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Thanks E for the response. I can see you are very worked up about these conclusions you have. Those are your conclusions and ideas. They are not mine. I believe that God is love. God gives those who are his own the gospel to share, which they share with everyone. They share it with those who...

Thanks EmethAlethia. The scripture says that God is love. I do not understand your insistence that my position means God wants to torture and roast people. That is not my thoughts at all, nor do I believe it follows from the idea that God wants his sheep to be saved.

Thanks Emethalethia. You are imagining that I am imagining things that I have not imagined. You are making up words that are way far from my perspective. Where do you get these ideas? I am only trying to accurately interpret scripture. To me, the scripture from 1 Timothy seems to be saying that...

Thanks GWH. You are starting with the premise that God desires all to be saved. Do you have a scripture for that? I am saying that the scripture from 1 Timothy may actually be saying that God desires all of his sheep to be saved. I would love to have everyone saved, but I am not in the place of...

Thanks EmethAlethia for your look at predestination. You began with a scripture: "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.". It seems you are interpreting this as something along the lines of God wants all people to be saved. That would be excellent, but...

(continued) That's why I see the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as a picture of the law. The law is good and holy and just in and of itself, but because humans cannot live up to it in their own strength, they die. The solution, of course, is not to try to save ourselves by our own...

Thanks DavidLamb, for your comments about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I see the tree of life as a picture of Christ. He is in the midst of the garden of believers. Jesus is in the midst of the believers. There is only, of course, one way, truth and life, so the tree of life is...

Thanks Mem and Aaron 56 for your very good comments. One way to think about wisdom in the Bible is to think of it as somewhat synonymous with salvation. Remember, the parable of the 10 virgins. Those who are saved are described as wise. That means wise is a way of describing being saved...

Thanks YouOnlyLiveTwice, for noticing the 'she' in wisdom in Proverbs. Consider Galatians: "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was...

Thank BBerean for noticing the Matt 24:20 scripture about the sabbath and the Revelation 1 verse about how John was in the spirit on the Lord's Day. The Lord's Day in Revelation 1 is probably referring to the Day of the Lord, such as is talked about in Malachi 4. This is a time when the proud...

Thanks Seeker47, for considering the sabbath. I like that you mention Numbers 15 and the man who picked up sticks on the sabbath. People often use this scripture to say that God commanded bad things or that the Bible advocates murder. They try to discredit what is written because they don't...

Thanks God-fearing, for your reply. Yes, we see things quite differently, but thanks for chatting.

Thanks God-fearing, for your question about the millennium. Let's read that again. But first, keep in mind that God says that his scripture is written in parable form. We read in Psalm 78, "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a...

Thanks God-fearing for your interest in the Feasts of the Lord. Asking questions about scripture is good that we may learn and be edified hopefully. You mention the Feast of Tabernacles. It takes a certain amount of time to look at each feast, so let's just stick with one for now - the Feast of...

My favorite verses about holidays is from Colossians 2. It describes how holy days are shadows of the real thing, whilst the reality is Christ. So, we shouldn't judge or force anyone into thinking that observing them makes them Christian, whilst those who do not observe them are not Christian...