Faithful Remnant wrote:
From the article(and may this be a lesson to Pentecostals or those who sympathize with them):
"On Thursday Neumann, who is 47 and studied in the past to be a Pentecostal minister, said he thought God would heal his daughter.
"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," he said. "I am not believing what he said he would do."
He also said he thought his daughter had had flu or a fever, and that he had not realised how ill she was."
God had the answer with the doctor, but this man(like many Pentecostals) are blinded by their self-righteous piety. I was raised Pente-charismatic-word/faith but have totally severed from it because of this kind of behavior among many other issues that characterize the people caught up in this frenzy.

MikeInVA wrote:
Psalm 127:1
Parallel Translations
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[A song by Solomon for going up to worship.] If the LORD does not build the house, it is useless for the builders to work on it. If the LORD does not protect a city, it is useless for the guard to stay alert.
King James Bible
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
American King James Version
Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
American Standard Version
Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.
Bible in Basic English
A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

Weapon of Mass Instruction wrote:
Thanks for watching out for me.

Its not me,

To God all the Glory

11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord

is born this day.....(light goes on)
birthday (I was blind, now I see)

Was it Dec 25, I don't think so, but
why should you care what date?

is born this day
Did the Holy Spirit forget what day it was, is that why there is no month day and year?

Allow me to answer that
......NO........

So does it surpise you that the WORLD
has turned this day, the day they say
Jesus, the god of love and giving everything you want was born.

Does it allow you to join in trashing

is born this day

You do, you trash the Holy Word of God
when you say christians should not observe chistmas. Yet you have a party
1 year after your first born, you like
it when people tell you happy birthday
(OH, I wonder if the Pastor will wish me
happy birthday in church today, at least my name will be on the bullitin.

Well at least His Name is on the Holy
Day,(as some refer to it)

Did the Apsostles take the day off to
observe a birth that they were preaching about everyday, come on

CHRISTMAS
call it what you want, the Bible says

The Authorized Bible Christmas:

He wrote Luke 2 verses 1-11

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2!

Anti-Guy, most of the time I disagree
(becuse I think the Bible does)
with your style

But for that comment on Christmas
AMEN

And whoever wrote, I would be ashamed to put my name also, missmassatxmas
comments

Good articles on christ-mas http://www.thestreetpreacher.co.uk/blog/
how does any bible believer manage to join his blessed saviour's name in such a word at this time of year-the same as those who attempt to put christ back into christ-mass?) what saith scripture and where has God commanded to celebrate and where is the example of the apsostles-or were they ignorant of Christmas?

Answer your question?
Do what you feel is best, but there is
nothing in the Bible, (OT maybe with some twisting, NT don't think so) to support your view either.

Merry Christmas
terry

Someone wrote
But for the gentiles it was purely grace to give us the benefits of his covenants since he had made no contracts with us wherein he made promises.

See, the Bible also says
Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree

Talking about the gentiles, us.

once your a part of something,
was it spock that said
you become ONE
.. Eph 3:5

alone its out of context
ALL are saved by Grace
just adding verses 3 and 4 make a change
to say ver 5 is all you need, is heresy
or the very least
Grace gone wild

3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved

someone said
Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye (gentiles) are saved

Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

2 Corinthians 10:15
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Lets see, Who measures out Faith,
and without it, truly, can one see
hear, or understand.

Problems with that need to be taken up
with Who wrote it.

Weapon of Mass Instruction wrote:
No you have not. You just stated that justification is not by faith. Not even the Reformers in all of their Calvinistic glory would make such a scandalous statement.

The human equation is faith silly. Like I said above, you are not saying what JD is saying. The reason you go back and forth in your confusion is that you do not believe that justification is by faith. You believe that justification is by election, and faith is a by product of it.
Was that not what you were trying to prove with the gross grammatical blunder you made from Romans?

And the above words mean what you think they do. I don't speak Hebrew, or Greek
God promised to protect His Word, I don't think He needs my help, maybe yours

Better worry about that,
kinda Prideful to worry about justification,

Remember, Lucifer was tossed out because
he was queer, No, PRIDE

if you got it, you got it
BUT USE IT FOR GODS GLORY,
not yours or mine

Longing for revival wrote:
22 hours of bantering and bickering and not one reply to the need for revival! How sad
Jam 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Psa 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Psa 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

The verses are great, not sure if a big
scale revival is Biblical, but to apply
to individuals, oh yes.

Longing, can I call you longing, is that
your first name, mr or ms revival

Someone in the Bible speaks about the
falling away, I think 2 or more is a
revival in todays world.

Merry Christmas, to All