Sinless Perfection. Why do so many teach against what Jesus taught?

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Episkopos

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If you do what is right
you will be right with God.
As He sees it, yes.

Here is the meaning of HOLY:

The word holy primarily means set apart, distinct, or connected to God and religion
Do you also go to the dictionary to know the will of God for you on a daily basis? The internet?

What do you go to God for? Peace? forgiveness? Cleansing?

But there is something much deeper that God wants to give us...eternal life. It just so happens that eternal life is in holiness. God is holy.

So unless you think being set apart is unto the perfection of Christ to walk in resurrection life...I don't think you should put your trust in a word definition book.

I see you are from Italy. Maybe I see why you don't understand a lot of what I'm saying..I use a lot of English expressions...similes and such.

You can use the internet to translate those expressions... and if not I will clarify my meaning for you....no problem. I live in a French city so I often have to translate from one language to the other. I like languages. And I may have posted a few Hebrew words...but I translate them right away. I like Hebrew! And I like puppies. :)
 

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As He sees it, yes.


Do you also go to the dictionary to know the will of God for you on a daily basis? The internet?

What do you go to God for? Peace? forgiveness? Cleansing?

But there is something much deeper that God wants to give us...eternal life. It just so happens that eternal life is in holiness. God is holy.

So unless you think being set apart is unto the perfection of Christ to walk in resurrection life...I don't think you should put your trust in a word definition book.

I see you are from Italy. Maybe I see why you don't understand a lot of what I'm saying..I use a lot of English expressions...similes and such.

You can use the internet to translate those expressions... and if not I will clarify my meaning for you....no problem. I live in a French city so I often have to translate from one language to the other. I like languages. And I may have posted a few Hebrew words...but I translate them right away. I like Hebrew! And I like puppies. :)
I stopped reading.

1. Can you not take correction?

2. There was no internet when I was learing this STUFF.

3. I LIVE IN ITALY....notice how well I speak English.
I also speak two other languages.

Please do not think you know me.

And I don't need YOU to clarify anything for ME.
Very thoughtful of you.
 

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That's a perception but is it true? The more deeply I speak the truth...the more people say I'm a false teacher.
I do think you are being falsely accuse for teaching truth. But even truth teachers can have blind spots.
Maybe you can't see why it's unwise to have women as leaders. The West is in sharp decline because of the feminization of society. And the church has followed right along. It was Eve that introduced sin into the world...and Adam went right after her.
I actually agree and do not seek to usurp authority over men. I try to avoid discussions on salvation doctrine because I don't think it's my place to correct men anymore on those issues. My main focus is Titus 2:3-5 topics to edify women.


I find it okay to ask questions though. My question to you is, do you think you could have anything to learn from others on this forum?
 

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I stopped reading.

1. Can you not take correction?

I can take dictation. :rolleyes:
2. There was no internet when I was learing this STUFF.

3. I LIVE IN ITALY....notice how well I speak English.
I also speak two other languages.

Please do not think you know me.

I only observed that you live in Italy. When you said you didn't understand what I'm saying, I didn't think you didn't understand spiritual things (do you?) I just thought it was a language barrier thing.
And I don't need YOU to clarify anything for ME.

So you understand perfectly well everything I say? Is this you correcting me? I could have misunderstood your statement to that effect.
Very thoughtful of you.
snide remark...interesting. :IDK:
 

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I can take dictation. :rolleyes:


I only observed that you live in Italy. When you said you didn't understand what I'm saying, I didn't think you didn't understand spiritual things (do you?) I just thought it was a language barrier thing.


So you understand perfectly well everything I say? Is this you correcting me? I could have misunderstood your statement to that effect.

snide remark...interesting. :IDK:
Yeah.
Snide remark.
Looks like I know English expressions too.
If you stick to theology,,,,you'll be better off with me.
 

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I can take dictation. :rolleyes:


I only observed that you live in Italy. When you said you didn't understand what I'm saying, I didn't think you didn't understand spiritual things (do you?) I just thought it was a language barrier thing.


So you understand perfectly well everything I say?

No.
I do NOT understand anything you say.
Not for lack of knowing English.

Is this you correcting me? I could have misunderstood your statement to that effect.

snide remark...interesting. :IDK:
 

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I do think you are being falsely accuse for teaching truth.

What do you mean here... ?? You agree that I speak the truth...or you agree that I falsely teach the truth?
But even truth teachers can have blind spots.

For sure.
I actually agree and do not seek to usurp authority over men. I try to avoid discussions on salvation doctrine because I don't think it's my place to correct men anymore on those issues. My main focus is Titus 2:3-5 topics to edify women.

I see that and appreciate that is what you do normally. But I tend to attract controversy because I'm not soft-pedaling the truth because of people's feelings. I will listen to any remarks, rebukes and such. But false accusations I will correct for their sake. When I make a judgment I am very careful that it is at the correct weight. God hates a false weight. So if someone tells a lie about holiness I will come on stronger than if a person speaks against a fact.
I find it okay to ask questions though. My question to you is, do you think you could have anything to learn from others on this forum?
I do learn from others. Sometimes a person will post a verse that God is teaching me something about...in a deeper way. So I get confirmations that way. But many times the person who is quoting the verse is misquoting it ....out of context. That's when I wink back at God. Shepherd's word will post some Greek study that is helpful ...and in a good way.

I think you are trying very hard to be nice...but you have to smash the glass ceiling, so to speak, if you want to derive an eternal benefit from your time here. (I wonder if God's Grace is reading this and maybe wonders what I mean by a glass ceiling???) Hmm..
 

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What do you mean here... ?? You agree that I speak the truth...or you agree that I falsely teach the truth?
I think you speak truth and have been falsely accused for it. As in, you are being truthful and people don't like that. I would say I agree with 98 percent of everything you taught.

Thank you for your answer to my question. I agree that Shepherdsword is encouraging.

I think I dislike the word "nice" but it's a me problem. I definitely don't wish to tone police people. That sounds exhausting. I know Im better off remaining soft and influencing by example. I do not expect all the men to copy that. Rebuke and corrections done in love are important.

I think the forum overall is doing really well at times. My prayers for this place seem to be heard and acted on. Ill continue to pray.
 
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I think you speak truth and have been falsely accused for it.

Ah. Well that is the first time you say something like that...and you are sure to get some feedback on that. ;) It takes courage to stand for anything I say.
As in, you are being truthful and people don't like that. I would say I agree with 98 percent of everything you taught.

OK
Thank you for your answer to my question. I agree that Shepherdsword is encouraging.

Yes. Shep is doing well...but he still has a few more miles to go in regard to finding his place in the Lord.
I think I dislike the word "nice" but it's a me problem. I definitely don't wish to tone police people. That sounds exhausting. I know Im better off remaining soft and influencing by example. I do not expect all the men to copy that. Rebuke and corrections done in love are important.

Amen. I love people and treat others as if I was the one who didn't know God and His ways. What would I want to hear from someone who had? What if I was the one who was playing the role of the stubborn and smug ones? Would I not want some man to not let go of me until I understood the truth??? What is a few rebukes between friends. The bible says better is the rebuke of a friend than ...I don't know...must be about pulpiteers. ;)
I think the forum overall is doing really well at times. My prayers for this place seem to be heard and acted on. Ill continue to pray.
I like your role here. You have a good testimony and you mean well. And in most cases that will be good enough. But life throws us curves. Sometimes you have to be ready to die on that particular hill. Wisdom tells us when that is so.

I mean to save souls here and wherever I go. I have wept before pastors and people who are so deceived that they haven't a clue what the problem is.

But I'm not easily put off. I tend to hang in there.

Peace to you sister. <><
 
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What if I was the one who was playing the role of the stubborn and smug ones. Would I not want some man to not let go of me until I understood the truth???

This is what I don't understand. Wouldn't pursuing newer Christians or non believers and helping them avoid false doctrines produce more results?

I like your role here. You have a good testimony and you mean well. And in most cases that will be good enough. But life throws us curves. Sometimes you have to be ready to die on that particular hill. Wisdom tells us when that is so.
Thank you. I look forward to your posts here often.
 

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This is what I don't understand. Wouldn't pursuing newer Christians or non believers and helping them avoid false doctrines produce more results?

It does. People my age are basically done...lost causes for the most part. My generation really blew it. It's one of the reasons I think I am unfit to be a saint. There's something about my generation that doesn't line up with God's very strict holy standard.

For people my age I hold out the escape that God allows. Humility and the fear of the Lord...even if it takes the rest of one's life to get it.

Our fellowship attracts people in their 20's who are very zealous for God and the truth.
Thank you. I look forward to your posts here often.
Thank you sister. Again, you will be harangued for your support of me. People will question your judgment. But hang in there...one day people will think they always believed this way...a way they don't yet perceive.
 
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Yes. Shep is doing well...but he still has a few more miles to go in regard to finding his place in the Lord.
You know what came to me?

After all the rowing and toiling I can hope in this:

Jn 6:21
Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went
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At anytime a divine visitation can take place and take me exactly where I need to go.
 

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You know what came to me?

After all the rowing and toiling I can hope in this:

Jn 6:21
Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

At anytime a divine visitation can take place and take me exactly where I need to go.
In the twinkling of an eye. Yes. That's one of the reasons why I mentioned C. He got his visitation just before he died. Jesus appeared to him and smiled and told him that his life was hanging by a thread. (He was killed a week or so later)

When I first "met" C it was on a thread where I was talking about the higher walk and related the "mud people" dream/vision I had received. He thought I was a little loony...but when he took a nap the Lord revealed to him that I was telling the truth. So he pressed me on the higher walk...until he believed it possible and desirable. He prayed hard for it...and before he died the Lord encountered him. He had never had a vision before that....he thought those things were in the past.

So he went to be with the Lord he knew. I KNOW that he is presently having coffee with the Lord right now....or some other heavenly thing.
 

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If we will be judged by our works....
then works are the result of our salvation.

I hope we agree that belief in God must come first.


Could you explain the above better?
You speak of faith and works.

At the time that the NT was written the Greek language was chosen.
In the Greek language there are two words that cannot be separated...but not the ones you have chosen.

The two words are BELIEVE and OBEDIENCE.
They are one thought and the mind of those writing the NT would not separate the two.
It is not that believing causes obedience...
believing IS obedience.
Not like this: believe = obey
but like this: believe obey

If we believe we will obey.
If we obey we believe...it is one thought, not two combined.

Here is an example:
Hebrews 3:18-19
18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.



Thought you might be interested re your post.


Holy just means to be set aside for service to God.
Righteous just means to be right with God.
I hope we agree that belief in God must come first.
IT must . And WHO did GOD testify on my dear friend .
THE HOLY SON .
Who also told the unbelieving jews , YE have NOT the love of GOD in you .
For HE whom GOD did send you believe him not .
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as having FAITH IN GOD when one does not BELIEVE GOD .
And had one believed GOD , YOU BEDDA Believe they had BELIEVED JESUS .
You wanna know what i see in this ever g rowing inclusive generation .
THEY have a problem with the WORD BELIEVE , when words follow that .
AS IN BELIEVE IN JESUS . oh but they do . EPI is not the first
to call me religious extremists , OR words to that effect
for even reminding us christians that the other religoins are false . AND they must repent and believe on JESUS .
ITS G ROWING my friend. The gospel , the one true gospel was changed . changed to accept A LIE .
And that just made it A FALSE GOSPEL from the pits of the da rkness .
In fact t hey now chant BELIEVE IN LOVE , and yet their love has made the path to GOD very darn broad.
Used to be the churches preached BELIEVE YE ON JESUS .
Now they preach inclusivism . maybe do some good works , and imply it dont ma tter
what religoin one followed . Someone been real busy lying to this generation .
And worse a wh ole lot of someones w ho are in christendom are buying it .
NOT ME . I will DIE first . THERE WILL bE NO other name i preach bUT CHRIST JESUS
with the REMINDER YE MUST BELEIVE and to observe all things HE did teach .
The foundation is NOT JESUS CHRIST , the apostles and then all the false religoins .
SORRY but that is a false FOUNDATION .
THE FOUNDATION IS JESUS ONLY and the twelve are the original ones first in that foundation .
And the gospel must be preached and by faith IN JESUS is how each stone is added into the temple .
That temple WILL NOT have muslims , buddisets , atheists or any other false religoin in it .
NO WHITE GARMENTS , NO ACCESS IN . And there is only ONE way to have such white garments .
FAITH IN THE HOLY SON , THE HOLY CHRIST OF GOD , CHRIST JESUS . all else be in darkness
and the only way out of the darkness
FAITH IN JESUS . as paul told king aggripa what JESUS himself had told paul in acts chapter twenty and six .
THERE WILL BE NO other name i offer up . FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME under heaven
given whereby one may be saved .
And what must i do sirs to be saved . BELIEVE ,
oh dear there is that believe word again , BELEIVE YE IN JESUS THE CHRIST .
 
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You know what came to me?

After all the rowing and toiling I can hope in this:

Jn 6:21
Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

At anytime a divine visitation can take place and take me exactly where I need to go.
Well let us be always sure to test the spirits . for many false ones can indeed divine by a spirit of divination .
And if that there divine vistation allows UNBELEIF IN JESUS , bud its of anti christ and that is a fact .
The gospel , the real one , the true one OF GOD and of HIS CHRIST
was YE MUST BELEIVE IN JESUS THE CHRIST . so any other divinaiton
that makes it seem like its okay if one believed not
and even says or cliams that all religoins are coming to God ,
OH ITS A FALSE ONE INDEED .
FOR BY THE ONE TRUE SPIRIT OF GOD , NO MAN would have called JESUS accursed and preached a false inclusive gospel .
And it is BY THE HOLY GHOST
WE CALL HIM LORD . SO , NEVER FORGET THAT .
 
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I hope we agree that belief in God must come first.
IT must . And WHO did GOD testify on my dear friend .
THE HOLY SON .
Who also told the unbelieving jews , YE have NOT the love of GOD in you .
For HE whom GOD did send you believe him not .
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as having FAITH IN GOD when one does not BELIEVE GOD .
And had one believed GOD , YOU BEDDA Believe they had BELIEVED JESUS .
You wanna know what i see in this ever g rowing inclusive generation .
THEY have a problem with the WORD BELIEVE , when words follow that .
AS IN BELIEVE IN JESUS . oh but they do . EPI is not the first
to call me religious extremists , OR words to that effect
for even reminding us christians that the other religoins are false . AND they must repent and believe on JESUS .
ITS G ROWING my friend. The gospel , the one true gospel was changed . changed to accept A LIE .
And that just made it A FALSE GOSPEL from the pits of the da rkness .
In fact t hey now chant BELIEVE IN LOVE , and yet their love has made the path to GOD very darn broad.
Used to be the churches preached BELIEVE YE ON JESUS .
Now they preach inclusivism . maybe do some good works , and imply it dont ma tter
what religoin one followed . Someone been real busy lying to this generation .
And worse a wh ole lot of someones w ho are in christendom are buying it .
NOT ME . I will DIE first . THERE WILL bE NO other name i preach bUT CHRIST JESUS
with the REMINDER YE MUST BELEIVE and to observe all things HE did teach .
The foundation is NOT JESUS CHRIST , the apostles and then all the false religoins .
SORRY but that is a false FOUNDATION .
THE FOUNDATION IS JESUS ONLY and the twelve are the original ones first in that foundation .
And the gospel must be preached and by faith IN JESUS is how each stone is added into the temple .
That temple WILL NOT have muslims , buddisets , atheists or any other false religoin in it .
NO WHITE GARMENTS , NO ACCESS IN . And there is only ONE way to have such white garments .
FAITH IN THE HOLY SON , THE HOLY CHRIST OF GOD , CHRIST JESUS . all else be in darkness
and the only way out of the darkness
FAITH IN JESUS . as paul told king aggripa what JESUS himself had told paul in acts chapter twenty and six .
THERE WILL BE NO other name i offer up . FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME under heaven
given whereby one may be saved .
And what must i do sirs to be saved . BELIEVE ,
oh dear there is that believe word again , BELEIVE YE IN JESUS THE CHRIST .
@amigo de christo
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