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Notwithstanding Noah and his family being the only ones God appointed to go on the Ark, there were men calling on the name of the Lord prior to God choosing Noah. (Genesis 4:26). And if 2 Peter 2:5 refers to Noah preaching pre-flood, it would stand to reason that men were hearing Noah preach the word of God, and faith comes by hearing the word of God. (Romans 10:17). How many people were there in Noah's day? Perhaps billions, given the longevity of people in those days. Therefore, even though the Bible says God only saw Noah as just and righteous in that generation, it doesn't necessarily mean that others who called upon the name of the Lord were faithless and weren't otherwise saved. For if they called upon the name of the Lord in faith, they would have been saved (Romans 10:13), even though they perished in the flood.

I have often wondered about that issue of Enoch and Elijah not dying. If flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom, and our corrupt flesh cannot inherit incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:50), then it reasons that Enoch and Elijah must have been changed from flesh and blood, from mortal to immortality, before they entered the kingdom of God.

God knew us before He formed us in our mothers womb. (Jeremiah 1:5). And it is appointed unto men once to die. (Hebrews 9:27). The Greek word for "appointed", apokeimai: means to be reserved, to be laid up, to be stored away. So, God knows us before we are conceived, and He knows when we will die because He has reserved that appointed time just for us - you, and me, and every other Dick and Jane that has ever lived.

Amen. That was beautiful, brother. I say "Here am I!" My appointed time is in God's hands. So, while I am on this side of the sod, I say bring it on; today, tomorrow, the next day, or the one after, etc. Has He not commanded us? Be strong and courageous; be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord our God is with us wherever we go. (Joshua 1:9). And we who wait upon the Lord shall renew our strength; we shall mount up with wings as eagles; we shall run and not grow weary; we shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31). Let us all be watchmen on the wall, ready for what may come, being about our Father's business, occupying until He returns or until we enter His presence at our appointed time. Amen amen.

I know your struggles. I heard a pastor once say: "If you're in Christ, then Christ is in you. And since Christ is in you, imagine Christ sitting beside you as youre watching pornography, or getting drunk, or getting high, or doing or about to do anything immoral, and ask yourself, "What would Jesus say to me if I do this in His presence?" I think we all know the answer. "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may he able to stand against the wiles of the devil." Eph. 6:10-11.

No doubt the end is near. Deception is taking a hold of more and more people around the world, convincing people to believe a lie and fall away. I heard of an experiment on "group think" conducted by the CIA. They put 80 people in a circle and asked each person to identify the geometric figure on a piece of paper. The figure was clearly a triangle, but the first 79 people, one after another, when asked what figure was on the paper, all said that the figure was a square. The last person to be asked, the 80th person, also stated it was a square. The catch: the first 79 people were employed by the CIA, and deliberately lied, the 80th person was a random test subject. The CIA proved that if you say a lie over and over send over again, many people will fall in line and believe the lie. Deception is widespread in both politics, the news media, all levels of education, the entertainment industry, etc. We need to continue to "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil..." Eph. 6:10-11.

I'm not suggesting John is a picture of a pretrib rapture of the church; I don't believe the text supports that notion. I'm only suggesting that all of John's visions, from chapter 4 forward, are visions received by John while he was in the spirit and viewing from heaven, both of things taking place in heaven and on earth.

It appears very obvious that the Rev. 7 visions are those in which John is having while John was in the Spirit. Much of what John recites in ch. 7 is a recapitulation of visions he already had, i.e., the throne, the elders, the four beasts, the angels. 1. John beheld a throne set in heaven whereupon sat God. Rev. 4:2. 2. John beheld the 24 elders seated around the throne in heaven. Rev. 4:4. 3. John beheld four beasts about the throne in heaven. Rev. 4:6. 4. John beheld in the midst of the throne in heaven, the four beasts, and the 24 elders, the Lamb. Rev. 5:6. 5. John heard the voice of millions of angels around the throne in heaven. Rev. 5:11. 6. John sees the Lamb take the seal from the One on the throne in heaven, and sees the Lamb begin to open the scroll. Rev. 5:7, 6:1. 7. In Rev. 7:11, John writes of the angels, the elders, and the four beasts around the throne of God in heaven. 8. In Rev. 8:1, John sees the Lamb open 7th seal in heaven, which clearly indicates that all of John's visions preceding 8:1 were visions John had while in the spirit and in heaven.

The Spirit is saying 'NO!', and your flesh is saying 'YES!'. Follow the Spirit and strengthen your faith. Don't give in to your flesh, for you will grieve the Spirit that renewed you. May God bless you and keep you... in Jesus's name. Amen amen.

What breath of fresh air to read this Worthy news item. God is at work in Hungary.

Without Lord Jesus, I am in darkness, lonely, anxious, worried, desperate, afraid, depressed, confused, troubled on all sides, rebellious, condemned. In Christ I have everything I need. "On Christ the solid Rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand..."

The fall in the garden corrupted the soul spirit and flesh of man. Sin brought about death and whatever else ails man, i.e., plagues, diseases, deformities, abnormalities, anomalies, etc. Can any man say with any degree of certainty that "Neanderthal man" is a separate species of man, and not the abnormal offspring of corrupt sinful man?

The argument you're making is one dependant on silence, namely: if the Bible doesn't say there were more children born to Adam and Eve between the births of Cain and Abel, and between the births of Abel and Seth, then there must have been a pre-Adamic race of people. Arguing silence is a two-edged sword. And I think the better argument is this: Adam and Eve began procreating immediately upon God's command. God's very first command to all of His creatures (including man) was to be fruitful and multiply. We must take at face value that Adam and Eve knew what God meant. If Adam and Eve started procreating upon God's command, then it's quite possible that Eve was with child when she was deceived by the serpent. This argument is buttressed by the fact that, even though we first learn that Eve conceived Cain in Chapter 4, Eve does not lament at giving birth as God said she would (see, Gen. 3:16), but rather she gives praise to God for birthing a son. (See, 4:1). We aren't told how long after Cain's birth that Abel was born, but in all likelihood Abel was born within a year of Cain's birth, maybe even within ten months. Common sense dictates that Cain and Abel were not engaged in their respective occupations until at least a few years after their births. How many years after is debatable. But in the interim, perhaps as many as 8 to 10 years, Adam and Eve likely birthed more sons and daughters that not mentioned in scripture, perhaps even several sets of twins and sets of triplets. We must also bear in mind that the phrase "in the process of time" (Gen. 4:3) when Cain and Abel brought their respective offerings to God, we aren't told whether the "process of time" refers to their first time bringing offerings, or their tenth time, or their hundredth time. And even if it were their first time, we still aren't informed whether it was after several years in their occupations, nor are we informed how soon after bringing said offering, when "it came to pass"(4:8), that Cain killed Abel. In any event, if Cain's age was in double digits when he killed Abel (his teen years, or perhaps his twenties or older), then it's entirely likely that Adam and Eve gave birth to many more sons and daughters, year after year, after year, etc, before they gave birth to Seth. And if, while Cain and Abel are alive, these other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve grew to child bearing age themselves, then they would come together as husband and wife, and the population of boys and girls, men and women would continue to grow and multiply. In that case, they would be spreading out over the land and multiplying the human race exponentially. Thus Cain's fear of retaliation was from among his own brothers and nephews, perhaps even from his own father Adam. And Cain's wife would be from among the women born of Adam and Eve, either his sister or his niece. That's my argument from silence.

It can also be true that as far as you know, you might have some ancestors that were descended from the bloodline of Jacob. We read that even Mary the mother of Jesus had a Gentile ancestral bloodline. Which means Jesus (through Mary), though born of the tribe of Judah and decended from King David, was born not of a pure Israeli bloodline. What does this mean? Our bloodline is not what God looks upon. Rather, God looks upon our hearts, our faith. There is now neither Jew nor Gentile, but one new man in Christ. (Galatians 3:18).

We are being conformed to the image of Christ, and when Jesus returns we will be like Him, and we will be with Him, and because we are His body we will be following His lead. Did His apostles celebrate with Him during His earthly ministry? So, too, will we (all that are His) celebrate with Him and enjoy Him forever.

No such thing as "easy believism", at least not as I understand the "easy believism" teaching.

Amen amen.

When we are born again, we know God more than we ever knew Him prior; He now lives in us and we now have a more intimate personal relationship with Him So, when we have God indwelling, we know what God expects of us: "Do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8. To put it another way: glorify Him in all we do for He is God; obey Him for He is our King; trust in Him and His word and in His eternal plan to redeem us for He our Creator; have faith in no other because He is the Author and Finisher of our Faith; and, love Him and our fellow image bearers as He loves us because we are all created in His image and after His likeness, and He is love.

Jesus is God incarnate, and in the garden God told Satan that He was going to crush Satan's head. When God entered into His creation, He did exactly what He promised to do, and calls on all repent and believe Him. Praise God.

Atheistic communists created Covid-19 for a reason. Never trust communism or communists.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I dont see how that can be considered a sin committed by God. How would you argue that it was a sin by God? But if God is completely righteous and can never be unrighteous, how can any disasters or deaths that God causes to occur be sin if those occurances are for His righteous purposes? Take for example the flooding in Noahs day, and the Red Sea closing back up after Israel passed over on dry ground, killing all of Pharaoh's army in the process. Or destroying the sons of Aaron for offering strange incense/fire, or allowing the killing of the 850 false prophets when challenged by Elijah, and sending she bears to kill the youths that ridiculed Elisha. In the case of King Ahab and the false prophets he favored, wasn't it God's prerogative to show His sovereignty in causing Ahab to suffer the consequences for believing the lies of the false prophets? Your thoughts?

I think Trump is doing what he promised: border security, deport illegals, force foreign nations to pay their fair share, go back to energy independence, stop all the crazy and godless woke stuff. Personally, I'm looking forward to gasoline going down to under $2 per gallon again. I like to drive to distant places. Go Trump go!

Okay. I see where you're going. But where in the Bible does it support the notion that God has a sin nature or that God is capable of sinning? The Bible says God is not capable of lying (Numbers 23:19; Hebrews 6:18); and, God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does God tempt any man (James 1:13); and, God cannot be unrighteous (Romans 9:14; Hebrews 6:10). When God entered His creation in the person of Jesus Christ, we're told that Jesus (God in the flesh) was without sin (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15). Do you know of any mention in the Bible of God sinning?

If man had a sin nature before he sinned, how would you reconcile that with Genesis 1:26-27, which tells us that God created man and woman in God's own image and after God's own likeness?

I suppose it's not strictly a Roman Catholic teaching, since some protestant denominations also teach it. But others claim it is not a sound biblical doctrine. In any event, the doctrine of original sin teaches that all of humanity inherit a sin nature as a result of Adam's fall in the garden. As Romans 5:12 states, "as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" The question that always comes up in regard to this doctrine is about the death of infants or those who've been aborted or, as in ancient times, sacrificed, and their accountability to their sin nature from inheritING Adam's sin. What would be the best scriptural argument that infants who die and the aborted are not held accountable for their sin nature?