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I came across this information today regarding an upcoming event (October 13-15 2017 in Orlando, Florida) called "Sheep and Goat Nations: 7m Summit 2017."

Many of you may have already heard of Lance Wallnau and his "7m Movement", but if you haven't, here's a link to the official website:

7m Underground with Lance Wallnau

Lance Wallnau is one of the main proponents of the "7 Mountain/Spheres teaching that has infiltrated and spread throughout many churches and Christians organizations today. It is a dominionist theology, and those who hold to it claim that Christians must "take back" these 7 Mountains (or Spheres) of society from Satan. They believe that in this way the world will become Christian and made ready for Christ's return.

The "7 Mountains/Spheres are as follows:

Business,
Government
Media
Arts and Entertainment
Education
The Family
Religion...

Exactly...

The news propaganda machine definitely adds to the Babylon of confusion. I would bet that they make some stuff up as well. At least it is getting talked about openly a bit more now than in previous years. Then people realized mass surveillance was happening in the US and things started to change a bit.

Great quote. Jesus' prophecies all have and all will come true....

"In the 20th century, the Catholic Church discontinued the practice of using incorruptibility as a prerequisite for sainthood. The Church wasn't responding so much to the fraud of some cases, but to the cases in which incorruptible corpses didn't extol Catholic piety. Members of other religions have been discovered in uncorrupted states. And at least one case of incorruptibility was discovered in a person who clearly hadn't exactly lived a saintly life. Cardinal Shuster, an Italian archbishop, had been a fascist and friend of dictator Benito Mussolini. His corpse was found uncorrupted 31 years after his death."

Shall we pray to Saint Shuster to aid the neo-Nazi's under attack in Charlotte, NC.?


"Perhaps the most famous incorruptible is a young shepherdess, Saint Bernadette. She died at age 35, but achieved acclaim among Catholics for having been visited by the Virgin Mary. The Virgin instructed Bernadette to dig in a spot at Lourdes, France....

Come on, Eddie.
I was an atheist who heard the Gospel from Catholic Charismatics and found Christ in the fellowship hall of a Catholic Church. I have read a Catechism for Inquirers, attended Mass and seriously considered joining the Roman Catholic Church at one point. It was the RCC propensity for worshiping Mary as equal to God, the clear biblical passages that contradict many RCC teachings on Mary and the constant answer that any inquiry to attempt to reconcile the discrepancies yielded of 'Tradition' that left me, ultimately, unable in good conscience to join the RCC and affirm what they believe. That said, I have a great deal of respect for Catholics and a debt to those who reached out to me with the Gospel and welcomed me as a friend.

Let us at least talk honestly with one another.

In post 74 you claimed that Luther and Calvin supported the RCC view of the Mary


The quote you used to support this claim was "I admit that some...

Unfortunately, much (if not most) of the news, does not really inform anyone as to what is actually "going on" in the world. So much of it is nothing more than misinformation and scripted narrative....

I've heard of it, and I plan to study it as well, as I have with Fatima.



I am familiar with that much, yes.



Those instructions are not Biblical, so why should we believe this "lady" or Bernadette?



So, because the unBiblical message was confirmed with apparently miraculous, supernatural "signs and wonders", we should believe what Bernadette claimed the "lady" told her?



So let's say healings really did occur, should we then accept a message that contradicts the word of God?



The "Immaculate Conception" is unBiblical as well. There is no basis from Scripture to believe that Mary was conceived sinless. In fact, she herself acknowledges her need for her Saviour. (Luke 1:47) So why should anyone believe a "lady" who claims such unBiblical things about herself?



Again, why should this be...

Reading the comments about Californians' moving east to escape the liberalism -- Or -- to bring it with them in order to liberalize the rest of us. Maybe 'they' want the 'rest of us' to Grow up. I'm from Iowa originally and now from Texas. God's Word is righteous / holy living. Far healthier than being liberal and following the concept of "if it feels good, Do it"

There was a family in a Baptist church we'd gone to years ago. The husband had been promoted in his job and was being relocated to California. They had teenagers in their family. They found that the atmosphere -- even at church -- was too relaxed -- very little standards outside the church. They moved back 'here' for the sake of their kids.

I've found the standards for TV programming have gone down hill fairly quickly. Especially this past year or so. I mainly watch Fox News to keep up with almost daily if not just weekly happenings. As much as we Don't Like what's happening...

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. However, that verse makes it absolutely clear that not all "signs and wonders" are from God. Do you think that anyone would ever believe these "lying signs and wonders" that are to come if they had not first believed many lesser "lying signs and wonders"?



The "spirit of anti-Christ" is already in the world. (1 John 4:3)...

I'll answer the easier post first.
I don't read Greek. But I plugged the word that Origen asked 'what does this word mean' into Google and I was able to find multiple English dictionary references for a word written in Greek, a language that I don't even read.
Now I don't know about you, but the fact that I can find the meaning of a word in another language in less than 5 minutes on Google seems pretty exciting to me. Even if I had an English-Greek Dictionary stored in my closet at home, it would have taken me longer to dig it out and find the word. Google gave me multiple dictionaries to choose from and compare.

That provides a lot of information right at our fingertips for checking on facts that people, even experts, claim.

You claimed in post 85 ...

and backed it up with scripture ...


However, Origen challenged your translation of that scripture in post 87 ...


Here is where I had a problem since...

Many christians believe that all translations of the Bible contain errors. If ALL translations of the Bible contain errors where is the truth?

On another thread I asked the following question: "Why were those from Adam to Moses dying? Were they dying because the law condemned them to death? No, the law had yet to been posted by God on Mount Sinai. Therefore "sin is not imputed when there is no law" (Rom 5:13). Then why were they dying?

Answer: Because all men share Adam's fallen life indwelt with sin and therefore stand disqualified for heaven and eternal life.

This leads to another question: If there's nothing good in our flesh then why do some Christians teach that something goes to heaven upon the death of the believer?

Let's look at Acts 2:29 “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ...34 For David did not ascend into the heavens.

David was a man of God. He was a believer, yet we clearly see from Scripture that he did not enter heaven upon his death. Why?...

In a discussion about Perseverance of the Saints someone dropped a bomb of a quote. Made me think in that moment the difference between "Perseverance of the Saints" and "Once Saved Always Saved":

“No man living is perfectly assured of God’s love, or is so certain, that he cannot be made more certain.” –Daniel Burgess (1645–1713) The Marks of a Godly Man

God bless,
William

Just curious what people's thoughts are on the miracle at Fatima in 1917? A quick summary of the facts:

• 3 young children claimed a "lady from heaven" appeared out of nowhere in a remote field in Portugal where they were watching their animals, and the lady gave them a Catholic related message to relay to the people where they lived. This lady also told the children to meet her in this same location on the 13th of the month for the next 5 months at the same time where she would tell them more. Of course no one believed the children when they returned home with this news, and it caused a massive stir in their town.
• The 3 children returned the following month, and many curious people came along with them. The children again claimed to see and speak with this "lady from heaven", but other bystanders could not see her. Since no one would believe the children, the lady told the children in July that she would perform a miracle on her last visit (Oct 13, 1917) so as "to

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I never really understood protestants hostility towards Marian doctrines. There is not a single Marian doctrine that does not center and hinge on Jesus Himself. They are all Christocentric. To downplay her role and status is a direct effrontery to Jesus Himself. I don't go to Mary unless it was Jesus whom I was trying to get to ultimately. She is as much of a help, as Abraham helped, Noah, Moses, the prophets were in bringing souls back to God. Mary does not save souls, God does but God has deigned to make Mary someone whom we can come to for help. The power with which she can intercede for us comes from Christ Himself. She does nothing on her own. Her own sinless life has given her the privilege to be very close to God. Our veneration and prayers do not amount to deifying her.

If Jesus was whom all we ever needed then why did God use so many outstanding people in salvation history to get his message across? Why do through the incarnation? Why bother using Mary's body and...

Faith alone ? This is a phrase i"ve heard often , but i'm not sure i understand what it means. I want to start a discussion about Faith , and the Salvation process. But before i do , could someone who knows about "Faith alone" , tell me what it means?

I was told that I was required to work today and I called in and said that I would not work because I guard the 10 commandments. I live in an "at will" state and have a high probability of being fired for doing this, but I believe that I have done the right thing at this time. If I have not done the right thing, why is this so and where can it be found in scripture? My interpretation of what Jesus spoke against was not the law of Moses, but against the ridiculous additions that were made to it by the scribes and Pharisees. I also know that the Sabbath day (or seventh day) was created before the law of Moses.

The Sabbath day appears to be a gift from the most high to mankind for rest and for learning about God (Jesus taught in the tabernacle on the Sabbath day routinely, and this is why I want to learn about the Sabbath day now), and it feels wrong to deny a gift from God.

From the dying embers of faith, via atheism and evolutionary compromise, to a rock solid confidence in biblical creation and Scripture-one man's fascinating journey.

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Bible Reading: John 10:22 -30.

Aim: To prove from the Bible that when Jesus Christ saves us, He keeps us saved forever. We cannot lose Christ's salvation.

Introduction: Many religions that teach works for salvation, also teach that we can lose salvation. This follows logically because if we are saved partly or wholly by our works, then we can fail to keep up the good works and hence lose salvation. The truth is that if we call on Christ to save us, and He saves us, then He keeps us saved forever. The following scriptures show this:

1. "I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish." John 10:28.

• This is an unconditional guarantee.

• Eternal life means saved for eternity.

• What does "never perish" mean?

2. "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work...

I. It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man,[1] the Prophet,[2] Priest,[3] and King,[4] the Head and Savior of His Church,[5] the Heir of all things,[6] and Judge of the world:[7] unto whom He did from all eternity give a people, to be His seed,[8] and to be by Him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.[9]
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I. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto Him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of Him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which He has been pleased to express by way of covenant.[1]

II. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,[2] wherein life was promised...

I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.[1] This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.[2]

II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God,[3] and so became dead in sin,[4] and wholly...

I. God the great Creator of all things does uphold,[1] direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things,[2] from the greatest even to the least,[3] by His most wise and holy providence,[4] according to His infallible foreknowledge,[5] and the free and immutable counsel of His own will,[6] to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.[7]

II. Although, in relation to...

I. It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,[1] for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness,[2] in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good.[3]

II. After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,[4] with reasonable and immortal souls,[5] endued with knowledge,...

I. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass;[1] yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,[2] nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.[3]

II. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed...

I. There is but one only,[1] living, and true God,[2] who is infinite in being and perfection,[3] a most pure spirit,[4] invisible,[5] without body, parts,[6] or passions;[7] immutable,[8] immense,[9] eternal,[10] incomprehensible,[11] almighty,[12] most wise,[13] most holy,[14] most free,[15] most absolute;[16] working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and most righteous will,[17] for His own glory;[18]...

I. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable;[1] yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation.[2] Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church;[3] and afterwards for the...

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