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  1. FredVB

    multiple site churches

    I am at a church that has satellite churches. It is with the perspective of the Christianity known to them going out in new churches. This church is not a denominational church, though it had been Baptist by name not long ago. Denominations have that same thing with advantage of the denomination...
  2. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    Sure, faith we have is a gift, I have not said otherwise anywhere. We could not continue with faith, which we do, otherwise. Scriptures show this. Scriptures also show, which I would not disagree with, that we would respond, as we are called to do. All are commanded to repent, yet certainly, not...
  3. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    This need of having our food from life does not necessitate the suffering of other life to get that, though many make choices for that with contribution to demand that has that go on, and on. The healthier way by far for us, the way that is more sustainable than otherwise, the way with less...
  4. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    I also think there are too many people who won't consider truth outside of their own comfort zones. Atheists are that way with not wanting to really consider God. Believers are often that way, for instance not wanting to consider what is known from science. They already know some things known...
  5. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    God does tell us to have love, compassion, mercy, and grace, all these God has abundantly without limiting it, and it is modeled for us, Jesus came and showed the way. There is reason these virtues are called fruit of the Spirit. The unrepentant perish, not growing to show these. Many believers...
  6. FredVB

    The Secret Blog of iBot

    This is rather like characters looking for who is playing God posting messages and friend suggestions on God Friended Me.
  7. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    I see, but that is actually misrepresenting what response to God's work is. Faith, though enabled by God, is needed from us. Faith is not the work this misrepresentation shows that it is. Faith is contrasted with works in the Bible. And God does tell us, and people generally, to choose. That is...
  8. FredVB

    Why I'm Pro-Life

    First of all, I am pro-life in my approach. I still would say that what is really needed for any change being possible for more protection to life, before and after birth, is a number of systems in place, for more care of children universally and for adoption made much more possible, for those...
  9. FredVB

    The Apocrypha: Does it belong in the Bible?

    Certainly we are free to choose what we prefer. I wouldn't take that away from you, or anyone. But for argument about which is preferable, to others, I would state that I disagree that the Masoretic text is inferior as a creation of nonchristian Jews who were post-Apostolic. The writers, who...
  10. FredVB

    What is the time of Jacob’s trouble?

    Do you really not yet see yet how contagious the pandemic is, and that people die from it and there is no cure? It is not just a cold, if it reaches me, which I really try to avoid, it would surely kill me. Not all people have the same constitution, but you should not want to be contagious with...
  11. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    God's role is everything except for our response of truly repentant faith, that necessarily must come from us, that Jesus Christ is our Lord, who we listen to, and follow obediently. Those of us who respond like this are sealed and have security of everlasting life, in Christ, being restored to God.
  12. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    With the current issue so pervasive out there now, people with serious vulnerability, as I with the diagnosed issue I have to my lungs, should avoid being in places where we would be exposed to the spreading contagion. Places of work would really be jeopardizing the health and very possibly the...
  13. FredVB

    What is one theology you feel is counterproductive?

    Some debate of theology can easily be wasteful, of effort or time, or helpfulness. But there are surely serious issues for which right doctrine is important and should be discussed among those who disagree on it. I can think some theologies that are held among certain others would be...
  14. FredVB

    How has church changed for you since this pandemic started?

    It changed things for me, with no in person services for the last few Sundays. My church was a Baptist church when I started there, it has more recently taken a new name and dropped all reference to being Baptist. There are other issues with churches. Even though there are online services, I...
  15. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    If one IS saved, one IS always saved, and always will be. Otherwise being saved doesn't mean anything at all. Being saved is being secure in Christ, no one can grasp us out of God's hand, we are assured of eternal life already, the eternal life is an existing thing, it never stops existing, so...
  16. FredVB

    Red Letter Christians

    Jesus is the Word of God, so, Jesus is the Authority of God. All the Bible scriptures are inspired by God, they were written by the chosen men who were inspired to communicate what was truly from God, those as written are not then in error, though minor error has been found in copies made, and...
  17. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    You have said it according to what I saw for myself. Eternal security is being always saved when already once saved. They are the same thing, to say otherwise is meaningless distinction for it. You use the term Law like have not seen others use it. 2 Peter 3:9 shows Yahweh God is not willing...
  18. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    God is good, and because God is good, God is just, God is loving, God is caring, God is merciful, and God is gracious. All that God is, is without limit. God is never unfair. But what you believe is not fair. God has basis, and God says in revelation what is needed from us..
  19. FredVB

    Christian web directory

    It is still an English language site, right? I hope that will have success for Christian believers to have communication in fellowship there. I use Christian sites I have started, and a group I have started, for such communication, it is not easy to have them grow for that.
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