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i am having self hate right for decisions i have made. and also for decisions i didn't make. i dont want to go to heaven and live life like it talks about in John 12:25. i need guidance for my life right now.

Hello everyone. I'm recently trying to find meaning, peace and get my Faith back. I'm wondering if you could give me some websites, books, youtube channels etc. that you know that you enjoy and that have helped you. Anything and everything is greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to understand what Jesus died for our sins really means. Jesus died on the cross for us so that we should not perish but have everlasting life, so How were people saved in the Old Testament if it was a time prior to Jesus death? how could they have eternal life? also if people could be saved prior to Jesus death then why did he have to die? I hope someone can help me understand, God bless you!

Well spoken Marke.

And well chosen verse.

God bless.

Hi Alex.

Thanks for your reply,

I'm familiar with your view from past and present discourse.

I see Abraham offering Issac performs the Gospel, particularly the resurrection as mentioned in the 11th Chapter of Hebrews. But again I don't follow your interpretation of scripture.

You speak of the union between the Holyspirit spirit and the believer as a future event.

But the way I see it is when the Holyspirit entered S Spencer he died and was given the earnest of the spirit so now I liveth, Hidden in Christ until the redemption of our bodies. I'm born again by the seed which is the word of God. I didn't give anything or anyone life, The Holyspirit gave me life!! and I have eternal life and I have it NOW.

I'm sure we are far off in this particular area of our beliefs. I pray you have sound soteriology " Doctrine of salvation " if so then that is wonderful!! but what you have gleaned from the word of God worries me. To receive virtue from the fat of the vine where there's wisdom and knowledge of the word of God as we grow in harmony seems lacking.

I will continue to pray for you and I hope others do so as well.

God bless.

Thanks Gigi.

You're a blessing to me and this site as well, and keep leading us in prayer for Ukraine and clarity to what this all means in regards to God's program.

Inerrancy in the gospel is much needed, especially in these evil days.

Sometimes I grow weary in debates that has nothing to do with salvation. This is the time to preach the message that regenerates.

Thank you and God bless.

yes..I have a Bible..but i want more Bible for my kids..

Thank you

God bless

This forum doesn't allow websites to be posted, however, if you go to you tube and search "Getting the Pigs Off the Altar' - Jed Baptist, look for Part 3, on Christmas. It is the best documentary I've ever seen on Christmas. I've studied that topic quite a bit for a good number of years. The pastor does a tremendous job with facts, photos and other visual aids not only in this, but the whole series.

Hi Phillip. When I read your question, these verses came to me from John 14. It is very clear that where Jesus WENT, He will bring us there as well! Be comforted by this simple truth!

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

I also thought of John 17, which is a beautiful prayer of Jesus. Look at what Jesus prayed in verse 24:

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Jesus specifically TOLD us, then, that He WILL take us to heaven, AND it is His WILL to do so!

May the Lord grace you mightily as you search the Scriptures! Amen!

Reading the people Bible commentary for Heb 12:14, it says: pure and sinless lives, without a holy life no one shall be in fellowship with God. No man shall see the Lord.

Can someone please comment on this,

As long as we live in our earthly bodies we (our flesh nature) will not be 'sinless',

Thank you.

I pray that I walk close to God... I have backslided

WHat does Proverbs chapter mean when they say to strike child with iron rod and they surely wont die

Please please pray that it isn't busy at work t tomorrow or tomorrow night and that I can go to the store a few times and have abounding energy with favor strength and alertness ijip amen

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So good to hear!

Hello, Anna, no the KJV is not a Catholic Bible.

Good afternoon, Grae, I understand.

I did ask Alex if he feels like I was picking on him. I haven't received a reply back. So, I guess it is best to hear from him. Have a good evening.

There were or are 2 creation events. God created all the races first 1st in Gen.1.26-28, then after God rested from his work. He created Adam and Eve whom Eve would be called the mother of all living, meaning that Christ would come through their seed, and If you are not living in Christ you are not considered living. All the races were in the world when Cain spoke of someone killing him in Gen. 4.13-14, proving that there were other people besides Adam and Eves family.

I believe it is James that states that we shouldn't plan what we are doing in the future as life is a vapor; therefore we are to phrase "if it is the Lord's will" when we pray. The same book insists that a unstable man shouldn't expect anything from God; nor someone who is heaping things upon their own lusts in their requests. It is not a mutually exclusive point as to people dying from a lack of knowledge as you brought out. Prayer ideally should reflect the Holy Ghost and should be in line with God's will in our lives to the best of our knowledge. The most effective prayer; honestly is asking God to chastise us; as "He rebukes all those He loves." Admittedly; I am hesitant asking that of the Lord.

It should be understood also that sometimes not seeing the whole picture; and the process involved to recieve an answer makes our prayers only partially effective. The chastising method; as mentioned above can be accomplished through tests; illnesses; and other problems in our lives. The blessings we ask for often are concealed in what seems to be endless troubles. The concept of patience is also exemplified in James; hence we are not to be expecting instant answers; but not on the other hand totally without faith that He can answer that way when He chooses to. Oftentimes; we may pray for things that on the surface seem fine but it is based on our best understanding of a situation. Sometimes our actions work with answered prayers of others. James also makes that clear that we need to take action to feed and clothe our brother not just lip service. There are; of course other times when we are simply unable to do anything. One thing that we must do; however is ensure that there is no unforgiveness putting up a wall (as a verse in Proverbs states) with our brother; an in fact between us and God. Christ said to do this before offering sacrifice and the same principle applies for communion for instance. We always want to be part of God's plan.

Requesting prayer for my daughter Lavone,she is in the ER second in less than a week,running test.

Prayer for family for protection (spiritual, emotional, physical) and healing.

Ronnette,

The author of Hebrews is unknown. We do know from Hebrews 13:23 that whoever wrote the letter knew Timothy. Some believe that Paul wrote Hebrews, but in all of Paul's other epistles, he begins by introducing himself as the author. One of the problems I have in believing Paul wrote it is because of what it says in Hebrews 2:3 which says "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by (them) that heard Him."

This tells me that whoever wrote Hebrews was a second generation Christian. So whoever wrote Hebrews did not hear the Lord directly (As Paul did), nor did he receive from the Lord directly, but received and was confirmed and established for us, he being one of them, by those that heard Him.

One of the other theories was that it was Barnabas, because the letter appears to have been written by a Levite from the tribe of Levi. They were those who worked the temple. They were the priests, and they are the ones who took care of the temple.

The letter appears to have been written by a Levite because of the familiarity with the temple functions and rituals. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Levite. So some people theorize that Barnabas wrote it.

Barnabas means "Son of Encouragement." That's what his name means. And in Hebrews, the writer states in Hebrews 13:22 that he encourages them to endure the word of encouragement.

I have also heard Luke and Apollos being mentioned as possible writer. But the bottom line is we do not know who wrote Hebrews.

As for Hebrews 8:11 applying to Gentiles, here is my understanding of that verse. When Christ comes and sets up His kingdom, and brings the fulfillment of the last parts of the New Covenant, everybody will know the Lord.

We won't have a need for pastors. There won't be a need to teach others about the Lord. Everybody's going to know, when He comes and sets up His kingdom!

did the crucifixion of Jesus stop the practice of burnt offerings? With his death, was he sacrificing his life for us. Thank you!

Hello there. I just stumbled on this website while studying. I read your comment and thought that I might take minute to show you a verse that I would say "proves" that when we die we go to heaven. You said you believe Jesus went back to "heaven" from whence he had come. Well, in 2 Corinthians 5 Paul is talking about death. And in verse 8 he says, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." Paul was ready to die and see Jesus, actually, he looked forward to that time. And it seems to me, unless i am reading this really wrong, Paul is saying that when our body ceases to function and is placed in a grave, we (our soul/spirit) will be with Jesus, who, as you have said, is in heaven. I hope i have read your comment correctly and stated my point clearly, if i have misunderstood your point, forgive me. Have a blessed day, brother.

Hello Phillip, wondering in your studies whether you have read from some of the accounts of martyred brethren (their testimonies) within the Martyrs Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght?

Hope the day is going well your way!

Just read the entire Bible (several times ) with an open heart and mind and you will find the Truth . Have you checked out the Christadelphian's and their beliefs ?

Caroll and Brenda Farley sing Gospel songs pray that radio stations play Gospel songs by Caroll and Brenda Farley.

This is a great verse for Pi Day. His strength is everlasting! : )

So, after 20 years of intense searching, study and reference-gleaning using the Concordant Language references of Hebrew-Chaldee and Greek, I am not able to find ANY Scripture that states emphatically that anyone is going to Heaven, or that anyone but Jesus has gone, and He went "BACK" to Heaven from whence He came. The Scriptures used by the denominational churches and every church that I have been to (save one) to PROVE the "doctrine" they have devised to support the premise of "Rapture" (also NOT found in the Scriptures), specifically regarding being "coming in the clouds", "caught up", "in the air", "so shall we ever be", are all references that, when studied in the concordant language, present something entirely different from rapture as it is presented. apantesis is the Greek word used to describe this "encounter", and it can mean friendly encounter, meeting away, or simply meeting. Coming in the clouds are the "glory clouds", the "shikinah glory"; the caught up is the word for "seized", as the ram was seized (caught up) by its horns for Abraham's sacrifice. "in the air", the word here is "the breathing"; the air around us and not auros (the air up higher where clouds and birds are). Considering that the "rapture doctrine" was introduced by Emanuael LeCunza, a Jesuit priest from Chile in the 1600's under the fake name of Rabbi Ben-Ezra in an attempt to take the heat off the Pope for being branded the anti-Christ by the Protestants, in a book that was propagandized by the Roman Catholic church as "banned", the Protestants quickly adopted it as bible doctrine, and the rest is "history". Go figure!

Now I firmly believe Jesus is the Christ; the Savior. If anyone has the TRUTH and not just "opinion" based on denominational doctrine, I am pleased to hear it, as I search diligently for TRUTH!

Who wrote the book of Hebrews? Does The book of Hebrews applies to Gentiles specially Chapter 8:11?

Hey Phil,

This is a question that comes up and you will receive different understandings. Are we to say who is right and who is wrong? No. When we study, we must be careful and do not attempt to make the biblical narrative conform to some preconceived framework we bring to it.

If there were people before Adam and Eve, does it change anything? Do we overlook scripture that infers that God did create other people before Adam and Eve? Do we overlook the fowl which the water brought forth on day five doesn't match the fowl God formed out of the ground after He formed Adam out of the dust of the ground when Adam was alone?

Same with the beast of the field formed out of the ground after Adam when the beast of the earth was on day six before man, male and female? Could Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and have dominion over every living thing that moveth upon the earth that God had created when they were in the garden of Eden?

If we consider, God told them to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the earth after they were taken out of the garden, could God have said after day six everything was very good? After the flood, all are descendants of Adam and Eve, so Eve is the mother of all living. The line that leads us the the last Adam Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45-47 In this, Jesus our Lord said to be the second man, the last Adam, my understanding goes to 1 John 3:8. We must keep in mind who sinned first and is the father of lies John.8:44. The first Adams purpose was more than starting mankind but starting the plan of salvation that is in the second man, the last Adam Jesus Christ, we take off the old man and put on the new man, Colossians 3:8-10.

May the Holy Spirit bring you to your understanding. I pray I do not confuse with my different understanding.

God bless,

RLW