Recent content by fuddy

Yup, some "get it" fast, most don't. Took me over 30 years of going through something similar to what you, Lucian, are struggling with now. This "seek and you will find" thing is a lifelong process, kind of like detoxing from the death-based old self while gradually rebuilding your new self...

Again - take a 1985 model PC, interface it with a current-model supercomputer and try to access and make sense of the massive flood of info that will overwhelm the little guy's circuitry... the '85 'puter won't have any chance of processing the stuff coming at it before it explodes into a...

Lucian - your frustration with the seeming incongruity between the absolute holiness and infinite power of God as presented in the scriptures, and the seeming ineptness and coldness of a God who, though perfect in omnipotence, nevertheless somehow manages to lose a third of His angels as well...

Bruce - if you read all of brightflame's posts, you will understand that he is proclaiming that Jesus allowed himself to be crucified as a sacrifice for SOME people, not ALL people... that God indeed hates most people, and desires their eternal destruction in hell, as salvation is only made...

Secret Providence article 7th is I think is one place he writes about it but surely you're aware of the well-known Calvinist precept of Gods revealed will as opposed to his hidden will. It's a basic thing of Calvinism. Calvin defends it by declaring that we have no right to dare to...

Calvin says God has both a revealed Will, and a "secret" Will. His revealed Will is that everyone, everywhere, even the wicked, would come to repentance and be saved - His secret Will however, is that only a small percentage of those people will ever be able to come to repentance, because God...

Brightflame is saying all nations, yes... but not all of the people from those nations. So maybe, what do you surmise, brightflame - somewhere between 1% - 10% from all humanity would be among those God has elected to salvation? Ergo, 90% - 99% are doomed to damnation and hell, without any...

Be that all true, nevertheless it remains an awful, and eternal, tragedy that so many people are lost. No one could argue otherwise.

Thanks for the response, JTF. I must admit that I still harbor doubts about what elicited all those experiences. I guess it completely just blows me away that the God of all the universe(s) would actually communicate with me at all. I need to be very careful that it's indeed from Him, and...

Yup, that too. "It is within God that we live and have our being." And God is, of course, limitless.

I see your point Bruce. Guess we'll all have to wait to get the full picture, it's all in Gods hands, and He always does right. Bottom line.

Maybe I should have been clearer about what I said, of course faith is not a product of our physical brain. God gave us our physical brain for the things of this physical world, but he also gives us faith ( a kind of spiritual analogy of our brain, perhaps?) for the things of the spirit...

Bruce - the people I was referring to are all people, including those which Calvinists would refer to as the un-elect. But you speak of all of them, it seems, as if they aren't yet ready for higher revelations pertaining to salvation. I'm speaking of presenting the gospel of Jesus to everyone...

Bruce Letter - So you're saying we should conceal the truth from people by telling everyone we present the gospel to that Jesus died in their place because he loves them, when the truth is, the great majority of those to whom we speak he really didn't die for at all, and, in reality, actually...

"Even denying the Lord THAT BOUGHT THEM." If the Lord bought these people, then they couldn't have been damned to hell from the beginning.