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I have a weird question about the Holy Spirit. I’ve been basing my assurance of salvation on whether I can tell if I have the Spirit of God in me. I seriously can’t tell a difference between now and before I repented as far as peace of mind and joy. I can tell the truth of scripture is something...

The Holy Spirit testifies that God is true. You want to trust a God who isn't true? Take away the Spirit. But the truth is that the Spirit searches the mind of God and testifies he is true. I lift up the Holy Spirit as being more important to believe in than anything we can see or hear or read.

I'm hoping someone can help me. It's about knowing something you don't know. How do you do it? In particular, C.S. Lewis posed the problem of deciding who Jesus is, he's either 1. a madman, 2. a liar (demonic) or 3. who he says he is (true). I know what wanting to be true is about, and so I...

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I have grown up around churches teaching either supporting a pre tribulation rapture, or if they don’t, they say nothing at all about it. Recently I attended what seemed to be a solid Bible believing church in every aspect. But then I asked the pastor if he believed in a literal 1000 yr reign...

Also, in the account in Mark 9:24, some texts say that Jesus told the disciples the only way to cast this type of demon out was by prayer and fasting. So let’s say you have a problem yourself with unbelief and suspicion about God. But you have enough faith to ask Jesus to help your unbelief. I...

It's common to classify people as either saved or unsaved, and that's a proper way to see things. But an unsaved person can either realize he's been called or not. Like Judas, he was called and he knew it. But he had no faith in God or in Christ. Or take Cain. After offering a sacrifice...

I’m weary of fighting the battle with pornography. It wears me out. I do good for a while and then give up almost. I believe it is a sin in my body that often I fight but am easily overwhelmed by anxiety and shaking and it seems to help in those areas. The prognosis seems long term and then I...

I'm having trouble knowing the difference between indwelling sin (1 John 1:8) and practicing sin. Could someone explain this to me? Thank you. PS My OCD symptoms appear as someone yelling at me to put away my indwelling sins that I try hard to conquer but can't yet. This can't be God...

The big questions to me are these: 1. Are Jews called to be taught repentance from sin from birth on, or from Bar Mitzvah on? 2. Are Gentiles called to be taught repentance from sin from birth on, or at an age of accountability? 3. And how does the election of grace fit into all this?

I was born in the midwest, and had a mother who hid her Jewish roots from us kids because of the persecution in Europe where her great grandparents came from (her last name was a form of Jacob, and I never put two and two together). So I always had a calling from God in my life, from the womb I...

I'm not seeing any eyeservice/men-pleasing going on in this situation... where do you see me doing this?

I have a Christian friend, and she wants to remain unmarried but wants me to be close to her and grow old together as friends. Already this is kind of complicated, yes? No intimacy allowed, and yet I would hurt, and she would hurt, very badly if we "broke up" from this, because we care for...

I don’t have a difficulty believing Jesus is my savior and that he saves me - I’m not asking help for myself in this post, although when I started my journey, God had to really filter out the false teachers from my life to know who I believe, and I had to examine my own faith. Rather, I’m...

No. That’s not what I’m saying. I think I can see times where my faith isn’t as authentic as it could be. I have come to Him, many times, every day. But some people assume total salvation without ever coming to him.

I've been thinking about this phenomenon for years concerning my own conversion experience, sensing the lack of authenticity of it, and recently heard some preaching on the subject. It's the fact that some people profess to be Christian, and know Scripture up and down, even about theology...

Thanks for your reply. I guess my question should have been stated differently, but the real issue of my question is God "willing" to show grace to a person, if that person is able to acknowledge God in the common grace? Not "have they found the saving faith/grace yet, but is God willing for...

We all know what common grace is - God sends rain on the righteous and the wicked alike is a good example. If God is willing to show this kind of common grace on someone at a certain moment, is he also willing to show saving grace to the same person at that moment, especially if that person...

Isn't the Church indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and that when the Church is taken, so is the Holy Spirit? Meaning when the restrainer is taken out of the way, (ie the Church), then the antichrist will be revealed?

Sometimes the urge to despair in my faithlessness and unbelief overwhelms my logic and how I believe the truth.. I cry out to Jesus and say, "What have I done with my life??! I've ruined my Christian life! I've lost the race!" I tend to think I am in perdition, that I'm lost without hope...