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The IQ test is not a skill test, it is a measure of ones potential ability to learn and apply knowledge and succeed academically. It does not measure emotional or personality capabilities.

Oh, he absolutely knows who is his. He is the one who owns and directs people to the wide road and knows exactly who is on it. Are you certain you are not among them? Few Christians ever seem to really ask themselves that question even though Jesus warned us that most will be on it and only a...

What you are talking about is where people have actually put their faith. Jesus talked directly of what we are like when and what we can do when we put out faith where it belongs, in God instead of in the world and its ways, and his life was testimony to such. Miracles today are rare not...

It's the nature of the human thought process to compare new experiences to to past experiences and understand them in terms of how we understood them at the time. This is why we do things like see images in the clouds and such, we are bringing forth the closest past memory that they compare to...

Faith is human nature, it is what allows us to live a conscious life that requires us to decide on our course of action. Without faith in something we have to live by instinct and guesswork, and that does not lead to a workable life. But we choose what we put out faith in, and faith in God can...

Well the last Pope came dangerously close to actually doing that without outright coming out and directly saying it. I find him to have been leaning a direction that was more Unitarian than true Christian. I've seen many pastors of today's churches do similar, some even to the point of not...

YouTube is a wonderful resource for this sort of thing.

You seem to have a recurrent theme of going to a different place where you fear you will be unwelcome or simply not accepted for yourself. Are you planning or contemplating a move or making some other major life change? Dreams are often expressions of our unconscious fears and anxieties, ones...

A Shakespearian warning: "To thine own self be true". Always stand on your own beliefs and don't alter them to please others. Is this something you are finding yourself facing in your life or some aspect of it? Just my thoughts.

This brings to mind the question of if Satan had not sinned would Adam have sinned? In light of this might it not be considered that Adams sin is really an extension of Satan's sin and under his direction?

On whose terms is happy and sane decided? We live in a fallen world where Man has decided to decide on those terms himself in contravention to the ones God originally decided for us. And no one really seems to be willing to go back to it, always wanting to redecide what God's terms are for...

Justice in the eyes of man is not the same as justice in the eyes of God. I think that far too often we find ourselves trying to judge God by our standards without ever considering what standards he uses to judge us. This can be a very overt thing (Why did God allow this!) or it can be a very...

I don't play those games.

The final battle, the alliances involved that are forming that would fulfill the ones described in it.

Look at it terms of prophetic fulfillment, although I really hate wars and especially hate our involvement in other peoples wars, I do recognize that these things are necessary for the fulfillment of prophecy or set the stage for the events that will fulfill them. See it as one more step in the...

So many there have died, both Russian and Ukrainian, yet Putin, Zelensky and the other world leaders behind it are safe and sound, unharmed and prospering.

To me, tough love is saying to someone caught up in a self destructive life 'I will do all I can to help you change, but I will not help you stay the same'. But this does not mean we give up on people easily because God does not give up on us easily.

I've heard arguments both ways, but I always ask myself why would God make a new earth if it was not to live in? As for me, I imaging I'll find out when I get there.

Isn't that something usually called lust?

Yeah, that's something to consider. One taken up by a whirlwind and the other simply just sort of disappearing as he walked with God. Neither of them is referred to anywhere as having died (as far as I know). Some speculate about them becoming the two witnesses of the end time because of this.