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How did that difference make you feel, @Frankj?

What girl are you going with, @Holy999?

Yes, and as the only true God of justice, he must punish sinful rebellion in his creation. For believers, he punished his own perfect Son in our place. Why? I don't know, because not one of us deserves it. Always remember that he is the perfect God of justice as the perfect Judge of unrepentant...

@Marston, I don't have time to watch the video, since God has given me a writing ministry in my retirement from church ministry to occupy most of my time. However, the headline is interesting, "History Proves...." It doesn't sound as though the Bible is central to Shade's ideas but that history...

And an "employer" doesn't need to be a paying one, @Edward429451. After all, our real Employer is Jesus, who gives us his gifts of grace and love freely.

@Holy999, I have a question, who or what is "shockofgod"? That sounds like a very irrational reaction. Why would someone get mad at an unreal myth and then blame God and Jesus for Santa's unreality? Anyway, my parents played up the Santa myth every Christmas; it was the only thing that I...

@Frankj, the gospels have many examples during which Jesus breaks down many barriers that the separatist Pharisees have put up. He eats with "tax collectors and sinners," a practice strictly forbidden by the separatists. I accept the people you talk about as people but not as practicing sinners...

When I was a pastor, God gave me the spiritual gifts of preaching and teaching God's Word; but in retirement he switched gears to give me his gift of creativity through writing, because in my time of rebelling against his call to the ministry, he led me into teaching English.

So, have the works of the devil been completely removed, @Marston? They have in principle at the cross but not in practice in believers' and unbelievers' lives yet. That final accomplishment has yet to happen. In quoting 1 John 3:8, you assume that those works are completely finished. Yes, Jesus...

@Marston, I respect your beliefs, but it is Revelation 21, and the context is always crucial in interpreting any verse. Go to Revelation 21:1-6. The first verses tell you what things are new, the new earth, heavens, and Jerusalem, not every human: Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new...

So, you believe in Purgatory, @Marston? There is nothing in Scripture to support that belief. Respectfully, you seem to be reading meaning into the lake of fire that isn't really there because of your previous assumptions.

@Frankj, talking with people with sinful lifestyles doesn't necessarily lead us to become like them. If we aren't praying and engaged with the Word of God, we had better stay away from them. Just invite them to come to our church. Prayer must bathe each and every relationship with knowledge of...

@Marston, please read Ephesians 1:1-14 a few times and tell me whether or not "all" means every human and thing in the universe. It doesn't, because Paul addresses just the believers at Ephesus and describes our future inheritance of the new universe, which God plans before he creates anything...

Our traditions must always be measured and changed by the Word of God. "We've always done it that way" must not be our measuring stick, but the Bible's principles must be.

What do you think about these five basics for the Christian faith, following the Bible's history compared to a cruise ship's voyage toward disaster like that of the Titanic? LAUNCHED--God create humans. LOST--Humans rebel against God. LOVED--Jesus, the God-man, died and rose again to open the...

That's where Paul's phrase in Ephesians 4, "speaking the truth in love," comes in, @Frankj. Praying to God is the key, not saying what you quoted, of course. If we are always going to be separate from every person with a sinful lifestyle, we can't really be a loving influence in their lives to...

@Edward429451, perhaps you can pray persistently for God to give you important things to do in retirement. He gave me a writing career after I was an English teacher and then a pastor. It could be volunteering at some food bank or at a nonprofit store. I don't know, but I know that it's...

We'll all find out how God will fulfill it; I'm very willing to wait until then instead of discussing it much.

@Holy999, the human race has been hurt most of all by ignoring or rejecting their Creator: Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is...