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What good does it do if doctrine is spared but the life is lost? What good is a profession using all the right words but a practice which does not align with it? I am not trying to belittle the importance of doctrine, not at all, and I do see that some of the doctrine found in catholicism is...

If I understood you right, I would actually say this is of very high importance. It is the difference between believing that our old nature dies NOW and we live fully in him by the same nature, or believing that in a future event, beyond this life, it will happen. We are not told that after our...

Amen! :) AMEN! Spoken by the Spirit! Good post brother... :) Many here are using and twisting the word so as to shift the balance and exalt the power of the flesh over the power of the Spirit... But this is the opposite of what the word is truly communicating. The word preaches that by the...

Many trust God that he will give them a 'carte blanche', or a free pass into the club, and this they call grace. Though this might be done out of an honest heart, it is a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of God. To do this is to picture God as someone who only desires our allegiance, and...

This is all said in innocent words, and probably possibly with innocent motives... But what many who say similar things fail to realize is that they use sentences like 'warn others to remain humble and realize who is the source of the righteousness in you' to deny that we can truly walk in that...

The new man is promised life abundantly in Christ. But first the old man must be condemned to death, he is already judged and cannot please God. Many claim the promises of life without coming to the death first, and when one comes preaching that if we would die with him we would be raised with...

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Any man can pick through the Bible and take the verses that promise blessing and say 'That's me!' and reject the ones with hard warnings or judgments and say 'God would never do that to me, don't you see the beautiful promises he gave me?' Anyone can do it, and very many do... But this is...

Just so you know, you cut out two of dragonfly's four questions, which all go together and follow each other. :)

Yes. I have not yet attained... Php 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine...

The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble. 1Jn 2:11 Amen! But what this love is must be properly defined and understood. A loving brother seeks to restore a brother who errs from the truth... Rebuke and reproof are necessary for our own...

that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You understand the first part but then deny the second. We are faillible, as a matter of fact there is nothing good in us... That is, our old nature. But now Christ lives in us, and if he truly does, and nothing else is left, then...

There are two things that combined make a man to fall into a ditch, and remain there unless he repents. Partial blindness, that he sees one error, but is blind to the other... Hence seeing one ditch, he heads the other way and falls into the one on the other side. Blindness then is what makes...

WOW! Well said brother! One warns against faith without works, and the other works without faith... The way is narrow, and there is one ditch on each side. Many, seeing the ditch on one side, fall into the opposite... There are many errors. Preach it brother! ;) It is as true today as when...

Good subject! There is indeed a modern christian movement that, as Epi pointed out, believes that Jesus is there to blind the Father so he doesn't see our sin... No transformation... Just an inflatable Jesus to hide behind! The Old Testament's purpose is to build said foundation upon which...

Abraham was visited by God himself! If that is not enough to convince men he had intimacy with God then I don't know what is... :huh: The irony here is that none of us are claiming to be saved (in the eternal secure with no possibility of rejection sense that is meant) but rather are claiming...

The modern church has a relentless obsession with salvation, which often blinds it and makes it unable to receive the truth. People are deceived into believing that somehow the standard of Christ is the standard of salvation... These two are confused. The standard of salvation put forth in the...

Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Seems the modern Church has mistaken things above with things of our own imaginations! ;) Paul was not reinforcing the idea that we must claim something we see God could give us and then really believe it and proudly...

Good post brother and spot on as to the error of the modern church! The Laodiceans considered themselves rich, but were not... presumption. Jesus speaking to the Pharisees said... Joh 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like...

Intimacy with Christ and knowing him is indeed the most important thing... But we would be wise not to confuse this with reading the Bible and attributing what God did to those who pleased him to ourselves! :) We would be wise also to understand the difference between salvation and intimacy.