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@TheHolyGhost777 - Everyone starts their spiritual life as a baby Christian, and asks questions to grow in their knowledge of God, and scripture. The Bible is a very challenging book to understand in places, and we'd much rather have people ask questions in an attempt to grow in their faith, and understand it rightly - then guess or assume answers and not engage in "iron sharpening iron."

@torontobiblestudy - thanks for watching and commenting. Happy you checked us out. The debate about losing salvation is an age old one for sure, and I believe the wrong question to be asking. As followers of Jesus, we need to be constantly striving to grow closer to Jesus and our relationship with Him. Not worrying about how far away we can get, or what we can do or not do to lose our salvation. The goal is always to be CLOSER to Jesus, even in our suffering and times of doubts. Thanks again for watching and interacting.

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thanks for always watching and commenting positively @rebeccaleatherman4955! Grateful for you.

@deathtaxes Thanks for chiming in! I am happy to hear that even after your searching, you were able to find your way back to God. What a blessing! Humbled that you would watch my stuff and care enough to comment. Btw, it was 55 degrees in Hudson, WI today. Weird, and amazing. Hope you'll watch again soon!

@atheistcomments - while your opinion is totally allowed and welcomed; I wonder if I could ask you a question? What would you consider as acceptable "proof" for the existence of a God? Even perhaps more specifically, the God of the Bible?

@@hillcitychurch1173 There is an internet full of other christians who claim to interact with Yahweh and his son. We can sort through some of those to find methods in which it's claimed Yahweh can reveal himself. I see pastors and preachers. I hear them talk with such knowledge of how Yahweh thinks and feels. Somehow. You guys claim he exists in the present and people are claiming interactions. Where is he right now? There is a reason why I call him an imaginary character. You, as a human being sets a standard for what a real being is. A claimed invisible being is indistinguishable from an imaginary character. At some point you will have to acknowledge this.

@@atheistcomments I truly appreciate your response. It seems very genuine and heartfelt, and I understand where you are coming from. Let me attempt to respond with some thoughts, briefly and with some grace. When you use the term Yahweh, it implies an understanding of the OT (Jewish) God. I believe there are two main ways that people (pastors included) can know what Yahweh thought/felt/is like/commanded. The first is through the words of the Old Testament, which is the recorded version of the oral history passed down through Jewish preaching/teaching and history. Many of it's teachings and historical recordings have been proven valid through other sciences such as archaeology, as well as other historical books (non religious). The second way is through what we as Christians call "General Revelation" - which means what we can discern through the world around us. An example would be that God is creative, because of the beauty of creation, God is orderly because of the ordered nature of creation and the fine tuning of the universe, etc. These are obviously more vague and open to interpretation. What the OT God said and who He is, are revealed to us in these ways, but there is another way that God reveals Himself to us. The person of Jesus (who is an historical figure) and his life, death, and resurrection, demonstrated that He was in fact God in human form. Therefore, what He said, taught and demonstrated about God can be used as "knowledge of God" (who He is, what He desires, how He interacts with us, what He feels) as well. Jesus was not invisible, nor imaginary. There is more recorded about Him historically, than any other source of ancient literature. What He taught, and His resurrection from the dead, are recorded in the New Testament of the Bible for all of us to see, learn from and interact with. While there can be different interpretations of certain parts of these texts, they too are neither imaginary, nor invisible. I will grant you that the reality of the Holy Spirit working in and through people and revealing things about God is much more subjective, and easier to dispute. As a Bible-believing Christian, I take the words of scripture literally (when it's meant to be), and I believe that the Holy Spirit of God is real and speaking to God's followers today, but like I said, I can see why some would understandably question that. It should be stated, that ANYTIME the Holy Spirit speaks to a person, the message would have to line up with what/who God is in Scripture and throughout history, in order to be considered "from God" and not tainted by human understanding, or lack thereof. I'll end with this, your claim that God is invisible may seem true in a strictly naturalistic sense. You cannot see Him physically in front of you. But such is also the case with certain things like gasses, the wind, etc. Those things are evidenced by their affects. They are DISTINGUISHABLE because of the affects they have on the natural world. I believe the affects of God are evidenced in both the natural (creation, fine-tuning, etc), and supernatural (or spiritual) world/realms, in which we live, and therefore, He is not truly invisible or indistinguishable. I appreciate you engaging in this conversation, and your thoughts.

@@hillcitychurch1173 All you did was tell me about your imaginary god character. It's just make-believe fantasy, Talk is cheap, show receipts.

@@atheistcomments do you not count anything in the Bible, other recorded history, or anything I mentioned, such as the existence and fine tuning of the universe as "receipts?" If so, then I believe you have created an impossible standard for ANYTHING or anyone to meet. Based on that standard, you cannot prove the existence of anything other than your immediate surrounding (nothing in history can be proven that predates you).

@nyxiz4232 - I thank you for watching and for your engagement with our post. I will only answer your thoughts by saying that your thoughts on our position as it regards human slavery, are completely false. We would NEVER endorse the ownership of a human being by another. All humans are created by God in His image and are loved by Him. They have worth, simply because they are children of God. Biblical "slavery" was a system entered into by both parties, as a way of repaying debts, not of one person owning another. Trafficking and abuse of human beings in ANY way is sinful, and not acceptable to us, but more importantly God. Fairness and equality are not one and the same. God is JUST, God has given all His children equal status (the opportunity for it through Christ) under the cross - but He is not "fair" with us. If he treated us all "fairly" - we would get the eternal separation from Him we deserve. Thank God, He is unfair in that regard!

Jess! My understanding of it, is that it would be just like any other sin - we are judged for them when we stand in front of God, we will either be pure like Jesus or not. If we deny the Holy Spirit in front of God, we make our choice, and we cannot be saved.

Robert, I understand this question completely, but i think the same could be said of you and I. We choose to sin and disobey God all the time, we cause misery to ourselves and others, and yet God chose to create us, out of His love for us, and His desire to have a relationship with us. If God truly wanted to end all misery and sin, He'd have to start with eliminating us. Perhaps this is the dame reason He created Satan, out of His love for angels, and even knowing Satan's choices, He saw fit to. Tough stuff for sure. Thanks for your thoughts.

That's a great question Jessica - not a real great answer, but probably something to do with the family line, and the fact that his (Noah's) son had dishonored him, and so the same would happen to Ham.