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8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it...

Yes. Men also use the few verses that speak of none being righteous to promote that should not and cannot attain to Christ, and become conformed to him... Yet all those verses speak of the righteousness of God, and they speak of the power of the carnal nature to be conformed to God. They use...

Funny enough, people saw the holiness in Jesus, and they saw it also in men like Peter and Paul. Christ was manifested through them. Unless we manifest Christ, we show that we are not of him... But you proclaim a gospel apart from any manifestation of the life and power of Christ. Talk about...

I meant this. In other words, hey, God's got me covered, I can remain carnal, NOT walk after the Spirit, and still be fine with God... I'm his favorite! ;) Romans 8:1. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the...

By the blood of Christ we were washed... For a purpose. God gave us a new nature... for a purpose. That we might bear fruit, that we would glorify him. If we do not do this, we are like ground that receives the rain, and uses it for it's own purpose, rather than giving back in fruit.

The devils believe, and they shudder. This idea that God gives salvation to all who have a certain knowledge is purely gnosticism. Rather, it is those who obey the commands that are justified, not those who hear it. This kind of 'gospel', so often preached, is akin to saying that hearing the...

That is a ridiculous statement, that ignores that the OT is a shadow of the new, and tears down righteousness. So much of Christianity has chosen to make righteousness null, and call it evil. To do good, they say, like the Good Samaritan, is meaningless. Yet God is pleased with it. We must walk...

I agree with Vengle. Yes, God is patient and merciful, and wishes for all to be saved, because he loves all. We cannot eternally judge them, because they might still repent, and as God gives rain to the righteous AND the wicked, so we show his love. But forgiveness remains dependent on repentance.

Excellent word, brother! Ourselves being the soil is the same thing I got! This is also why it says (Hosea) King James Bible Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. We must...

Excellent post, Vengle!!!!! :) To carnal man, it is foolishness to think we must die to self. The thing is, babes in Christ who are still carnal will react the same way. A fearful thing that I see today is many people who have built a doctrine and a way of thinking that is designed to make them...

I am curious as to what you're talking about. What have you seen that seems to have to do with Judaism? The promises to Israel are actually to Christ, and all those in him. They form the Israel of God. Thus the OT applies. But we must understand that the old covenant is a shadow of the new. The...

Good post, Jake, and good thread! :) If we see God as the one who must answer to our desires, then we are making ourselves the master, and him the servant. After all, doesn't the servant first make sure the master eats and is satisfied, and THEN have his portion. God will give us the desires...

That might actually be the only good exception. That is, if the woman understands authority, and thus shows godly submission and character and is willing to follow her husband in that faith... But then that basically makes her Christian already, following a christian man thus! ;) So it's not an...

You do not know what spirit you are of. We are, as our master, not here to condemn men, but to save them. Surely what is done is horrible, and it is a terrible that people of great authority would allow this to go on. But the world will do what it does. We are here to be faithful to our...

Welcome here Vashti! :)

The problem here Nomad, is that you do not understand that the gospel has power to actually move us away from what we WERE. None is righteous as God, apart from God... But those in Christ are just as he is, and walk as he walked, if they are all the way... Otherwise, we should be on our way to...

Jake says it every well. It seems to be obvious to everyone except you that we are NOT saying we are made perfect by the flesh, but it does say we are made perfect... By the Spirit! When we say this, you reply we are teaching works, and being made perfect by the flesh. What you do not...

Yes, it's ways and leaders are very godly... ;) Countries are not christian. We forget too quickly that the ruler of the kingdoms at this point is the devil... And if we look closely, we will see that every country, on one level or another, is full of his ways, which are carnal.

America is so full of this patriotic Christianity... The armies sent to Iraq are the armies of God :rolleyes: It is carnal reasoning that brings men to such conclusions. Spiritual reasoning shows us, when reading scriptures, that we are a part of a spiritual country, and we are strangers in...