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    Ukulelemike reacted to OlBrotherDC in Freemasonary in the midst of the brethren   
    I believe Joseph Smith was a Mason, and was influenced strongly by Masonic ceremonies in creating the “Temple Initiation” in the LDS church. There are hidden camera videos of these initiations on YouTube and they Certainly resemble masonry. There is also a video from a series giving the LDS stance on many topics, one of which is freemasonry, where the church takes the stance that it is “completely compatible with the LDS church, since they believe their is truth everywhere”. 
     
    I considered freemasonry for many years before I was saved. A mason is always on a quest for “more light”. What led me away was Psalm 27:1
    “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
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    the key phrase I this situation being, the LORD is MY LIGHT. 
     
    also, the writings from Albert Pike In his book Morals and Dogma about Lucifer pretty much told me all I needed to know, even as a weak Christian doctrinally speaking, I could tell that wasn’t of God. 
     
    I think more preachers should preach against it, in line with Psalm 27 again, don’t be scared of the Masons, your light is brighter. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Baptist Church Sign Heresies   
    I always wanted a sign so I could say, "We put the "Fun" in FUNdamentalism!" ow we don't even have a building of our own. One day....
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Jesus is NOT the archangel Michael !   
    "To what dignity are the chosen elevated when the brilliant courtiers of heaven become their willing servitors! Into what communion are we raised since we have intercourse with spotless celestials! How well are we defended since all the twenty- thousand chariots of God are armed for our deliverance! To whom do we owe all this? Let the Lord Jesus Christ be for ever endeared to us, for through him we are made to sit in heavenly places far above principalities and powers. He it is whose camp is round about them that fear him; he is the true Michael whose foot is upon the dragon. All hail, Jesus! thou Angel of Jehovah's presence, to thee this family offers its morning vows."  (Evening and Morning Pg 556)
    Kind of sounds like Spurgeon taught Jesus was Michael. 
     
    Or maybe the question is, Did Spurgeon believe and teach that Michael the angel was Jesus Christ?, not an angel at all, but God? Are they one and the same person? Either way, it is incorrect.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Silly Question: What Exactly are the Benedictines?   
    Aren't Benedictines a sort of a breakfast food, an egg on a muffin with sauce on it?
     
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from HappyChristian in The Millennium   
    Konstantin, while much of the things you post are veritable gobbelty-gook, because you patch together bits and pieces of verses and phrases that often have nothing to do with each other, so as to make your case seem biblical, yet it borders on, if not being outright, heresy. You create doctrines out of patchwork, then declare this to be truth. Your understanding of scripture is severely flawed. I don't know who taught you to rightly divide scripture this way, but you need to read and understand scripture according to context. 
    Your verse given above has nothing to do with salvation by grace through faith alone-the Lord God called certain people to work with Christ while in His earthly ministry, but now, whosoever will may come to salvation, because Jesus said if He  "be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (Jn  12:32)  See, that is how you add a reference: it is in exact context to what I am speaking of, and to answer your argument. Jesus draws ALL men to Him from the cross, where He died for the sin of the entire world, while in the verse you gave, that was referring to the time of Jesus' earthly ministry. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Hello Everyone   
    Welcome aboard the board. Hope we won't leave you bored.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Post-Trib Rapture?   
    Correct. Personally, I call it post-trib, because I see a significant difference between the 'tribulation' and the 'wrath', the tribulation occurring before the falling of God's wrath. 
    In the tribulation, while God controls all that happens, yet Satan also is given (controlled) free reign to persecute Israel and any believers present. But when God's wrath falls, Satan and the Antichrist and their followers are directly punished by God's wrath, and they no longer have power. And as for how long each takes to happen, the Bible isn't clear, which is why I can still see us not know WHEN Christ will return. It isn't as if one things start, we will have an exact number of days or weeks until the rapture. The wrath of God may well occur very quickly, in a matter of days, even hours. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from John Young in Hello Everyone   
    Welcome aboard the board. Hope we won't leave you bored.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Discussion On seventh day Adventism   
    I have some SDA friends/acquaintances. The wife never much discussed anything with me, but her husband would declare things that I suspect he knew we disagreed with, and when I would go to scripture to dispute it, he would get awfully angry and raise his voice. They really didn't want to hear any scripture, just had their talking points.
    I would maybe dispute that: Walter martin always had a soft spot in his writings for SDA, and I suspect either he had been one, or had family in it, and really didn't seem like he was willing to take a real stance against it. Always seemed weird, how he wore an almost cartoonishly large cross around his neck.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Plaigerizing   
    Well, they're all using the same source material, and unless the other pastor is copyrighting all his material, (a terrible idea anyways), as long as the sermons are good and biblically sound, I don't know that it is a problem, ethically.
    Now, if he is a full-time pastor, with plenty of time to prepare sermons, and he is being paid to do that, but all he does is use others' sermons, then maybe that ought to be taken up as to whether he is doing his job. But I doubt there are any pastors who haven't used other pastors' sermons before. Even Charles Spurgeon admitted to preaching Matthew Henry verbatim.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in Did Jonah die while he was in the belly of the fish?   
    Agreed-he did not die-the comparison Jesus made was only to the time he would be in the grave, not anything concerning Jonah's death. Jonah was clearly alive and unhappy about it, and such was the intent, to cause him to repent and bend to the Lord's will. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from OlBrotherDC in The Millennium   
    Konstantin, while much of the things you post are veritable gobbelty-gook, because you patch together bits and pieces of verses and phrases that often have nothing to do with each other, so as to make your case seem biblical, yet it borders on, if not being outright, heresy. You create doctrines out of patchwork, then declare this to be truth. Your understanding of scripture is severely flawed. I don't know who taught you to rightly divide scripture this way, but you need to read and understand scripture according to context. 
    Your verse given above has nothing to do with salvation by grace through faith alone-the Lord God called certain people to work with Christ while in His earthly ministry, but now, whosoever will may come to salvation, because Jesus said if He  "be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (Jn  12:32)  See, that is how you add a reference: it is in exact context to what I am speaking of, and to answer your argument. Jesus draws ALL men to Him from the cross, where He died for the sin of the entire world, while in the verse you gave, that was referring to the time of Jesus' earthly ministry. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from Pastor Scott Markle in "this doe in remembrance of me"   
    "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. " (1Cor 11:23-16)
    Okay, scripture clearly shows you are wrong. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ was the apex of His earthly ministry, and it is this that the Lord's Supper commemorates: it says it right there. His body broke, His blood shed, shewing His death til He returns. It isn't hard, or complicated, but it IS clear. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from SureWord in "this doe in remembrance of me"   
    "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. " (1Cor 11:23-16)
    Okay, scripture clearly shows you are wrong. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ was the apex of His earthly ministry, and it is this that the Lord's Supper commemorates: it says it right there. His body broke, His blood shed, shewing His death til He returns. It isn't hard, or complicated, but it IS clear. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from Scott Lyons in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    Here is some more:
    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. " (Matt 23:37)
    Here we see God's will, that He could gather Jerusalem together to Himself, yet their will, to reject Him, prevailed, and therefore, their house was left to them desolate. Man's will prevailed over God's will.

     "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2Pet 3:9)
       
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from Alan in The Millennium   
    Konstantin, while much of the things you post are veritable gobbelty-gook, because you patch together bits and pieces of verses and phrases that often have nothing to do with each other, so as to make your case seem biblical, yet it borders on, if not being outright, heresy. You create doctrines out of patchwork, then declare this to be truth. Your understanding of scripture is severely flawed. I don't know who taught you to rightly divide scripture this way, but you need to read and understand scripture according to context. 
    Your verse given above has nothing to do with salvation by grace through faith alone-the Lord God called certain people to work with Christ while in His earthly ministry, but now, whosoever will may come to salvation, because Jesus said if He  "be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (Jn  12:32)  See, that is how you add a reference: it is in exact context to what I am speaking of, and to answer your argument. Jesus draws ALL men to Him from the cross, where He died for the sin of the entire world, while in the verse you gave, that was referring to the time of Jesus' earthly ministry. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from Jim_Alaska in The Millennium   
    Konstantin, while much of the things you post are veritable gobbelty-gook, because you patch together bits and pieces of verses and phrases that often have nothing to do with each other, so as to make your case seem biblical, yet it borders on, if not being outright, heresy. You create doctrines out of patchwork, then declare this to be truth. Your understanding of scripture is severely flawed. I don't know who taught you to rightly divide scripture this way, but you need to read and understand scripture according to context. 
    Your verse given above has nothing to do with salvation by grace through faith alone-the Lord God called certain people to work with Christ while in His earthly ministry, but now, whosoever will may come to salvation, because Jesus said if He  "be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (Jn  12:32)  See, that is how you add a reference: it is in exact context to what I am speaking of, and to answer your argument. Jesus draws ALL men to Him from the cross, where He died for the sin of the entire world, while in the verse you gave, that was referring to the time of Jesus' earthly ministry. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from wretched in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    Here is some more:
    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. " (Matt 23:37)
    Here we see God's will, that He could gather Jerusalem together to Himself, yet their will, to reject Him, prevailed, and therefore, their house was left to them desolate. Man's will prevailed over God's will.

     "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2Pet 3:9)
       
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from Jim_Alaska in "this doe in remembrance of me"   
    "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. " (1Cor 11:23-16)
    Okay, scripture clearly shows you are wrong. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ was the apex of His earthly ministry, and it is this that the Lord's Supper commemorates: it says it right there. His body broke, His blood shed, shewing His death til He returns. It isn't hard, or complicated, but it IS clear. 
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from heartstrings in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    Here is some more:
    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. " (Matt 23:37)
    Here we see God's will, that He could gather Jerusalem together to Himself, yet their will, to reject Him, prevailed, and therefore, their house was left to them desolate. Man's will prevailed over God's will.

     "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2Pet 3:9)
       
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    Ukulelemike reacted to Gismys in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    God Would Have ALL Men to be Saved!!   2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;   1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. == A stake in the false teaching Calvinism's heart!  
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    Ukulelemike reacted to SureWord in Divorce, Re-Marriage, Adultery, and the Ministry   
    It seems to me that despite God's  qualifications for the ministry listed by Paul that God still makes exceptions. The "gifts and calling of God are without repentance". Even David, who should have been put to death according to God's law, received God's sure mercies and remained king.
    I  know of one pastor who committed adultery and fell out of the ministry whom, though he wasn't an "official" pastor, saints stilled viewed him as such and looked to him for leading and advice though he didn't have a church. So the calling and gift in a sense was still there though he didn't have a church.
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from SureWord in Divorce, Re-Marriage, Adultery, and the Ministry   
    I have long disagreed with the view that a divorced man is disqualified to be a pastor. The idea comes from the phrase "The husband of one wife" He is to be the husband of one wife. I get that and I agree with it. However, does that reference divorce? If so, then it must also refence a widower, for in both cases, they are married to only one wife, but they HAD been married to another wife at one time. 
    In the question of divorce, it would be dependent upon, I suppose, the circumstances of the divorce. As Jesus said, fornication, (not adultery), is the acceptable reason for divorce, so in such a case, the man should be free to both remarry and pastor a church.  In other cases, we see Paul speak about if a believer is married to an unbeliever, and the unbeliever departs, let them depart, the believer is not under bondage, (bonds of marriage) to them. Therefore, that man should be free to both remarry and be a pastor.
    After I had accepted the call to preach, but well before I became a pastor, my wife left me, (an unbeliever), not wanting anything to do with that life. I wonder, when God called me, was He surprised that happened? No, He knew, and I believe it was part of that call, because she would not have been conducive to that work. No different than when Ezra commanded the Israelites to divorce the strange women they'd married while in captivity.  
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from wretched in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    But where there is no law, or understanding of sin and punishment, there is no imputing of sin. All are fallen, but until sin is willingly committed, it is not imputed. That is exactly what Paul was saying in Rom 7.
     
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    Ukulelemike got a reaction from heartstrings in Calvinism or Arminianism? How do you answer?   
    But where there is no law, or understanding of sin and punishment, there is no imputing of sin. All are fallen, but until sin is willingly committed, it is not imputed. That is exactly what Paul was saying in Rom 7.
     
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