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We could call the mind loops that are instilled in us through propaganda...circular reasoning. And how much is this pathological conditioning the basis for much of what we believe about the bible? Life is circular...as in..the circle of life. But our minds can be set free from circular...

Now I think that most believers today would agree that the Jews failed at fulfilling the law...even while holding it out to mankind. But did they fail the law because they were just too busy doing others things...like chariot racing? or... did they fail in their direct attempt...a very...

Why are we plagued with so many dogmatic certainties and religious opinions? The ego driven agenda would put these as more important than love and unity. They are things to squabble over rather than coming to any kind of agreement. Is this not carnal? So I have identified, more or less a few...

Now for some strange reason Christianity has become synonymous with leaning way over to the right of the political spectrum. But a Christian should never lean one way or the other. A Christian is to be centrist...balanced...and non-partisan where the opinions and aspirations of men are...

Now I think we all realize that Islam is a totalitarian system. I don't say just religion since Islam covers a lot more than just religious ideas. Islam also ventures into the political sphere...seeking to control every aspect of a person's life. On a religious level...the world is seen by...

.................a net! The kingdom of God is like a net. But unlike a regular fishing net it just catches the smallest fish. The big ones just bounce off. Saul of Tarsus sought to enter into the kingdom...to win Christ. So he made himself as small as he could in order to enter in. Even his...

I am hoping that people will see the verse I am posting as being from the bible. it isn't hard to read the bible. The difficulty is to understand it. And once a person gets the wrong idea...the error follows more error...just as the truth follows more truth. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are...

With this thread I hope to bring light and clarity to an issue that few ever consider as a problem..that is..how by adding in our own understanding (without a further thought about it) we can invert the meaning of the bible from being truth into becoming a lie. I am not speaking of a willful...

I really like reading the early church fathers. Recently I've been reading Clement...Bishop of Rome and contemporary to John the apostle. He was overseer at Rome from 88 to 99. So we have an opportunity to hear from someone who was near the action of God in the early church. Here is a portion I...

The wilderness church. Now we are called not only to come out of the world but also to come into the promised rest of God. We are called out in order to strive to enter in. We are saved away from death in order to enter the race for life. Hardly anyone is allowed to see the promised land...

Phil. 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, For Paul, the Christian faith was an ongoing race towards inward conformity...

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day: teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime." Old Proverb 1 Cor. 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: With all the methods that people can...

Thought I'd share this project of mine with ya'll! :) It does say to sing to one another in spiritual songs. ;) Have a listen or two. If you click on the Youtube logo you can go to "show more" and get the time links to the tunes.

The Early Church Thrived Amid Secularism and Shows How We Can, Too

The carnal man is always looking to get away with things. People like the free stuff. So when the seductive power of the devil gets behind something that SOUNDS like it's from God...it's very hard to resist...unless one loves the truth. So how can one avoid this great delusion of a spiritual...

Luther came on the scene during a particularly bad time in the history of the Catholic establishment... He stood against the obvious excesses of the church in his time. But then he went further...much too far...in redefining biblical truth into more popular sounding beliefs that would render...

The Lord has been putting this subject on my heart lately. I think that this is an important subject and necessary to understand properly for any kind of spiritual maturity. Now we all indulge our flesh to some degree and at some point if we are walking in our own strength. There are different...

St. Teresa of Avila and Watering the Garden Common Stages in the Spiritual Journey: Early Wisdom from St. Teresa of Avila The spiritual journey has some different elements to it than many of us learned about when we were growing up. We may have been taught how to pray for other...

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One cannot read the bible as just another book. There is a perspective that needs to be taken into account. God's perspective. That perspective is so often lacking in the private interpretations of bible readers...instead people tend to read the bible from their OWN perspective. But this...