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For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD’S commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

Also in the matter of numbering Israel:

2 Sam. 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done...

Jesus’ opposers accused him of making himself equal to God. (John 5:18; 10:30-33) However, Jesus never claimed to be on the same level as Almighty God. He said: “The Father is greater than I am.”—John 14:28.

That's okay, Jesus had Paul make the claim for him later.

Philippians 2:6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage...

Of the NT writers, only Paul never met him. I'm assuming that the Apostle John wrote Revelation. Paul claims to have met Jesus by vision in Damascus, and says that he wrote what he learned there from the Lord.

Whoever wrote Revelation didn't know Jesus by sight. In Revelation 1:13 he says, "...and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man..."

John the Apostle would have said, "Among the lampstands was the Lord Jesus, who instructed me with the gospel of eternal life."

Jesus made it very clear: Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. And in chapter 25:13 Jesus goes on to say: Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Sure. And he also says, " Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16:28)

The Bible says, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I'm going with that as my final answer. Everything else is just a distraction

If you have to be absent from the body to be present with the Lord, so much for his claim in Matthew 28:20, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

Comfort – “For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:” - 1 Thessalonians 2:3

2 Corinthians 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

For God shows no partiality [undue favor or unfairness; with Him one man is no different from another]. - Romans 2:11 AMPC

On the contrary, it is written (Romans 9:13): "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (the first five books of the Bible and the entirety of the Torah) were all written by Moses.

"And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." -- Moses (Deuteronomy 34:7)

21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 1 Peter 2

Meanwhile:

Jesus: "You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival because my time has not yet fully come."

After his brothers had left for the festival he went also, not publicly, but in secret. (John 7:8-10 NIV)

Isaiah 53:4 - Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

The disease all by itself disqualified Jesus to be a sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” 1 Thessalonians 5:2

Also Paul (2 Thessalonians 2:3): "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition"

Raymond Robinson’s newly released “The Only Way to Get Saved is By the Tongues” is a step-by-step review of the author’s guide to salvation

1 Corinthians 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Justice comes first. Then when there is repentence, you can choose to forgive. No forgiveness without repentence.

Jesus forgave the people who were executing him while he was being executed (Luke 23:34). They didn't confess or repent.

Be like Jesus.

God does not sleep, the sleeping man. Omniscient God, who know the man.

Numbers 22:9 God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.

Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

REPENTANCE IS THE MAINSTAY OF THE BIBLE. WE ALL NEED IT.

Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Grace means God doing and supplying all that the sinner requires for salvation.. Law means the sinner working and trying to merit salvation... Problem is, Law requires perfection, which is too late for a sinner to do... Do the Maths.. Grace alone works..

The Council of Jerusalem ruling on what Gentiles must do:

1. Abstain from pollutions of idols. 2. Abstain from fornication. 3. Abstain from things strangled. 4. Abstain from blood.

I have chatted with a Catholic acquaintance who was positive the Bible said Mary was lifted to heaven (Assumption) and that she was born without sin. When I explained it didn't she said it must have been because I only read a Protestant one.

Even if it was in the Bible that's no real help. Paul said Eve sinned because she was tricked into eating that fruit, while Adam did not sin because he was not tricked. Seriously?

1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

There's no such thing as rebaptism in the Bible!

Acts 19:

[3] And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

[5] When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

There is nothing in the Bible that suggests believers in Jesus should surrender their bodies to a world system. Rather, we are to be separate from the world.

1 Peter

[13] Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

[14] Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

Protestants claim you cannot lose your salvation but that's untrue. The original Catholic Bible makes it clear, you must repent. Jesus was clear: Repent and DO NOT sin again.

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Abraham believed God, and God accounted it as righteousness

Why was it necessary for Christ to come into the world if all you needed to do was believe God? Even Muslims and Jews believe God.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers applies to marriage, business partnership, friendship, travel location, etc

On the contrary, it is written (1 Corinthians 7:14): For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

You currently worship a creature, one of many, whereas you must worship one true immutable God, an uncreated God, uncaused First Cause, Supreme Being, one and only, who created everything out of nothing, without whom nothing came to be.

Scripture teaches us that Jesus increased in favor with God. So God can increase, which means he is not immutable.

Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

"Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” - Matthew 15:11

Also Bible:

"Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake..."

By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified. But now: the righteous of God w/out the law is manifest being witnessed by the law of the prophets.

Also Paul to the Romans:

2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

This is truly love. God has to punish sin. His Son took that punishment so we could attain eternal life. Jesus took what we deserved. Debt = paid in full.

Colossians 1:24 (NIV) - Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

And you don't need to question. The assurance of salvation is one of the greatest gifts given to believers

1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

I believe his objections were against the people not the religion. The Last Supper was a Passover meal.

If it was, he celebrated it a little early.

John 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

The Mass is a "Re-Creation or Enactment" of Jesus last Last Passover Event, Which preceeded his Passion and Crucifixion.

Exodus 12:

[22] ...and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

[24] And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

Jesus went for a night stroll after the "Passover" meal. Not a very good Jew, was he?

There is NO SUCH THING as an Immortal Soul, This is a Catholic Church created Lie. The Scriptures are very clear: "The Soul that Sinneth shall Surely DIE." & "Even King David, a man after God's own Heart is still in his Tomb unto this day."(for several thousand years now).

1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Ez 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him

"I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." -- God, Exodus 20:5