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Agreed. But it's not how we begin a race but how we finish it that counts. A person can have a slow start to a race...like a person with an unclear regeneration experience...something vague or not defined clearly. And yet they can thrive because they are humble and teachable. Others have a more...

That's true in a sense. A person can know little to nothing about a subject and still be a student. But being a disciple of Christ comes with certain conditions. The school of Christ is very exclusive. And people will confuse the exclusivity of being a disciple of Christ with a future...

Trying to preach a low-resolution level of the gospel to non-believers is much easier than trying to get first cut believers to receive anything that goes beyond a carnal grasp of things. Especially when the truth is deviated to serve the "converted" religious ego. The gospel in full resolution...

False. Of course you say it's both. But you don't know a mutually exclusive proposition when you see one. Holiness is NOT progressive. I have said this here many times. Can you be half-holy? What does a little leaven do to the batch? The bible speaks of progression in righteousness...not...

The political scene is just a reflection of a very poor state among supposed believers. The poor state and dishonesty of people who claim to be the church causes spiritual chaos to reign...leaving room for every possible deviation from all that is wholesome and true. It's a trickle down...

I am spot on...both in my easy to understand explanations of the bible...which is still way over the heads of those who misuse the bible for their own ends. Better your foolish ideas perish without you than with you. You can repent. The false accusers are yourself and the other pretenders here...

You and others here are in a trap already. A two-dimensional religious trap that misuses the bible and misquotes the Lord and His apostles...to create a scheme that is based on a lie. You deny one verse to try supporting another...which you have misunderstood. And this happens because your...

Exactly what I've been trying to get you to understand. There is no progressive sanctification. It is a gift. Either one is holy or not. Salvation is about victory over sin and the world...to walk as Jesus walked. Why do you neglect so great a salvation? NO. You CLAIM to have a righteousness...

1. Jesus only allows for being either hot or cold. He rejects the lukewarm. He said... I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot. [16] So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. What follows is a lesson...

You are not interested in what the bible is communicating. You need to read the bible without the indoctrination. In the passages that follow what is the criteria for being written into the Book of Life??? I will colour in the answer in case your reading comprehension is not up to par (unless...

I think the issue is about putting Christ at the center of Christianity. The JW bent is to see Jesus as human. And such is the case. There is much to be learned from a human Jesus. But that is not enough to understand who Jesus is. Jesus is equally God. As such He has the power to transform...

For those who don't understand righteousness and are sowing confusion on the thread...all you have to do is replace the word "righteousness" for humility where it comes to people. Of course God's righteousness is based on an eternal selflessness...that is impossible for people to have of...

LOL. There is NO gospel possible without understanding righteousness. You have reduced God's righteousness to something people can do of themselves...thereby destroying both holiness and righteousness. Basically being lawless. What does Jesus say to those who are neither hot (holy) nor cold...

False and unbiblical. You are confusing 2 separate judgments. Being saved by grace through faith is into the higher walk of holiness. Otherwise it is based on what we have done with what we have been given. Over-simplication of God's order is to destroy both righteousness and holiness. And this...

Which salvation? Unto holiness...yes. And it's not about having a bearing on faith...it is by faith. Unto righteousness...it's about what we do. This could be by faith or by works, Our choices. That's strictly on the righteousness level. James was concerned about people who had neither holiness...

Not true. I call all who call on the Lord my brethren. It's not for me to decide who is born of God or not. As such I don't disparage the faith of those who are in one denomination or another. Whether Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox...or un-orthodox...I don't judge a person's affiliation as much...

Not so.There are rewards, yes, also and things are taken away. Read the parable of the talents. The one who buried his talent didn't just get a lesser reward. No, his talent was taken away and he was thrown into outer darkness. His talent went to someone else. Saved as by fire mean to be naked...

Do you mean the part where Jesus says that God did not send His Son to condemn the world? And you are trying to contradict what Jesus said...by a misunderstanding of what He also said. Jesus did not come to call the righteous to repentance...but sinners. The fact that people refuse to believe...

An unspeakable gift but not an unspeakable assumption. The gift is to walk as Jesus walked...in His resurrection life. What we see is that people will take this to mean an unmerited "favour" of ignoring sin. But that is false. Grace empowers us to walk as Jesus walked. That is the unspeakable...

People should beware of your self-righteous naming and claiming for yourself. Instead, humility and the fear of the Lord are far wiser. In your opinion you have the righteousness of God. But in reality you only have a self-righteousness that you want to defend through pride.