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Because we are weak and mortal creatures and at the moment that we yield to temptation, we, like Eve and Adam before us, WANT to sin--even though we might immediately regret it. There is much to learn in the original Fall. Satan was working on Eve before she was even conscious of it--she lied...

I think the key teaching of 1 Corinthians 10:13 is that we don't HAVE to sin--that we can trust in the Lord to provide a way to escape the temptation to sin. BUT, we must take that way of escape. In a moment of weakness, a believer might surrender to the temptation. That appears to be why...

Exactly. I once met a man who was a "compulsive gambler"--he lost his house, cars and finally his family due to his "addiction". One night, after drinking most of a bottle of whiskey, he was despondent and contemplating suicide--even though he knew it would be very wrong. He cried out to the...

The prophets and kings of Israel understood that the blood of bulls and goats did not take away sin (see Luke 10:24). They knew that God would one day send His very own Lamb who would take away sin and that the sacrificial system was just a stop-gap until the Lamb would come. That is how John...

In the Old Testament, "blameless" is translated from the Hebrew words tam or tamin (root word, tamam) and it means "complete" or "sound"--it definitely does NOT mean "sinless". (Many of the other translations give the word "complete" for the reason that it gives the better sense of what is...

That doesn't answer my question. I was not questioning the use of the Scriptures to form doctrine, or reproving, correcting and instructing Christians. The word, "perfect" in the KJV does NOT mean what you are representing.

One of your problems is that you don't understand what "blameless" means. And you don't know what sanctified means.

That is completely twisted. You go on trusting in your own "holiness" to get you into heaven. I'll trust the Blood of Jesus to cleanse me of all unrighteousness. And do you think Solomon (who wrote that) was righteous--let alone righteous enough to get into heaven without grace through...

You forget the lessons of the Book of Job. God called Job "blameless--a man of complete integrity" (Job 1:8). Yet, ultimately, God found sin in Job and scolded him for it.

Did you or did you not imply that "Grailhunter" is not a believer? If you are teaching Entire Sanctification while we are in our mortal flesh, you ARE a false teacher. That is how you twist things. I NEVER said that God does not call us to holiness! But, He knows that we will never achieve...

I think you have pointed to some of it certainly. But, I think this is also a supernatural battle. Satan has stepped up his activity in anticipation of soon taking as many souls as he can to the LoF. The growth of evil has been astounding. Interestingly, some of the ancient Jewish sages...

Actually, John Wesley, if the biographers are correct, never taught that sinless perfectibility was possible in this life. It was his followers who came up with that. I was raised in the Methodist Church--very liberal, except for some of the older ones who still believed biblical doctrine. It...

There is a growing influence of gnosticism among Christians today. Just as in the early Church. The aspect of Calvinism that I particularly take exception to is the idea of double predestination. That is what the gnostics believed--that there were some who were predestined to hell if they...

No--I don't believe it is, but you are certainly welcome to your opinion. No lesser a light than famed evangelical pastor, Keith Daniel said, "there was never anything about the so-called 'holiness' movement that WASN'T heresy". Teaching that "Perfectionism" or "Entire Sanctification" can...

From Dictionary(.com): 1) opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system. 2) the maintaining of such an opinion or doctrine.

I don't care what you call it, whether you call it "entire sanctification" or "sinless perfectionism" it is HERETICAL. I thought that when the "holiness" movement died, that the heresy died with it, but apparently not. Entire sanctification while here on the earth is NOT taught anywhere in the...

Not irrelevant at all. We are trying to determine if you hold to orthodoxy in your beliefs. I consider Calvinists to be orthodox Christians although I believe that there are a couple of areas in their theology which could stand a revision. But, if you actually believe in "perfectibility" here...

He doesn't send it to me because he can't. He doesn't think anyone but him is a true believer anyway, so why would he be upset by the idea of "destroying my faith". He is not logical--but then mystics of one sort or another are rarely very logical.

I think you may have nailed it, GG. I knew there was something familiar in what JBF was posting. I remember arguing with a modern gnostic (a number of years ago, now). I found that man's posts to be a bit chilling actually, as he said that soon he and his ilk would be taking over Christianity...

Remember when you (at least I think it was you) challenged JBF on his statement that he believed in half of each of the T-U-L-I-P mnemonic of classical Calvinism? He never answered you. I can't imagine how anyone could, for example, believe in Unconditional Election and not believe in it at...