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I agree with some of the things you say as being the issues of our modern church. Only I do not see studying as a solution. Yes, we must study the Word if we are called of him, that is beneficial. But it is only in repentance and in a work of the Spirit that people are turned back from their...

What we have built in our own way and done, God must tear down. People who are attached to this hate it as the Pharisees did, but it must be torn down that what God wants to build can be built in it's place. That is the reality in all of us and among us. We can fight the tearing down of man's...

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1) Either John was speaking in vain, since all sins are already forgiven for us believers, or we have conditions: to continue in the faith and honesty that we began...

I could beat around the bush, but I know that at least a good part of this has come from what I have said. If you take what I have said to be a condemnation and judgment on individuals, and to be angry and opposed in a personal way to them, either I did not communicate well, was misunderstood...

Yes! We have so many warnings... An apostle who wouldn't even judge himself, and wanted to judge nothing before it's time... Would this be heresy in the modern church? ;) Would we not chide this apostle thus: 'surely you should know, and be confident, Christ loves you so much, nothing you can...

Yes. The word says 'all who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution'. Christ says 'Woe to you if men speak well of you, for so they spoke of the false prophets'. The modern church has attempted to please many men, and has become false because of this. When we repent and return to...

'You shall judge them by their fruit.' We have received a better covenant, a better high priest, a better sabbath (rest), and better promises. The result thereof is a greater holiness and closeness to God now available to us through Christ Jesus. If the fruit is not holiness, and this walk...

So Paul affirming that he is as of now not a castaway makes his previous statement of being careful lest he be one meaningless? One of Paul's statements makes the other meaningless and empty, and false? Is Paul bipolar? ;) If our interpretation of one verse makes the other verse false in our...

Paul indicating his trust that people are indeed going to be faithful does not make other verses less true. I have shown the clear meaning of 'lest I myself be a castaway', which you have ignored. It is the same word as in those verses, rejected, reprobate. And it is 'I myself'. Janne and...

That is your own personal interpretation of scripture. ἀδόκιμος adokimos ad-ok'-ee-mos From G1 (as a negative particle) and G1384; unapproved, that is, rejected; by implication worthless (literally or morally): - castaway, rejected, reprobate. If we let the scriptures interpret themselves...

Amen! The gospel is not in word, but in power. How then can we have a system producing thousands of leaders who have words, but not the power spoken of in the New Testament proclaim to be spreading the true gospel? The fruit reveals what is going on. Many people use Saul/Paul to back up...

Amen faithfulone4u! Well said. :) Paul himself feared that 'having preached to many, I myself might be a cast away.' The warnings of the unfaithful servant are so many... Man loves to write off the warnings and find a way to make them meaningless. But this is not right: we are eradicating the...

He has indeed freely cleansed us from the sins that are past. :) In Christ we are indeed justified... But how can we then ignore the warnings to the one who has been grafted in, that he could be again cut out? How can we say abiding in Christ requires nothing of our will and selves if Jesus...

It is typical of a self-justifying Christianity to say 'My righteousness saves me, but his righteousness which admitedly is equal to mine does not save him'. The false modern Christianity disobeys the command and it counts us as better than them. But the Word says to consider others above...

The very reason that we know so much was wrong with the early church, as you pointed out, is that the Apostles didn't put up with not being 'right on target'. That is the very problem: we are not called to be 'okay', kind of obedient, somewhat good. We are called to be a bride without spot or...

I don't think you understood what I was getting to... and I'm not sure I'm getting what you're trying to get to. The verse I used was about being humble towards God. My point is about not claiming more than we have. Men love to claim justification for themselves. But we must be careful of this...

Amen! We do come as we are... And are transformed into his image by his mighty power towards us. We repent, submit our lives, and then he empowers us to be as he is and be faithful servants of the Most High!

Before I answer all of this, I want to clarify that I'm speaking in general terms. I'm not speaking fo one individual, or one group, but what I see when I look at the whole of the western church. It is true that the dedication of the leadership and their obedience is not necessarily reflected...

Romans 11: 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but...

Yes! That was what I intended to point to. Well said. :) It is good to read about Him and His ways... If it leads us to following him! It is not the hearers of the word but the doers of the word!