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  1. Laura798

    The Institutional Church and Denominations--please share your experience

    Yes, thats what i keep telling myself….it will take time to acclimate— i think of the verse “ whether you turn to the right or to the left God is there…” 🙏✨
  2. Laura798

    The Institutional Church and Denominations--please share your experience

    I moved here to be near my youngest son— i prayed before moving, but still feeling strange and out of sorts…
  3. Laura798

    The Institutional Church and Denominations--please share your experience

    Thanks Tony for your response and for getting it. What i mean by man centered is the TV cafes the choices of traditional vs contemporary, the segregation of the ages, trying so hard to be relevant and entertaining, the formulas— even down to the untucked shirt, jeans and loafers by even the 60...
  4. Laura798

    The Institutional Church and Denominations--please share your experience

    Oh thank you Gardenias!🤗 i still havent got my bearings— I moved to Houston from a small city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Where i lived was more like a small town— a park 2 blocks away— the same with the library and pharmacy - grocery store, post office and bank a block away. Here — so much...
  5. Laura798

    The Institutional Church and Denominations--please share your experience

    Ive just moved to another state just this week — havent be on this site—busy and overwhelmed! Godwilling will find something here— ideal is simple, organic. Bible centered fellowship — no church made for the masses — blaring same old choruses, segregating of the ages— no cookie cutter man...
  6. Laura798

    Interpreting the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: It's Really Good News!

    Agreed. And Ill add: Matthew 13:34 All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable. . Mark 4:34 and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples. Source...
  7. Laura798

    Interpreting the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: It's Really Good News!

    Agreed. The only problem is many Christians will say the HS told them and theyve got it very wrong.
  8. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    I have discovered by being on these forums that the majority prefer to hold to the false doctrine theyve been taught, rather than like the Bereans studying the scriptures for themselves to see if what theyve been taught aligns with Gods Word. I am now leaving this forum and will not respond...
  9. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    There is nothing childish in speaking the truth and it is not fantasizing as you say when i am quoting scripture to support my arguments . I suggest practicing exegesis when studying Gods word, rather than eisegesis- which is evident by your posting on this forum and your continued pattern of...
  10. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    And THIS is the problem with ALL false doctrine--you COMPLETELY IGNORE what Luke clearly states in ACTS. It is in the ISOLATION of verses that ALL false doctrine originates. The bible is not meant to be cut up in pieces like some ransom note; the books of the bible are integrated to create a...
  11. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    Again speaking here you are again speaking from your own ideas; it's astounding how very many verses you choose to ignore. That you believe in the false doctrine of the IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. The bible clearly states God ALONE is immortal--we will ONLY put on immortality at Christ's...
  12. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord. "--Romans 6:23 And you don't seem to understand without the body and soul working in concert a corpse cannot be asleep--one must needs have a soul to be 'asleep'--the whole point of calling it sleep...
  13. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    _____________________________ First, Matthew and Mark both state that Jesus ONLY spoke to the people in parables--NO exceptions: "Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable."--Matthew 13:34 “But without a PARABLE spoke He...
  14. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    FG2--it isn't about what any of us think--it is to read and understand what GOD is saying to us--not what you have been taught. "Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day...
  15. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    And THAT is your own made up narrative--that is nowhere to be found in scripture. Luke in Acts give an account of what happened, methodically and simply--first this happened, next that happened and so forth.
  16. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    "9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight." 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the...
  17. Laura798

    Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 Teach Jesus Will Return With Dead Saints Now With Him In Heaven?

    I shared the scripture — it clearly says it was 40 days before his ascension— any pastor or biblical scholar will tell you the same.