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  1. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    Well you certainly get the support here, with likes, while I don't. I will still stand my ground. The issue is how you use language. If whatever we think or do, or even believe, is what works mentioned in the Bible mean, then our salvation has nothing to do with us, and you would be right, along...
  2. FredVB

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    His mother and brothers came, to call to him, Mark 3:31. You would say she happened to come with his cousins, or half-brothers, but not her own sons. It does not say anywhere that it was only through the betrothal that those were Jesus' brothers. It would be relevant where James in his epistle...
  3. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    I certainly do not say anything different from that. Why would you think that I did? Jesus did what is needed for our salvation. It is God's work. That does not take away our being responsive for that, which is what God is taking into account, as God takes everything into account for fair...
  4. FredVB

    multiple site churches

    It really should be the leadership of that church to answer, for them to speak for themselves. I don't excuse it. But it seemed to be their reasoning that people looking for a church to attend or visit would see a Baptist church as a negative thing, and not come to it. They actually argued...
  5. FredVB

    Should abortion be illegal?

    There is no way that any babies born these days are "nephilim". But there is nothing conclusive showing there were angelic beings procreating with women before the global flood, or since then. Sons of god mentioned in writing in the passages near to where nephilim are mentioned, before the...
  6. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    Yahweh who is God is sovereign, all-powerful and all-knowing. Also Yahweh is not willing that any would perish, but would have all come to repentance with which there is salvation in Christ, 2 Peter 3, and commands all people to come to repenting, Acts 17:30. They don't all, though, it is only...
  7. FredVB

    Could be a life saving

    I am thankfully still well. Now that there is going to be easing of restrictions, and more people will be going out again, the same virus pandemic is still around, and being vulnerable, I will sensibly try to still avoid being around any and not going out except for really needed things...
  8. FredVB

    multiple site churches

    I am at a church that has satellite churches. It is with the perspective of the Christianity known to them going out in new churches. This church is not a denominational church, though it had been Baptist by name not long ago. Denominations have that same thing with advantage of the denomination...
  9. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    Sure, faith we have is a gift, I have not said otherwise anywhere. We could not continue with faith, which we do, otherwise. Scriptures show this. Scriptures also show, which I would not disagree with, that we would respond, as we are called to do. All are commanded to repent, yet certainly, not...
  10. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    This need of having our food from life does not necessitate the suffering of other life to get that, though many make choices for that with contribution to demand that has that go on, and on. The healthier way by far for us, the way that is more sustainable than otherwise, the way with less...
  11. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    I also think there are too many people who won't consider truth outside of their own comfort zones. Atheists are that way with not wanting to really consider God. Believers are often that way, for instance not wanting to consider what is known from science. They already know some things known...
  12. FredVB

    What's on Your Mind?

    God does tell us to have love, compassion, mercy, and grace, all these God has abundantly without limiting it, and it is modeled for us, Jesus came and showed the way. There is reason these virtues are called fruit of the Spirit. The unrepentant perish, not growing to show these. Many believers...
  13. FredVB

    The Secret Blog of iBot

    This is rather like characters looking for who is playing God posting messages and friend suggestions on God Friended Me.
  14. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    I see, but that is actually misrepresenting what response to God's work is. Faith, though enabled by God, is needed from us. Faith is not the work this misrepresentation shows that it is. Faith is contrasted with works in the Bible. And God does tell us, and people generally, to choose. That is...
  15. FredVB

    Why I'm Pro-Life

    First of all, I am pro-life in my approach. I still would say that what is really needed for any change being possible for more protection to life, before and after birth, is a number of systems in place, for more care of children universally and for adoption made much more possible, for those...
  16. FredVB

    The Apocrypha: Does it belong in the Bible?

    Certainly we are free to choose what we prefer. I wouldn't take that away from you, or anyone. But for argument about which is preferable, to others, I would state that I disagree that the Masoretic text is inferior as a creation of nonchristian Jews who were post-Apostolic. The writers, who...
  17. FredVB

    What is the time of Jacob’s trouble?

    Do you really not yet see yet how contagious the pandemic is, and that people die from it and there is no cure? It is not just a cold, if it reaches me, which I really try to avoid, it would surely kill me. Not all people have the same constitution, but you should not want to be contagious with...
  18. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    God's role is everything except for our response of truly repentant faith, that necessarily must come from us, that Jesus Christ is our Lord, who we listen to, and follow obediently. Those of us who respond like this are sealed and have security of everlasting life, in Christ, being restored to God.
  19. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    With the current issue so pervasive out there now, people with serious vulnerability, as I with the diagnosed issue I have to my lungs, should avoid being in places where we would be exposed to the spreading contagion. Places of work would really be jeopardizing the health and very possibly the...
  20. FredVB

    What is one theology you feel is counterproductive?

    Some debate of theology can easily be wasteful, of effort or time, or helpfulness. But there are surely serious issues for which right doctrine is important and should be discussed among those who disagree on it. I can think some theologies that are held among certain others would be...
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