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One can know God casually and be saved. But He needs to be known intimately, so a Christian can grow in the image of Christ (Rom 8:29; 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18). How do we get to know God intimately? Through enough church attendance and Bible study. There’s no way He would allow a believer to grow...

Thank you Sis for the career you chose in helping others. God bless!

Hi, and appreciate you sharing this because the harder the trials, the greater the learning (as you've mentioned) which increases blessings from God!

His need is to show us His love by "working in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure" (Phl 2:13). Everyone truly saved could not desire anything else. Thanks for sharing, and are you a nurse or doctor?

Hi, and nice reply! Ya, everything here is going to burn, even this old earth "shall be burned up" (2Pe 3:10), and the present "heavens being on fire shall be dissolved" (2Pe 3:12; Mat 24:35).

It may seem a strange thing to say, but I say it after considerable thought, and some years of experience in talking to people of all kinds, that there is hardly anything so little understood by Christians generally as the love of God When I say “the love of God,” I do not mean His love to the...

Thanks for the comment! Our difficulties are means that God uses to strengthen our faith. They are never for determining our faith, for God knows there is no doubt about our faith in Him and the Lord Jesus. He will always show that He is "keeping" us from "falling" (Jde 1:24)!

“For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing people unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them...

The essence of a Christian is that, although he is upon the earth, he is heavenly; and how could he know and grow in that, unless by the revelation of a heavenly Man who is his Life (Col 3:4)? Who is or could be that heavenly Man but the Man Christ Jesus, Who, after having put away sin by the...

We do need this until we get it right. It's not a being-saved issue but a spiritual-growth issue; which is important for rewards latter.

Hi and appreciate your reply! Yes, to be saved one must be reborn first by the Holy Spirit, as you say. God bless!

Some Christians believe that God can “Test Run” the soul. God doesn’t save you, then test you to see if you’re going to stay saved. I heard once that “everyone that should be saved, will be saved”—for there is a Book of Life “from the foundation of the world” (Rev 17:8—we were saved when the...