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I'm sure you know the story of the blind men and the elephant, I'm wondering what part of it you are touching or if you are not touching it at all while thinking you are.

Because that is what Christianity is about? Without salvation there is no purpose to Christianity and no reason for anyone to be Christian. Why do you want to be one?

The subject of your post was Regeneration and Baptism and the rest was how you viewed it. I'm referring to pretty much everything you said in your post and how you came to believe it in that manner.

I don't know how to be more direct. I'm asking if this is your opinion or if there are actual scriptures saying this supporting it that make it something more than just a personal opinion. I don't discount opinions, but I like to know how someone arrived at them so I can consider it in that light.

Are you expressing an opinion here or is there an actual scriptural basis behind it?

How do you understand the concept of predestination?

I would this would be fundamental to consider since if we don't have the freedom to choose God or Hell there isn't any purpose to Christianity as it has been since the beginning. Why evangelize and baptize the nations if everything is already pre determined and there is no free will choice...

The more progress I seem to make only serves to make me aware of how little progress I've actually made. Sort of like peeling an onion, you take a layer off while crying a lot only to find that when it is off you have something that looks the same but a tiny bit smaller.

Actually anything you make to use or for other people (users) to use instead of buying it. Wood, metal, plastics, ceramics, etc and the various skills and tools you have to accomplish it.

No I'm not of that belief, I may not have stated it well enough but I'm emphasizing you have to do several things to the extent of your abilities using everything you can muster to do it while trusting in the Lord to supply the rest after you fall short of being able to do it by yourself. What...

Just curious, are there any other Makers here? If so, it would be interesting to know what you make and the tools and techniques you use.

You make a lot of assumptions, and I think they are working against you.

Yes. It comes at a price. In the final analysis, it's about the power of Desire and how to use it for your own purposes.

No, God can set you free by showing you the truth of yourself if you ask him to, and as Jesus said the truth will set you free once you know it. It's very difficult to face the truth about yourself, and it's a lifetime effort to do it. Most people, whether they admit it or not, really don't...

You seem quite judgmental here, is there some reason for that? FWIW, I don't claim anything for anybody else, I just try to give suggestions that I know have worked in my own life that you might be able to use in yours if you find any value in them, anything you have not actually tried yet...

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.

Seeking and knocking does not mean it will require little effort on your part, in fact it usually means the opposite and requires your full dedication and the maximum effort you can muster (God supplies the rest after you have given it all you capable of). For some reason almost everyone...

Either you missed the point, don't understand the teaching, or you are discounting the truth of what Jesus taught. If you want to pray effectively, you have to do the things Jesus taught us to do, and they do not fall within the currently popular 'name it and claim it' view of Christian thought.

Consider writing it as a book first, it it goes over well it would become a basis for seeking help in making it as a movie. Also, if it has to be that long consider producing it as an original movie in a shorter form first with the rest as being done as a sequel or sequels to it.

When you pray to God for relief, what are you actually praying for? Too often when we pray for change and don't find it we are actually praying for the problems we are having to be taken away without actually wanting to become something different that doesn't create the problem in the first...