Hey worshippingJesus,I do not believe in the trinity doctrine mainly because of the belief that all three are co-equal.Jesus talked himself hoarse telling everyone that his Father was greater than He.I am vey happy to see you back though. I missed your thought provoking posts and admire your dedication to your personal beliefs, even if they differ…[Read more]

Hi Nick,I'm sorry, I thought that it was your belief that only the ones that accepted the invitation, the believers, were saved.The non believers were condemned.tim

“1. Do you believe Jesus Christ isA. A part of a Triune GodB. Fully Human (Body, soul, spirit, and will)C. A lesser Godd. A dual natured creature 100% God and 100% man.2 Do you believe Jesus Christ is the pattern son. The example for the rest of humanity?3. Do you believe man has free will to choose to follow God or not?4. Do you believe man has…[Read more]

1Ti 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. Why do you suppose that Timothy said “ALL MEN, SPECIALLY OF THOSE THAT BELIEVE”?Doesn't the “specially” indicate that they were included with the all, and that the rest are not excluded.I…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Feb. 18 2007,17:54)Hi Tim,There was only one original set of manuscripts of the NT but now bibles differ because of choices made from those manuscripts. All need to earnestly seek the Spirit to help us in these matters.Hi Nick,There may have been one original manuscript for the Torah,but wasn't the rest of our bible put…[Read more]

Quote (Phoenix @ Feb. 18 2007,21:36)Ummm…. call me dumb or forgetful but could you refreshen my mind and explain to me what the Will of God is please?Sorry HugsPhoenix:(This is the will of God, but most here will deny that He can accomplish his will.1 Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour1 Ti 2:4 Who WILL have…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Feb. 18 2007,01:17)Hi P,God is faithful and His words are pure. They were written vby the Spirit through men and the Spirit can show them to us.Man has not looked after some of them very well in the NT. There is the occasional bad translation of verses or translation of words that no longer have the same meaning in these days.…[Read more]

Quote (seekingtruth @ Feb. 17 2007,21:02)Timothy,I believe the problem arises from equating killing with murder. What is murder for an individual, is the God ordained justice system for society. However God has given us the example of mercy which shouldn't be forgotten.WmHi Seekingthruth,Thank you for responding to my question. Most people seem to…[Read more]

O.K. I wanted to wait a minute to see if I got struck with lightning or something.Don't get me wrong. I am only trying to see why there is such a huge gulf betweenthe God of the New Ttestament, Jesus, and the God of the old testament.Perhaps I will never get my question answered until I can talk to Jesus face to face.Tim

David,Thank you for taking the time to give me a more thorough answer to my question.Up until the last line, your answer was very helpful. I have become frustrated withnever getting an answer to a question that I have about God commanding what seem to be immoralactions. I always get the, ” He is God, who are we to question Him?” answer. But are we…[Read more]

There may be another thread that discusses this, if there is please direct me to it.I don't understand why God said “thou shall not murder”, it is all about love, and then in almost every book of the old testament was commanding someone to murder someone wlse.If someone picked up stick on the sabbath,stone them to death.If your own child appeared…[Read more]

Quote (Ciara10622 @ Jan. 19 2007,19:36) What's a BB?If you are asking what it is as it pertains to the internet,it is a bulletin board Ciara.Tim

Perhaps Jill, June, Dorothy, Amilia and Elizabeth went to ask their husband about this.

There must be a lot of vague questions on that selector.I got 100% orthodox Quaker. So I checked out what they believeand I only believed two of their six or seven main doctrines.I am definitely no Quaker.Then I was 97% Judaism. Nope, I don't think that I fit there either.How can that be when my main stronghold in faith is that Jesus Christ was…[Read more]

“One thing I do know is that Jesus is the truth and no lie was ever found on his lips, so what I cannot know I can learn from him.”Praise God. If I do not learn it from Him now, I will learn it from Him eventually.We can each rest assured that each of us knows as much right now as He sees fit to let us understand at this time in our lives.Tim

Hi Nick,Parables are truth, however the objects in parables are often something other than what they appear to be,as I have shown many times.You said, “Hades is only a remand centre, not the lake of fire.”So you believe that this true story tells us that the rich man was being made to suffer in flames and torment in this remand center, for the…[Read more]

Good point Nick. God and angels and spirit can not be explained by the laws of physics. However they can be understood by logic. If we are to believe that the word is truth. Then it is not logical for anything to be contrary to the truth. When we insist that this is a literal story, we place a huge blotch on the character of God! According to the…[Read more]

Hi Phoenix,What Nick said.Many people are confused because they think that a saint can only be someonethat the Catholic church declared a saint.Tim

Hi Nick,How could it be a true story when, Mat 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:The mention of an identifiable person is not, however, the test of a parable. Besides other parables do mention identifiable persons, but they are still parables:Mark 4:15 mentions…[Read more]

Your interpretation is a good and popular interpretation of this parable Nick.But since in every other parable, the recognizable objects in the parable represent something completelydifferent than what they are in reality, why do you think that the rich man and Lazarus would really be a rich man and a poor beggar in this parable? Why in this one…[Read more]