I was just recently told that it is pride to question God.What they really meant was it was prideful to question the Bible.HmmmHey Marty, will I come into destruction and fall because I question the bible? What do you think?Am I stinking with pride? Can you smell me from where your sitting? Really, friends tell eachother these things.

Bro 94,Murder is murder.Taking another life even for eye-for-an-eye is still murder.Justified murder?Sanctified murder?Are these acceptable?

Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Feb. 25 2009,12:00)You know that I will have a valid scriptural response to everything you said, don't you?Like I said, chips and dip!

Ooooooo.On that note, I'm going to get ready to receive my children from the bus.Tim, I just don't think we can ever go back to blindly believing it all…..even if we wanted to.Have a good evening, bro.Love,Mandy

Exactly!Just like my neice who is a baptized Christian – loves the Lord – goes to church – so on and so forth……she's convinced that, “The Lord told me it was okay to divorce my husband.”. Oh, she'll fight that to the death and no one can tell her different. Why? BECAUSE THE LORD TOLD HER!Hmmmmm.What about the written word that says God…[Read more]

Hi Keith,I really have to say that when it comes to debating you, I feel like I am bringing chips and dip to the conversation instead of meat. You are so thoroughly convinced of the Trinity of God, that I dare say nothing will move you. Yet, I see holes in the belief system. Big enough holes that caused me to think, “Hmmmm. What is wrong…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Feb. 25 2009,03:57)Mandy……….Some times i feel i am without excuse , i should have done more in serving God and Jesus then i Have , It troubles me to think that Jesus said when the son of Man comes will he find Faith on the earth. Because of all the things done for me in my life , it truely troubles me, I have not walked…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Feb. 25 2009,08:04)Philippians 4:8Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these thingsLove this!Thank you,Mandy

Hi Tim,You're trying to make sense of something that is nonesense! No matter what Nick's clever response, the facts are the facts. This seems to be what you and I are having a hard time reconciling…..

Thinker,Thanks for your post.Yes, we hurt one another. Why? Because we think we hold the TRUTH and another brother in the Lord does not. Why do we think we are the only ones to hold TRUTH? Do we not believe all believer's have the Spirit guiding them? Of course they do – right? So, why all these different brands of TRUTH?Truth be told -…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Feb. 25 2009,03:17)I have in my life received many request from GOD many times. But remember to whom much is given much is required, if little is given little is required.Pweh!Well, I may not have received from God what I have been begging/praying/pleading for….but at least little will be required of me. At least I have that.…[Read more]

Hi again,Quote The Spirit leads us into all truth.No.  The “Spirit” leads men into different truths.  Each man has been told-by-the-Spirit of God something (fill in the blank), and this something is opposing another man who has been told-by-the-Spirit of God.  HmmmQuote If you expect all to resign and say that no one can know, then you are as…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Feb. 24 2009,19:24)Mandy, I am going to create a discussion about pride, if it doesn't already exist. We can then leave this one for debate on the Trinity doctrine.Sure, t8, whatever you wish.Most threads get tangled with pride.  One Christian telling another Christiain what the bible really says.  One Christian telling another C…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Feb. 24 2009,17:48)Hi not3, Has God presented many forms of doctrinal truth?Or men?Did God write the bible through willing, imperfect man?The bible can be, and is the source of “truth” for many different religions. All deducing a different God from it's pages.

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Feb. 24 2009,17:50)Hi not3, Is God tolerant of the myriad adaptations of truth?Should we accept them all? Are there no standards?I hear what you're saying, Nick.But if the bible is so vague and open to so many interpretations, what choice do we have? I suppose you can cling to your version of the truth, but it would be only…[Read more]

Quote (TimothyVI @ Feb. 25 2009,01:42)I have a niece that wanted to make a trip to the Holy land a couple of years ago.I mean she really wanted to go. She didn’t have enough money for that kind of trip, but she wanted to go. So she prayed to God to tell her if she should borrow money to go.Of course God “told “ her that she should. There was no bo…[Read more]

David,Encouraging your brother is not nearly as popular as “rebuking” him. Maybe start a “Rebuking” thread! I bet it would be the most popular thread here!Yup, it's time for me to take a break. My attitude is definitely in the toliet. Sorry.Oh and by the way, I thought your post about quoting yourself was hysterical!Love,Mandy

Quote (thethinker @ Feb. 24 2009,12:39)Not3 said:Quote Right now I'm a little descouraged by most of what I've been reading here today.Why are you discouraged?thinkerMostly because some Christians believe that you have to agree with their personal doctrine as truth, OR you're not a Christian (to them). That thinking makes me nuts.Of course the…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Feb. 24 2009,11:17)Let me give you my two cents. I do not hear a voice when I post, but at other times I talk to God like I talk to any one of us. And the answers come in a spiritual way.  I write something and afterwards I think, I did not think that. It is like God is typing for me.  So I too wonder what is happening and I am v…[Read more]

Quote (kejonn @ Feb. 24 2009,13:02)Quote (Not3in1 @ Feb. 23 2009,14:24)I can tell you this, since I stopped talking to God……I don't hear him anymore.  Curious, isn't it?I'm not opposed to hearing from God, quite the opposite.  I'm not on some rebelion or anything.  It's just that since I stopped being the active one to talk to God, I've no…[Read more]