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Nickreading1984:
Claudia: It's just a Joke. It's like saying "For Ch***t's sake, only not offensive. It's an expletive.
Alex & Metamic: You say that debate is pointless and all that, and I appreciate the firmness of your tones, but doesn't Jude 3 instruct the faithful to contend for the faith?
I'm still really worried that all this stuff is too good to be true. I admit right now: I'm double-minded as all get-out. I wake up agnostic, scare myself into believing in Hell (because you'll go there if you don't believe in it, don'cha know) and then come here to see... I don't know... if I can just prove to myself it's not there.
I'm a friggin' mess.
-Nick
cjwood:
thanks for the explanation nick. glad i checked rather than just assumed. i can relate to the "friggin' mess" feeling you mentioned. i remember after reading the bt website the first time about 7 yrs ago all i could do was say out loud, "oh my God, oh my God, oh my God" repeatedly after each new article i read. i was raised all my life in the southern baptist tradition of men and i could not believe what i was reading. i mean, how could this all be true?? it was so opposed to everything i had ever learned in church.
now i say, "thank you God, thank you God, thank you God" repeatedly. nothing God does is by chance nick. nothing. no thing. ever.
i hope you will linger on the bt website and forum so you can continue to read and study the many Truths of the Holy Scriptures contained here. i believe that if you do so, one day you will come to truly understand the uselessness of debate on Scriptural and Spiritual matters. if you are ever approached and need to contend for the faith which God has given you, His Spirit will supply the words to speak so that God is glorified. not you, not the other person, just God.
claudia
ICXCNIKA:
--- Quote from: Nickreading1984 on February 28, 2013, 10:05:22 PM ---only not offensive. It's an expletive.
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Your discretion is appreciated. :D
--- Quote from: Nickreading1984 on February 28, 2013, 10:05:22 PM ---Alex & Metamic: You say that debate is pointless and all that, and I appreciate the firmness of your tones, but doesn't Jude 3 instruct the faithful to contend for the faith?
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Is that verse addressing our "struggle" with other people's opinions? I don't think so.
We are to mortify "our flesh" - "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." (Romans 8:13 )
- We are to bring our (own) flesh into submission. What's the value of winning a debate? First, you have to calm your own storm before you can possibly have a leg to stand on against any detractors of the FAITH. ;)
study this verse a few hours "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." (Romans 12:2)
--- Quote from: Nickreading1984 on February 28, 2013, 10:05:22 PM ---I'm still really worried that all this stuff is too good to be true. I admit right now: I'm double-minded as all get-out. I wake up agnostic, scare myself into believing in Hell (because you'll go there if you don't believe in it, don'cha know) and then come here to see... I don't know... if I can just prove to myself it's not there.
I'm a friggin' mess.
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Brother, just Pray and read through all of the material on the main site, and also all of the emails to Ray, and I'm confident that with time you will find harmony and grow spiritually.
--- Quote from: Nickreading1984 on February 28, 2013, 10:05:22 PM ---all this stuff is too good to be true.
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Now, you know why it's called "THE GOOD NEWS" ;D
John from Kentucky is absolutely correct when he says "Study the articles here. Don't take Ray's words and teaching alone. Study the scriptures he cites, and see that the witness of two or three scriptures opens to you the scriptural truths in all things, all as guided by the Great Sovereign God Who created all things, and Who will never accept failure of any kind."
Like I stated earlier, start with Ray's TWELVE GOD-GIVEN TRUTHS TO UNDERSTAND HIS WORD. It truly is a key to Scriptural understanding.
You're here asking questions, so you're already heading in the right direction.
Brother, don't fear the pagan "hell", or any of that nonsense. But, also don't "just believe" to get a "reward" or some golden ticket to enter into some Star-Trek like utopian "heaven-planet" .... But, LOVE your CREATOR because HE Loved you first. HE created everything, and everyone. "we -- we love HIM, because HE -- HE first loved us;" (1 John 4:19)
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbor as thyself." (Luke 10:27)
:)
ICXCNIKA:
--- Quote from: cjwood on February 28, 2013, 11:35:49 PM ---now i say, "thank you God, thank you God, thank you God" repeatedly. nothing God does is by chance nick. nothing. no thing. ever.
i hope you will linger on the bt website and forum so you can continue to read and study the many Truths of the Holy Scriptures contained here.
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Amen Claudia! And Nick, I also hope that you will continue to read and study here.
Dave in Tenn:
http://bible-truths.com/aeonion.htm
This is probably the most concise explanation of the use of 'aions' or 'eons' and its derivatives on B-T.
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