Willie T

We are still "saved"... this is just the way God wants us living.

*Cletus*, you didn't even bother to read those six pages I sent you, did you?

To simplify it, "REPENT" means two things as it pertains to us. The first is to "change our mind about what will give us Eternal Life." This comes before we are followers of Christ. The second pertains to our subsequent walk with Christ, and that meaning is to turn from sin when we recognize it in our thoughts or actions.

Karl Barth even said one time that "Religion is unbelief."

God repented something like 27 or 28 times in the Bible. So, we know right there that the meaning is not just to quit sinning.

*Cletus* just told you. (Well, except that he added a slight misunderstanding of "repentance")

Just as when Jesus started way back with the Law and the Prophets and began expounding about Himself to the two men on the Emmaus Road, "The Gospel" is not a verse or two to be selected out of the Bible's entire story of the redemption of man.

It starts in Genesis.

As usual, a very reasoned and logical reply.

If any person doesn't, they know nothing about that mess called a registry. You, yourself could end up on it for some of the most innocent things. One 15 year-old couple in Utah are both on it for life because their fathers (Mormons, I believe) objected to them going too far in their dating. (I think they are nearly thirty now, and still, daily, suffering the devastating consequences of that labeling...…. They will carry it to their graves. Their lives are both literally over.)

BTW, as someone who has spent a good part of his life dealing directly with Sex Offenders (mostly convicted) I can honestly and frankly inform you that you just may want to tell God you want to sit this healing stuff out.... BECAUSE if you ARE convicted of something like that and get on that dreaded registry (whether falsely, or not) your life is essentially over, and you will never get it back.

Enough has been posted that I think we can now ask for your opinion, *Zion*.

I just said that. But if you find yourself in a situation where there is not the other person there to keep you looking safe, we should not fear men more than we desire to obey God.

That's good common sense, but if the situation is not such as to be able to play it safe... we should not and Cannot ignore the greater calling that God give us not to fear the wagging tongue of man, but to do His bidding.

You actually are.

Since I have seen healing both ways for years, I would have to say. "Yes." (But I believe that "laying of hands" on someone really does nothing.)

In truth, ALL OF US ARE PARTIAL PRETERISTS, even if we try to vehemently deny it. We all believe some of the OT prophesies were met (completed and came to pass) in Jesus.

I didn't know about [URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8pLOYmnzE ]THIS[/URL], but I am finding it interesting, right from the very first statement about the book. Thank you very much for telling me about it.

If it helps, the book was written by David Chilton.

I don't know. I have never looked for that since I often like to re-read some paragraphs or chapters several times in a row.

They can both be downloaded, for free, online. But, a warning: They are both large books, and cannot be covered in just a few days.

Specifically, if the book of Revelation was written prior to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, it makes it very difficult to refocus all that the book talks about as being meant to happen thousands of years off into the future. The book The Days of Vengeance is probably the most comprehensive commentary of Revelation ever written in all of history, and the other book that really presents both sides of the "date of writing" issue is Before Jerusalem Fell. Both are great books that no Christian should fail to read.

I've personally met only two in my entire 73 years of life, that I know of, anyway.

In all honesty, I think the more we allow God to control us, the more we can see Him in fiction that we often would have shunned due to concern of not appearing to others to be totally devoted to studying the Scriptures. (Yes, God can often be found in fiction.... after all, are not parables [just like many books] fiction based upon a true concept? And, it is written that Jesus only spoke to the crowds in parables.)

An honest reply. That's hopeful.