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You still miss the whole point. According to what you say, we should NOT strive, we should NOT run to attain, we should NOT crucify the flesh. We need to do... Nothing! As a matter of fact, if we do anything, that's works! What is good, obedience to his commandments, you call evil. There is...

Who are we to say 'This scripture means ONLY this'? Often scripture speaks on many levels, we should consider that though we might see one aspect, another might be right under our eyes. :)

I see Christmas as something that can be subverted. The world uses it to celebrate this myth of Santa Claus, they use it to party, etc etc. We can use it to talk about the birth of Christ, we can make it different. I am not saying we should, or need to. But I do understand how that can work...

Interesting. Sounds like a step forward :) Better yet than looking for 'a good church to attend' is looking for real brothers to commit to, and go all the way!

Nailed right on! The misunderstanding that is so common in our day and age is that because we were called without works, we don't have to answer the calling with works. It is true that indeed we were called apart from works. Thus all who repent and believe receive a talent! But what we do...

If salt preserves meat... and we are the salt of the earth, it is the earth we preserve! But I understand this to be about all the righteous. As christians we are called to be salt (just) and light (holy).

America is very Christian... They give to the poor, make their ways straight, and have given all up to follow Christ... Not! It would require one to be completely blind to even consider America Christian. Israel, scattered among the nations, is the people of God who follow him. They are...

Is it legalism to say we must follow Christ? You say you trust in the shed blood, but by that very thing you show that you have faith in your faith, rather than in God. You trust your faith to save you! You trust your own believing will apply Jesus' blood to you. But God applies mercy to who...

The masses? :huh: More like the remnant! When the son of man comes, will he find faith? Once again, the people of God stand alone, and so it must be! :)

HammerStone, my point is not that we should not participate in something because it isn't Christian. Did I say we shouldn't use costumes? That any costumes are wrong even if some kids did a play about say, the Egyptians in the desert? No. Then how does that mean I say we shouldn't use the...

May God protect him and keep him safe! Blessingsto the both of you...

We do not believe his word when we say that what he has done is the end of OUR race, because the word says WE must run our race, WE must walk by faith. The idea that 'God has done it all, I don't have to obey' go in the opposite direction of the gospel. The gospel calls us to seek, attain, and...

Interesting observations! :) I am only slightly familiar to Greek. Started to learn it in very small ways, but that endeavour seems to be on hold for now. That is why I like the KJV though, when I have compared it to the Greek, I have found it faithful.

Yes, and we should be found blameless, not only in deed, but in appearance. :) Participating ties us in to a culture, and to beliefs and ways that should not be our own.

:) The new is greater than the old, the calling in it is higher. In the old, we are to love God, and love our neighbor as ourself, now we must love as HE loved. This does not destroy the old, but fulfill it, and build on it. But in both the old and the new, we are called to obey. Blessings...

Then you will be happy of this! ;) I believe it is at work now, and now we are called, Jew and Gentile to be one in Christ Jesus and in Him to love each other as he has loved us. The great wall of partition has been made away with!

Because it is always interesting to meet members again in a different context! ;) Always interesting to see where things go in new beginnings :)

I want to make it clear that I agree with that. It's 'cute', nothing more! But should we celebrate it as a family? Or should we show ourselves a peculiar people different in it's ways, and in what it celebrates? :) (General question, directed at no one and everyone)

Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression you are stuck on the idea that what I meant is that it is future and not at work now, which is not what I meant. :huh: We are to be a light to both Jews and Gentiles! Amen! :)

Okay with people coming from CF&FF? Of course! :) I left CF&FF simply because I had nothing more to say there, what I had to say was not accepted. So when I had done my time, I moved on. Now I'm here, and on some other sites. :) The shout box is to... Shout your thoughts, or ask a question...