Recent content by FredVB

There probably was dishonest activity with the recent elections. I think Trump cheats. A lot. He lies so much, I would not trust him saying anything.

If Sheol is to be understood from Hades we see mentioned, those that have any hope with what fulfillment would be preached to them might be separate from there where those without hope are, in paradise instead. There are saints of old testament times that surely would not go with those pass on...

You would not know from media, which at best has distorted truth. There is a wide range in how men are attracted. Sometimes it really involves weight. But for others it involves different things and it doesn't include weight being considered. There is no sure statement about how any men are...

We each individually have responsibility to respond to God who shows God's will with grace for us. That we fail does not change that God does that for us, but we do have the responsibility to answer that we will do accordingly.

There are seductive things to anyone, and believers are generally being compromised in the modern world without recognizing that, as they are just living like anyone else is. There is the idea taken by many among believers that avoiding adultery, stealing, and murder, possibly very few other...

I will accept that. It is a mysterious thing to accept, that Jesus went into Hades to preach, while there are no other passages that can be used to support that interpretation. So prison really can be understood differently. What could those who cannot change from their circumstances have to...

Christian believers, and I include myself, have moved away from speaking the gospel to others that should hear it, and have been leaving it to others and other ways that might reach them. So it was easy among them to consider laws that might be put into place and political movement to make this...

Yes. After the collapse, all who are in the world, besides some of God's people who came out as they were told to and are living separately in the way God meant for God's people to live with the responsible ways, will follow the one who makes promises that will actually lead to just great...

God speaks to us in ways that God chooses, when we are responsive that is the Light we should have. I know from fellowship there are believers who know many passages from the Bible, that they can say. But not always are they known from the context that shows the meaning better. And conscience is...

Luke 21:8-9, 21:25-26 “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come...

Elihu was a common name. Among several with this name in the Bible, one was a brother of David, one was an ancestor to David, and another one was an ancestor to Samuel. This Elihu who spoke to Job seems to be a common man as well, though showing godly wisdom while being younger than others...

People reading things in the Bible talk about God's justice. But what does God's justice mean without fairness from God? What consequences come from God ultimately will be fair. None of that is yet desirable to any. We have all been hurtful to some others, with our sinful life, being contrary to...

God's way to communicate the revelation from God is effective to individuals that another way would not have been. So some things that seem unusual or even "weird" as expression to use to some of us still was needed for others. We can trust God with that, as God is not willing that any just...

If we are really faithful we can have victory and the enemy would not succeed with us. So we should be focused on God, rather than the enemy, for that. And God's Spirit with us is assurance for that.

We have our choices, and responsibility with those. Peter had responsibility, even believing so, that he said what he would do that very night, when Jesus would be taken, contrary to what Jesus said would happen, but while Peter could have done differently, Jesus said it because Peter wasn't...