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Yes, our mortal bodies are just temporary containers.

You are not your body, Mark. What is essentially you will survive the death of your body.

I think the Church, the Bride of Christ has always agreed on basic doctrine. The fine points of doctrine are often what Christians argue about.

Yes, I think that is an important point. I believe that God is entirely able to preserve the essence of His word and that He has. It is an item of faith.

I believe that we must have the indwelling Holy Spirit to guide our understanding of Scripture. Before I was born-again, the Bible was just words to me.

A compromise position is that the actual wording is divinely-inspired, in the original autographs. Any translator will tell you that translators must make a lot of decisions while translating from the original language to another. And translators do not typically claim inspiration over their...

That is why I always pray before reading the Bible that God would show me new things--and He always does. :)

That passage is about false women prophets who seemingly practiced a bit of sorcery. I certainly hope that you are not implying that GodsGrace, ByGrace and I fit that category. :rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure that GH was being sarcastic.

I would say, that he needs to take a break.

Interesting that you only question the salvation of women. You have had more opposition here from men than you have from women. You apparently have a persecution complex. If you can't handle opposing views, you don't belong here.

Are you being deliberately antagonistic? No one has ever told me that they thought that I have used it improperly. Occasionally, I don't use it at all but rarely--and unlikely that I would fail to do so with you. I am not the only one who has a problem with your posts in that way.

No--you are not. You cut out so much that it is difficult to decipher what you are saying. I thought you said you had the gift of teaching. Our God is not a God of confusion.

Let's play a game--you tell me which one it is. It is easy to find out--just put the book, chapter and verse into something like Bible Hub and it will give you the passage in all the different translations at the top of the list and then moves down through the paraphrases. I'll give you a...

Uh-no. I just used another translation. You are being insufferably pedantic about the KJV, you know. Paul used "flesh" and "body" interchangeably. Look at Romans 7: 21-25 which I quoted in the KJV above (the blue type).

Amen to that. ;) We are a stubborn and stiff-necked lot, it seems.

I think the way that it has best been expressed is that, "I am a saint of God who still occasionally sins because my flesh is weak. I used to be a slave of sin before I came to Him for His healing touch. Now my re-born spirit is free to serve Him, as is my soul. One day, I will have...

The Holy Spirit is always consistent with Himself. His indwelling presence is a guarantee that if we wait on Him, He will straighten out our faulty understanding over time--through the word that He inspired. If we fail to understand, it is likely our ignorance of what the Bible actually...

But then, there is this: NLT Romans 7:21-25 --->"I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22I love God’s law with all my heart. 23But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to...

So, in other words, you are taking back your apology for misinterpreting what I said? That's like the guy who insists he's never wrong and when others point to his lack of humility, his response is, "Well, I did think I was wrong once...but I was wrong about that." LOL.