Recent content by Raggedcloth

P I I don't want to try to convince anyone who doesn't want to be convinced, that would be pushy, or cruel. People who attended the groups I attended were not friends beforehand, and almost without exception were blessed by what happens in such...

Since the year I was saved, 35 years ago, I'm often very sorry that people have to present their homes as perfect before they can host a small group meeting. I suppose it's because people are afraid of being judged. I find that unfortunate because hosts are rare. Homes in various states of messy...

Jesus said "I will never leave you nor forsake you." And he said somewhere else "If it were not true I would not tell you" To those who are temporarily weak in their faith, this can seem hard to believe. I hope your friend's brother can be patient with himself during this spiritually dry spell...

I w I hope to add a word of guidance, but others might jump on me for it. I'm concerned that your friend is worrying himself literally sick. It is possible to be anxious enough and worry enough to make yourself physically depressed which is an actual physical ailment that can be treated. I wish...

Please, how xies that demonstrate Sats I can tentatively agree. If men can use matter to fashion remarkable imitations of creatures, I might suppose Satan with an IQ of 10,000 can build a lifelike facsimile of a creature. But he can't breathe life into it. It has no life. I speculate that it...

Yes I knew that even from the beginning. Then I came up with a supposed new verse(es) and uncovered a whole lot of scrutiny which is actually educational. I know that saving Grace was found by people who had to read single torn out pages of Bibles that were passed along by underground railroads...

Wow, that is very helpful. I found those supposed verses in a post from some random guy on a Twitter group lol. I wish I had written his name in my notes, it might have been Branden. I'm not familiar with any methods of verifying text that might be legitimate, and that makes me a neophyte. I'm...

For clarification, are you saying the bracketed text is traceable to Braden? Could he have found it in a text that is canon? Huh, it just occurred to me that all texts that are considered canon could well be entirely indexed, cross referenced, and concordance-ed by now. That would make research...

I don't find it It's hardly offensive to me. My concern is for weaker onlookers.

Sorry, Magenta. I took your helpful reply entirely wrongly. You are good and kind. Sometimes I'm blind to text that is plainly before me. SMH.

Thank you for that. I do not fuss. I know that our Father has cautioned us to not obsess over jots and tittles, and especially to not cause divisions over them. I am merely curious, and am not seeking to prove any point.

Thank you very warmly, Grace_ambassador. I regard you as a long-time distant family member. We will soon know each other. Praise be to God.

This is just to complete the picture: Our Christ nullified the law for those who believe on Him, but for unbelievers to enter the kingdom, they have to follow all of God's law perfectly, which no begotten man can do.

Sorry about that, I did have a point. I have to do this on an Android phone because I don't have real internet. To do my best I need to create text and then roof read it and make corrections, but this Android makes it so tricky by its tiny portion of the screen plus my tendency to tap the screen...