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Suffering will happen - but there is suffering for the right reasons and suffering for the wrong reasons. We are to suffer like Jesus did. He suffered because of his 100% dedication to doing God's will - which cost his life. He suffered opposition. No doubt that tough times can teach us...

I don't think God enjoys seeing his children suffer - but even more so for the wrong reasons. The only suffering we are called to as Christians is the type of suffering Christ endured - the persecution and opposition of this dark world. I Peter 5:15,16 says it's not God's will for us to...

The main verse used to support generational curses is Exodus 20:5 "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me" The term "generational...

"Apparently some were creating great confusion by speaking any foreign language they knew, even while others were talking, and also when no one present could understand the language they spoke." Interesting interpretation. So, you think that in the middle of a Corinth church service...

I didn't watch Goonies with my kids. My wife pre-warned me because she was helping out with a Christian day-camp and one of the helpers rented the movie for the group for a rainy day. They didn't let it run very long.

This is a pretty simple answer, but I don't think David really had all-knowledge of the afterlife. I think he is using hyperbole here to say that God's presence is with him no matter where he goes. It is a refrain of praise more than a doctrine on hell. David seems to use other hyperbole in...

I had such fond memories of the Goonies. I remember quoting lines with my friends when I was real young. I just watched it again recently. Not only was it not as good as I remember (lots of lame acting/dialogue) but it has quite a bit of swearing for a kids movie. There's also an extended...

God's children may be judged for their actions - but with a view toward reward, not toward punishment. Those who have received God's forgiveness through Jesus have escaped God's wrath. If works are an essential part of obtaining eternal life, what of the person who dies just moments after he...

This is from the first page: Just wondering where this idea is found in the Bible? How is that gift worked through us? Can we do good works because we are a new creation (as 2 Cor 5:17 indicates) or because we are a "better" person? I ask because I'm not sure what you think happens when...

It deceives people into falling in love with Jesus? Hmmmm.... sounds counter productive.

Granted, Paul was trying to bring order to their tongue speaking, but the point remains that he did not rebuke them for speaking in tongues. If they were practicing something that only the apostles had authority to do then they were operating in the flesh and were in sin. That is not something...

I don't think the point of these verses you quoted was that some people will claim to perform miracles when they aren't really from God and will thus deceive people. If "false" miracles/signs are enough to deceive a Christian, then that Christian deserves to be deceived. (I probably don't mean...

I'm not sure how this proves that modern tongues are false. If they were happening with the Greeks around the time of the Corinth church and yet Corinth had the genuine thing, it stands to reason that even though there are false tongues in pagan religions today there could also be the genuine...

I see that mr. all knowing has spoken. (please excuse my sarcasm) If God provides me with $100 through my neighbor to pay my bills, that is no less "miraculous" than $100 appearing out of nowhere in my pocket. Biblical miracles were oftentimes a supernatural manipulating of natural things...

Very good Cornelius. Thanks for that answer. I've been thinking about those same verses. Any idea why someone who was hung from a tree was considered cursed? Don't we believe that everyone under the Law was under a type of curse? What made the hanged man under more of a curse? Maybe I just...

I understand Jesus having to die. I'm just not sure why it had to be as brutal as it was. It's not like the bulls of the Old Testament sacrifices were tortured and beaten before being killed. I was usually a quick knife to the throat As far as it being prophesied that Jesus would die on the...

My question isn't as simple as it might appear (although maybe someone has a simple answer). I know that Jesus had to die to pay the penalty for our sins, but why did he have to die on the cross? Why did he have to be beaten, stripped, slapped, whipped, and stabbed? Couldn't he have...

Veteran, Nobody is doubting that Jesus existed from eternity past and that he appeared to men in the OT as the Angel of the Lord. One reason we know this is because this messenger speaks as if He were God and He causes the ground to become holy. We don't have either of these clues when...

Thanks for those interesting thoughts to ponder. Please answer this one concisely if you can, since I didn't see a definitive answer in your reply: Do you think Melch. was a momentary appearance of Jesus in the OT and was the king of a figurative city? Or was he around in Abraham's day as king...

This only proves my point. Say a scientist takes a glass jar and vacuums all the air out of it to simulate a place of "nothingness." He and his successors could view the jar for thousands - even millions of years to see if it ever became something. I would like to find one scientist who...