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This life isn't perfect - we just have to do the best we have with what we have and know, but always prayerfully.

Yes, excellent example! And the scriptures say not to disobey one's conscience. So that means one must do what they best know to do in things according to what they see in the Bible. Until or unless he comes to understand how he has been in error in his views on subjects that he is in...

1 Cor 2:14-16 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known...

True - I think you and I agree alike on this! The faith that saves people, isn't strictly True - it looks like you and I believe alike on this! True faith isn't just strictly - believing. The devils believe, James says - yet it doesn't save them. So the word, "faith" - in the Bible -...

I agree with Wikipedia's definition of the word, "repentance": The doctrine of repentance as taught in the Bible is a call to persons to make a radical turn from one way of life to another. The repentance (metanoia) called for throughout the Bible is a summons to a personal, absolute and...

1 John 1:7 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. KJV All that's required is to choose to obey God, wholeheartedly, always, and to always repent sincerely from daily sins...

All that is required is to do one's best to obey God in all things, and to be in the habit of always sincerely repenting of all unintentional sins in daily life. Some have difficulty telling intentional sins apart from intentional sins, at first. But there's a big difference. One needs...

Well, I'm glad that you finally found Christ. I'm just saying i know that many things can influence Christians in the way they happen to interpret parts of the scriptures. And that not all impressions turn out to have given them a 100% correct view in one's understanding of the scriptures.

Indeed - repentance to be most effective, usually - has to start with oneself alone with God and to God - I agree. I'm not Catholic and never have been one.

Yes, it's important to watch for pride in ourselves in our answers to others in forums like this. Pride can make a person blind against learning new truths. It can also make a wrong impression on others, and that doesn't glorify Christ. I am not allowing myself to be under the affect of...

What I mean, is that I interpret those scriptures on the subject of the need for repentance differently than you. And sincerely so. I can't expect all sincere believers to believe the same as I do on all points of doctrine. But I do have to explain to them what I believe is the correct...

True - his confession of sin - his repentance and seeing Jesus as Lord, was all that was needed to save the thief on the cross! And if he'd lived instead of died after that - evidence of his being saved would have shown, by choices he'd have made in life, and how he'd have lived in daily...

Taking up Jesus' cross is figurative. We all have a "cross" to pick up and carry in making the decision to accept Jesus' gift of salvation or not, as it involves a cost of personal commitment. Salvation isn't give to those not willing to commit themselves.

Yes it is figurative. It means to take up our "cross" - just like Jesus took up His. To take up our cross is to make the decision to surrender ourselves wholly to God's will in our lives, instead of to our own will. And being willing to suffer for it if need be.

Thanks! You reply explained it very well! I copied down for myself what you said, too! I had forgotten that verse in Luke 9:5 - yes, that's a very good verse on the subject, too! I think that although some Christians don't read and study their Bibles as much as they should - that many...

I respect your views, but it isn't what I see in the scriptures. It's true it is impossible to get saved by works alone, yet I see evidence that repentance is also a very necessary part of receiving salvation. And repentance produces "works" or "fruit" (it's called both, as I see it, in the...

It is primarily, a change of mind - a desire to be pleasing to God and to be obedient to Him. And it will be followed by action, if this change of mind has been sincere in the part of those who choose to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life. Here's online etymology for the word...

Yes, for some reason, some Christians don't understand that aspect of the need for repentance - no doubt because they haven't been under that kind of teaching much. So I don't agree with their way of explaining the gospel, entirely. But if there's evidence that they do have a heart for...