📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Even now and more importantly after the rapture, what will keep people from turning to God? Will they be so steeped in their own deceptions that they can't see clear to run to God? Or will the fact they so missed the mark in every life choice they made, that pride would keep them from seeking His forgiveness!? Which is the culprit? What say you? TR I have always thought that pride is the root of all sin. Lucifer had pride and attempted to overthrow God Almighty. It was pride that led Adam and Eve to covet being like God and thus they were deceived by Satan's lie. It is pride that most of us fight in our walk with God because we must humble ourselves before the Holy Spirit can do His work in our hearts. I think self-pride leads to being deceived; whether by our own deceitful hearts or by Satan. Yes, it is sad to hear or read about the death of the lost. I did read some accounts about them mentioning feeling the heat of the flame. Yet there are many who do get saved on their deathbed too but I think its because they have never heard the Gospel until that very moment. One relative said to my aunt can you please talk to my husband since he never went to church and he is dying. My aunt said I will gladly visit him in the hospital. So she presented the Gospel to him and he prayed to Jesus for salvation on his deathbed. Here he made heaven and his wife, I don’t think made it because she was Catholic and went to church every day and was depending on her works. How sad. Geri, Interesting book, I’ve not read it. I have lived some of it as a witness to way too many deaths. Working in a high acuity ICU for both adults and children and a level one trauma center, I can tell you I have witnessed the horror of death for individuals who did not know Christ, to the extend of crying out how hot their feet where. Those deaths always creeped me out and made me so sad, that I couldn’t do more to rescue them before it was too late. I would work my job and pray. I have also been privileged to hold the hand of dying saints as they smiled, looked far past me and breathed their last, to little ones who saw no fear but peace as death closed around them, such peace in the room, surrounding even me. I have lost loved ones and friends as many of our RITAN family has, death has a powerful sting, but soon, VERY soon, it will be swallowed up! :yahoo: :heart: :prayer-hands: Good point Geri7! Aside from the historicity of Christ, and apart from the prophecies He fulfilled in His first coming, I believe the continued apparitions of Christ throughout history with believers and non believers alike, speaks thunderously to His authenticity! Also without failure, everyone He appeared to knew immediately who He was. Not only by name, but filled with the innate knowledge that He was God! Some powerful testimonies here! What has termed as infallible proofs. I agree that deception and pride are inseparable! Each distinct, but inseparable. Whereas deception is the road traveled by pride. :good: TR
