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Recent content by Bob8102

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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    To Hazelelponi, John, Maria Billingsly and everybody: Thank you very much for your concern and advice. Yesterday, I read the CCEF article on scrupulosity and it helped. Yesterday and today, I was centered on the thought: "How can I be transformed from one who lives for self, moment-by-moment, to...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Here is something I was going through a couple days ago: I read in my Study Bible notes on 2 Peter 2: 20-21, “These false teachers once had knowledge of…Christ but had returned to their old lifestyles (became again entangled). Their falling away proves that knowledge of facts is not enough to...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Romans 4:25 says, "Christ was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification."
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Thank you, Hazelelponi. I just read this. I feel I experience some of what it is talking about. You ask about my Bible study and church involvement. I read one chapter a day out of the New Testament and some days another chapter out of the Old. I have the Dr. Jeremiah Study Bible and always read...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    John: I did read it. But now, to read it again, I looked through my emails back to June 16, and did not find it. (I also looked through my Yahoo Priority emails back to May.) I am going to have to create a special folder for your PMs, if you send me anymore.
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    At an intellectual level, I understand the problem of looking at oneself, instead of looking at Jesus. But what do I practice in my heart? Someone, maybe you, once told me that I am making my sincerity the key to my salvation whereas the key is not me, but the savior. I have contemplated this...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Grace, Hazelelponi! I pray for you and everyone on Christian Forums.
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    The reason I was saying I was "designed to go to hell" is because I was created with an anti-God nature. But this discussion, especially including my communication with Hazalelponi, has led me to the conclusion that my faith in Jesus is real, saving faith. Thus, I am having what OCD people are...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    THANK YOU!
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Hazelelponi wrote "What makes you fear your faith is superficial? Scripture should give you comfort." The wavering of my faith makes me fear it is superficial. I have just now been praying, "Jesus, because my faith wavers, I fear You have no hold on me." The Ephesians passage and James 1:17...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    I love your response. The second time I read it, I stopped again at the quote, "I believe - help my unbelief!" Not only did I pray that again, but I also again prayed in sincerity and intensity, "Lord take me!" A Christian friend of mine once told me that when he finally gave his life to Christ...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    Your assertion is comforting to me, but other commentators say "control." In his note in his study Bible on James 4: 5, Dr. David Jeremiah writes: "The expression scripture says does not point to any particular verse but to a general biblical principle. the Holy Spirit who lives within all...
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    I cannot bring myself to trust

    I was born with an evil nature inherited from Adam and Eve, which places me, by default, under God's condemnation. I will argue the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ until the cows turn blue and the moon comes home. But it seems I cannot bring myself to trust Christ's and the Holy...
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    Conflict between perception and reality

    What's really going on in the world and life is the war between God's kingdom and Satan's kingdom. ABC News wants to paint you another picture of what's going on. So there is a conflict between perception and reality. This conflict is enough to drive some people crazy, such as myself. My OCD...
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    I currently have assurance, but how long will it last?

    The "Father of Lights...no shadow of turning" passage is James 1:17, not John, as I referenced it.
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