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Avoidance is quite the skill, Richard! ;) Of course we cannot overcome by the flesh. But can we overcome by the Spirit, like Paul says? Or maybe that's just more figurative speech, for your figurative salvation. You speak of a salvation apart from God's character, where he makes a deal with...

Welcome Nate! :)

Discipleship is meant to happen one on one from the spiritually mature to those in training, who are willing, but need to learn. Ultimately we all keep learning, but the more advanced teach the less. We have made a system of mass teaching because we could not keep up with the demand, but by...

Hebrews 6 speaks of those who know Christ crucifying him afresh. What does this mean? I think we find a hint in one of the verses that follow. 7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. 8 But...

We are called to be the bride... May we attain to it! We are called to be as he is, but many are called, and few are chosen. I see it as wise to neither call ourselves bridesmaids NOR the bride... Who knows, we might end up even lower than that! Rather we acknowledge that we are called, strive...

Nice way of avoiding the questions and the point, Richard, with the "I don't care what you think"! ;) It's become very clear you have taken the scriptures to make a scheme whereby we are declared 'saved'. You wish to take out all the ifs and declare it is not necessary that we be transformed...

Good enough! ;) Blessings to you, jiggy! :)

Of course, obedience by faith is possible, but not recommended! ;) You don't have to take the Land, that was just the Lord's suggestion! You just have to believe he is God, and paid your ticket and... Magic Jesus... There you are! But this has no bearing on reality. Rather we are to truly...

In other words, we have this new creation, Christ in us, and by this we are saved, simply on the merits of having it, but it bears no power or anything of the like to make us overcome?

The transformation can and happens both by an encounter with God, by proximity to him ('beholding him') AND by obedience, because both our spirits AND our characters must be renewed and conformed. It is not that we try and make the outside clean for appearance... and to the religious, what we...

Why get married other than being helpers of each other to move in the same direction? If we really seek the kingdom before ANYTHING else, marriage to someone who has a different direction would be seen for what it really is; a hindrance.

That power is available to us... Of course, we cannot walk in it if we do not first go through the cross, death of the self. The old man is the old nature. This same confusion is rampant in Christianity; somehow man has been hoodwinked into thinking that the weak body and the adamic nature are...

Again, I have judged no man for not walking in this, but have simply stated that it is indeed what we are called to. The only accuser is in your own mind Richard! :) This is simply like a trumpet call, let all those who come come, and let God be the judge. Let us give (our lives) with a joyful...

Christian catch phrases often miss the power and what matters... But I don't see those kind of things as evil either. It simply represents something. Yes, if someone is not living, what good is it? And yes, many things like this are more of a turn off, and just a cultural thing, than actually...

Episkopos lays it out well. Our earthly bodies are merely tents, weak, yes, unlike a house of stone, but not evil. It is the lusts that are of our adamic nature which are evil, and oppose God. Your reaction to ask 'are YOU perfect' is typical. Not that the question in itself is bad... But as...

Prophecy is FOR it's good. But it isn't always 'happy, thou are my favorite'! ;) Sometimes it goes something like 'if you don't repent, I will spew you out of my mouth'. Just doesn't sounds like everyone is all safe and sound, does it?

I guess you never read Hebrews :) 5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: “ You are My Son,Today I have begotten You”? And again: “ I will be to Him a Father, And He shall be to Me a Son”? 6 But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: “ Let all the angels of God...

There is so much talk about being eternally 'saved' and losing 'rewards'. All that goes against the disobedient servant (christian) being cast out, doesn't it? It is made quite clear that all that we save is our life, but we live in outer darkness, that is, if we are unfaithful and unfruitful...

Oh, in other words 'serpent seed'. Those who are literally born of the devil are evil, and those who are literally born of Adam are good. Is that what you're saying?

I think the issue is with the 'ressurection of His angel' part... Now some might pick an argument about the fact Christ has more than one angel, he can call upon an army of them. ;) But the issue seems to be rather that you are saying Jesus is an angel??? What ARE you saying exactly??? :blink: