Recent content by Chester

My wife has long wrestled with general nutritional and overall health. I started specifically praying for her pituitary gland and her digestive tract (and others things also) and at her last visit to her nutritionalist several of these came into the "green" for the first time. Prayer is a much...

Very clear Scriptures leave no doubt: God want all to be saved. But He is not a taskmaster who forces all to follow Him: in fact He makes Himself vulnerable to the mistakes and sins of man . . . and willingly suffers Himself to bring man back to Himself. Vulnerability is strength, not...

The short story: He accepted Christ, believed and followed Him. He was real, alive, and growing for God. Then various circumstances came into the picture (of which I shall not go into here), and he gradually got entangled in first humanism, then atheism, and later Islam, and others. Sad...

my brother in law

What really matters to me (and I think it matters to God as well) is that I want as many as possible to believe (with all their heart, soul, and mind) in Jesus Christ. He and He alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I have given and will continue to give all of my body as a living...

OK, I just wondered if you knew what the authors were talking about when they said "put Him to an open shame." Evidently you have an opinion of what that text means, and that is very OK: all are entitled to an opinion.

constantly putting him to an open shame means those who believe/teach??? "loss of salvation? Do you have Scriptural reason to believe that this is what "putting to an open shame" means?

John 10: 27,28: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. It sounds to me like a sheep that is hearing his voice ad following him will...

Sometimes in the middle of an intense debate over doctrines, one needs to simply step back and look at what Scripture clearly says: Those who believe in Jesus have eternal life and will be with Jesus forever. Those who do not believe in Jesus will suffer the wrath of God in hell forever. Do...

the Winner I am the Loser you are This is the end of the game!

Jude 23: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. If hell is real, and it is real: then we as believers need to take serious our calling to not let others go there!

In John 15:6 what then was getting burnt in the fire? It seems to me it is a branch that is getting burnt. And there is no way that you can get a branch unless it was sometime somehow connected to the vine.

I think one needs to be careful with answers here. I see quite often in this thread the implication that if you are baptized by someone who is not a believer, that makes the baptism invalid. I wholeheartedly agree that one should seek to be baptized by a believer, and as was pointed out...

Just read the passage and don't make it so complicated - excellent advice . . . My sheep are continuing to hear my voice and they are continuing to follow me and I am continuing to give to them eternal life! Wonderful truths and promises to the sheep! Amen! Hallelujah!

And yet we see this in Matthew 10:15: Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Unfortunately, in our world today there are those who are more defiant and impudent than was Sodom: surely not everyone is...