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  1. ScottA

    Born again of God vs religious conversion

    This is a great misunderstanding of the scriptures. If what you assert above were actually true, we would all be walking on water and through walls. But the things of scripture are not actual in the way that you have understood them, but for the most part are given in parables. For example...
  2. ScottA

    Let's dispense of souls being converted and saved, but not lives, shall we?

    The whole of scripture ("here a little, there a little"--not code) paints a picture, or as God put it: creation of man and revelations by "image" and parables, that shows that we are first condemned and born children of sin as the lineage of Adam in the flesh, needing to "take also of the tree...
  3. ScottA

    Believing without seeing (Faith before experience)

    The church being a body of many [different] members rightly only has unity, not in being alike, but rather by being under One head, whom is Christ Jesus. Faith is an interesting thing--to say the least. Faith is the response of believing as if knowing what is not actually known but felt within...
  4. ScottA

    Do you believe that ALL babies that die go to Heaven or only "the elect"?

    How will you transition from the thinking of men and this world without receiving explanation? Do you not know that we are to be led unto all truth during these times? "He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches."
  5. ScottA

    Inconsistency of Christians never being sinless

    There is so much error in your post, I am only going to address this one to say-- There is no "immortal flesh" in ANY Bible...except perhaps in a satanic bible. If you can receive it, that is the proof of your error. You have much to unlearn. :(
  6. ScottA

    Inconsistency of Christians never being sinless

    Most of that is true, but you are quoting the components of status of the new spirit body rather than the reality of the elements of the old man and earth which do not end when declared clean, but rather await death and destruction. And this I say, referring to the other components that are also...
  7. ScottA

    Inconsistency of Christians never being sinless

    The scriptures do not say what you have said, that "There's nothing sinful nor righteous about God's natural creation." You are confusing the garden with the earth that was made manifest after the man was "driven out" of the garden. So on the contrary, sin is not just "burnt off the old earth"...
  8. ScottA

    Inconsistency of Christians never being sinless

    You don't seem to be rightly separating the old man of flesh from the new man of the spirit of God. To do so would mean being stuck in the old law of sin and death, and not accounting for the mystery of what Paul eluded to saying, "we who are alive and remain"-- meaning alive in and by the...
  9. ScottA

    Inconsistency of Christians never being sinless

    All who are born of the flesh are of the lineage of Adam, a child of sin by "kind" as, not just Adam and Eve, but the whole race was "driven out" from the presence of God and the former sinless status by sin, according to the scriptures; confirmed by Christ Jesus who rightly called Israel (even...
  10. ScottA

    Mark 16:16 Isn’t Teaching That You Must Be Water Baptized to Go to Heaven

    The times of Israel were the times of the children of Adam and of the flesh (as are we if only in the flesh and under our own power), but these times of the church are to be the times of the children of the spirit of God. Therefore, we should yield which yes, often means remaining silent...
  11. ScottA

    Mark 16:16 Isn’t Teaching That You Must Be Water Baptized to Go to Heaven

    Everything from us being made "in the image" of God to the rulers of the day and night (darkness) being "a greater light" and "a lessor light" is all parables. This is the basis of scripture. Quit literally "the days of Noah" and the life of Solomon (son of David) and Joshua crossing the Jordon...
  12. ScottA

    Mark 16:16 Isn’t Teaching That You Must Be Water Baptized to Go to Heaven

    Amen! Water is simply the object used to represent the spirit of God, making water baptism a mere parable of the actual subject, which is spiritual baptism and the need to be born again of the spirit of God. All things from God come in parables, where the object and the subject are not the...
  13. ScottA

    Do you believe that ALL babies that die go to Heaven or only "the elect"?

    Okay. Jesus' reference to Abraham having "rejoiced" (past tense) to see "My day" (then present tense, now past tense) was then confirmed by what Paul stated regarding the timing of the coming or return of Christ, saying, "But each one in his own order"-- meaning that while all in Christ see Him...
  14. ScottA

    Facts on Rev 20:4 before placing it into a system

    These are just a few of the evidences that show the scriptures to be written as if in tongues and in need of interpretation, as the words are not only literary, but more importantly spirit.
  15. ScottA

    End times eschatology and the hatred for it

    This is true and you are gracious to say so, however what is written does not stop there but goes on to include brother against brother and children against parents, etc.. So yes, even many teaching the false gospel and anti-Christ "lie" of false teachers from that time of church beginnings...
  16. ScottA

    End times eschatology and the hatred for it

    Indeed, Jesus laid it all out and that generation to whom He spoke (without a 2,000 year gap) then failed to track with Him just as He foretold...as the spirit of anti-Christ was even then already at work. Then, just as it was foretold, "false teachers" entered the church teaching "destructive...
  17. ScottA

    Let's dispense of souls being converted and saved, but not lives, shall we?

    Your gospel is as erroneous as theirs. Unfortunately. But I do not wish to criticize only--not at all, but rather to clear the air. You quote and refer to "the body" assumably being the body of flesh...while Paul actually clarifies, saying, "not that body." As for the children of Israel, God...
  18. ScottA

    Do you believe Spirit baptism replaces water baptism?

    Sorry to hear all that. :( Remember, you or He need not go but only believe. This was the faith of the centurion.
  19. ScottA

    Do you believe that ALL babies that die go to Heaven or only "the elect"?

    You may not have heard yourself, but I heard you when you declared Abraham had merely been saved by his own faith, while you never mentioned Jesus the Savior of the world. Which you did in response to my having said that all who are saved are "in Christ", both the living and the dead. Would you...
  20. ScottA

    Do you believe Spirit baptism replaces water baptism?

    Everything is parables. We and the whole creation from us to the great lights that rule the day and night (light and darkness) are created "in the image"-- parables. Water baptism is just the object and not the actual subject of the baptism parable. The subject then, is the spirit life of God...