Signs of the Times..

@SpiritualMan It hearkens back to what James wrote about belief. If your belief is no more than the belief of Satan who knows God exists and trembles then you are not believing unto salvation. Belief also needs action. Why do we partake and discern the Body and Blood in the elements? Because we put our faith into action. Faith without works is dead. Read John 6 and think on what is written there starting at verse 25. What were two of the miracles Jesus performed? He turned the cleansing water used for ritual cleansing into wine. Wine being His Blood by which we are all cleansed. Then he multiplied the loaves for He is the Bread of Heaven by which we are all fed. Note verses 53-59. Now flip over to 1 Corinthians 11:29. Partaking in communion is not something to be done lightly nor is it just a symbolic act done only in remembrance.

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@Adstar I don't believe in special rewards for eating and drinking, but I do believe that you get more spiritual benefits if you eat and drink[/quote]

You cannot have it both ways man.. You cannot say there are no rewards and then say there a benifits ... Benifits,, rewards,, same thing Man..

@hippyjoe1955 While we're harkening back, what say we harken back to [b][i]Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.[/i][/b]

And then you can apologize for these lies:

@SpiritualMan It was Jesus providing the Atonement.. The Spiritual Kingdom started on the day of penticost when the Holy Spirit came into the Apostles and caused them to understand the Way of salvation.. But it was not the start of the physicval kingdom which happens on the day of the LORDs return.. Satan still had access and power and if you read the later letters of the apostles you will see that satan and his demons where well and trully active and working against the Apostles..

@SpiritualMan Well we are not going to agree on this at all... When the Kingdom of the world become the Kingdoms of the LORD satans influence on human beings will be cut off right away.. You want to persist with this Jesus taking the kingdoms of the world but having no power to stop satan doctrine.. then so be it..

@SpiritualMan I believe the KJV is the Word of God... So i will disagree with you on that one..

@SpiritualMan [quote]I don't trust the Gates Foundation[/quote] Then it is incumbent upon you to provide a better data source. And perhaps you could highlight what the Gates Fdn got wrong. I'm betting the Gates Fdn is pretty much correct on this and that you can't demonstrate otherwise. It's fine to complain about a source, but without an alternate, my source is still the best data available to us.