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In what passage did the Apostle Paul say that all brothers "should be saying the same thing"? I agree, by the way, that we need to stay close to God's Word alone.

The three-year ministry of Jesus would be only one year according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, because they mention only one Passover, but John shows Jesus attending three Passovers. Therefore, people have deduced that he had a three-year mission. My dim memory of seminary produces...

In Revelation 12, you say, "This can be taken to be a reference to Mary." It can also be taken more likely as the Old Testament people of God symbolized as the woman. Was Mary clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet with a crown of twelve stars when she gave birth to Jesus in that...

Brother Steven, 1) How do you know that the ones in heaven saw it directly or maybe they heard it from God? 2) It's obvious that it is a metaphor comparing symbolic bowls to prayers, which come up to God, not to the creatures. 3) Yeah, it's an angel, not Mary or the human saints with the prayers...

Very true, Frank!

Not only is God a God of love and grace, but he's also a divinely-just Judge of all humans. He allows, doesn't cause, Satan to bring floods and plagues to call unbelievers to trust in Jesus as the only way to his acceptance. If they don't during their whole lives, sadly, they have earned...

You have not explained your charge that makes such religion false. That's a drastic statement to make, since they seem to have a different emphasis on biblical truth from yours.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to live in any of the big cities on the West Coast. We lived on an island in the Puget Sound about 90 miles north of Seattle. I could have retired in Oak Harbor if any of my kids had decided to stay there, but they didn't. Oak Harbor gets half of the rain that Seattle gets...

@JustTheFacts, you seem to be so certain about which verses are from the false teachers and which weren't. I would be very careful if I were you what I declare is and is not the Word of God, who will call us all to account for all our declarations.

You are correct about the necessity to look to the Bible for our only source of the truth, but we also need to avoid false interpretations that our minds concoct and impose on the Bible texts.

If your mind and logic was at all involved apart from the Bible, you may have gone astray. We need to seek God's gift of humility instead of our own human pride, which is often very active, since we are sinful.

Your interpretation of a highly-symbolic book, Revelation, is fascinating, JustTheFacts, but you might be completely wrong. What makes you so sure that you are right? A little humility would say "I think" or "it seems to me" or "I believe that it means." Prophecy is very hard to interpret before...

So, where do you find in the Bible that saints and Mary hear your prayers? You refer to two living humans, Paul and Ananias. God could make it happen that dead saints hear people's prayers, but in what passage is it found? And please don't give me the silence of Scripture. If it doesn't say...

I wouldn't be so certain about your interpretation of the "day of the Lord," if I were you, SetFree. I lean toward one interpretation, but I'm also a "pan-millennialist"--it'll all pan out!! :)

God didn't want the people to have a king because: 1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 1Sa 8:8 According to all the deeds that they have done, from...

God didn't "reject himself." Humans rejected him beginning with Adam and Eve. Read Ephesians 2:1-10, if you have a good translation of it. Verses 1-3 describe our unbelieving life before we believe in God. Verses 4-9 say that God makes us alive through faith (trust only in Jesus as our way to...

#6 does not follow from the other statements, because God originally want Israel to have a king: 1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all...

What adds up is the rebellion against God that began with Adam and Eve, about which I assume you know. You're right that we aren't robots. God made us perfect when he created Adam and Eve in the beginning (Genesis 1 and 2), but all humanity rebelled against God when our first parents disobeyed...

Would the math say anything different if a "seven" were, say, 7,000 years, @JustTheFacts? I just give you an example of how people have gone astray in the past and predicted the time of the end, when they were wrong. How can you be absolutely sure that your visions were from God, not some other...

Yes, but I can't tell absolutely who is a real Christian and who isn't, because so many Christians that I've met have proved to be false believers.