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Yes, people are hard to convince of views other than the ones they hold. :)

Oh...I was focusing more on the danger to the man himself who was preaching and then in danger of being disqualified after he preached. I suppose the gospel can be preached without the man preaching it having the Spirit and power and another man hear and be saved...I'll take your word on it. I...

This doesn't just describe catholics. I was never a catholic and I was caught in trying to be good by trying hard to be good! I was a foolish Galatian for many, many years.

If we doubt based on what our eyes see, that is not faith. Faith is trusting despite what our eyes see. Faith holds the promises, not what the eyes see.

Jesus said that among all men born, John was the greatest. But that even the least important in the Kingdom was greater than John. John had his moment of doubt, worry and mistrust. We all have that at some time. John saw his bleak situation, (jailed and probably going to lose his life) and he...

Yes, and when He says: come out of her my people, He will not only be calling them out of the RCC but out of every place where they are.

Yes he can still witness and preach. As I said, the danger for himself is to witness and preach without having his own sight. Without being able to see himself. That is just the blind leading the blind.

You were caught in the web too. God didn't give up on you. Have you ever heard where a man said this: Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

When Paul was saying here that "you do these very same things," he was not speaking to men who were running around physically and on the outside committing murder and adultery, etc. He was speaking of what they did in the shadows that no man could see but that God sees.

Yes, it is not right to leave a man in his ignorance. We protestants are good at preaching the gospel. The danger is phariseeism - preaching it to others when our righteousness does not exceed theirs. In other words, Romans 2 New Living Translation (NLT) God’s Judgment of Sin 2 You may think...

Or another way to put it would be...we begin to abide (trust and count on Him) in Him more and more and so we begin to abide in Him for longer and longer periods of time and don't stumble in mistrust /unbelief as often. Because if/when we abide(trust) in Him we do not sin. Whatever is of...

paul said something about this...he said there are (my paraphrase, going on memory) those sins that are visible and apparent and there are those that will be brought to light at judgement. A man who is incarcerated for murder, that's visible. When all is brought to light one day, a man who had...

When I am trying to figure the verses into my equation that seem to contradict, yes, I try to take all related verses into account. But I am sometimes missing some or not considering certain ones that could be related. That's why talking with you guys in here helps me so much. You all often have...

Yes, it does say they have their part in the lake of fire. It was never in question that they do. The question was whether their part in the lake of fire included eternal life and eternal torment.

It doesn't specifically say they aren't human. I get the feeling reading that they are somehow indwelt by satan himself. But it still doesn't specifically state eternal torment for any other than that unholy trinity. I think that those who believe we humans aren't born immortals tend toward...

You made me laugh very hard with this.

And this makes sense to me where humans are concerned because they are not born with eternal life in them. (Satan appears to be a different story somehow. He does appear to have eternal life in him somehow).

Yes, I have noted before that it says the beast, false prophet and satan are tormented forever and ever. It does then say all who aren't written in the book of life are thrown into that same lake of fire. But it doesn't specifically state eternal torment for them as it does for that unholy...

PennEd, I thought it said satan was thrown into the abyss before the 1000 years and into the lake of fire after the 1000 years...

Those massive conundrums are what we search out all the time. :) We try to search out what we aren't yet understanding. Often, it seems to me that our problem is in assuming that certain verses are all describing the same exact event or the same exact time period. It isn't really a "view"...