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Each of us has a system and method that we come to understand God. Some use fundamentalism, others rely on experience, some rely on a manmade system of theology such as Calvinism or Wesleyanism. There are numerous systems that man can try to understand God, but he does not limit himself to one...

And you are the judge of this accuracy? Your systematic theology is the only way to see things as to determine accuracy? That is limiting God to your understanding.

We are vessel the Holy Spirit uses, that is all... Not by power or by might, but by My Spirit."

Welcome Fether, I am of the line that would tell you otherwise, But I do appreciate your honesty and would be willing to answer your questions. I was Born a Lutheran raised a Baptist and am non-denominational now, with a Baptist slant.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 1:4) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure...

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also...

It was their doctrine that got them into their moral degeneracy. Their pride of place.... God knocked them off their pedestal, but it took men and women to expose their immoral behavior. True none of us are perfect in our doctrinal understanding: "we all know in part" as Paul writes. But there...

I call it knocking men off their pedestal of pride as our sin nature is inclined to do, making us think that we know it all, have all doctrine figured out, and say "we are rich and in need of nothing". The church as an institution of men has these same problems only multiplied and made into...

We are told by Paul not only to exhort and encourage one another but to reprove and rebuke one another. We as believers in general need this, and as a body of believers (the church) more so or else the Rot of our sin nature takes over... the folly of pride. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate...

I know what @theefaith believes. I Have had discussions with him before. One of which is we are all called to be a royal priesthood as we mature to elders of the faith, not just a select class of people (Nicolaitanism= To Rule over the Laity).

Peter's confession is the rock the church is built upon, "thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God". No Matter how many times you try to point this out to a Catholic they cannot see this, because this is so indoctrinated in their teachings.

Revelation 1:17. The presence of God will do this to you. I agree there are a lot of "false" slain in the Spirit stuff out there as well.

LOL, ask duchess Camilla! Sorry to the author of this post for heading down this road.

I Actually agree with @marks here. It does not say "eternal death", but eternal torment, Unquenchable thirst, or the fire that never shall be quenched (Mark 9:45). What happens when death and hell are cast into the lake of fire as found in Revelation 20:14, Aka the "second death" i believe is...

I see this as a dual prophecy in the natural and the Spiritual world. In The natural world, The Judean date palm comes to mind as well as other plants. Quote from an article on this: Sallon says that plant genomes from the past, like the ancient date palm in Israel, could be used to tackle...

That is why I make a distinction between the institutional church, and the ecclesia the assembly of believers. We have this picture of the church being brick and mortar, but the true church is a body of Believers. That is where you misunderstand me all the time. I Am not harping on the true...

This is how it started in 1930's Germany as well. I Can't remember who it was that said something like (Not verbatim) "first they go after the poor and sick among us and no one speaks up, until they come after all of us and there is no one to speak up."

be careful of the mystical manipulation of the church and its leaders when they preach this. Read more on Mystical manipulation here: Eight Ways to Identify Religious Brainwashing: Mystical Manipulation (Part 2 of 8) | Liberty for Captives