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@Marston, I'm a recovering chocoholic! :) For a long time, I prayed that the Father would replace my impulsiveness in eating chocolate with the fruit of the Spirit self-control through Jesus' death and resurrection power. He did more than I asked for. He took away all my desire for food other...
First, @Edward429451, believers are "in Christ," that is, connected with him, who is the Head of his body, the church.
Second, Jesus says in John 15, that we are dependent on him for our spiritual nourishment, just as a vine's branches are on the vine.
Third, therefore, because Jesus' death...
@Truth Seeker, two distinctions have to be considered. The Father and the Son have equal STATUS as fully God, but they also have different ROLES or FUNCTION within the Trinity. For example, the Father is the SOURCE, Jesus is the AGENT, and the Holy Spirit is the DIRECT CAUSE of creation...
Angels are God's creations, so they don't need any explanations. There must be a good reason that God doesn't save everyone, but he has chosen not to reveal it to us.
All other "sons" and "daughters" of God are adopted children; Jesus is the only eternal Son of God from the past, present, and into the future. The KJV mistook two, almost-identical participles for each other by translating one "begotten," whereas the proper translation is "eternal" or "unique"...
One of those lies is that they are born that way. I think that they choose those lifestyles at points early in their lives when they can't now remember those decisions largely because of traumatic events.
The deputy served a warrant he had for crimes the medicine man had committed. He stood trial, but the historical record doesn't have anything to say about the medicine man after that. You have to understand that this happened in late-1800s eastern Oklahoma (lawless Indian Territory), and my...
By praying for it and noticing the medicine man's inner pocket that contained his conjur bag. He threw it into a nearby stream and immediately began to regain his strength.
I ran across a true, historical incident during which the historical deputy marshal of my book The Wild West's Best (Amazon) has an American Indian medicine man casting a spell on the deputy marshal and God's deliverance.
Exactly, @tango! To seek his kingdom as his subjects means to obey more and more the King's words and ways, that is, Jesus' commands, as he said we can by the Spirit's power through Jesus' resurrection (Colossians 3:1).
Joh 15:8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so...
I have experienced four kinds of answers to prayers that I have had in my 82 years of life: yes, no, not yet, and not the way you thought it would happen. After all, God is God, and we're not.
It may be clear to you, @Edward429451, because you have a certain mental framework which you fit everything into, but I don't see that it's that way. After all, we'll all find out when it happens.
I have read all of it, and I think that you are reading into verses 32 and following meaning that isn't there. All of the chapter combines Jesus' prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem and his one second coming.
These verses are inspired Paul's goals or commands for our Christian lives, @Manonfire63, toward which the Holy Spirit gives us power to pursue. However, we need to obey too in the power of Jesus' resurrection (Colossians 3:1).
There is no place in 1 Corinthians 15 where the rapture is described; you are reading the rapture into that chapter. It's not there; it's about our future bodily resurrection, not the rapture.