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The spirit of Christian mysticism is not the spirit of the gospel of Christ.

'Walking in the light' can be a subjective experience; all religions lead to 'some other spiritual experience' and some type of joy. It sounds like you consider experience to be the witness of the spirit. Perhaps your giving 100% really means that you give until you get the experience you need.

I think there is a semantic problem here. Positionally we are in Christ through baptism into his death (what mjrhealth called "abide in Christ" above); yet we must abide in Christ continually through faith and eschewing evil (what E. refers to as 'abiding in Christ'). So there is confusion due...

Abel knew because the spirit witnessed that he was accepted and forgiven; Cain did not receive that witness of forgiveness. What type of blessing are you talking about? Can you explain that a bit more?

Consider the possibility that he didn't go into it for the same reason I didn't go into it. I knew immediately what you were seeing, but didn't touch it because your methodology of question-baiting gets quite tiresome and annoying. Why not just openly state what you believe instead of playing...

Tell me, how do you know you are giving 100%?

Oh look! There goes a drive-by troll. Wave because he needs lots of attention.

The idolatry of imagined obedience

in order to live

The only way you are able to come to the light with your sin is because grace covers it. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8

That makes no sense in response to my comment. mjrhealth is right, you don't understand grace.

He that believes has passed from death into life. So yes, we do have a foretaste of the future, full reward. When a boat is anchored you know it's not drifting away. That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for...

Christ himself is the security. If we have believed into him, and continue to do so, we are secure.

That's not what the Laodiceans sin was at all. They were secure in themselves, and in their wealth and in their standing among men. If anything they were the types who do works in order to be praised of men.

Understanding one's position in Christ is not high-mindedness or self-assuredness. It is recognition of the inheritance in Christ secured through the new covenant that each believer has been given, and resting assured that Christ will perform what he has promised. Those who are self-assured in...

One doesn't enter into life through denial of self. Many religions teach that. Life comes through looking to the cross, which gives us life and works death in us that the life may bring forth fruit. Self-willed dieing to self is basically nothing more than delusion and idolatry.

The first definition is from Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. The second is from Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament : Based on semantic domains. If you're ever in doubt, just highlight a portion of the text and google it.

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He doesn't understand the covenant, IMO. Does that sound plausible?

So is every believer