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  1. LearningToLetGo

    What is wrong with Pride?

    That is to say: We live on the world that God created. We breathe the air that God created. We eat the food that God created. We drink the water that God created. We are warmed by the sun that God created. We gaze in awe at the stars that God created. We live and love, feel joy and sadness in...
  2. LearningToLetGo

    What is wrong with Pride?

    Sometimes the blender needs to remember that all its power comes from the socket and not itself.
  3. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    Yes, I mean literally, as in rigor mortis kind of death. See post #42']#42[/URL] above for my interpretation of what it means to realize the 'new man' now in the flesh.
  4. LearningToLetGo

    I keep coming back to the fact that God's mind is higher than ours and his ways are higher than...

    I keep coming back to the fact that God's mind is higher than ours and his ways are higher than ours. Logic won't solve this problem. In many ways it's an (apparent) paradox. Hence faith, which is a form of feeling. We must feel our way through this by faith. We must accept that God is good and...
  5. LearningToLetGo

    Who-boy! This is heavy. Does God choose you first? It appears so. How does this play into...

    Who-boy! This is heavy. Does God choose you first? It appears so. How does this play into free-will, agency and autonomy? How does this change the meaning of saved and damned? Are we just characters in God's book? Are we just reading from a script written before time began?
  6. LearningToLetGo

    "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...

    "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren." (Romans 8:29)
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    Does this mean that God is placing control over our own salvation into our hands? In other words...

    Does this mean that God is placing control over our own salvation into our hands? In other words is God allowing us to choose whether or not we are saved? Or is God saying that he will save whom he chooses? Is it both? Is it neither?
  8. LearningToLetGo

    Keep in mind the concept of agency and autonomy. God is autonomous. He has freedom to choose. We...

    Keep in mind the concept of agency and autonomy. God is autonomous. He has freedom to choose. We have agency if we act in accordance to God's will. In other words God will delegate his autonomy to us if we obey him. However, God will not be beholden to us. If God makes a promise along the lines...
  9. LearningToLetGo

    "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is...

    "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." (Romans 4:5) Okay... let's break this down. Romans 4:4 says that if God responds to works of man then God becomes a debtor to works of man. I.E. This elevates man above God...
  10. LearningToLetGo

    "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt." (Romans 4:4)

    "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt." (Romans 4:4)
  11. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    How so?
  12. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    Look to the seventy-two. Jesus sent them on their way with no bag, no second cloak. They wandered from village to village, surviving off the generosity of those they met. Look to Paul. He traveled throughout Europe and Asia Minor, suffered innumerable hardships in the service of the Lord. Look...
  13. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    To live a life without fear, fully dedicated to the Lord, unconcerned by the world or those in it. Able to let go of all things not of God -- friends, family, relations. Unconcerned with wealth, or comfort, or reputation. Lowly in appearance. Boundless in energy. Filled with love for all men...
  14. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    Amen, and God forgives us our sins and promises to forget them if we but turn our gaze towards his son Jesus with faith, but this still does not address the question of how we see ourselves. For example: Imagine you are placed in a quiet and peaceful room all by yourself with every creature...
  15. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    Good video. I enjoyed the "Z" analogy of body/spirit growth. Thanks for sharing.
  16. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    I feel like a man who has been blind from birth being told that when I die I will be able to see. Perhaps I am like Don Quixote after all.
  17. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    I mean individual self.
  18. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    Here's where my thoughts are: Our definition of self includes our sinful nature. We have a head, a body, arms, eyes, legs, etc. and we have a sinful nature. We fight against sin. We repent against sin and God promises to forgive/forget our sins when we die, so... what does a person look like...
  19. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    This has dire implications. All men sin. Aside from Jesus, no man (or woman) has been, is, or will ever be free of sin. Yes, God can and does forgive (indeed forget) sin, but that is slightly different than having no sin. Thus, if all men sin -- including those who are born again -- and if God...
  20. LearningToLetGo

    What are you?

    This is what I was looking for. God can't/won't abide sin, correct? Assuming we can't cease sinning afterwards, what does that mean? Can we be saved yet still sin? What does that mean in the context of the afterlife?
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