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I hope they realize that God allows suffering in order for their perseverance to witness to the world the value of saving faith (1Thes. 1:3&7), and their earthly troubles will be far outweighed by heavenly glory (2Cor. 4:7 & 17, Rom. 8:18). However, I am curious about the faith of their mother...

Yes, including Phil. 4:1, which may be connected with Phil. 4:13 and 1Cor. 10:13.

You're welcome, hope it helps your nieces to thank God that their loved ones are happy or headed toward heaven, which is what the healing miracles of Jesus were intended to signify. Some folks may think I am morbid, but for many years I have realized that death/suffering (KOTH) is a fact of...

Yes, but more text on the table makes it less logical to manipulate, so let us consider couplet #3 from 1 Corinthians: 1Cor. 1:8 - "He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." (versus) 1Cor. 15:2 - "By this gospel you are saved, if...

I view translators as exegetes and my roll as dot connector or harmonizing the exegeses, which is what I have been practicing ever since making my first margin notes in my own New English Bible way back circa 1968 (before the google era :^)

I am sorry to hear that your nieces are experiencing reasons we need salvation. We should remember that our heavenly Father also grieved over the crucifixion of His son. Here are some thoughts about suffering from our website: An obvious truism that needs to be mentioned is that the happy...

The next pericope is one complete thought that brings us to the end of chapter two. EPH 2:18-22 – “For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built...

Since I am scraping the bottom of the secular song barrel, here is one of mine: “Until Set Free” Sound of feet along the street, Shadows everywhere, And through the night a ray of light Reveals a lady fair. So fine is she, for all can see The jewels in her hair. Lovely dress and all the rest...

Do you want to participate in systematic Bible study of Ephesians on that thread or of election on the Hermeneutics thread?

I'm persuaded. :love:

And so we can see that the harmonization of the passages: 1John 2:19-20 & 27: "They [antichrists] went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. But you have an...

Yes, I think you overlooked me citing John 14:16. And yes, John 15:9-17 reiterates the command to love, and v.26 also mentions the HS. So we see a connection between the HS, Word/Truth and Love in Scripture that should not be divorced.

1. "his law to be love / Holy Spirit ?" Yes, per John 13:34, 14:16, Rom. 5:5. 2. "Do you think the gospel of the kingdom of God the king came to preach and promise to believers has anything to do with the law of his kingdom?" Yes, I think they are equivalent. 3. "My point is that I agree...

Eccl. 1:9. “There is nothing new under the sun.” If there is no God, then there is no New Covenant and no New Jerusalem, and the universe must be like the water cycle cited in verse 7, with no progression from creation to crucifixion to heaven, but rather only atoms evolving into various forms...

I agree with essentially everything you say, but I wanted to clarify or clean up items such as "the people in his kingdom have to submit to Jesus and acknowledge he is the lord serve him willingly not have him enforcing rules lol he’s a king his word is the subjects law in his kingdom" by...

My opinion is that absence of sin is caused by the presence of the HS and that demon hate is exorcised by the filling of the HS. I envision the righteousness of Christ that God requires to be the fruit of the HS, summarized as love and manifested by loving deeds. Such righteousness will be...

So I noticed. I trust everything is okay and will be interested in what you learned about justification, especially if it pertains to our discussion on the Hermeneutics thread, where we have been missing you.

Excellent post that expresses the purpose of the Kerygma and Hermeneutics threads that I started, so I hope you will not mind if I quote you there, too. My view is that Christian fellowship is based primarily on the essential Gospel kerygma/GRFS, and only secondarily on didachaic doctrines such...

Well, Christ has been reigning at the right hand of God and in the hearts of believers since his ascension until the end comes, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all his enemies, the last of which is death. When it says "everything" has been put under him...

I merely point out that the fruit of the Spirit is love, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control, and there is no rule against such as these, (Gal. 5:22-23) so let us not envision heaven as a situation where Jesus is enforcing rules but rather where we who are elected are reflecting...