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I am with babes all day,have very little social life and I like to know others thoughts.
Yes your are right I do get anguished at some postings,I am compassionate and sensitive and regret my retaliation. I do like this thread as it gives me cause to search deeper into the word.
We are all growing,hopefully in the good soil,and I never want to become stagnant nor lukewarm.
Thank you for your concerns.🌹
Yes your are right I do get anguished at some postings,I am compassionate and sensitive and regret my retaliation. I do like this thread as it gives me cause to search deeper into the word.
We are all growing,hopefully in the good soil,and I never want to become stagnant nor lukewarm.
Thank you for your concerns.🌹
We all get it wrong and react in ways that we know we should not.
We only have to look at a hard headed angry man called Peter.
I myself have been guilty of retaliating in an ungodly manner on this site.
And boy it does not sit well with me when I have. This is true but a times I have woken up in the middle of the night or morning and regret what I have done.
People at times have ripped me apart on this forum and I responded accordingly.
But I have sought reconciliation, even if we disagree on doctrine.
You say "hopefully in the good soil"
I would say you are in the good soil. You have to be based on your post above and the regret for retaliation.
Retaliation tends to be aggressive. Those in the good soil will bear fruit, the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
We all need to seek the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The greatest is love.
We only have to look at a hard headed angry man called Peter.
I myself have been guilty of retaliating in an ungodly manner on this site.
And boy it does not sit well with me when I have. This is true but a times I have woken up in the middle of the night or morning and regret what I have done.
People at times have ripped me apart on this forum and I responded accordingly.
But I have sought reconciliation, even if we disagree on doctrine.
You say "hopefully in the good soil"
I would say you are in the good soil. You have to be based on your post above and the regret for retaliation.
Retaliation tends to be aggressive. Those in the good soil will bear fruit, the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
We all need to seek the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The greatest is love.
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Because he is the one who is the most dogmatic and open about a believer not losing his salvation if he goes back to unbelief.
This is just foolish talk.
Christ's work is sufficient to save any and all believers, not unbelievers.
You can't go back to unbelief and think you're going to be welcomed with open arms when Jesus returns.
Not gonna happen.
Only believers will enter into the kingdom of God when Jesus returns.
We know you can't go back to unbelief and still be saved by this simple statement:
"1Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain." - 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
These plain words make your interpretation of 2 Timothy 2:13 false.
You have yet to prove that.
You have never shown me the scripture that says me obeying the following scriptures is me trying to save myself by works:
"stand firm in the faith - 1 Corinthians 16:13
"building yourselves up in your most holy faith" - Jude 1:20
"holding on to faith" - 1 Timothy 1:19
"hold firmly to the faith we profess" - Hebrews 4:14
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess" - Hebrews 10:23
"And now, dear children, continue in him" - 1 John 2:28
"As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you." - 1 John 2:24
This is just foolish talk.
Christ's work is sufficient to save any and all believers, not unbelievers.
You can't go back to unbelief and think you're going to be welcomed with open arms when Jesus returns.
Not gonna happen.
Only believers will enter into the kingdom of God when Jesus returns.
We know you can't go back to unbelief and still be saved by this simple statement:
"1Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain." - 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
These plain words make your interpretation of 2 Timothy 2:13 false.
You have yet to prove that.
You have never shown me the scripture that says me obeying the following scriptures is me trying to save myself by works:
"stand firm in the faith - 1 Corinthians 16:13
"building yourselves up in your most holy faith" - Jude 1:20
"holding on to faith" - 1 Timothy 1:19
"hold firmly to the faith we profess" - Hebrews 4:14
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess" - Hebrews 10:23
"And now, dear children, continue in him" - 1 John 2:28
"As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you." - 1 John 2:24
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Accept and embrace the culture of the people we interact with on here.
Out cultures a diffent and responses are different.
In one culture a word is not offensive but in another it is
To me it's only offensive if it's personal and attacking.
As a man who was brought up in the what was known as the hardest and most deprived, depraved in Europe swear words were the norm.
The majority of the time such words were just an expression.
My mother (now a believer, convert from Islam to Jesus which she taught me as I was growing up) used many swear words we consider to be swear words but in fact it was just an expression to her thoughts.
A simple example would be "FFS" Basically an expression of exasperation. That's all.
Out cultures a diffent and responses are different.
In one culture a word is not offensive but in another it is
To me it's only offensive if it's personal and attacking.
As a man who was brought up in the what was known as the hardest and most deprived, depraved in Europe swear words were the norm.
The majority of the time such words were just an expression.
My mother (now a believer, convert from Islam to Jesus which she taught me as I was growing up) used many swear words we consider to be swear words but in fact it was just an expression to her thoughts.
A simple example would be "FFS" Basically an expression of exasperation. That's all.
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We have had one particular, very STUBBORN, member that KEEPS changing his or her names, and rejoining just so he or her can call us names, and gets BANNED in a few days, and DOES IT AGAIN. That person, we think is a Catholic, that HATES all of us Protestants.
So it would help if you do not emulate that person, and tell us what Denomination or Type of Church you attend ? ? ?
I come from a Conservative Evangelical background and attend a Non-denominational Community Bible Teaching Church, that Teaches
OSAS Theology.
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Suffice it so say that you do not understand this at all......
We are not kept saved by the amount, quality, or constancy of our faith, but by the grace and faithfulness of the One in whom we initially trusted. "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself."
Therefore you will never understand the rest of the New Testament..... not by a long shot.
You fumble around in the dark pulling out verses that in no way support Jesus abandoning His children.
I will not try to prove anything to you anymore you are steeped in confirmation bias.
You just want a soapbox, but I will let people know you are not standing on Truth.[/QUOTE]
Suffice it so say that you do not understand this at all......
We are not kept saved by the amount, quality, or constancy of our faith, but by the grace and faithfulness of the One in whom we initially trusted. "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself."
Therefore you will never understand the rest of the New Testament..... not by a long shot.
You fumble around in the dark pulling out verses that in no way support Jesus abandoning His children.
I will not try to prove anything to you anymore you are steeped in confirmation bias.
You just want a soapbox, but I will let people know you are not standing on Truth.[/QUOTE]
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Referring to the "bad language" on here, the word "ass" is in the bible. So technically it isn't a swear word.. 
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As is bastard..Deu.23:2, Zec 9:6 & Heb 12: 8
,Damned Mark 16:16,Romans 14:23,2Thess.2:12,
Damnation, Mat.23:14 & 33 through a few N. T writings.
Pisseth and piss,Sam. 25:22/34,Is 36:12 and 1st and 2nd Kings!😁
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Adding to "GOD that justifieth", not man's approval.......
The Lord says those who are His are justified, righteous in Christ, then proceeds to inform those who are His there is nothing
that can take me away from Him, or Him away from me.....
Like a son......once a son always a son...
The Lord says those who are His are justified, righteous in Christ, then proceeds to inform those who are His there is nothing
that can take me away from Him, or Him away from me.....
Like a son......once a son always a son...
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