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  • Through a Previously Hardened Heart

  • 15 years ago
  • Dear Mike, I am having trouble reconciling the verse "I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful. Whom I will harden I will harden." Doesn't this at least imply that those whom God hardens are not shown mercy? Please Help, J____ Hi J____, You say: I am having trouble reconciling the verse "I will... [read more]

  • Why Are They Blessed?

  • 15 years ago
  • Hi Mike, I enjoy your site and have learned a lot. My former pastor said to me one day "If God blessed us only when we deserved it, we would never get blessed." Is there any truth to that? Thanks, T____ Hi T____, Thank you for your question, and I am pleased that you "have learned a lot." You ask: ... [read more]

  • Who Are Gods?

  • 15 years ago
  • Hi Mike, Thanks for such a fast response!" Anyway, your message cleared up most of it, but I still have an issue with Jesus being called the mighty God, and his name Immanuel meaning God with us. I understand why you wrote that it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell, but that st... [read more]

  • When Is the First Resurrection?

  • 15 years ago
  • Hi, Mike, I wonder if you would take a moment to say what you understand the first resurrection to be. Is it past or future? Please be brief. A____ Hi A____, Thank you for your question. You ask: I wonder if you would take a moment to say what you understand the first resurrection to be. Is it past ... [read more]

  • I Am That Woman!

  • 15 years ago
  • Hi Mike, Thank you. Your letter really explained very well. I also read "A very present help" on the website and I read the following scripture shortly after emailing you: Job 2:10  But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand... [read more]

  • When Did the New Testament Apostasy Begin?

  • 15 years ago
  • Dear Mike, I was more than a little surprised when I read that you consider it unacceptable to allow an Orthodox Priest (a Christian) to pray for another Christian. Can you kindly elaborate on why you would consider the oldest Christian denomination to be unworthy of receiving prayer from? The... [read more]

  • Did Christ Died Only for His Sheep?

  • 15 years ago
  • Dear Mike, I want so badly for what you teach to be true. I want all to be saved. I want to believe that God will save all. But I am still in bondage and fear to what I have been taught, and I asked God for the truth to set me free. But I'm still so scared and I don't know what to do. I hope God sen... [read more]

  • Patriotism and Glenn Beck

  • 15 years ago
  • A Biblical Perspective of Glenn Beck’s Book Overton Window Hi again Mike, A guy who I work with thought I might like reading Glenn Beck's novel The Overton Window. I knew that I no longer wanted to focus on conspiracy theories even if some of it is probably true. Scanning the book, some tho... [read more]

  • Sequence of the Resurrections

  • 15 years ago
  • Hello, I have recently been confused in trying to understand the outward/ will be sequence of the resurrections and reign spoken of in Revelation. I assume the Second Death is implying a "second resurrection"? Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and ... [read more]