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"I am too weak to live a Christian life"
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2Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"
1Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1John 4:4 "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."
1John 5:4 "For whoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith."
Jude 1:24 "Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,"
Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
Jesus is proof that any man can live a life pleasing to God because he is the son of man i.e. the representative of any man.
Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
The Christian life is not about you and what you should do but about Christ and what He will do in you.
Zechariah 4:6 "Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying,
2Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
"I am afraid I cannot hold out"
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2Peter 2:9 "The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"
Philippians 1:6 "Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:"
Romans 14:4 "Who are you that judge another man's servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yea, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand."
1Corinthians 10:13 "There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it."
2Timothy 1:12 "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
Hebrews 7:25 "Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them."
1Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
"It is too hard to get saved"
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Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
John 1:12 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name:"
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;"
John 3:15 "
John 6:28 "Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?"
2Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Salvation is simple and easy because it is all about faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ and non about your own works and person (who you are)
"I will have another chance after death"
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Psalm 9:17 "The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God."
Proverbs 29:1 "He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
1Corinthians 6:9 "Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
Galatians 5:19 ,19 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,",20 "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies,",21 "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."
Revelation 21:8 "
Revelation 22:15 "For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie."
"I believe all will be saved"
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Matthew 7:13 "
Mark 16:16
John 3:18 "
1Corinthians 6:9 "Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
Galatians 5:19 ,19 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,",20 "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies,",21 "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Revelation 21:8 "
Psalm 9:17 "The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God."
Proverbs 29:1 "He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."
Revelation 22:15 "For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie."
Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
"Salvation is not for everybody"
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John 3:16 "
John 6:37
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
Romans 10:9 "That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved."
Romans 10:13
Titus 2:11 "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,"
Revelation 22:17 "And the Spirit and the bride say,
"No one can really know that he is saved"
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John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
John 5:24 "
Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
2Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
1John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1John 2:3 "And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
1John 3:15 Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1John 5:13 "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God."
"If I live right it matters not what I believe"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Faith in Christ is not a way,a truth or a life but THE way, THE truth and THE life. THE means the absolute and only.
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 1:17 "For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Galatians 5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."
No man's righteous is enough to meet God's standards of true righteousness and therefore merit salvation. God's standard of righteousness is Himself His righteousness which can only be merited through faith in Christ.
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
The law must be completely obeyed in order to deliver eternal life or salvation and no man can do that except Christ who has done that and received eternal life on behalf of all those who receive Him by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Our best works cannot meet God's standards.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The aim of the law is to unveil our need for Jesus by revealing our helpless state of sin.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Faith in the work and person of Jesus
"I keep the law, so I will be all right"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Faith in Christ is not a way truth or a life but THE way THE truth and THE life. THE means the absolute and only approved one
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 1:17 "For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Galatians 5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."
No man's righteous is enough to meet God's standards of true righteousness and therefore merit salvation. God's standard for righteousness is Himself His righteousness which can only be merited through faith in Christ.
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
The law must be wholly obeyed in order to deliver eternal life or salvation and no man can do that except Christ who has done that and received eternal life on behalf of all those who receive Him by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Our best works cannot match God's standards.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The purpose of the law is to reveal our need for Jesus by showing us our helpless state of sin.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
"I lead a good moral life and do the best I can"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Faith in Christ is not a way truth or a life but THE way THE truth and THE life. THE means the absolute and only one.
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 1:17 "For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Galatians 5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."
No man can be righteous enough to meet God's standards of true righteousness and therefore merit salvation. God's standard of righteousness is Himself His righteousness which can only be merited through faith in Christ.
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
The law must be completely observed in order to deliver eternal life or salvation and no man can do that except Christ who has done that and received eternal life on behalf of all those who receive Him by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Our best efforts cannot meet God's standards.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The objective of the law is to show us our need for Jesus by revealing our helpless state of sin.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Faith in the work and person of Christ.
"I am a good person, God will allow me into heaven"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Faith in Christ is not just a way, a truth or a life but THE way THE truth and THE life. 'THE' means the absolute and only.
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 1:17 "For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Galatians 5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."
No man is righteous is enough to meet God's standard of true righteousness and therefore merit salvation. God's standard of righteousness is Himself His righteousness which can only be merited through faith in Christ.
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
The law must be completely obeyed in order to deliver salvation and no man can do that except Christ who has done that and received eternal life on behalf of all those who receive Him by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Our best works cannot meet God's least standards of perfection.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The purpose of the law is to show us our need for Jesus by revealing our helpless state of sin.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Faith in the work and identity of Jesus Christ.
"God will forgive me my sins because I do a lot of good works"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Faith in Christ is not a way truth or a life but THE way THE truth and THE life. THE means the absolute and only.
Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 1:17 "For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Galatians 5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."
No man's righteous is enough to meet God's standards of true righteousness and therefore merit salvation. God's standard of righteousness is Himself, His righteousness which can only be merited through faith in Christ.
Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
The law must be completely obeyed in order to deliver eternal life and no man can do that except Christ who has done that and received eternal life on behalf of all those who receive Him by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Our best efforts cannot meet God's least standards of perfection.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The objective of the law is to reveal our need for Jesus by revealing our helpless state of sin.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Faith in the work and person of Jesus Christ.
"All men are children of God"
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Matthew 13:39
John 8:44 "
Acts 13:10 "And said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?"
2Timothy 2:19 "Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."
1John 3:8 "He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
"God will save me when He wants to"
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Matthew 18:3 "And said,
God will not do anything if you will not convert.
Mark 1:15 "And saying,
Mark 16:16
1Timothy 2:4 "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
God not only wants you to be saved but commands you to believe and be saved.
2Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
God has gone to all extremes to ensure your salvation.
Revelation 22:17 "And the Spirit and the bride say,
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever WILL let him take the water of life freely. All that is left is in your will in your power.
"God is too good to damn anyone"
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Jeremiah 9:24 "
Exodus 20:5 "
Romans 12:19 "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,
Psalm 94:2 "Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud."
Jeremiah 21:14 "
Psalm 9:8 "And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness."
"But other religions teach godly principles Why can't I be saved through them"
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2Timothy 3:5 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
Other religions lack the spirit and life of Godly principles which are found in the words of Christ.
John 6:63 "
1Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."
Romans 7:14 "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
Godly principles can only help a person delivered from sin and death but cannot deliver a person from sin and death.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.
The totality of all Godly principles is Christ. To receive Christ is to receive Godly principles in full.
Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
1John 5:11 "And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."
Life cannot be found in godly principles but only in Christ.
John 12:46 "
Christ and not godly principles is the light of the world.
2Corinthians 3:6 "Who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life."
Life is found in the spirit of Christ and not in godly principles.
1John 2:22 "Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son."
All true godly principles must point to and acknowledge Christ as the source of eternal life. Godly principles do not replace Christ but exist to place Christ in the hearts of men as the author of eternal life.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Christ is not a light but THE LIGHT men ought to be led by.
"I do not believe in God"
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Psalm 14:1 "To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good."
The existence of God is so obvious that you will have to be a fool not to see it.
Mark 16:16
Life is lived on the belief of the truth and your own beliefs cannot change the truth nor give you life.
John 3:16 "
Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse:"
Revelation 21:8 "
Revelation 22:15 "For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie."
Your believe in a lie that God does not exist will be punished.
Job 12:7 "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:"
Everything in the universe testifies of the existence of God.
"I do not believe in hell"
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Psalm 9:17 "The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God."
Matthew 10:28 "
Matthew 25:41 "
Revelation 21:8 "
Revelation 22:15 "For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie."
Revelation 19:20 "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."
"I do not believe in the atonement"
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Leviticus 17:11
Matthew 26:28 "
Romans 5:8 "But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Ephesians 1:7 "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"
Colossians 1:20 "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
1Peter 3:18 "For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:"
Hebrews 10:12 "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;"
"I do not believe in any church"
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Matthew 16:18 "
A true church is one built on the rock that Jesus is the messiah the author of eternal salvation. There are many churches with this rock as foundation because the gates of hell cannot prevent the existence and growth of the true church.
1Timothy 3:15 "But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
The presence of truth is indicative of the presence of the church because the church is the custodian of the truths of God. Because truth exists in this world the true church also exists.
1Corinthians 1:2 "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:"
The true church is one made up of people sanctified in Christ Jesus through faith. There are such many in the world.
1Corinthians 12:28 "And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, administrators, various kinds of tongues."
The church has been heavily equipped by God to be the saviour of the world. If there is no true church then the world can never be saved. God therefore ensures the church's existence and growth because He loves the world.
1Corinthians 15:9 "For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."
It is a great disadvantage to anyone who does not recognise the existence and role of the church in this world.
Ephesians 3:10 "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,"
The church is the source of God's wisdom hidden from all creatures for the redemption of all creation.
Ephesians 1:22 "And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,"
The fullness of all that Christ is is the church and revealed through the church. The church is the highest body God has ever established because it is headed by Christ who is holds the highest authority in all creation.
Ephesians 3:21 "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."
The church is the eternal hiding place of the glory of God
Hebrews 12:23 "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,"
The church is a highly recognised body on earth by heaven having being established by heaven on earth.
Revelation 3:14 "
God recognises and communicates His intentions to the world through the church.
Matthew 18:20 "
There are so many people who meet in Christ's name. God acknowledges them as His church because they meet with faith in Christ's name.
1John 1:7 "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin."
The evidence that you are walking in the light is your fellowship with the church. The fellowship in the church gives you light and grants you access to the blood that cleanses you from all filth.
"I do not believe in the virgin birth"
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Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
Isaiah 9:6 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
A son bears of the name of his father. Because this child bears the name of God His Father is God and thus has no earthly father.
Romans 8:3 "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:"
Jesus could bridge earthly people to God because He has a Godly origin (His father) and an earthly origin (His mother).
1Timothy 3:16 "And without doubt great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
God can only manifest in the flesh only through the virgin birth. The witnesses to the virgin birth are absolutely trustworthy.
Genesis 3:15 "
Jesus is the seed of the woman and not the seed of the man because He was born without the seed of a man ie. only that of a woman-a virgin
Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death."
Leviticus 17:11
Only the blood that is not contaminated by sin can atone for sins and overcome the devil. \The blood of every person is determined by his father. If Christ had an earthly father His blood would have been contaminated and will be unfit to atone but because God is His father His blood is pure and atones to sins.
"I do not believe in a hereafter or immortality"
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Matthew 17:3 "And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him."
Moses was physically dead but spiritually alive. Elias never died though he far exceeded the duration of the life men
Luke 23:43 "And Jesus said unto him,
The thief physically died that day but was promised another life in another world.
Revelation 6:9 "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:"
After death men still have emotions can hear can understand have a will speech and have a body. The after life is not figurative but a literal life.
Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Luke 16:23 "
Lazarus and the rich man were all dead but alive in Abraham's bosom and hell respectively
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Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Only the living can be judged this means that death is not the end of the existence of a person but a mere translation into another world.
John 11:26
Mark 12:26 "
God is the God of people who have died; it means that these people are merely alive/present in another world but absent from this world because God is the God of the living.
1Peter 3:19 By whom also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Christ after His death was yet alive to preach to the spirits of dead people. They could only be preached to if there is life after death.
"I do not believe in the deity of Jesus Christ"
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John 10:30
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The word is Christ and Christ is God because the word is God.
Isaiah 9:6 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
Only God can have a government which is perfect and eternal.
1John 5:7 "For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."
The word is Christ.
Colossians 1:15 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:"
Only God is before all things and greater than all things.
Exodus 20:5 "
Matthew 28:9 "And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
Acts 10:25 "And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshiped him."
Peter rejected worship but Christ never rejected worship because He is God and God welcomes worship.
Philippians 2:6 "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:"
Revelation 19:16 "And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
Colossians 1:16 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"
Matthew 4:3 "And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."
John 5:18 "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God."
1Timothy 3:16 "And without doubt great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
Mark 2:5 "When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic,
John 10:33 "The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God."
Matthew 12:8
John 20:28 "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God."
John 14:13 "
"I do not believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ"
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Luke 24:39 "
Zechariah 13:6 "
This is a prophecy of Christ's resurrection bearing on Himself the Marks of His crucifixion.
John 20:20 "And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord."
Jesus showed many infallible signs that He has literally risen from the dead.
1Corinthians 15:4 "And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
John 11:25 "Jesus said unto her,
Jesus is the real and full expression and source of resurrection.Jesus is the real and full expression and source of resurrection.
John 20:27 "Then said he to Thomas,
John 20:29 "Jesus said unto him,
John 20:30 "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:"
Jesus gave many infallible signs that He has literally risen from the dead.
John 2:19 "Jesus answered and said unto them,
Christ prophesied that He will literally resurrect from the dead.
1Corinthians 15:13 "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:"
1Corinthians 15:21 "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead."
Just as literal death came through man literal resurrection also comes through the man Jesus.
Acts 2:24 "Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it."
Psalm 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
This a prophecy that the body of Jesus will not decay because of a literal resurrection.
Revelation 1:18 "
John 10:18 "
Christ did not only literally resurrect from the dead but defeated death and has the power of death in His hands.
"I don't believe that Jesus was crucified"
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John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
Matthew 27:35 "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
1Thessalonians 5:10 "Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."
Philippians 2:8 "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
Hebrews 2:9 "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."
Hebrews 2:14 "Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"
Hebrews 9:16 "For where a will is, there must also of necessity be the death of the maker."
Christ's death is the evidence that we have peace with God. Christ purchased this peace with His life.
"I think there is more than one way to God"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Jesus is not rude, yet He said He is the way. He did not say He is a way but the way.
John 10:9 "
Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Hebrews 10:19 "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,"
Just as life is found in the blood we have access to the life of God only through the blood of His Son.This is because only His son also carries the life of His Father-God.
Hebrews 9:8 "The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet standing:"
Until the coming of Jesus, the Holy of Holies(God's abode) was inaccessible.
Romans 5:19 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
The same principle through which we were separated from God must be the same through which we will be reunited with God. If death came through one man then life must also come through one man. This satisfies the justice of God.
Acts 4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved."
1Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
Hebrews 9:15 "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance."
Hebrews 12:24 "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel."
The blood of Christ is far better than any other way of salvation proclaimed or found in men.
Hebrews 8:6 "But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises."
Hebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.
Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Your beliefs, mind and emotions can never change the truth about the way of God
Hebrews 5:9 "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;"
Christ is the perfect way. Obey Him by believing and receiving Him as the only way.
"I will clean up my life and come and serve God afterwards"
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2Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"
The power in you to clean up your life is in the power to believe God's power to clean you up.
Titus 2:14 "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works."
We have all been cleaned up in Jesus' sacrifice that by faith in Him we will realise/see that cleansing.
Titus 3:14 "And let our own also learn to maintain good works for urgent needs, that they not be unfruitful."
Proverbs 3:27 "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it."
Romans 7:18 "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not."
The power to do good is in the hands of God but he gives this power to everyone who believes in Christ.
1Peter 2:9 "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:"
You don't have to be cleansed to serve God but you need to serve the God or come to God in order to be cleansed.
"I cannot be lost regardless of what I do"
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1Corinthians 3:17 "If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."
1Thessalonians 3:8 "For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord."
2Timothy 2:12 "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:"
Hebrews 3:6 "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."
Revelation 3:5 "
James 5:19 "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;"
Romans 8:12 "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh."
1Corinthians 9:27 "But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified."
Galatians 5:19 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,"
1Peter 2:20 "For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is commendable with God."
Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Philippians 2:12 "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
Hebrews 6:4 "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,"
1Peter 4:18 "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
Ezekiel 3:20 "
1Timothy 1:5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:"
It takes love out of a heart of pure faith in Christ not to be lost. That is the right thing to be done. It takes the doing of the right thing and not the doing of the wrong or 'good' things. You can do a good thing and not do the right thing.
"I am too young to be a Christian"
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Ecclesiastes 12:1 "Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;"
Ecclesiastes 12:13 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
All of life is about fearing and obeying God.
Isaiah 55:6 "Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near:"
Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Matthew 18:3 "And said,
It is easier to serve God while young than when old.
2Corinthians 6:2 "(For he says,
Proverbs 1:28 "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:"
James 4:14 "Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away."
"I doubt the authenticity of Scriptures"
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Psalm 138:2 "I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name."
The greatness of God's name and reputation is in fulfilling His word in the bible.
Isaiah 34:16 "Seek you from out of the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded it, and his spirit has gathered them."
The book is the bible. It is a book spoken from the mouth of God and organised by His Spirit.
Psalm 12:6 "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
Isaiah 55:11 "
Matthew 5:17 "
Luke 24:44 "And he said unto them,
Jesus Himself testifies of the authority of the bible as the word of God.
Isaiah 45:23 "
Psalm 119:89 "Lamed Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven."
Romans 15:8 "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:"
The bible is the document of the promises of God.
1Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. The gospel is revealed in the new testament and concealed in the old testament of the bible. The whole bible is truth.
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The nature of God can only be seen in the bible proving it's authorship.
1John 1:1 "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;"
The substance of the bible is not hearsay but came through a real practical and living fellowship with God Himself.
1John 5:7 "For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."
The Spirit of God agrees with the bible.
Hebrews 6:17 "So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:"
The bible is the document of God's promises sealed with an oath from the immutable God.There is no document that gives more confidence of hope than the bible because the clear evidences of it's authorship.
Hebrews 6:18 "That by two immutable things, in that it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:"
Romans 3:4 "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."
The bible is 'written'. God testifies of the bibles credibility and it also testifies of the credibility of God.
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
2Peter 1:19 "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:"
The bible is called 'a more sure word of prophecy'
John 6:63 "
Psalm 119:142 "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth."
The law is the old testament and it is revealed in the new testament.
John 17:17
The bible can sanctify because it does not contain impurities but the pure words of God.
Hebrews 1:3 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
The power practically demonstrated through the words of the bible over all things and all times prove it's divine authorship.
Matthew 22:40
The law and the prophets make up the bible and proceed from God's love. The bible is truth because Love always rejoices at the truth.
"I do not believe the Bible to be the word of God"
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Psalm 138:2 "I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name."
Isaiah 34:16 "Seek you from out of the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded it, and his spirit has gathered them."
Psalm 12:6 "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
Isaiah 55:11 "
Matthew 5:17 "
Luke 24:44 "And he said unto them,
Isaiah 45:23 "
Psalm 119:89 "Lamed Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven."
Romans 15:8 "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:"
1Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
The gospel is revealed in the new testament and concealed in the old testament of the bible. The whole bible is truth.
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
1John 1:1 "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;"
1John 5:7 "For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."
Hebrews 6:17 "So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:"
Hebrews 6:18 "That by two immutable things, in that it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:"
Romans 3:4 "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
2Peter 1:19 "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:"
The bible is the 'a more sure word of prophecy'
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Psalm 119:142 "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth."
John 17:17
Hebrews 1:3 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
Matthew 22:40
"I don't believe all the portions of the bible"
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Matthew 5:18 "
The smallest detail of the bible is more valuable than the whole universe.
2Timothy 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
Psalm 119:151 "You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth."
Psalm 119:160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever.
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Trusting in every word of the bible is seen as trusting in God. You cannot trust God without trusting in every word written in the bible.
Isaiah 34:16 "Seek you from out of the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded it, and his spirit has gathered them."
The books of the bible were gathered by God's Spirit and each detail in the bible testifies and compliments the truth and validity in each detail. There is perfect harmony.
Isaiah 8:19 "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that are mediums, and unto wizards that whisper, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? rather than the dead on behalf of the living?"
Each detail of the bible is used to test all other things or books.
2Corinthians 1:20 "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us."
The bible is the book of the promises of God.
"I know that Christ has said He has given me His righteousness, peace, prosperity and joy but I don't think it is literal"
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2Corinthians 1:20 "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us."
Anything that glorify God even literal and physical things is part of my package of salvation.
Romans 15:8 "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:"
The promises which have been confirmed are literal promises
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
The upright walk is the walk of faith and all that is of Christ is received by faith. All the good things include all the literal good things.
2Peter 1:4 "By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
3John 1:2 "Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers."
God is interested in your total well-being and this includes access to literal blessings.
Psalm 35:27 "Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."
1Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not lack.
God does not meet only our needs but our wants also.
"Sicknesses, poverty is part of the sufferings in the Christian life"
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Isaiah 33:24 "And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity."
The root of sickness which is sin has been dealt with. The forgiveness of sin is the evidence of the freedom from sicknesses.
Psalm 35:27 "Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."
3John 1:2 "Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers."
Acts 10:38 "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."
Exodus 15:26 "And said,
Matthew 15:26 "But he answered and said,
Healing is the right of any Christian just as any child has the right to eat in his/her family.
1Peter 2:24 "Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed."
Proision was made in Christ for all your health needs.
Romans 8:11 "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also bring to life your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you."
All that you need for total health is already in you.
2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
Psalm 107:20 "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions."
God's word heals because the word or will for our lives is health.
John 10:10 "
Job 22:23 "If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents."
Luke 13:11 "And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no way lift herself up."
Infirmity or sickness is a spirit which is not from GodSickness is illegal in the life of a child that belongs to God's covenant. God is prepared to suspend laws for the sake of restoring health to His covenant people.
Matthew 8:2 "And, behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean."
God is willing to heal because His will is the health of His people.
"It is impossible to live in peace, happiness and harmony in this evil world all the time"
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Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you."
Revmaining in joy and harmony is not subject to time and the environment but subject to you trust in God.
Colossians 3:15 "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you are called in one body; and be thankful."
You already have all peace within the centre of your being. Your remaining in peace therefore depends only on the extent to which you allow it to rule and on nothing else.
John 14:27 "
The peace that the Lord has given you unlike what the world gives is eternal and complete.
Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."
The peace and joy is found in the Holy Ghost who always lives in you.
Colossians 1:13 "Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"
Your are immune to the ills of the world and made a partaker of the thrills of God's kingdom in Christ.
Luke 17:21 "
The location of peace and joy is in you and not in the world.
Psalm 85:8 "I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly."
It is folly to turn to the world for peace because we already have the peace the world needs.
Hebrews 4:3 "For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said,
All works that brings peace/rest have already been finished and put in you. All that is left is for you to enter and enjoy by faith.
John 16:33 "
True peace is in Christ and this peace overcomes the worst tribulation in the world.
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
The law of God is the law of faith. Faith in the Great peace God has already given you in Christ.
John 14:1 "
You can refuse the confusion in the world by believing in God in all things.
Psalm 23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
Peace accompanies all your walk with God. He is also able to restore any peace you might have lost while contacting the world.
Psalm 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Isaiah 35:10 "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
2Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
"What is the use when the wicked people are enjoying and the righteous are suffering"
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Proverbs 1:32 "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
The fool is the one who thinks and lives the fact that wickedness will not be punished.
Proverbs 24:16 "For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall by calamity."
One fall of the wicked cannot compare 7 falls of the just. The wicked fall completely without any hope of rising.
Psalm 37:37 "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
2Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars."
Psalm 112:10 "The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish."
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Psalm 37:20 "But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall vanish; into smoke shall they vanish away."
Jeremiah 9:24 "
It is the glory of God to judge the wicked and to show lovingkindness to the just.
Psalm 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 2:26 "For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind."
God blesses the just with supernatural peace and joy and in the end gives all the wealth gathered through the toil of the wicked to the just.
Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."
God will never allow His name to be mocked.
"I don't go to church/this church because I study God's word and worship God on my own"
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Hebrews 10:25 "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching."
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Hebrews 12:22 "But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,"
Church is the place where people can contact and access all that is in heaven.
Ephesians 4:11 "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;"
Church is where we are perfected in God since you can access whatever is not made perfect because it is perfect in another.
Ephesians 4:16 "From whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."
Church is where you can be supplied with what is lacking in your Christian experience.
1Corinthians 12:20 "But now are they many members, yet but one body."
Psalm 133:1 "A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
Church is where we encounter the power and life of God in a great dimension.
"Serving God does not give tangible or physical blessings"
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Luke 18:29 "And he said unto them,
2Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"
2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
Deuteronomy 8:18 "But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day."
Proverbs 10:22 "The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it."
Psalm 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
Genesis 24:35 "And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he has become great: and he has given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys."
Genesis 24:1 "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things."
Psalm 35:27 "Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."
"Speaking with your mouth what you believe has the same effect as just believing"
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Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Matthew 12:37 "
James 1:26 "If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain."
1Peter 3:10 "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:"
Joshua 1:8 "
James 3:2 "For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body."
Matthew 15:18
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 "Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?"
Our words activate spiritual forces.
Ezekiel 37:3 "And he said unto me,
With our mouths we can turn hopeless situation around.
Job 22:28 "You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways."
Things are established with our mouths
"What I say or do not say doesn't matter"
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Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Matthew 12:37 "
James 1:26 "If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain."
1Peter 3:10 "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:"
Joshua 1:8 "
James 3:2 "For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body."
Matthew 15:18
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 "Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?"
Our words can activate spiritual forces.
Ezekiel 37:3 "And he said unto me,
With the words of our mouths we can turn hopeless situations around.
Job 22:28 "You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways."
Things are established with the words of our mouths
"The Christian life is without problems"
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Acts 14:22 "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."
2Timothy 3:12 "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
Matthew 5:10
2Corinthians 1:7 "And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation."
2Timothy 4:5 "But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry."
John 16:33 "
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Philippians 3:10 "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"
Romans 8:17 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, so that we may be also glorified together."
"The gospel makes no sense to me"
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1Corinthians 2:4 "And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:"
The gospel is greater and higher than the understanding and wisdom of men. It cannot therefore make sense to them
1Corinthians 1:21 "For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe."
The gospel is so simple a foolish person can receive it so that not only the wise but the all people can be saved.
Matthew 11:25 "At that time Jesus answered and said,
The gospel is so simple that wise people would have to become simple in their wisdom in order to receive.
1Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
The gospel of salvation is the least of the wisdom of God but this is higher than the highest wisdom found in men.
Isaiah 55:8 "
1Corinthians 3:19 "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness."
"Christianity is boring"
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John 10:10 "
Daniel 11:32 "And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flattery: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and take action."
Christianity is full of adventures.
1Corinthians 2:10 "But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God."
Romans 9:33 "As it is written,
There cannot be any regrets when one truly lives the life.
Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."
Psalm 4:7 "You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased."
Through studies God gives us something that is unattainable anywhere. It offers something more than the best the any other can provide.
Hebrews 6:4 "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,"
The Christian walk in this world is a taste of the perfect and glorious world to come.
"I fear I will make mistakes and be deceived"
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Psalm 26:3 For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.
Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 18:32 "It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect."
Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
Matthew 5:6
God will fulfil the heart that desires and believes for genuine guidance from Him.
1John 2:27 "But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him."
The anointing (grace of God) makes things easy. It makes access to genuine guidance easy when acknowledged and believed.
Psalm 23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
God will guide me to protect His Holy name.
Psalm 5:8 "Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face."
God's leadings in my life are part of His righteousness and judgment upon my enemies.
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
In the end it will be apparent that God directed all my steps because the heart of a righteous man is filled with God's directions.
John 8:12 "Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying,
Because I have eternal life I have the eternal light that guides. Eternal life in me guides me.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
2Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Walking in faith is the source of genuine guidance. I must get rid of my fear and walk in faith that God will guide me.
Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
"I am afraid of making mistakes and being deceived"
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Psalm 26:3 For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.
The real mistake is to lose focus on the lovingkindness of God and the real deception is the disregard of the lovingkindness of God. God's love restrains me from walking in error.
Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
It is the nature of God to lead me in the right path.
Psalm 18:32 "It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect."
God will not only lead me but will also strengthen me to know His leadings and walk in them.
Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
A good man is a person who pleases God and he does this by faith in Christ. My steps are ordered because I walk by faith.
Matthew 5:6
All my desires for God's leadings shall be satisfied.
1John 2:27 "But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him."
The key to a perfect walk is to abide by faith in Christ. Geuine guidance is the guidance to depend on Christ in all things. Because I trust in Christ I am guided in all things.
Psalm 23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Geuine guidance is guidance to glorify God's name in all things. The beginning and the end of all guidance is the glory of God's name. I am guided in all things because I am the expression of God's glory/name.
Psalm 5:8 "Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face."
My enemies are God's enemies. His Jugment upon His enemies is in guiding me because I am His instrument of judgement.
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
The heart of a true child of God makes way for the guidance of God. A true child of God is made by faith in Christ. I am a true child of God.
2Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Guidance is already in me as faith. It is my map and compass for guidance. As I get rid of the fear of deception that plagues my faith God will lead me.
Psalm 31:3 "For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me."
The guidance of the Lord is dependable and safe. God is my rock and fortress. He will guide me to protect His name/ reputation as my rock and fortress. Geuine guidance is in God becoming my rock and fortress.
John 8:12 "Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying,
True guidance is to follow Jesus. The life of Jesus in me is the light of my life.
John 16:13 "
Christ is the truth and the Spirit testifies to that truth. The Spirit's knowledge of the future testifies of His testimony of the truth. True guidance is the guidance to know and live Christ as the truth.
Isaiah 50:10 "Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God."
God is my true light for guidance.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
The life of Christ in me is my light of guidance.
"Not everyone can have great success"
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Psalm 1:1 "Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful."
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
Everyone can delight in the law of God. Therefore anyone can have great success.
Mark 9:23 "Jesus said unto him,
Great success is a factor of the greatness of one's faith. Everyone can believe.
2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
Anyone can be great because anyone can know God for God is known through faith in Christ.
Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Everyone who has the Son by faith has sure evidence that he/she can have great success.
Hebrews 11:39 "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:"
My great success is determined by the great success of my faith
Zechariah 4:6 "Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying,
Great success is not by great might but by the greatness of God's Spirit working for me by faith.
Acts 10:34 "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"
God is not a respecter of my person but a respecter of my faith in Him.
2Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Great success is not in my sufficiency but my belief in that God is my all-sufficiency.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Christ is my great success.
Romans 9:16 "So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy."
Anyone can be great depending on how they treat/value the grace and mercy of God
"How will I know that this gift is from God"
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Luke 11:11 "
We will know that a gift is from God when we got it through a prayer request for it
"I believe that with technology we can solve all the problems of this world"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Jeremiah 9:23 ,23 "Thus says the LORD,
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
1Corinthians 1:24 "But unto them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.
Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
"I don't believe in religion because people have done evil in the name of religion"
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Matthew 15:8 "
2Timothy 3:5 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
Matthew 23:27 "
Matthew 23:29 "
1Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."
Matthew 7:21 ,21 "
James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
Hosea 6:6 "
Matthew 12:7 "
Mark 2:27 "And he said unto them,
Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
John 2:10 "And said unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now."
2Corinthians 3:6 "Who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life."
2Corinthians 3:14 ,14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.,15 "But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts."
John 5:39
Jeremiah 9:23 ,23 "Thus says the LORD,
Ezekiel 39:25 "
Ezekiel 36:23 "
Mark 8:38 "
Colossians 1:15 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:"
John 4:23 ,23 "
"I am afraid of walking in the gifts because I might be opening myself to evil spirits and end up deceived"
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Luke 11:11 ,11 "
1John 2:27 "But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him."
2Timothy 1:7 "For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
2Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
John 16:13 "
Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
1Corinthians 12:3 "Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit."
James 1:5 ,5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.",6 "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.",7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.,8 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Hebrews 5:14 "But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."
1Timothy 4:8 "For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."
Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Luke 11:11 "
It is an insult to God fear walking in deception when we ask God for His gifts
"If God will help you, you must do nothing, God find His own way to help you"
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James 2:20 "But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"
John 6:29 "Jesus answered and said unto them,
Faith in God finds expression in a believer as the works of God. The result of faith is grace or help from God to work effectively
Mark 16:20 "And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen."
John 5:17 "But Jesus answered them,
Faith in God does not replace our working but compliments the ability God has put in us. Faith reproduces and compliments the works of God in us
"I will be saved because I do a lot of things for God"
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Romans 11:6 "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."
Ephesians 2:9 "Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Salvation of man is by the works God does for man and not by the works man does for God
Acts 10:4 ,4 "And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God.",5 "And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:",6 "He lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside: he shall tell you what you ought to do."
Just as Cornelius in spite of all the good things he did for God still needed to hear and believe the gospel before he will be saved so does anyone who will be saved must believe the gospel notwithstanding all other things he does
"I don't believe that God is a person, but God is in everything"
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Colossians 1:15 ,15 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:",16 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"
God has given us infallible proves of His person in the life of Christ
Genesis 1:26 "And God said,
Man is the evidence that God is a person
Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse:"
Creation is a clear evidence that God is person because intelligence was involved creation
Psalm 14:1 ,1 "To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.",2 "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God."
To deny that God is a person is to deny the existence of God
Acts 1:8 "
Supernatural manifestations are evidences of the existence of the person of God
"This must be God because it is supernatural"
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Matthew 24:11 "
1John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
2Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Luke 10:19 "
The manifestation of the supernatural is not a final prove that a thing is from God because the devil also has supernatural powers
Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places."
The supernatural realm also inhabits evil spirits
Matthew 24:24 "
"There is nothing wrong with astrology, It helps to guide our lives"
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Isaiah 47:12 "
Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus says the LORD,
Daniel 1:20 "And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm."
The principles of the kingdom of God are far better than all those outside it including astrology
Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
The true sons of God are led by the Spirit of God and not the stars
1John 2:27 "But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him."
All that we need for direction in life is within and not without
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Fellowship with Christ and not the astrology is the access to God's guidance
1Corinthians 1:24 "But unto them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."
"Christians must not get into politics"
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Genesis 1:26 "And God said,
Politics is the original purpose and assignment of God to man
Proverbs 29:2 "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn."
Christians must enter into politics if the will of God will prevail in the nations
Revelation 5:10 And have made us unto our God a kingdom and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Politics is what God has designed us for
Ephesians 1:10 "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:"
Politics is the means God brings all things under the Lordship of Christ
Matthew 28:18 ,18 "And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying,
Politics is one means of fulfilling the great commission of Christ
Matthew 6:13 "
"If Jesus won it all for me why do I need to do certain things"
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Romans 6:1 ,1 "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?",2 "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?"
Philippians 2:12 ,12 "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.",13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Our demonstration of the works of God is prove that we have received the finished works of Christ in our lives
James 2:26 "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
James 2:22 "See how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?"
James 2:18 "Yea, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
Our walk in obedience is the prove that we have received the finished works of Christ
Hebrews 9:14 "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
John 14:21 "
"If I give God full control over my life, I will become a robot"
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Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
Isaiah 58:14 "
John 15:7 "
Philippians 2:9 ,9 "Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:",10 "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"
Everything bows to the will of the one who has fully submitted to God
Jeremiah 29:11 "
"I am accountable to no one but God"
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Hebrews 13:17 "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you."
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
James 5:16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
1Timothy 4:14 "Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery."
Because God releases authority to men through men men must be accountable to God through men also
1John 4:20 "If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?"
We relate to God by relating to man.Our direct relation with God is limited by our relation with man
1Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Being accountable to men is the way to keep the God-ordained order in a group
"If people donΓ’β¬β’t often see you get angry, they will take you for granted"
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Galatians 5:22 ,22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,",23 "Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law."
1Timothy 1:5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:"
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Romans 13:8 "Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law."
"The resurrection of Jesus was staged by His disciples"
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1Corinthians 15:3 ,3 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;",4 "And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:",5 "And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:",6 "After that, he was seen of over five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.",7 "After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.",8 "And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one untimely born."
Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
John 15:26 "
Acts 1:8 "
Revelation 1:18 "
1Corinthians 2:4 "And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:"
Matthew 27:63 ,63 "Saying, Sir, we remember that this deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.",64 "Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.",65 "Pilate said unto them, You have guards: go your way, make it as sure as you can.",66 "So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a guard."
"Nobody will find out when I do it"
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John 2:24 "But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,"
Not even the most intimate things in our hearts can be hidden from God
1Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said unto Samuel,
Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."
It is the fundamental law of creation or the universe to pay for every bad thing and to be paid for every good thing done. As long as you are part of the universe and as long as this universe exists this law is in full force.
Genesis 8:22 "
"God doesn't care about how I treat my body He only cares for my spirit"
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Luke 23:52 "This man went unto Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus."
God cares even about the dead bodies of His people how much more the living bodies of His people
Jude 1:9 "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil as he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke you."
1Corinthians 3:16 "Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?"
"I don't believe in religion because some of the most wicked people are religious"
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John 16:2 "
Not everyone who does a thing in the name of God does it in the will of God
1Timothy 1:13 "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolent: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
Not everything done as service to God is righteous service to God
Romans 10:3 "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Christ is the perfect symbol or representation of true religion
Matthew 5:44 "
True religioin does not persecute but is rather a candidate of persecution in this world
"This is a sign from God to tell me that what I am doing is right"
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Matthew 12:39 "But he answered and said unto them,
Matthew 24:24 "
Looking out for signs only is a set up for deception
Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
We are led by the Spirit and not by signs
Matthew 7:21 ,21 "
"I have been doing this for a long time, I can't stop now"
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Proverbs 29:1 "He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Luke 20:18 "
It's either we break ourselves on the truth of God's word or we are crushed by the truths of God's word
2Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
"Science has disproved the bible"
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1Timothy 6:20 "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain utterances, and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge:"
Luke 16:17 "
The word of God is the test for accuracy of the knowledge of science because science was created by God's word
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Hebrews 1:3 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
1Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."
The wisdom of the bible is greater than the wisdom of science because the wisdom of the bible produces more results than the wisdom from science
1Corinthians 2:4 "And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:"
"I will abandon what I like doing and come and serve God"
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Revelation 5:10 And have made us unto our God a kingdom and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
We can serve God as kings and priests at the same time.
Colossians 3:23 "And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
The way we serve God is defined by God and not by us
"I don't believe that the Holy Spirit is a person"
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John 16:13 "
The Holy Spirit is a person because Jesus addresses The Spirit with a personal pronoun
2Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
The Holy Spirit is a person because the word 'Lord' is used for the Spirit
Ephesians 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption."
Only a person can be grieved indicating that the Holy Spirit is a person
"Christianity is just another religion"
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1Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
John 10:10 "
1John 1:3 "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ."
Christianity is more than a religion it is fellowship with God
"Heaven will be boring, only praise and worship"
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1Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."
Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."
Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Matthew 13:44 "
The fulfillment in heaven exceeds every other kind of fulfillment
"There are no more apostles and prophets in our days"
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1Corinthians 12:28 "And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, administrators, various kinds of tongues."
Apostles and prophets are foundational to the leadership structure of the church
Ephesians 2:20 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;"
The building up of the church depends on apostles and prophets
Numbers 11:29 "And Moses said unto him, Are you jealous for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!"
"I believe that good and evil all come from God"
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Psalm 92:15 "To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him."
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Deuteronomy 32:4 "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
Genesis 18:25 "That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
"If this is Christianity, then I want nothing of it"
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James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Ezekiel 36:22 "
What people do in the name of Christianity is not always the true portrayal of it
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
1Corinthians 2:2 "For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified."
1Timothy 1:3 ,3 "As I besought you to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,",4 "Neither give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which cause questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.",5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:",6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talk;
"Spiritual people do not use their minds and emotions"
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1Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Timothy 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may appear to all.
Titus 2:14 "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works."
Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
"This revelation is true because I got it supernaturally"
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1Timothy 4:1 "Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of demons;"
Matthew 24:24 "
1John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
"I have to accept and endure every suffering as coming from God to perfect me"
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Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places."
Not every kind of suffering is from God and therefore not every kind of suffering should be tolerated
Philippians 3:10 "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"
Only the sufferings of Christ which is persecution for righteousness sake should be tolerated in our lives
Hosea 4:6 "
Proverbs 29:18 "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he."
"The devil only attacks those who attack him or his works"
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2Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
John 10:10 "
1Peter 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:"
"I believe in evolution"
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John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
"I am better because I know more of the bible and I have more experience in God"
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Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the LORD;
Matthew 19:30
Matthew 21:31 "
1Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
"The bible is for only those who are learned They can understand"
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Luke 10:21 "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said,
Hebrews 8:10 ,10 "
2Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Ephesians 1:17 ,17 "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:",18 "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
James 1:5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him."
John 17:3 "
"I am not that learned to find the truth from God's word so I trust those learned"
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Luke 10:21 "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said,
Hebrews 8:10 ,10 "
2Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Ephesians 1:17 ,17 "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:",18 "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
James 1:5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him."
John 17:3 "
"My intentions are not good but I am safe; nobody knows my intentions / what I am thinking"
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1Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said unto Samuel,
2Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars."
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 9:4 "And Jesus knowing their thoughts said,
"I am alright because I manifest the gifts of the Spirit"
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Matthew 7:21 ,21 "
Matthew 7:20
"Tithing is not for our time"
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Psalm 119:89 "Lamed Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven."
"Why should I go to church, my life is better than the people who go"
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Matthew 19:30
"Why should I accept Christ, My life is far better than christians"
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Matthew 19:30
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Matthew 16:26 "
"If this happens, then I will know God wants me to do that"
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Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
We walk by the leadership of the Spirit and not by signs
Matthew 12:39 "But he answered and said unto them,
"If God really loves me, He would have done this and that"
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Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
God has already given us the greatest prove of His love for us
Jeremiah 31:3 "The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying,
Psalm 138:2 "I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name."
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
"I know people who serve God and are not blessed, why should I"
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Ecclesiastes 2:26 "For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind."
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Mark 10:21 "Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him,
Service to God gurantees heavenly treasures which are far greater than earthly ones
"It doesn't matter how you pray God will always hear you"
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1John 5:14 "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:"
God hears prayers prayed according to His standards rules and protocols for prayer
John 14:14 "
True prayer is prayer in the name of Jesus
Ephesians 6:18 "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"
True prayer is prayer born from the spirit
James 5:16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
True prayer must be from a righteouspure and passionate heart
"If you are sincere with your believes,it will always work for you"
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Romans 10:3 "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."
Hosea 4:6 "
Faith withou the knowledge of the truth leads to failure and destruction
"I want to go to hell, all my friends & things I like will be there"
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Luke 13:28 "
Luke 16:23 "
Matthew 10:28 "
"God is not interested in this area of my life He is only interested in my spiritual life"
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Mark 12:29 ,29 "And Jesus answered him,
Romans 14:8 "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."
"I don't have to pray so much because they are praying for me"
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1Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
Ephesians 6:18 "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"
"I do worldly things but I am alright because I have a good Christian life"
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1Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
Matthew 7:21 "
"If I get to heaven, that will be enough for me I don't need anything more"
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Ephesians 3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,"
2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
"I believe in God but I don't believe He intervenes with events on earth"
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Jeremiah 9:24 "
"I believe that hell is just a temporal place of torment for sinners"
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Matthew 25:46
"Anything you don't struggle for, cannot be from God"
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Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Deuteronomy 6:10 "And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not,"
It is not every blessing of God that we must struggle for
Ephesians 2:9 "Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Deuteronomy 8:18 "But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day."
Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Ecclesiastes 2:26 "For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind."
"Anything you struggle for, cannot be from God"
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Matthew 11:12 "
Hebrews 4:11 "Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."
"Anything you struggle for, will last in your hands"
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Proverbs 10:22 "The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it."
Isaiah 54:10 "
Ecclesiastes 2:26 "For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind."
"Anything you don't struggle for, will not last in your hands"
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Proverbs 10:22 "The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it."
Isaiah 54:10 "
Ecclesiastes 3:14 "I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him."
Luke 12:33 "
"You don't have to be forceful to receive any good thing that is due youIt will come by itself"
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Matthew 11:12 "
Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might."
1Thessalonians 2:18 "Therefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us."
"I have done everything and nothing is working, maybe my situation is meant to be"
π Related Verses (1)
1Corinthians 10:13 "There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it."
"I must become passive and allow God to do what He wants to do in my life"
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Philippians 2:12 ,12 "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.",13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
God will only work in our lives to the level that we willing to take personal responsibilities. God won't do everything for us
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
God will only strengthen us to do His will but will not do His will for us
"Jesus only came for the Jews and not for everyone"
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John 3:16 "
Acts 2:21 "
Colossians 3:11 "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all."
"I cannot be deceived by anybody or anything"
π Related Verses (3)
Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the LORD;
2Samuel 2:9 "And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel."
"If I give my life to Christ the devil will kill or harm me"
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Zechariah 2:8 For thus says the LORD of hosts;
2Peter 2:9 "The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"
"May be it is not the will of God to deliver me from this problem, sickness, pain"
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2John 1:2 "For the truth's sake, which dwells in us, and shall be with us forever."
2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
"I am okay because, I only indulge in oral sex, kissing etc, but I don't fornicate"
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Matthew 5:28 "
"I don't want to get into spiritual things too much lest I be deceived"
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1John 2:27 "But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him."
"Why do I have to pay tithes on material substances I receive"
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Genesis 14:20 "And blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all."
"It is not good to be strict, you must always be lenient to people"
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Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
John 2:15 ,15 "And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;",16 "And said unto them that sold doves,
Jesus showed that being strict can be the will of God in some cases
"I am not saved/He is not saved because he does not speak in tongues /not yet been baptized in the Holy Ghost"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
John 20:31 "But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through his name."
"I don't believe I have enemies, physical or spiritual because I have not offended anyone, and have no bad intentions against anyone"
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Matthew 5:10
"I don't have to fight for my blessings, it will surely come to me"
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Matthew 11:12 "
Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might."
"If it is really mine, it will come to me, I don't have to fight for it"
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Matthew 11:12 "
Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might."
"I don't fear going to hell, looking at what is happening in the world, this world is already hell"
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Luke 16:23 "
"I am the leader of this religious group, therefore my ideas and decisions must be from God"
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Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
Matthew 15:14 "
You can be a religious leader and be blind
"Every dream I have, must have relevance to my life"
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Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.
"He is a man of God, therefore whatever he says or does must be from God"
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Matthew 15:14 "
You can be a man of God and be blind
"I can go to any church I want"
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Jeremiah 3:15 "
You discover the church God gives you. You don't just choose church
"God wants me to be in this religion, that is why He made me to be born into it"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
"God wants me to be in this church, that is why He made me to be born into it"
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Jeremiah 3:15 "
You discover the church God has given you. You don't just choose church
"I can choose to be under any pastor or man of God I like"
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Jeremiah 3:15 "
You must discover the pastor God gives you. You don't just choose a pastor
"Every church must be from God"
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1John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
"No religion is perfect so you must learn from all religions"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Hebrews 2:10 "For it befitted him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
"I want to stay single because, life is easier being single"
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Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
Matthew 18:19 "
Leviticus 26:8 "
"Love is too painful"
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Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
Colossians 3:3 "For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
1John 4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him."
"That must be God's will for my life because everybody says I am good at it"
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Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
"There is nothing wrong with abortion"
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Jeremiah 1:5 "
Abortion is murder because the baby is considered as person
Abortion is against God because it destroys the purpose God has formed the foetus with
"I know abortion isn't right, but if it is legal, we'll not have all those poor girls going to places that will risk their lives"
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Jeremiah 1:5 "
Abortion is murder because the foetus is considered as person
Abortion is against God because it destroys the purpose God has formed the baby with
"Christianity oppresses women by making them submit to their husbands"
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Ephesians 5:24 ,24 "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.",25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
Wives must submit to their husbands for their own good becasue husbands are commanded to give themselves wholly to their wives
"God made me a homosexual"
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Romans 1:25 "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."
Homosexuality is a perversion of the truth of God concerning sexuality
Genesis 2:24 "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Markriage is designed by God between a man and a woman
"You should't talk about sin because Jesus didn't condemn anybody He was always loving and kind"
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1Timothy 5:20 "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear."
"There is nothing wrong with communicating with the dead"
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Leviticus 19:31 "
"Hell isn't a place This life is hell"
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Revelation 20:14 And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
"If it my own desire, then it cannot be God's will"
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Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 7:7 "
"I have a strong desire for it, it must be God's will"
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Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
"I don't need anyone to help me grow in God. I have the Holy Ghost"
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Jeremiah 3:15 "
Ephesians 4:11 ,11 "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;",12 "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:",13 "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:",14 "That we from now on be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive;"
"It is impossible to serve God in this world"
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Mark 12:29 ,29 "And Jesus answered him,
Romans 14:8 "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."
Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
"It is impossible to serve God with all your life in this world"
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Mark 12:29 ,29 "And Jesus answered him,
Romans 14:8 "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."
Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
"Not all God's promises in the bible are meant for us"
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2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
Ephesians 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"
2Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Ephesians 3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,"
"Not all God's promises in the bible are meant for me"
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2Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:"
Ephesians 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"
2Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:"
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Ephesians 3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,"
"I think the Bible is just another holy book,it is not better than any other sacred writing"
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Luke 21:33
John 5:39
Psalm 12:6 "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
"Many of the stories in the Bible are just fairy tales"
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Romans 15:4 "For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
Hebrews 11:33 "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,"
"How can any intelligent person really believe those stories in the bible?"
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Romans 15:4 "For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
Hebrews 11:33 "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,"
1Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
"IsnΓ’β¬β’t it better to be honest and say we donΓ’β¬β’t know than to believe in feel-good fantasy?Γ’β¬β’"
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Matthew 12:37 "
Proverbs 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
"Faith is just a crutch or excuse for people who are not critical thinkers"
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Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
True understanding proceeds from faith
"I think the key point of Christianity is to sin as little as possible"
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Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.
Christianity is all about Christ and Him finding expression in men
"This child cannot have any good purpose, because he was born out of fornication,rape or accident"
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Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them."
1Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Jeremiah 1:5 "
Faith demands the least of your efforts and the most of the ability of the Spirit of God.