust in Christ’s sacrifice for our sins, believing God raised Him from the dead. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit happens after we call upon the Lord and repent, not before. Peter and Paul make this abundantly clear. Acts 2:38 Peter...

The fact that Jesus did indeed die for all the sins of all humanity does not mean every person will automatically be saved. Each person has to trust in Christ individually. If Christ died only for the elect, which is not substantiated by any Bible verse, then the unsaved have an excuse for not...

If it is God who changes a person into a saved soul before they repent, thus enabling them to repent and trust in Christ, yet repentance is not needed because they are already changed and saved… What a tangled mess of misinterpretation. An unsaved person could say on judgment day, “I did not...

So we call upon the Lord to save us only when our hearts are already changed and therefore we are already saved? Makes no sense, like saying we get saved before we repent. Makes repentance irrelevant. It’s a shame that the many times the scriptures said “all” regarding the offer of salvation...