Recent content by Dus

It's very difficult to see things like this, people you care about making bad choices. It sounds to me like he doesn't think you are negative at all, it sounds like he feels convicted when you question him about his actions because he knows in his heart it's wrong. That's a good think, because...

This is a very challenging topic, and one I'm also dealing with at the moment. My wife left me around a year ago, I wanted to fight for our relationship, have therapy etc, but she flatly refused and had no interest in reconciliation at all. So I'm not left with any choice but divorce. I hate...

I guess my take on that would be that in those cases God didn't make anyone do anything, I'd put it more that God communicated that what they were doing was not good for them, and then they chose to do the right thing. In the example I believe Saul could have ignored God and continued to...

I stand corrected, thank you Posthuman!

Wow this is a big topic. God is so much bigger than us, and there are some things we will never have a definitive answer to. But here's my take on it! This is something that we actually discussed in this weeks mens group by pure chance. My answer to the question was basically, ask God, I don't...

Seems like this thread may have strayed a bit from the original question, but I'm going to add my 2 cents on the original topic! I've recently been reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and one of the chapters I think is quite good in allowing us to grasp a meaningful answer to questions like...

My random thought - man this is a long thread.

Personally, with a conversation like this, I like to try and strip it back to a few simple fundamental truths, rather than going down the analytical deep dive on many different bible verses route. We are saved by grace and grace alone, our acts don't even come into it. We can choose to accept...