Yep Gene.

We seem too comfortable which is a deception maybe.

Hi Ed,

The Holy Spirit is the teacher. “Cursed is he who follows man and not God.”  

Why do you need answers from others?

Yep, wise words Nick

Like the smoke goes up ‘forever’.

Hi Ed,

Whole Bible, not just a bit here and there. “Forever” in that one scripture means longer than a generation of human.

Alcahol and sin

Hi Ed. That is what this topic is titled… yes there will be a last generation. We are most likely it, because the signs are all there.

Absolutely Nick

Jesus asked if he would find any faith on Earth when he returned.

I think the only way we can have faith now is to live like a desert hermit?

The last generation will not hear anything much. Their minds will be mostly unbeknowingly rewired by the Internet, music, images, drugs, medications, pollution, stress, the media …. etc. We are in the generation of environmentally caused spiritual desensitisation.

Hi. Athiests don’t need english gemetria to convince them that God is real. Atheists need God to do that… directly. Even believers who are losing faith need God and nothing anyone says.

Cool

Yes… the morning star.

Walking without God is Hell.

If God is love, how do believers in ‘eternal conscious punishment’ know love?

Hi Miia,

T8 has written, perhaps unwisely, that my fruit is evil though we have shown him kindness and given him hospitality in the past.

May God be kinder to him.

Ha ha Nick… YOU displaying bad fruit? I personally have never seen it. You are peaceful, patient, kind and long suffering, from what I have seen. You are one of the few…

Hi Ed yep – Polycarp to the Philippians.

Polycarp. AD 69 – 155

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp#Surviving_writings_and_early_accounts

It is recorded by Irenaeus, who heard him speak in his youth, and by Tertullian, that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle.

The sole surviving work attributed to him is Polycarp’s letter to the P…

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Yep, agree Nick

Hi Ed, I’m reading Polycarp now.

It is a matter of researching which of the so called early church writings are genuine, and checking the online source as being trustworthy. So far all I have found (considered genuine) are 1st Clement and Polycarp.

1st Clement (authentic source). 33-99 AD.

http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/LostBooks/1clement.htm

Clement’s only existing, genuine text is a letter to the Christian congregation in Corinth, often called the First Epistle of Clement or 1 Clement. The history of 1 Clement clearly and continuously shows Clement as the author of this letter. It is…

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