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The church of Christ cannot be 'attended'. I am part of a body of believers. But this has nothing to do with organizing something on sunday mornings... It has to do with leaving everything and to go with the brethren and seek God. I guess the Pharisees had many reasons not to consider what...

Truly believing into Christ always brings the fruit along with it. 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His...

If we believe in (into) Jesus the way he meant it (faith) then we bear the fruit that he does. That is the test of who truly believes into him.

While living in a body of flesh, yes. It is not translated in the imagination, and thinking you are translated makes you no more translated than a stray dog on the street. It is an actual reality where the saints of God are walking in the heavenlies. Before you say I am claiming to do this, no...

Yeah and he was sinful too, right? :blink: Are you mad? This is not about being 'confident' that you are something... This isn't a placebo effect or 'think it and you are it'. You have to actually BE. Actually BE walking in the light of God, just as Christ walked, doing the works of the...

If this truth was seen, men would realize how opposite to the Spirit the institution is, teaching with wise words, but according to power... Counting according to education, and not anointing... Heavenly understanding... Spiritual gifting... Wisdom. Those things are overlooked for a man's...

Your opinion versus his own word claiming to count it dung! Not very convincing... Using a capacity to read has nothing to do with using an understanding taught religiously... Like Paul had.... Like the institution teaches... Paul's conversion could be likened to the would-be conversion of a...

5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Quite opposite of the false gospel presented by Richard, according to which you know you're in him if you...

He held scriptures in his own understanding, and had to relearn the whole truth that he thought he had. And maybe you missed the part where he said he counted all those things as dung that he might attain Christ! ;) I have no desire to be hireling... I am not seeking to work for God to make a...

Yeah... And when he was converted he had to relearn everything and counted all those things as dung! Good point actually... This man who was highly educated in the scriptures was one of the greatest single persecutors of the church of Christ!

The flesh profits NOTHING! ;)

Your taunting merely reveals you don't understand what is being said. I have no desire to go to college. Yeah, maybe if I applied, I wouldn't make it in... I don't know. If that's the case, it could actually run to my advantage (I'm talking like a man), God takes the foolish things to upset the...

That is garbage. 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in...

It is not that it is practical to be uneducated, it is that the man who already thinks he knows, or already thinks he is walking in the light when he isn't cannot be taught to walk in the light. He is Laodicean... Because he is sure that he is rich, sees no need for discipleship. What God needs...

It is not highly intellectual to be indoctrinated and trained to indoctrinate... It is simply highly practical, from a worldly point of view.

Trained in spiritual things to be a conduct of God's Spirit and truth is completely different from being trained to memorize verses and give carnal meaning to them, to make some 'message'. One gives life, because the Spirit of the living God flows in it, the other is just dead religion, which...

Right on brother! Fear of obedience is fear of failure, and actually a LACK of faith in the mercy of God. To relieve their fears, men make a doctrine according to which if you just believe hard enough, you somehow are saved... They have a 'magic Jesus'. Faith steps out in obedience, or at...

Men of all nations have been baptized into Christ, the seed of Abraham, and thus in Abraham all the kindreds of the earth are blessed! The children of Abraham are those who do the works of Abraham, spiritually speaking. They walk by faith, in obedience to God. This statement is exclusive in...

Yes! :) By faith we have access to enough grace to be just as he is. But in his mercy, God bestows grace upon men while they are still frail in faith, to teach them and train them to walk in faith.

The word says it clearly! 13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. God takes the weak things of the world. They were fishermen... Not scholars! On the other...