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@[email protected] @Johann I find in both your posts above a great deal of truth. Even among churches who have received great light, it's members are essentially asleep. Dogs who are no longer barking, afraid of men's opinions on social media... Some saying you are gone soft on truth, others...

Can we be saved and yet not love Jesus? No. "If ye love me, keep my commandments". Can we be saved in a state of disobedience? No. That's how humanity lost it's exalted position in Eden. Shall we return to that position but have no change in attitude, or character, or impulses? No again...

The righteousness of faith? I would like you to show me from scripture what that looks like. Righteousness by faith is Christ's righteousness imputed and imparted. It is the only righteousness we need, and the only righteousness worth seeking. It is the righteousness of Christ Himself. The more...

The experience of Willow Creek and it's failed pastor reveals why denominations, with the focus on family rather than business modelling, are not defunct institutions, can be successful if run correctly and according to scriptural Imperatives.

I think you are complicating things unnecessarily. Righteousness is not only imputed, but also imparted. It's a gift. It's that gift of His righteousness that creates in us the image of Christ. It is not our righteousness that makes us Christlike... It can only be His, after all, it is His...

So I have been hearing from some here, and I don't wish to go back over the entire thread to find one or two posts, but one maybe two have said that we are not holy. I would take issue with this. What is it that makes something holy? For example, what made the burning bush and the surrounding...

Whose else? Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. And whose righteousness are we to hunger and thirst for, and is promised if we believe? That's righteousness by faith. I am assuming you are aware of the contradiction here. But I would ask, if we love, and therefore fulfilling...

I think there is some confusion over that. Isaiah was saying his righteousness. Which is why we all need Christ's righteousness which comes to us as a gift. Out of our own boasting that we don't need Jesus and can do things in our own strength that is filthy rags, but we may testify of what...

Which is fairly close to what I was saying in another post regarding the present ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary... It is this heavenly ministry of sanctifying believers and preparing them for eternity that is not yet finished. When Jesus said, "it is finished", which we hear...

Among those presumed to be righteous, washed, sanctified, were some who were still involved in sexual immorality. So Paul's statement about the Corinthian church being sanctified doesn't ring true if one takes the idea that it's an accomplished and completed event. Methinks God still had a lot...

Just a thought that crossed my mind I'm getting back to the OP, I am wondering if at present there is a "one true church". I do believe that I'm the best future there will be, but right now there are Christians in every church, in every denomination, genuine believers who do not at this time...

Indeed, and just a few verses down Paul pleaded with them to flee sexual sin, clearly a sin common among them for just a few verses previous Paul pointed out they had among them one who was having sexual relations with his father's wife.

Being sinless didn't stop Jesus from suffering, and nor will it stop us. The closer we come to the Father, the more intense will be the sense of sorrow and empathetic pain we experience when considering the suffering of others. Also, do you not think God feels pain and sorrow in the knowledge...

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Many believe that so long as Jesus died for their sins, and they believe this, they are saved. Many see sanctification as a result or fruit of that salvation, as if sanctification isn’t a part of the good news of the gospel, or isn’t essential to our salvation. I would strongly state that...

I don't accept any man's teaching, or woman's, unless they are in harmony with scripture. You cannot claim the same. You accept your men's teaching with no clear reference point or set standard based solely on your men's declaration, I told you so. You have your Pope. I have scripture. If I am...

KJV Ephesians 5:25-27 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such...