Recent content by Episkopos

Troll and lurker alert. This person is toxic and spews because the cup is full. Also dishonest...having the same rant over and over again without any engagement to the actual content of the post. A dime a dozen...false prophet alert. When a person gives notice that they hate balance and...

We make the devil's job easy when we accept a pre-digested set of beliefs based on a human consensus that appeals to our own proclivities and preferences. Truth seekers will ALWAYS stand apart...waiting on the Lord's judgment. If any human position (based on certain bible verses taken out of...

I am speaking here on the deeper level of what is by faith as opposed to what is by fear. Perfect love casts out all fear. I don't see you as loving but a "bible lady" similar to Lizbeth. Always trying to learn but rejecting the more basic fundamentals...such as the purpose of the doctrine in...

You are not seeing the self-righteousness in your own claims. If you are not holy, you can't judge others for not being holy either. It's the speck and the beam analogy. The only people that claim to be righteous are religious people...like yourself. True righteous people are humble and don't...

I didn't mention you in particular in the video but you can count yourself as now being uncovered as well. Light exposes darkness.

I realize you are being cautious. But when you walk into a church gathering do you allow yourself to get bound up because there are musical instruments present...when neither the bible nor the ECF ever mention them? Does you faith take a hit? I think you are being overly protective of your own...

You're not understanding the different standards. When the bible speaks of perfection it is speaking of saints. There IS the "peaceable fruit of righteousness" for non-saints. But in that standard you can't judge others. You have to accept righteousness in all its forms...not just God's...

People who have no experience of the divine tend to misunderstand the full measure of grace available in he gospel....full freedom from sin. Many are in unbelief due to the issue of divine intervention/visitation that this grace requires. That is a flaw of going too far away from Calvinism...

It's funny that you use the words "eternal reality" for the verse you posted since you can only read in English and based on a faulty translation of the Greek word "aphesis" (which means freedom)....which has infected your yet carnal mind to such a degree that you repeat your error over and over...

In the debate between Calvin and Arminius...I think both have a point but neither is right entirely. God works with mankind in synergy. We always retain freewill. Paul could have still rejected the Lord and remain blind. Jesus didn't force the 9 lepers who walked away to return to Him. On...

Agreed. It's better to rightly divide things than to just throw things out...without consideration. I think people get too partisan about things...throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak. I also see Calvinism as taking things to extreme...leaving crucial aspects out..like free...

I think this has to do with the reward at the end...the inheritance and any reward due the athlete of God. Yes and no. I think people confuse purity and maturity. One is instantly sanctified by the blood of Christ that cleanses us from ALL sin. Instantaneous holiness based on being IN Christ...

Gnosticism 101. And you are doing what you say others are doing....you worked out your own salvation...but with hubris and narcissism. False. We are not superior to the Jews who failed in the wilderness. We also fail....and more surprisingly so...since we are ignoring the warnings even as we...

It just seems like that from your legalistic cult theology perspective. I speak the truth. because of that many will flip their own error onto me and claim I'm doing what they are doing. So you have described your own religious condition. I have faith in God....not some religious formula. And...

This is where you are not understanding Paul. The gift of righteousness is not the same as an initial gift of grace. One is the sample (free gift) and the other must be sought after and "bought"...as the fulness of grace. Only careful readers will pick up on the way Paul expresses himself. The...