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I read somewhere that born again believers of the church are God’s way to replace the angels who followed rebellious Lucifer and fell from heaven. Angels are said to be “sons of God” in a certain sense, so one new set of sons of God is replacing the former set. St. Augustine, Enchiridion ad...

You sound very much like me, easternstar. God communicates to us through circumstances, events, Bible study, music, sermons, other people, and through a small inner whisper in stillness. Perhaps God has been shouting at you in unexpected “voices”. I was in a non-trinitarian cult that absolutely...

I view creeds as “elevator speeches” (named for the brief duration of an elevator ride, its purpose is to quickly capture someone's interest and make a compelling impression), condensed spiels, bullet points, about pages, thumbnail sketches, concise summaries of doctrinal essentials that attempt...

Then again, the apostle Paul said it would be best to not get married, so you can serve the Lord without being distracted by attending to a spouse. The elect are not generated only by offspring of Christian parents, but also by evangelism toward non-family members. There is no guarantee that...

Faith includes triumphant patience, a stubborn will to believe that God is good and real — in spite of negative feelings, nightmarish losses, cataclysmic set-backs, unfavorable circumstances, spiritual defeats (failing to be free from sins), long delays in deliverance, or even what seems to be...

The Holy Spirit is not a feeling, but I know what you mean. When my wife died a year ago, and my intense, ferocious faith failed to result in a miracle healing, my faith was damaged in an unexpected and dismal manner. I was a million percent sure she would be delivered because “by His stripes...

Reformed said: “Few Christians would accuse a faithful preacher of trying to elevate his words to be equal or superior to scripture. We would weigh his words against the very scripture he is proclaiming, and then determine whether they accurately represent the Word of God.” But unfaithful...

Good is real to me because… 1. Miraculous answers to prayer. 2. His gift to me of a gorgeous, godly, thoroughly Christian wife for 21 years, who wanted to marry me even though I was at rock bottom. 3. The Bible resonates in my heart as the true voice of God. 4. Holy Ghost hunches — inner advice...

I find it interesting that the Big Bang is being revised by some scientists who now call it the Big Stretch, which is more in line with the Bible. Of course, stretching implies something was there to be stretched. God created via logos generation, speaking the universe into being, then His...

Martin Marprelate said: “No again. God's wrath is not to do with His personal feelings, but with His justice. It is a legal wrath (Psalm 7:11).” Permit me to jump in here merely to address an issue that I have pondered for years. I used to think the wrath of God was just the absence of God. But...

I have wondered if “murderer from the beginning” goes back even further than Adam and Eve, to the time when Lucifer attempted to usurp the throne of God Almighty. Did he want to kill God?

1 John 2:9,10,11 — He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not...

What matters more? Whether the earth is flat or spherical? Or whether we are serving God or dishonoring Him? 2 Timothy 2:24 — And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient. NKJV Zeal to argue in hostile animosity enables unbelievers to say that...

I used to love Mark Twain very much, one of my favorite authors along with Kafka, until I read Mark Twain’s bizarre Letters From the Earth, in which he stated some of the most horrifically blasphemous things I have ever seen, extreme hatred of Jesus, I was shocked and repulsed. Dickens, I also...

It is time for Trump to fire Paula White and his other spiritual advisors. Replace them with authentic Christian teachers, rather than mammonist Churchianity frauds.

To all the super Christians who possess the only true theology — blessed be the peacemakers, turn the other cheek, resist the devil, be kind to one another, love your neighbor as yourself, reject malice, give not place to anger, take up your cross, suffer insults without retaliation for the...

One of my pet peeves is long paragraphs and dense blocks of text. Extremely long text is super easy to read when broken into short paragraphs. I write marketing and SEO (evident in my list of miscommunicative terms), short stories, micro-sci-fi, and I published a book on the history of bicycle...

Robotics = eliminating (need for) human labor. AI = eliminating (need for) human thinking. What happens when no humans are necessary for anything and are thus deleted from existence? What would the machine world then desire and do? Set up operations on other planets and moons? Replace the...

On a local social media platform, most posts are loaded with typos, dysgraphia, cacography, malapropisms, asyndeton, pseudo-portmanteaus, spoonerisms, gaffes, chernomyrdinisms, acyrologia, dogberryism, scriptio continua (no punctuation), enjambment, prolixity, jargon jangling, garrulity...