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The 'present time', is that not when Jesus was yet with them, and the age to come being the Church age?

Hi Butch5 1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 1Pe 2:25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your...

Hi Butch5 When is/was this 'age to come'? We do read about the 'ages', so which age is it? Was Jesus referring to His return (2nd coming) or at/after Pentecost?

Hi I pretty much agree with your points. I do not judge ‘all’ the members, but the ‘organisation’ Would you ever join the RCc, Mormon, JW or 7th day Adventist as some sort of obedience to the ‘let us not stop meeting together’? There is One Church, and it is established locally. There are not...

Act 15:28 "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: Act 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will...

I agree with Phil (I think) I will/do meet with other Christians, but I will not belong to an unbiblical man made church

I believe that there are times, when it is right to pray out loud, and times when it is right to pray in silence. As has been said, God knows our heart and thoughts, but satan cannot read our hearts or thoughts.

Does that then mean, you don’t believe that Jesus Christ 'the Son of God' was/is God who was manifest in the flesh?

Did His Spirit die on the cross, or just His mortal body? 1Co 15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1Co 15:54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come...

This is about our mortal bodies that will be changed to immortal at the resurrection. Question: Did Jesus have eternal life before He died on the cross?

Rom 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. Rom 8:10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of...

What is this type of 'faith' that you believe one can stop having? It certainly is not so with true faith. True faith makes you a witness, to what you have seen with your eyes and heard with your ears. True faith believes in the heart what he has seen and/or heard. Jesus said they receive the...

Hi agua I think we have to accept that (in the main) they were saved. How could they be spit out, if they were not first ‘in Christ’?

If I may try: Jesus tells us that the seed on the good ground does not produce fruit straight away. Although Jesus would know who are His from the beginning, we would not know who those are until we see the fruit. That (if the word is received with understanding) fruit will be evidenced only...

I find it very difficult to link this unmerciful servant parable (Matt 18) with that of salvation? This man was (present tense) a servant of the King. Do you suggest that we get saved and then have to settle our accounts with our Saviour King, and if we cannot settle the account, we (and our...