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  1. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    God is good, and because God is good, God is just, God is loving, God is caring, God is merciful, and God is gracious. All that God is, is without limit. And God is fair. 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...
  2. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Being a Christian believer means there is to be a life that goes way beyond how others, including many of those generally known as Christian, live. Spiritual growth needs to go in that direction. We should become like Christ in our growth, he was modeling for us how we who are his followers are...
  3. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    There is faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Love is greater than faith and it is greater than hope. This love mentioned is not the feelings often referred to as love, it is the caring and compassion, just as that is in the love from God. With essential faith that any are...
  4. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Leviticus 19:18 "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh." 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a...
  5. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    We would limit love and other fruits of the Spirit even with just making exceptions, but it is not from God's will for us. Exceptions we make will be arbitrary, and so more exceptions would be made, and love and fruits of the Spirit generally will not grow further. Jesus Christ did not mean for...
  6. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    There is room always for more love, yet there is also more room for selfish choices, hate, compromise, and sin, and with our nature it is easy to neglect love.
  7. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Indeed without loving others we are lacking in loving God. Love is neglected often when it should not be. Jesus Christ provides the only way for reconciliation with God with salvation. Being peacemakers was important in the message from Jesus, along with acting with love and compassion and...
  8. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Love without reference to God will tend to fall very short. Atheists are at a disadvantage in that very thing. And we can be so sure of what God is like through Jesus Christ, who reveals enough for that. The Creator cares for all in the creation, as is shown of the beginning, God is not limited...
  9. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Can it be that fright is a good thing if it's applied judiciously? Is it just as wise to be afraid of God as it is wise to be afraid of cactus spines, a mule's kick, or a forest fire? If we live in fear, we do not do anything other than how we live that avoids risking what we fear. Fear is not...
  10. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    God is our example, as Jesus had said, "Be then perfect, as (for) your Father in Heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) God is not limiting love and caring for God's creatures, Jesus also is showing that in the incarnation he is called the Son of God, so that the heavenly Father would be known as...
  11. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Lacking tolerance of other people is such lack of love. We can speak of the gospel, and repentance from sin, but it is not a witness to others without love shown. Jesus is the example to us for that. We will not find others just like us, and that is not the point.
  12. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Modern Christians, even though love is brought up in their communication, are generally showing a lack of that and other qualities Christian believers are to grow in, that they, as imitators of God, walk in love, as Christ showed his love, Ephesians 5:1-2, along with having joy, peace...
  13. FredVB

    JOHN 7:1 JESUS HAD BROTHERS

    The thing is that I, and I believe others, are not just bringing up that Mary did have other children. It is an expected response when they hear it declared that Mary did not have children after Jesus and was remaining a virgin perpetually through her marriage, which is part of the mariology...
  14. FredVB

    Is Obedience a Condition of Salvation?

    We are not saved in Christ from being obedient, humanity is all fallen and lost from disobedience in rebellion to God. So with being saved in Christ we should be brought to obedience, being delivered from living disobediently. Is blood all already removed from meat you have?
  15. FredVB

    How often do you get your haircut?

    I do not get haircuts. I just trim it as far as I can manage, trying to even it out, I still have it longer now. I guess I am just a bit more natural with not being as dependent as before, of course really needing God through everything.
  16. FredVB

    What surgeries have you had?

    I am glad I have not had surgery, other than oral, if that counts. I had a fracture once, but even that did not call for surgery. I see there is blessing here to me.
  17. FredVB

    Should people who rip books out of the Bible burn in Hell?

    I prefer to speak for myself. While the actual gospel of salvation is essential, the whole Bible is not that. People can be saved and do get saved without the Bible. But the Bible is important as basis. It is the gospel that Jesus is our savior and we need to have our trust in him for that.
  18. FredVB

    Should people who rip books out of the Bible burn in Hell?

    Ripping out the message of the gospel of Christ or a part of it, as any part of the gospel message is essential, would have one not be saved, and such a one would perish.
  19. FredVB

    Would you buy Hitler's art?

    Of course, it is about art, on its own. Hitler should still not be excused. There were some others about as evil, but he was not anything close to being average, his evil was not in check. He deliberately was killing off as many people he did not approve of as he could.
  20. FredVB

    Should people who rip books out of the Bible burn in Hell?

    I don't say that. If Christ is refused people suffer for their sins.
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