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You miss the point. This is not a promotion of George Fox... It is promoting the way of Christ... Which George Fox simply happens to also be promoting. Men approach the truth with cynicism, already trying to find something wrong with it... But we can only enter this kind of truth if we approach...

Actually I was speaking about those who react with things like 'Who are you?' when a man like George speaks the truth. ;) Men will disqualify the truth with whatever excuse they find so that they (1) don't have to obey it or (2) admit they fall short and be humble. The pride of man is enormous...

Yes! Our reaction only reveals in our unbelief... If we say 'how, how can I leave everything??' we show have no faith in the provision of God. If you obey him, will he not provide for us? But men do not want to obey, so they lower the standard to fit what they feel they can go without. But this...

Men are so stubborn and set against the revelation of new life and power in Christ (through our death) that they hate even the messenger of it, and attack him personally... They judge such a man, and yet exalt themselves in their pride. This is usual in the world... And has now become usual in...

The standard is everything. We have examples of the standard being met in the word.... Of men sharing everything. But what tells us we match up to that example? We have the same experience! Where two or three are gathered in my name, here I am, says the Lord. So we know we are gathered together...

"The Lord had said unto me, 'If but one man or woman were raised by His power, to stand and live in the same spirit that the apostles and prophets were in, who gave forth the Scriptures, that man or woman should shake all the country in their profession for miles around." - George Fox We see...

Amen!! Good posts brothers! The interesting thing we see with this is that faith cannot be made into an ethic, a rule... We cannot say 'He had faith and so do I, so I am justified.' Only makes this judgment, as we see the example of those who persevered and followed and yet did not justify...

Why do you try to make a criteria? Why do you want something YOU can measure is enough? This is human reasoning, and humans seeking to justify themselves. Enough is everything. No, that does not mean you spend every minute serving and being with the brethren. One person goes to work 8 hours a...

Alone has nothing to do with full time or not... Honestly, I don't see what you are talking about in Johnny's post at all. :huh: What Johnny is speaking of is the need we have for each other. We are not on our own complete. This is true physically, one works and provides this way, another is in...

Yes! :) And the thing is, faith doesn't look the same to human eyes from one manifestation of it to another... So it can't be mimicked. Two are in a field, one is taken. Which is why it is impossible for us to compare ourselves to someone who God justified, and if the comparison looks favorable...

Exactly! It is typical of man to look at himself, say 'I am the elect', and thus conclude he is not deceived and what he believes is right. But this is upside down, and the opposite of the attitude a disciple has. It is the one who says 'Surely it is not me!' who ends up betraying the Lord...

Heb_11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Noah was also a made a heir of the righteousness which is by...

Some verses popped into my mind as I read this... Thought I would post them. :) Eze 14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will...

What bothers if bible commentators do not support certain beliefs? Is it 'all those who are led of the Bible commentators, these are the sons of God? ;) Many went into the desert... Only two displayed the faith that pleased God so that he made them to enter the promised land. 12 spies went...

Good thread! He came to destroy the works of the devil. :)

Amen! Good OP! :)

You are listening to man and not God. A bible commentary could as much be an explanation of the truth as it could be another opportunity for man to express his opinion on what truth is. 1Jn_2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach...

Herein lies the issue. The word says 'he who is dead is freed from sin', and men, in the very explanation of this verse, say that he is not. He is only freed from the punishment, they say. It says we no longer have to serve it, but yet it says we are NOT freed from it. In the same sentence, man...

Again, the same issue arises with this doctrine. It proclaims we are freed in our spirit, but still slaves in our body. It uses all the right words, proclaims all the right things, but then denies the power of the cross to effectively take us out of the way, and the power of God to actually...

We are still in the flesh, indeed... 1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the...