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"Attain to the resurrection of the dead....." I read that as meaning to be counted worthy of the resurrection at the end of one's race, however or whenever that happens for any soul. And Paul did say he wasn't already perfect......and I take that as meaning because he hadn't yet finished his...

Sister, to be honest that sounds like someone reasoning to try and make that scripture agree with their doctrine. I think martyrdom is part of the price Paul paid to follow Jesus and thus receive a crown, not the crown (reward or goal) itself.

Ah well, we'll just be going around in circles again Epi. I will just refer you to Romans 4. Imputed means to be credited to our account - reckoned. Now you can do that in payment for something (paying a debt owed for services rendered) or you can do that as a free gift (grace) apart from...

Aren't we supposed to be seeking to apprehend (get hold of) that for which Christ has apprehended us? So that it becomes our reality and not just what is graciously being imputed to us. In one way it has been accomplished in heaven, but in another way we need for what has been done in heaven...

I dont know how to explain it very well, but scripture appears to often be speaking on more than one level at the same time. Like the prophet wading into the river (we can take that to mean the water of the word, or the Holy Spirit) going deeper and deeper into it. The same words can be...

I don't believe scripture teaches that we literally need it to be saved per se, but that we can possess and have it in this life. I don't understand why Mary would need it above everyone else...? To clarify, I take it that her conception, gestation and giving birth to Christ was only a...

Ok, this I by-passed because I didn't understand what you meant by it at the time. To my understanding those passages are looking ahead to the gospel...they would be fulfilled with the coming of Jesus and His gospel (for those souls who would receive it.) We receive His spirit and begin...

I'm sorry....have trouble keeping up these days, so much so that I often wonder if should "retire" from forums. Which post or page was it?

Not to make too much of Mary, but she gave birth to Jesus and raised Him so spent many years being very close and watching/discerning/hearing Him. And she is a figure or type of the church....she heard the word preached to her by the angel and received/believed it. The Word made flesh. Thus...

It is God's own people, believers, that the scriptures are primarily concerned with in terms of who it is communicating to and warning and admonishing or teaching and encouraging. Christians can and often are leaning on their own understanding and leaning on the arm of flesh. That means...

How does that fit the context of that parable? It was a prophetic warning. Those who were invited wouldn't come...that's a veiled reference to those who were His own, the Jews/Israel, and supposedly they were "good" because they had the Law. So then His servants were going to be instructed to...

I'm guessing you don't keep up with the news and current events much...? God said transgression would come to the full.......and the epistles say men would wax worse, not better.

Yes I thought of that verse too. There is one baptism in coming to Christ. Yet we know there is more than one baptism in another sense. There is water baptism, as well as there is the baptism of the Holy Spirit........and John said Jesus will baptise with the Holy Spirit and with fire. And...

I'm not sure we need to nail down when the church began, in the sense that we don't need to worry about it or make it into a doctrine. Strictly speaking we might say it began with the first advent of Christ. He was the Head of it and began bringing in "members" as soon as He began preaching...

Amen. Fits to a "t", sadly.

I don't defend false doctrines, but I search the scriptures for myself without any agenda, and just let them speak to me and teach me in spirit and by the Spirit. I don't try to tell the scriptures what I think they should be saying. As I've said so many times I'm not against those things...

Subject to confirmation or correction, I tentatively see the Red Sea crossing, when we come to faith in Christ, as showing water baptism and spirit baptism together. There is a first spirit baptism that belongs to the whole package of when we come to faith at the first....we receive gifts of the...

Well, I’ll make an attempt to explain my understanding on this sister, and see what you think, whether you see anything that contradicts other scriptures or not. I’ve heard it said that man IS a spirit, which HAS a body and a soul, and I used to accept that, but in more recent times am not sure...

I'm the one who needs to apologize for taking so long to respond to your questions. A relative passed away and I've been busy and the subject we were talking about is of a kind that needs me to catch up with myself to be able to assemble and organize my thoughts. It has been percolating in the...

Ah brother, shaking my head. To start with are we supposed to set our minds on things below or on things above? And God deals with nations and peoples on a national level, and a "municipal" level, like cities, and on a family level, as well as on an individual basis. The bible says...