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Amen, Edward429451! That's true to the Holy Spirit's work in my experience too!

However, in those passages he wasn't talking about his literal body either, was he @Lamb?

Yes, God does teach us through experience in the light of his Word as Christians, doesn't he, @Edward429451?

A very good method, @Edward 429451. Another way I've found to be very satisfying is to read the whole Bible all the way through a couple chapters a day so that after a few times we can get a sense of the whole of Scripture and can relate different parts to each other for good interpretation.

You're right, @Edward429451, that in the Old Testament, a remnant or minority of the people had the Holy Spirit operating faith in them (Hebrews 11), but the emphasis of the history is not on personal faith but on the history to prove a spiritual point by the prophets who were inspired to write...

Very true, @Lamb! Sin is self-centeredness that often comes out in our actions from our sinful natures.

Isa 55:6 “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; Isa 55:7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isa 55:8 For my thoughts...

That is an answer to your prayer-thoughts, it seems to me, @Edward429451! If you are interested in many more answers to prayer in my life, see the book What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography [Amazon].)

I'll put you on my prayer list, @grumix8!

What I object to is the philosophy of pragmatism, which relies on human experience to guide a person's life, the idea that led my dad for most of his life without God. (See the book The Wild West's Best [Amazon] for a Christian's life in finding victory over pragmatism.) Yes, Jesus'...

So, @Edward429451, has God given you the gift of singleness too?

I had all the shots for COVID, and God protected me too. He uses medical means sometimes and nothing but prayer other times, I think, @Edward429451.

I love everyone, @Holy999, but in different ways, most of them as God's created humans.

Sure, I would, @Edward429451. You've gotten me interested! How did you come to know that he was an angel?

In all the churches I know about, they use grape juice instead of wine just for those who might have trouble with even a little bit of alcohol. I don't believe that God literally transforms the grape juice into Jesus' blood. He was speaking figuratively about spiritual reality in John 6, just as...

I've read the Bible all the way through many times during my almost-83 years, and God keeps using it in my life. I'm thankful!!

I believe that the Scriptures present the fact that God created us both completely dependent on him as our Creator AND relatively independent of him to make our own choices.

I'm not "hunting" any women, @Holy999!

I used to be a slave in servitude to my good works until God made me his adopted son in the present and to be completed in the future when Jesus returns, according to the Apostle Paul: Rom_8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the...

Whose experience and authority are you referring to, @Holy999?