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  1. FredVB

    What are these verses in Acts 15 talking about?

    The gentiles do not have to do anything to be saved, they that are responding to God's grace through Christ being made known with faith which is with repentance that is made possible are saved just with that, not even doing anything according to God's will, which they are yet to do, when they...
  2. FredVB

    I Samuel 3

    Death came into creation with the fall when the original man disobeyed in rebellion to God. Sin, any sin, brings curse into the world, separating the world with us from God's providence. God is still gracious and so Christ was sent, the incarnation of the Word with God who is God, for...
  3. FredVB

    I Samuel 3

    The Bible is showing God's perfect design, from the flawless good will of God that is right for us, and how rebellion from humans of God's creation came to the fall with sin that ruined that world for us, and leads to death for all of us, and the rest of it is unfolding hidden truth with the...
  4. FredVB

    Does familiarity breed contempt

    God is loving, I don't think God was unfair in not giving Esau the birthright and blessings. Esau despised God and godly things, and he showed that continuing with what there would be from God meant nothing to him. Even though Jacob was also one with his own sins, God could work with him like it...
  5. FredVB

    What did He see?

    The unity of Logos the Word with God who is God and who became flesh as Christ the Son of God with the heavenly Father and the Creator Spirit is entire with agreement in will, that there is never disagreement. I have few following me on Twitter, I would continue with it with having any more.
  6. FredVB

    Is Avoiding Sexual Sin Required for the Christian? Is it Possible to Avoid Sexual sin?

    First it should have definition to what is sexual sin. Some think masturbating is a sin. Passages in the Bible don't say or suggest it is, but there are passages showing that lusting is a sin. So if it is with lusting even with using just the imagination it's still sin. What about married...
  7. FredVB

    What did He see?

    Unseen universes, were they to really exist, are irrelevant. To us they are irrelevant. Were there unseen universes with any to observe within them their universe would be relevant to them, but ours would not be, to them. If they were to exist. Heaven is relevant, and hell is relevant too...
  8. FredVB

    What are these verses in Acts 15 talking about?

    There are certainly future blessings, not all are in the past. Context shows of the Jeremiah prophecy, "It will happen if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by name, 'as Yahweh lives', but if they will not hear I will pluck them up." In the Amos prophecy 'this' is what...
  9. FredVB

    Does familiarity breed contempt

    I am a black sheep. I have been a Christian believer from long ago. I got past such things I held against others knowing I was related to them, so I would not grow to hate them. But it was not the same for others, for what things they held against me. Some remained or grew distant, it was hard...
  10. FredVB

    IF GOD WERE TO SAY...

    It is easy to voice criticism at those fellow believers who struggle more with things, and they speak of it. But we are called to be encouraging, those one who speak of their struggle should not be discouraged from speaking honestly about it and we should not be a cause for a weaker brother or...
  11. FredVB

    What are these verses in Acts 15 talking about?

    “Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. ….they wrote a letter after it’s all settled and send it...
  12. FredVB

    What Captures Your Eye?

    Of course there are things some would value even while many more don't. That there is such rarity that would value the same things makes finding such another more unlikely, especially as I do not go out enough for that, and most of my communication, until finding any such another to be further...
  13. FredVB

    Fellowship & Assembly

    I never noticed much attention to what I have in my signature, except for incidental attention from moderation (not from this site, just another) for any link to a site away from the forum site to be removed. So yes, I started on Twitter, with almost no followers there, while I want connection...
  14. FredVB

    IF GOD WERE TO SAY...

    If we don't have God to go to for asking help where we see need, who else can we go to? God should be first.
  15. FredVB

    Sad statistic...

    It is relevant that not all who say they are Christian, in earlier times and now, are believers with changed lives in Christ, and a common criticism heard from nonbelievers is that Christians in their churches are hypocrites. This should be taken into account. The gospel of salvation in Christ...
  16. FredVB

    Is it possible to do what is the unpardonable sin today?

    The unforgivable sin is saying with really believing it that what is done from the Spirit of God is all from the devil. Why would believers who are saved be saying and believing that? The pharisees who said that were saying what they would not be forgiven for, and they were not believers. Saying...
  17. FredVB

    IF GOD WERE TO SAY...

    We don't know what God means for us to do, without God revealing what there is for us. Too often, I think, God reveals things that God's people are not getting, and they still don't know, and because of their expectations they won't learn what God's will is yet. So it has to be emphasized, we...
  18. FredVB

    Fellowship & Assembly

    I am vulnerable and with the health issues I do not go to assemble with believers as I was doing, until just over two and a half years ago. I watch services online now, it has been services at the church where I had been going, but I have been using the opportunity to watch some at some other...
  19. FredVB

    Wat else 2 do

    Alisha86, God loves you, God is not limited that way, and would keep providing for you. If you will want it, in Christ you can come and talk with God with being in relationship with God, and God will not withhold that from you. It is not God that is wanting any to perish, and Christ was sent to...
  20. FredVB

    Womens' hair

    I like my hair growing a natural length, longer than I see most men growing theirs, now. Longer hair is natural. But what is my own choice, and not yours, I don't push on any others, nor on you. A woman who wants shorter hair can choose that, for herself. And in the song, about hair, it's...