It's amazing that people would rather throw Jesus under the bus than be impeded in the headlong rush to claim justification from Him.
You know that is a false accusation.
Deep down inside.
Check yourself.
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It's amazing that people would rather throw Jesus under the bus than be impeded in the headlong rush to claim justification from Him.
Episkopos is so far from overgeneralizing anything in what he teaches that he is in a different country than the one where overgeneralizing lives!
That's a lie. You don't believe any of Jesus' teachings.
I expect you to lie...
Thinking I'm saying? Why do you feel the need to write so disparaging? Is it the example you are being given by your mentor?Once again, no idea what you’re even are trying to say or thinking you are saying. Rahab lived AFTER the law was given.
Perhaps I've been assuming you have a greater Biblical knowledge than you actually do. You could ask questions, but this is what you do. Not interested.You just muddy every drop of water in the world with your feet as you slip and slide around not even SAYING anything…
Better than that. Speaking as the oracle of God.Speaking on behalf of the apostle Paul ?
your here to do what , save souls .When people seek to destroy the inclusive nature of God's mercy on the poor and meek...they cut off their own mercy from God.
The extreme foolishness we see here is like a man sitting on a branch who is sawing off the branch he is sitting on. I'm seeing this and calling to the person doing this suicidal thing...to stop.
I'm here to save souls...but the souls are blind and foolish.
To those who think they are special and exclusive to God...wake up!
You're a scary lion at times, brother. But thank you. I'll mediate on this.You are literally being too kind here. You actually spoke the truth but with a force that you weren't accustomed to. Discernment is good. Rebuking pride is good. There is a time for this IF you want the truth to have dominion over the many lies being propagated in the churches of today. I hope you will measure what you posted to Mark with this...
Cursed is he that keeps back his sword from blood.
Let the timid be strong in the Lord to bring down enemy strongholds. OK so maybe I'm more of a lion and warrior...but I got that way through love of God and love of the truth. Also being empowered and inspired by God to be that way.
Blessings and peace.
This reminds me of Teresa of Avila, who gave instructions to help people and then much further on said something like, now forget all those instructions because you have reached a place where they won’t help you but will instead hinder you and frustrate grace, a place you do not know and cannot use these crutches in, no matter how much they helped you in the past, because He will begin to take you by a way you do not know and that others cant copiously help you in or help you to progress in because only God can take you now.
She, and others, give pretty strict instructions on how you will know you have neared that place and on NOT trying to somehow work your way into it and that unless you see the signs they give that you are there you must not cease your former labors. But people, being people, always think they are further than they really are.
Are you certain? I ask because I wondered at first if this place of peace I found myself in was “having arrived” but soon saw and experienced that it’s a second place of instruction and practice, an “in-between” place, for lack of better wording. And the peace is a gift, but it’s still not His face. And it’s okay to rest in that peace (I think He wants you to and that’s why He granted it after your decades long struggle to trust and surrender the prisoner who is keeping you prisoner) but you can never think it is your possession or that you're in a state of sinlessness or He will painfully show you your mistake and all will be lost. The least bit of possessiveness or presumption or trying to take over takes you out of it.
@amigo de christoand what are the commandments , what sums up the entire law . oh yeah LOVE GOD above all and your neighbor as yourself .
GUESS what epi , THOSE who call GOD a liar DO NOT LOVE HIM . so that just failed the OBEY the commandemnts .
AND guess who calls GOD a liar epi . HE WHO B LEIEVES NOT the TESTIMONY GOD HIMSELF gave of the SON .
SO guess who is a co helper to calling GOD a liar , THOSE who imply its not necessary to have had to beleive ON JESUS THE SON
THE CHRIST OF GOD .
NOW GEE i wonder who is doing that . OH yeah INCLUSIVISM DOES . and guess who follows that , OH yeah EPI DOES .

AHA! That's right...no man comes to the Father but by Jesus. But it does NOT say that no one can inherit life that doesn't know the Father. No one here knows the Father. So you all condemn yourselves. Without the mercy of God you are all lost. Yet you impugn God's mercy on the poor, the meek the fatherless, the widow...etc. So then because you have no mercy on the just you will not be shown mercy.
That's your estrogen need of drama talking here. You and the crows here need to be vigourously rebuked for insulting the Spirit of grace.

Better than that. Speaking as the oracle of God.
I put myself under everyone else. I'm trying to pull people down off their prideful high horses so that they stop insulting the spirit of grace. And these prideful ones just get angry and hurl abuse at me for my trouble. The flesh acts very badly...as it is written. As for your very skewed judgments...you are seeing things as you are. You have no idea who I am and what God has called me to...because of the depth that God calls people at, which you don't understand, and that bothers your ego..because you are unable to see others with anything but as being in an inferior position. You think you know more than others. So that reveals you, not me.Hear, hear, putting yourself above everybody else.
BTW, what's the difference between holiness and sanctification?
Aahhh…okay. So sanctification is a training also…in the sense of learning to remain in holiness or remain there longer “the next time” by not offending holiness?But holiness is about God and His presence. Holiness is about God not us. From THAT perspective sanctification is what takes place in God's presence.
Aahhh…okay. So sanctification is a training also…in the sense of learning to remain in holiness or remain there longer “the next time” by not offending holiness?
That's part of righteousness training. God loves righteousness...and He gives His peace to those who look to Him.Thats a similar (but not the same) thing as what I’ve been experiencing about how to remain in this peace and how to not have it withdrawn...
Yes, that's quite something isn't it, for someone to claim they are speaking the oracles of God.Hear, hear, putting yourself above everybody else.
BTW, what's the difference between holiness and sanctification?