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12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Hmmm... I suspect your description of salvation came the Book of Common Sense because I see there is no Bible reference given. Salvation is a gift from God where He rescues the sinner from His eternal wrath through the substitutionary sacrifice...

And, once again, it devolves into something else completely and also personal when @MemeFan comes along. Perhaps we get back on track with the original post question and thought?

If your best argument is it’s your common sense. You are the only one with interesting ideas Everyone else is intellectually inferior That’s not a very convincing argument I can tell you from 30 years experience in marriage with the same...

Of course this all comes from your experience with your own wife right. So you would know better than most.

And, once again, it devolves into something else completely and also personal when @MemeFan comes along. Perhaps we get back on track with the original post question and thought?

This is something I've analyzed. I don't deny that economic realities exist, or the challenge. The Scriptures make it clear a man should "count the cost" before building. At the same time, for all the difficulties of modern life, we do have more...

And, once again, it devolves into something else completely and also personal when @MemeFan comes along. Perhaps we get back on track with the original post question and thought?

Why don't you just take this to that new thread before we give @The Revolting Man more work to do?

We have discussed this at length. The first thing I thought was Jesus on the cross asking the Father to forgive the people for crucifying Him because they didn’t know what they were doing Luke 23:24, which reminded me of the OT in Hosea 4:6...

This is something I've analyzed. I don't deny that economic realities exist, or the challenge. The Scriptures make it clear a man should "count the cost" before building. At the same time, for all the difficulties of modern life, we do have more...

Welcome to the site! It was a pleasure to meet your family at the Seattle gathering last month. I hope you will find some good things here.

Thank you for sharing @Stanfam7 this amazing encounter with you friend. It was a true kindness of God for him to lay things out in the way he did for you and your friend. Hold on to the memories of that day when other conversations don't go...

Oh boy! I did it. My friend and I meet every Wednesday for prayer. The weather is still gorgeous, so we got ourselves out by the pool in the sunshine. We ended up talking about what God was doing in our lives. She has known some serious...

Welcome, I appreciate your journey. I pray that your plans for building a kibbutz go well.