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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    God is not inconsistent, His word is not inconsistent. His people are not inconsistent, and since He promises to reprove those whom He lovbes, if you do not see God's reproof when they are inconsistent, then any belief that would be contrary contradicts God and His word. Deception can only...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    That's a big part of it, a lot of belief in lies is do to a belief in 10-15% of the passages that apply. The rest is left out of the equation altogether. This results in a ton of "religious" people believing incorrect doctrines. No truth is negotiable. Either it is the fullness of the truth...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Yes, it appears that the context before and afterwards has absolutely no connection in your interpretation that I can see. The first five verses are a warning to be careful to judge yourself by the same standard before Jesus command to judge others in verse 6, and the opposite, contrasting...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Eph 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, Eph 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; Eph 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Obviously if there is such a thing as truth, belief in truth is possible. And if we continuously keep on doing what the word of God says we need to do to get to truth and avoid holding fast to what we want to believe as truth, then we are promised to get that before we die. We are also promised...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    That's the first point. Those that love their beliefs prove their beliefs true and hold fast to them. My beliefs are ALL openhanded. In other words, I am open to altering every last one of them in the light of the fullness of the truth on the issue with every thing that "might" apply included...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    I am glad you have what you need to believe as you do. No matter what the beliefs that works for me. Everyone has what they need to hold fast to their positions and if they are satisfied with that anything else is meaningless contention. God bless and good luck.
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    All belief groups hold fast to the fact that before they can win converts, they must first get the potential convert to agree that there is a possibility that their current views might be "off" from the truth and/or that the beliefs they want them to adopt "might" be true. Better to have both...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Ok, so whose certain truths are necessary and binding. The Roman Catholic church says their tenants are. The Mormons say theirs are, the Jehovah's witnesses their tenants. The question is, if we are all doing the exact same thing to hold fast to our beliefs as truth as every one of these groups...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    The problem is that there are only 2 Methods to go at the truth verses beliefs issue. If your goal is to hold fast to any belief, if you have ANY unquestionably true beliefs, regardless of the beliefs or belief group, you are doing the exact same thing every other belief group does to hold fast...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    All truth is His truth. He is the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Him. The problem, every person who believes anything believes they have the truth. Next problem, since Jesus is the truth, if you missed the truth you missed Jesus. If you do not love truth more than...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Everything in the book is based on what the bible has to say about it. I was an evangelical Atheist who had very good success converting Christians to what I Knew was truth ... Atheism. I was wrong. That said, for the Atheists out there, I am open to altering any or all of my beliefs in the...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    And there are entire groups of thousands of people who have the exact same level of vehement belief that it is a lie. As abn ex evangelical Atheist, I can tell you that is a fact. But the book is based on what the bible says is truth, so, so far we are in agreement. I however am open to changing...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    I Agree. Most people believe that you can't jump off a 20 story building with nothing on and count on a safe landing, for example. And believing anything with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, even to the point where you strap bombs to your kids doesn't guarantee truth even though no...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    Every person whose goal it is to prove their beliefs true and hold fast to them, regardless of belief groups uses the exact same method to do so. Ergo, if you can hold fast to anything you want to be absolute unquestionable truth, or hold to the exact same thing as unquestionable lies using the...
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    TRuth Vs. Beliefs: Would you Read a Book Whose Back Cover Said This:

    “Only Belief in the Truth Saves” “Only Belief in the Truth Results in Correct Doctrines, Words and Actions” “More than 90% of the People on the Planet Hate Truth and only Seek to Justify What they Want to Believe AS Truth and for these people, regardless of their beliefs, For Them: Their...
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    Which Delivered Us from the Wrath to Come. (1Th 1:10)

    The word is harpadzo in Greek. Exact meaning "Taken or caught" up. Latin "Rapturo" exact meaning: "Taken or caught" up. The meaning is EXACTLY the same it's just in a different language. Arguing that Rapturo is not in the original Greek is like arguing that "caught up together is not in the...
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    Which Delivered Us from the Wrath to Come. (1Th 1:10)

    Yes, first, then second, and all in the twinkling of an eye. In other words, no one who remains will even notice the resurrection or the rapture ... gone baby gone ... not in 60 seconds, but in a blink of an eye. It's not like 3 1/2 years pass between the two events.
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    Which Delivered Us from the Wrath to Come. (1Th 1:10)

    There are O.T. saints, N.T. saints, and saints in revelation. Are they all the same? Nope. In the later parts of revelation the only way to be saved is to avoid the mark of the beast and be martyred. That's a little different than the rest of the N.T. salvation message. The promises made to the...