Quote (terraricca @ Feb. 05 2014,12:09)some people believe that GOD CREATED EVIL ;WELL BUT WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN ANY WAY wicked, trouble, harm, wrong, sick, bad, worthless, wickedness, ill, crimes, sore, loathsome, envious, wrongly, evildoer, malignant, cruelly, miserable, malice, wretched, man, great, destroyed, surely, disaster, broken,…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Feb. 04 2014,03:12)MartyQuote Isn't “if He knows where He is going” fore-knowledge?He intervenes in the affairs of man at specific points in time as the plan that He as for humanity progresses in each era to the coming of His Son in His ministry, and now, Jesus is the head of the church, and God responds to His and our prayers…[Read more]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Feb. 04 2014,02:18)Marty……….Man will always choose what is driving him, if it is  the Spirit of God then he will chose God will, if it is the flesh of Man it will always chose it's own way. Now consider this, Jesus said “no man “CAN” come unto me except the Father DRAW (drag) Him”. Also what the Apostle Paul said ,…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Feb. 02 2014,03:08)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Feb. 01 2014,20:14)Hi Marty,To me is seems self evident that God foreknows anything He wants to foreknow.There would be no such thing as a prophecy without foreknowledge of the future.  And we all know that the scriptures are loaded with prophesies.Pierre and Seeking Truth seem to think…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Feb. 02 2014,01:14)Hi Marty,To me is seems self evident that God foreknows anything He wants to foreknow.There would be no such thing as a prophecy without foreknowledge of the future.  And we all know that the scriptures are loaded with prophesies.Pierre and Seeking Truth seem to think God doesn't “foreknow” these things, but…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Feb. 01 2014,11:07)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 31 2014,15:04)Maybe, he is correcting you through me.  He used a donkey to speak to Balaam when he wouldn't listen………I always thought you were an ass, Marty.       Of course you know that was just a joke based on your wording.  You and I don't always agree on scriptural matt…[Read more]

Hi Pierre:When we are saved we respond to God with good works, in obedience to His Word, out of our gratitude for what He has done for us, and so, yes, faith without works is dead. But we are not saved by good works but because we believed what God has done for us in the person of Jesus Christ and when we believed we have come to Him with a…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 31 2014,06:55)MartyQuote , but his salvation is a gift from God.the grace of God is free but without deeds we do not have a grace ;read and understand the scripturesHi Pierre:This is what the bible states:Quote John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 31 2014,06:49)Marty1Cr 2:7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:1Cr 2:8Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.1Cr 2:9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 31 2014,06:32)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 30 2014,23:52)Hi Pierre:My Father is my teacher, He has said that He will lead me into all truths by His Spirit.Quote 1Cr 2:11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.1Cr 2:12Now we…[Read more]

Hi Wakeup:I'm still studying and learning just like you are brother none of us know it all.Love in Christ,Marty

Hi Pierre:My Father is my teacher, He has said that He will lead me into all truths by His Spirit.Quote 1Cr 2:11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.1Cr 2:12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;…[Read more]

Hi Pierre:The scripture does not say that Jesus “was created before all things”.  It states that “he is before all things”, and the scripture states that “he is the firstborn of every creature”, I understand this to mean that he is the “first man to be born of God”.  He is the only man to conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of a woman, and t…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 30 2014,04:18)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 29 2014,22:33)Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 29 2014,14:34)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 29 2014,05:27)Hi Pierre:Following is a dictionary definition of the word for-see, and have you heard of a synonym?Quote fore·see    Show IPA  verb (used with object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing.  1. to have…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 29 2014,14:34)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 29 2014,05:27)Hi Pierre:Following is a dictionary definition of the word for-see, and have you heard of a synonym?Quote fore·see    Show IPA  verb (used with object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing.  1. to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow. 2. to see beforehand. verb (us…[Read more]

Hi Pierre:Following is a dictionary definition of the word for-see, and have you heard of a synonym?Quote fore·see Show IPA verb (used with object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing. 1. to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow. 2. to see beforehand. verb (used without object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing. 3. to exercise…[Read more]

Pierre:If God has knowledge some event that will happen in the future, and He can tell you that it will happen at a precise moment in time, and it happens at that precise moment in time that is what is meant by “to forsee”.Please read the book of Daniel for some of the prophecies in that book such as those relative to Messiah coming in chapter 9,…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 27 2014,15:54)Mike /Martyplease read this Psalm very slowly ;Psalm 107 Ps 107:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Ps 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say this—those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, Ps 107:3 those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south. P…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Jan. 27 2014,15:09)Quote (942767 @ Jan. 27 2014,07:11)Hi Mike:I hope that you can get him to see the truth which is plainly stated by the scripture.  It does require someone one to interpret it.  He states clearly that “He declares (tells us) the end from the beginning.  I give up trying, and so, I hope that you, or someone el…[Read more]

Hi Mike:I hope that you can get him to see the truth which is plainly stated by the scripture. It does require someone one to interpret it. He states clearly that “He declares (tells us) the end from the beginning. I give up trying, and so, I hope that you, or someone else can help him.Love in Christ,Marty