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I was talking about Rom 8:1 and what follows from it (which follows on from Romans 7 and is the solution to the battle with sin), as well as other verses which speak to walking in the Spirit....and it is THROUGH the Spirit that we are to mortify the deeds of the flesh: Gal 5:16 This I say...

I believe God made a concession for the flesh in a way when He declared the marriage bed to be undefiled. But it should be about love, not lust. As the Lord told Hosea..."Go show your LOVE to your wife again." (People shouldn't bring perversions into the marriage bed or make sex an idol -...

True. That there are counterfeits and perversions of the truth out there both within and without the church is not an argument against the truth, and I often have said so. But it's important to know that those counterfeits and perversions are missing the mark in certain important ways. We...

That's good then. But does he believe what Paul wrote there? We shouldn't water down or try to justify not doing what scripture instructs. We should never aim lower than we see in God's word...it's the plumbline that we should be seeking to line up with.

Not sure I'd be expecting a Baptist to have knowledge or faith for spiritual things anyhow since they are cessationists. But Paul wrote, Who shall deliver me from this body of death...thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord...(ie, through His Spirit.).....this I say then walk in the...

I would have to think really hard about the energies vs. the essence sister and not sure I'm up to it. As far as I know ancient eastern peoples worshiped the "divine" and that is the problem I have with applying that word to humans....it implies that which is to be worshiped. I prefer to...

ok, where it says to be "partakers of the divine nature" is so beautifully put. Because to my mind it is not applying the word divine to us but to God. It isn't saying we ourselves become "divine" in the sense that God Himself is divine in His own right. But partaking of His divine nature...

I don't understand your point......don't think I said anything that contradicts what you posted. Think you misunderstood what I meant by hard to explain. Hard to explain to unbelievers, as well as even many who claim Christ and think He promised us a rose garden in this life.

I find it encouraging to consider the saints who went before us. Like Abraham we don't always see or know the end result and why God is leading us through what He is. So we do not lose faith.

Jesus was numbered with the transgressors.......that is his reproach and what we bear when we are suffering the chastisements that He allows in His wisdom, because He loves us as sons. Our lives can be hard to explain and people make assumptions and reproach us for this or that when all we're...

No, only once maybe, not long after I was saved, but that was an "inner" audible small voice. A simple two word wise instruction to help me in a quandry....and it turned out perfectly.

I can't speak for what you are seeing, but what I've seen here is not good. I wrote out a long list of the problems, but decided to delete it....too depressing. But I've never grown and learned so much and heard from the Lord so much since leaving the churches, so the Lord is turning it all...

I wasn't referring to you personally...just answering your question which I took to be general. Come to think of it though, it comes to mind that Abraham went out not knowing whither he was going.

Go to Jesus outside the camp bearing His reproach......where He was crucified and where we also die to ourselves. (aka wilderness) I agree. It's not a specific instruction for every believer at every time in history. Every soul needs to hear from and be led by the Lord personally for His will...

Amen, I agree with this. We do learn from our mistakes and grow thereby. We are not to be like the servant with the one talent who wrongly thought God was a harsh taskmaster which kept him from trusting Him enough to risk what he had and "grow wings" (could we say)? But I don't agree that...

Thought Megyn Kelly did a great job of exposing this farce of a debate too. It all gave Kamala an enormous psychological advantage and why she could dare to be so arrogant and jeering. (As we all pretty much knew this debate would be a farce anyhow, though we hoped for better......the Godless...

This to me is the problem with extra-biblical terminology. It forms concepts in the mind which are usually off the mark, and I believe this is why the bible says we are not to go beyond what is written. The problem with words/concepts like divine and deified is that it is associated with...

I don't know the history of the EO but if it had already "formed" itself into an institution, it would already have been in error in doing that alone. Which leads to more error, like dominos.

So true, there is always something....the solution to one problem is often the beginning of another problem (old saying that I heard). Things are more complex than man can handle alone, we sure do need to be led and guided by the Lord and His wisdom.

As Jesus took over from John the Baptist (Elijah). The remnant are being taught by the Lord. Yes He is in control, and He has led massive numbers of believers out of the churches in the last couple of decades or so. An exodus of sorts. It seems to be an indication that we are nearing the...