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    Is our final home going to be heaven or the new earth?

    The Bible mentions heaven as our destination when we die and God’s creation of the new earth. Are we going to stay in heaven when Jesus returns, or are we going to live on the new earth forever? What do you think the Bible teaches?
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    I believe that Genesis 1 & 2 are literal, not metaphorical. Why? Because the rest of Scripture affirms the fact that God has created everything and everyone. However, how he creates humanity and the universe is open to discussion. Scientific FACT, not theories like evolution, can help us gain...
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    I agree with your main premise that we must reason to arrive at true doctrine, @VeritatisVerba, but I want an example of a doctrine that may have "internal inconsistencies" for more specific discussion. What I find in pastors and churches that have strayed from the truth as well as the cults is...
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    You're right, @VeritatisVerba, that reason is involved in interpretation. However, it makes a huge difference whether or not you add ideas and assumptions outside of Scripture to the passages that you're trying to interpret. I grew up in a church that didn't preach the gospel and that was...
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    you are suppoused to be reserved :) for that one connection :)

    Your experience reminds me, @Edward 429451, of Joseph's escape that God guided him to make from Potiphar's wife!
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    Those truths that I mention are the Bible's assumptions about God and his universe, @VeritatisVerba. In my interpretation of Scripture, I use its own assumptions to interpret it, because it is God's inspired Word.
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    Be aware of incubus and succubus they are the most rotten

    @Holy999, I don't know what you're trying to say. Tell us what point you're making. For example, what are incubus and succubus, apparently Latin terms, for us non-Latin scholars?
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    Thoughts about Ryne Sandberg's death

    I was saddened to hear about Ryne (Ryno) Sandberg’s death. He, of course, was the great second baseman of the Chicago Cubs, my favorite team. My favorite memory happened this way. It was my 50th birthday and Ryne’s 33rd on September 18, 1992. I attended a Cubs-Cardinals game in Wrigley Field...
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    You say, @VeritatisVerba, "I can't think of any assumptions that anyone needs to hold to." I say that the Bible assumes that God created the whole universe and you and me, that humanity rebelled against our Creator and has ever since Adam and Eve did, that Jesus is fully divine and fully human...
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    When The penny drops.

    @jswauto, you didn't mention that the Mormons reject the doctrine of the Trinity in the sense that they don't believe that the three Persons of God are one God. They also believe that we can become gods too as good Mormons and that the Father has a human body and lives on a planet in outer...
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    Beware of pragmatism and rationalism!

    @Frankj, I believe that all of life is religious in the sense that we rely on ourselves, other people, some false god, or the true God of the Bible for meaning in life. My father was a secular pragmatist who didn't go to church, because he relied on his own ability to experience life and learn...
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    Narrow is the way of life and few find it

    @VeritatisVerba, most Christian denominations agree on the basic beliefs of the Christian faith, as being biblical. It's on the minor doctrines that we get hung up. I was christened as a Methodist baby; grew up in a nondenominational, liberal/neoorthodox church that didn't preach the gospel...
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    @VeritatisVerba, my idea is that our reason has to be filled with God's reasoning fully informed by the Bible's teachings and history, if we are going to interpret it well. It's the Bible's assumptions that must inform our reasoning, not our assumptions about what it says. That's all I'm saying...
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    Confession of sins

    @jswauto, I assume that David was already saved when he wrote that Psalm, because God calls him a man after his own heart, but he sinned greatly when he committed adultery and murder. Here, he is praying the way I mention, for God's cleansing power, as God has already declared him not guilty...
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    @jswauto, we can agree that God pursues us like the shepherd does for his one sheep out of his 100, but I object categorically to the word "reckless" in describing God and his love. That word has negative connotation that should never be associated with God. Dictionary.com defines the word...
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    Confession of sins

    @jswauto, after years of studying that passage and others, I have come to the conclusion that the "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" is a whole lifetime of rebellion against his influence and truth so that, at some point, God says, "Have it your own way" and lets the person remain in his sinful...
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    @VeritatisVerba, for me, the objective test is the Bible itself in its whole context. Of course, every decision about pastors must be bathed with persistent prayer for God's gift of wisdom to discern his will.
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    Beware of pragmatism and rationalism!

    Yes, @jswauto, human pride often gets in the way of true beliefs, because people want their reasoning and experience always to be true and right instead of being willing to be taught how we can improve our thinking and feeling. That's why God commands us through James, Jas 4:7 Submit...
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    @VeritatisVerba, respectfully, you're still trying to define and interpret the Bible by what it doesn't say and what people at that time thought it meant. God inspired the prophets and apostles to write the whole Bible. Therefore, we must go by the ways those inspired people used the words, yes...
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