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Sounds like this was written by someone who has access to lots of money. By someone who doesn't have to struggle day to day just to survive. By someone who doesn't know what's it's like to know the fear of whether or not they will be homeless in a month. By someone who doesn't have to look for...

Sounds like GOD has left their churches (or he was never there in the first place). Actors going through the motions?

Since I believe like NC does, I would like to answer for myself; NC can answer for himself. Saved right now? Yes, through faith. I know I'm saved through the holy spirit that has been given to me, who witnesses together with my spirit regarding what is written in the book. We can know 100%...

Of course. That makes sense. Didn't even think of that...

At the very worst it would've been a demon. Why would that bother you? They're small change compared to Christ. Rebuke 'em.

I wonder how often things like this happen, but we just don't get to see. This guy made the mistake of abusing the videographer. IMO the people who enable abuse like this are just as guilty as ones who actually do the abusing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJt-LHMNRY

His argument is based on the flawed premise that economic and social debt are equivalent - http://www.christianityboard.com/topic/18436-bank-loans-and-penal-substitution/#entry199678 Well explained. Well done good and faithful servant.

An exchange between two parties is the very nature of a blood covenant. The new covenant is a blood covenant. The root of the Greek word translated reconciliation (as well as the word itself) means exchange (see below). Man is reconciled to GOD through an exchange via the blood covenant, i.e...

Justin, I appreciate and respect what you are trying to accomplish, or facilitate. I think, though, that you are going about it the wrong way (at least from what I can see from this vantage point). I think you need an anchor of the core doctrines of the cross, the new covenant (a blood covenant...

I realized that was not your quote. That's why I said 'this persons' instead of 'your'. My point was that Peter describes a specific sequence of sanctification which leads to love; one fruit grows out of the other into a fullness of love. Paul was just listing various fruits of the spirit; no...

I have to disagree with this persons commentary. Do notice that Peter mentions self-control as 3rd in a sequence of 7 leading to agape. and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, and...

I'm assuming that you would put the best of what you've experienced on your website in order to highlight the excellencies of it. If that's the case, then I can assure you that you have not experienced things that I have experienced. I don't talk about those things, or glory in them, because...

There is too much ambiguity on your part. I have noticed that characteristic about people who endorse experience over doctrine. Don't assume that I or others know, or should know, what you're talking about. You're the teacher... teach clearly.

This implies a false dichotomy: that holding fast sound doctrine and GOD's leading/guidance are mutually exclusive.

I'm starting to better realize where you are coming from. Apparently, to you faith is a state of mind of non-reason; and that reason and revelation are incompatible. The latter is a false dichotomy. I appreciate where you're trying to go (because I have seen the land you speak of), but I think...

That's not what I'm advocating at all. I am saying exercise self-control so as to walk in the spirit. Self-control enables us to remain separate from the defilements of the world and flesh, which allows the spirit to remain with us. Yielding to the spirit is a fruit of faith, not to be mistaken...

kingdom of GOD, kingdom of heaven, church, Israel, GOD's vine, olive tree... same difference

This speaks volumes... Self-control is a fruit of the spirit of wisdom that warns us to keep ourselves separated and undefiled from the world. There is no walk in Christ without it. Is not yielding our members to GOD done through self-control? Christ is not interested in controlling us; he wants...

Actually, it is very cut and dried with respect to certain core teachings. Apart from those I have no problem with flexibility. "unity in essentials; liberty in non-essentials; charity in all things". I do hope you agree with my first sentence.

Is this something you think GOD would approve of: non-doctrinal, ... devoid of the Biblical focus on Jesus Christ alone, or anything else related to the Protestant Reformation, or the constraints of the five solas