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  1. FredVB

    If paedobaptism were taught...

    Yet repent and be baptized do need to come together. Baptism without repentance already is an empty gesture. It isn't known that repentance will come later. In fact, that is the thing with repentance, it is never known if repentance will come later. Some who get baptized live thereafter without...
  2. FredVB

    The Soul Survives Death

    The lake of fire depicted in the Bible is Gehenna, it is a permanent destination for souls that were never truly repentant, where the devil and his direct servants would have already been cast. Hades mentioned in the Bible is often shown as hell in translations, it is not a permanent destination...
  3. FredVB

    The Soul Survives Death

    First, I am not arguing against seeing that souls do continue. Immortality is never a word used for souls in passages of the Bible. It is a conceivable characteristic of living. But living is a physical quality. We and all living animals are not the only living ones, there are fungi living...
  4. FredVB

    The Soul Survives Death

    Major textual differences are something I would consider worth looking at. Minor differences are like spelling differences, not differences in meaning, so I wouldn't care about such. The Septuagint, itself a translation, and the Masoretic, should both be thoroughly checked, by those with...
  5. FredVB

    "America" is now offensive to N and S America

    So some of you are offended. Well boohoo. I don't see why I should care if others are offended, if I do offend others it is not from me seeking to offend others. But I am sure no one has rights to not be offended, and people use their easily being offended to push their agenda with others. But...
  6. FredVB

    The Soul Survives Death

    I don't refer to souls as immortal souls, it isn't a biblical phrase. Immortality is from Yahweh. When anyone dies, death can cut off the soul. In the Bible, the soul can suffer in a righteous sentence. The soul in Christ does not have to face that, as there was repentance and Christ bore the...
  7. FredVB

    OT post flood genealogy off a tad according to original hebrew text

    I started off being Catholic with my father's remarriage when I was growing up, before I learned the gospel of the Bible and became a believer with the Bible for basis. I still thought the Bible was to be trusted before as a Catholic, though I heard hardly any direct teaching from Bible...
  8. FredVB

    The distinct persons of the Trinity

    With scriptures there are for it, there is certainty that God is one Being. This is the Supreme Being, just one being. The heavenly Father, Jesus Christ the incarnation of Logos the Word with God who is God, and the holy Spirit of God the Paraclete are each this one being God, Yahweh. Scriptures...
  9. FredVB

    If paedobaptism were taught...

    Why is there baptism, what is it for? If babies are not shown being baptized in the Bible, who are the ones being baptized? I see those who repent, those who come to faith, those who come to Christ. Jesus Christ said to go make disciples from all the nations, "teaching them to observe all things...
  10. FredVB

    Are babies sinners?

    If there is belief in what the Bible says of this, it would not be questioned, which may be happening still, in sin we were conceived. That does not mean the sex of the parents from which we were conceived was necessarily sinful, we inherit the universal sin nature. Our babies have that, even...
  11. FredVB

    2019 Health Talk Thread

    What I posted above with the quote from doctors who have saved lives with this, including one who did that for himself, is so healthy, and it was certainly in God's design for us, that it would be right for anyone, and much better for any to come to, they really should, and it doesn't make sense...
  12. FredVB

    PERFECT LOVE

    None of us in this world are in the position to say we love perfectly. God loves all his creatures. It would be right if we do so. But God has no limit to loving. We limit our love. Would you do the same with love to any that you meet, as any other in your life? And most among us generally, if...
  13. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    That Abram only went as far as Haran until God talked with him and showed him where to go was not disobedience of Abram, as he could only go where Yahweh God showed him to go, which he did obey. He could not know where it was that God would show him. And God would not show him to cross the wide...
  14. FredVB

    Pelosi not for impeachment, saying Trump isn't worth it

    The Russian meddling in the presidential election, which was basis for Trump saying lock her up, to diminish support for Hillary in the election, when there is further reason to see his collusion, and blocking fair investigation, is basis for impeachment. That he is self-serving, with benefiting...
  15. FredVB

    Sharing statements on Christian theology

    I looked at Galatians 5 (not at all the first time, I am not at all a new believer, and if your way of communicating really shows your age I have been reading the Bible around as long as you have been around, so I have looked at it many times). From that it is known that being circumcised as a...
  16. FredVB

    Your beloved pets

    During a couple of periods in my life I had a pet dog, each time I was caring a lot for my pet. It hurt so much to lose the pet I cared for. But I know that God, who is love, cares for the creatures of God's creation far more than I or others would. As prophecies show, animals will live unharmed...
  17. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    Abraham was an amazing man of faith, an example to us. He knew there was the one God, revealed in previous generations, still forsaken by others everywhere, for gods and beliefs others came up with. When he heard God, he responded obediently every time, which we generally don't do, even ones...
  18. FredVB

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    That Hank Hanegraaff turned to Eastern Orthodox Christian faith means though that he has come to believe this faith in the presence of Jesus Christ in the bread wafers at that time. When I listened to him long ago, before this change was announced, I never heard him discuss that. But far earlier...
  19. FredVB

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    Hank Hanegraaff is well known for his dealing with cults, and heresies among Christians. I don't just agree with things that are distinct in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. But being in that is not contrary to anything essential in Christianity, as far as I know. Hank Hanegraaff did not have to...
  20. FredVB

    2019 Health Talk Thread

    Diet sodas including Diet Coke are known now to not help weight loss and even hinder it, besides being unhealthy. The one real reason for losing weight that there should be is losing weight in becoming healthier. But diet fads are not healthy, just lifelong healthy lifestyle will be good for...
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