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You have happened on two aspects of the same thing, the people of God--different but not the same.

None. I'm a widower after being married for 56 years to my late wife.

Regardless, Jesus calls us to give all our reasoning, feelings, and deciding over to him to rule. That's the constant struggle of the Christian life. We can begin and continue doing it by claiming Jesus' victory in his death to sin and rising for our new life.

My God bless you too!

The Book of Job (chapters 1 and 2) makes it clear that the devil and his followers are the immediate causes along with our own sinful natures of our suffering. Job and his friends had a bad theology that believed big sins cause big suffering. God has two kinds of plans for us, his permissive...

I did a word-study of the word "heart" in the Bible while in seminary. It is not the pump in our chest, of course. It is the center of our personality the contains our feelings, thoughts, and decisions.

So, tell me the precious moment when Paul was saved. You can't because Dr. Luke is telling the story that he was told about Paul's conversion. To present your case from that story in Acts is to disregard the context of the history Luke is relating, which doesn't tell the internal happenings that...

I agree!

So, if we were dead in sin before we were alive with God's gift of the new birth, as Paul says, was there a time between our conception and our coming alive to God that we were alive and then died again?? Of course, Paul says that we were all dead to God before he made us alive. Apparently...

Yes, the atonement accomplished all that, but for those who stubbornly refuse it, the atonement is not efficient.

I'm a Calvinist, and we believe that God's salvation comes to us purely by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8,9). How is my belief unbiblical?

Ephesians 2:1-3 says clearly that we are all born dead, that is, dead to God. Verses 4-9 say that God makes believers alive. The result is our good works (verse 10).

What "prophetic" are you summarizing, or is it your own thinking? Serious question. I ask because I know from experiences that God cares about all the little details like very short car trips. I used to pray just for the long trips but not the local ones. Then, I went across town to make a...

I don't know; I'm relatively new.

Yeah, but they are also instructional for our suffering, since we share in Christ's suffering, not his substitution for other Christians.

The word "glory" has two meanings. One is the divine brightness of God, which you refer to, but the other one is the honor we give him. The latter meaning is what happens when he allows bad things to happen to people, which is his permissive will and plan. Another way to look at it is that as...

But to believe, you need God's free gift of the new birth.