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I have no gift for witnessing or preaching to others. I have tried several times now with no visible success. A close friend of mine has a lot of hostility towards God. His argument is the common question, how can God allow an infant to be abused and die? How can He not intervene when a child...

Tell them to read one of the gospels then do and live as Christ has instructed.

What verse are you looking for? I encourage you to look at the bible differently. That is great you reference it when you have questions in your every day life, now go a step further. Start with Genesis and make God's Word the center of your life. Instead of just seeking advice, learn of the...

I admit this is the first time I have ever heard the parable interpreted this way. I guess this would even put me on the wayside if it is like you say. How can one have Christ's salvation yet not be part of His kingdom? I do not see how one can one without the other. I must go through the...

Christ explained that His parable was of four different types of of people. The good soil, the wayside, the rocky soil, and the thorny soil. Of course we should all strive to be the good soil that produces a crop of 30, 60, and 100 fold, but what happens with the salvation of the others...

The adultery you commit is deserving of death. It goes against one of the direct commandments of God. You need to keep all of them or you will be separated from God forever. So since you have already sinned you must die, but Christ never did sin, He took your punishment for you even though He...

A lot of what the pretribbers believe is what they have seen in all the movies and books other than the bible. I have heard many people argue that it is there in scripture but it is always some vague reference that could mean a hundred different things, God has not revealed any of it to me so I...

Is it the need to shed blood that bothers you? Millions upon millions of animals were sacrificed to atone for each sin of Israel, that is how deadly sin is. Nothing else can cover sin. Jesus though was was the perfect sacrifice that no animal could be. He did this four our sake, to make us holy...

I seem to have really gotten to you so I am trying to figure this out. You act like my first post was not an answer to the question of why Christ had to die. You were offended that He took our place on the cross which we deserve for our transgression. Or maybe it is that our sins deserve being...

You do not take your sin seriously like God does. For you it is no problem to forgive and live on with another sinner because you yourself are one. God is not like us though. You can not expect Him to behave as you. Just about every post in this thread explains why our Holy God cannot just...

It is natural for you to seek an excuse for sin, we all do it. It is the way of our flesh. When Jesus is your focus, when he is the only thing that matters to you then you will have a greater joy in following Him than you did in following your posters. All the pleasures of this world are only...

Are you offended by the part of the gospel that says you and I are sinners deserving of death? That is the reason Christ died, it does not have to be complicated and pages long of explanation.

You have read the Gospels, recall that in Matthew 5.27-28 Christ says "You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Do not take down your...

Do you think Christ suffered and died just to be dramatic? Do you really think Christ suffered and died just to be dramatic? He went through that because there was no other way to redeem us sinners. His death was the only way to atone for our sins. To make us holy so that we can be with Him...

All the sins you have committed now and till you die deserve the exact punishment that Christ received. You deserve to be crucified and receive all the torment that came with it. A judge would be considered corrupt if he let a guilty person go free without punishment. So God will judge your sin...

Is anything else in your life as important as your relationship with Christ? Do you go through the gospels verse by verse hungry to obey His every word? Follow His every example? Do you know that anything you do and acquire in this life will all come to nothing in just a short time? All except...

It is difficult to have any joy and peace when you know that everything you have tried has failed to lead your friend to salvation in Christ. Thank you to your prayers for his eternal destiny. He has heard a lot about God from other and has already hardened his heart. Was told all his life...

My own dad died from cancer around the same time as yours did . He never wanted to hear about gospel. He always told me that he disliked the idea that event the most wicked people could repent and be saved. He made friends with a preacher though and a few months before he passed away he...

I have a good friend named Nick who is a non-believer and nothing I have said can persuade him. Three times I have had long conversations telling him of Christ and the eternal life He brings, but my friend just seems to turn it into a debate where no matter how many questions I answer he always...

I had to get a new job recently that does not allow me to get home every week for church so I hope to find some fellowship here with other believers.