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1 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | Mommapbs | 89548 | ||
FytRobert: Greetings in our Savior's name! It has been a while since we have dialogued. I am wondering how your search goes? Glad to see you are asking questions. Blessings, mommapbs |
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2 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | FytRobert | 89701 | ||
Hi Mommaphs, Yes, it has been awhile but you were always in my mind. In fact, I was expecting to see your comments- your comments are always inspiring. So, will you please oblige, despite several responses. With Love in Christ FytRobert. PS. Please see my relative post of to-day's date. |
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3 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | Mommapbs | 89702 | ||
Greetings! What has promted your line of questioning here? (I see that someone has already asked this too! Also, bear in mind what others have written, spiritual death and physical death are entirely different! There are those, according to 1 Thess 4:17 who will not physically die as we know or understand it. On the other hand, spiritual death, or eternal separation from God, is a very real reality for those who reject the Righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus.) I am SO GLAD that God made an "exception for me!" You see He said, the penalty for sin is death (or separation from God). I am a sinner. Therefore, I have no hope but spiritual death, or do I? God, in His great love and mercy provided a Way for me to escape this penalty, yet still satisify the demand of His justice and His Word. He provided Jesus, to take my place, to take your place, so that we could be the "exception" to His decree. God has said, "it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment" (Heb 9:27) If Enoch and Elijah did not physically "die," did God not keep His Word? How do you, or anyone else for that matter, know what He has planned to fulfill this? Our understanding of physical death is very limited. When God took Enoch, "he was no more." We have come to believe that Enoch did not physically die, we also have the record of Elijah who was taken into Heaven, bypassing death. So is this promised to believers at the coming of the Lord in the air. According to 1 Cor 15:50, we also know that "flesh and blood" cannot inherit eternal life, so God must have done something so that those who did not physically die, as we understand death, could enter His Presence. What or how is an unanswerable question! In some matters, God keeps secrets from us (Dt 29:29). How He will accomplish this is yet to be seen. It is here where faith takes over, FytRobert. Either you believe that God is Who He says He is in His Word or you continue to question His nature. Don't look for "exceptions" that don't concern you! Personally, there is much ground to be covered in the future and many prophesies have yet to be fulfilled. Exactly how God will accomplish these and bring history to a conclusion are only partially revealed in the Bible - bottom line is this: God saves those who put their trust in Him. Jesus is the Way - walk in it. I hope this encourages you! Sometimes the Truth is concealed so that we must just trust His Presence in our midst. My prayer for you is that you will be sensitive to the affirmation of the Holy Spirit and KNOW the Truth (even if you don't understand it) of Whom you seek! Blessings! mommapbs PS: I'm going away until 7/26, so I will be unable to respond until then! Stay close to God's Word - search the Scriptures, PRAY(!), ask questions but don't accept the word of men over the Gospel of God! PRAY again for discernment and wisdom to understand what God is saying to YOU! |
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4 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | RoaringLamb | 89737 | ||
Greetings, Fellow Heirs. I'm new to this forum and am eager to join this discussion. Of all biblical issues, none have generated more discussion, debate, passion, speculation, and confusion among people supposedly of "like mind" than that of the rapture and the various fates of mankind at the end of the age. Yet I am fully persuaded that we -- the body of Christ -- can and WILL come to agreement on this. Four reasons I know we can do this: (1) God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor.14:33); (2) we [if we are true believers] have God's Spirit (Acts 5:32); (3) God is not divided (1 Cor. 1:13); and (4) I've been through this before, in discussions involving Christians from all kinds of denominations and, in each case, where love and humility -- and Christ -- ruled, understanding was achieved. Once we see, from God's Word, that denominational pride is sin; that God is against false teaching; and that God requires us to come to unity in the faith (1 Cor. 1:10-13), we can discover the plain, simple truth about these things. Having done this many times before, I am familiar with the various lines of reasoning and points of contention -- as well as the false assumptions -- that have unnecessarily prolonged the debate for centuries. The problem lies in our tendency to jump from FALSE PREMISES TO PREMATURE CONCLUSIONS. Forgetting the biblical injunction against PRIVATE INTERPRETATION of the Scriptures (2 Pet. 1:20), we rely on human reasoning and end up presenting opinion as doctrine. While we all speculate on matters not definitively set forth by the Scriptures, when it comes to DOCTRINE, we had better verify what we teach. Doctrine is that which we hold one another accountable to believe. Upon DOCTRINE we make RULES. And because of RULES, I have seen people put out of churches, leave churches, and refuse to become part of churches. Because of RULES, people have even committed suicide. Every church I have ever attended has preached at least one sermon against the practice of the Pharisees and Saducees of going beyond God's requirements and laying burdens on others. Yet every one of them had their own set of requirements. A quick example: many churches condemn ALL consumption of alcoholic beverages -- going far beyond the biblical condemnation of DRUNKENESS. When I address this forum again -- if it's God's will -- I will examine the first premise most churches teach that the Scriptures plainly contradict, but by its application casts many a stumbling block before the would-be believer. I think we will begin to see that the "good news" REALLY IS GOOD. In Christ, Jay |
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5 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | gracefull | 89871 | ||
"When I address this forum again -- if it's God's will -- I will examine the first premise most churches teach that the Scriptures plainly contradict, but by its application casts many a stumbling block before the would-be believer." You have piqued my curiosity...I hope I don't miss the post. Do you see a 'premise' that may have blocked our vision on this topic..Enoch and Elizah translated? God bless |
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6 | Searching for the truth | 1 Thess 4:17 | RoaringLamb | 90280 | ||
gracefull - I haven't abandoned this branch and still intend to return to finish that discussion. I have been working on a long reply to "justme" to his reply to a question I submitted. I invite you to take a look at the branch under the question: "Rapture different from Second Coming?" Please give me your thoughts on it if you do read it. Love, In Christ Roaring Lamb |
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