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That is correct. I guess I over generalized.

That is a good sentiment and credit well given to God...but it is not accurate. The truth of scripture tells us that one born of the flesh only will die as if dead already, and that in order to actually live one must also be born [again] of the spirit of God. In other words, no one wants to...

Such a fun study! "Lord over" is found 233 times. "Hypocrites" is found 31 times. "Woe" is found 99 times. "Of men" is found 1,153 times. "Of the Spirit" is found 480 times. But I would agree, "Bible alone" is only the tip of the iceberg, and is against the Spirit.

It is correct that all who call or consider themselves "Christian" are not born again of the spirit of God, but those who are reign with Christ. But those "other sheep" were those not "of the house of Israel" according to Jesus, meaning of the gentiles. Why is it that you bring them up? Is it...

...But is is works: Matthew 7:21-23 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast...

Mockers, always mockers. They came for the flesh, now they come for the Spirit against the warnings. This too was foretold.

I was not saying that what you believe is not what is written or that it is my opinion that I believe differently, or that I even disagree. I was rather speaking of "all truth", not just what is written on tablets, but also promised for these times of the spirit of God by Christ. If Jesus had...

You are being all the more foolish. Who DOES the will of His Father? And who has known the Father, except Christ who has declared Him?

I never said that. I maintain that this is all a misunderstanding on the part of those who do not fully understand that salvation is death and new live in one permanent, everlasting act of God--not a process, not conditional after the fact, but before the fact. One that comes upon people within...

I should elaborate: Who having Christ in them, is a "follower?" No one. And that is the misunderstanding made by so many here. Apparently, you all don't even believe that salvation attains anything but an invitation--when the scriptures mark salvation as clearly divided as death and life. You...

Again, apparently, "to live is Christ" means very little to you. You are on a slippery slope.

Oh, I see. Apparently you do not believe the "to live is Christ", etc., etc.; that there is nothing literal about the word of truth. That laying down His life was perhaps figurative, or us laying down ours, or us being crucified with Him. Not that much of the scriptures are not to be...

Not at all--that is not what I said. But rather, that you applied it only to the smaller part of what is true. It's like this: If I were a plumber and I go to work and those who I am working for call me a plumber...that is only one context. But if my wife brings me lunch and calls me her...

That explanation is out of context. The context of salvation is not one that a person can walk out of. Who can walk out of eternity? No one except Christ. This is the correct context and definition. If it is no longer the person who lives, but Christ who lives in them...the logic that you have...

True enough in one sense, but not in the ultimate sense. In other words, if I by my right hand am the father of an industry--I am that father, and it is also my baby. But what have I said? I have said there is a father and a son...but I have also said that they are one. Likewise, if we become...

That very small parable is about the Son of God, who hid life eternal in the earth, in Himself, that those who find it might live; while those who do not recognize it, but see life in the world as life rather than a slow death...would pass away with the earth and all the elements therein with...

There--now you have said it by your own words. Yes, each anointed Christian (or person born [again] of the spirit of God) was crucified with Christ--but "each one in his own order" as Paul said, and I, and now you. But this precedence for the correct order of things and times--truly changes...

"By nature" is certainly used in the scriptures in different ways, just as there are different natures. Even the secular definition of the word means many things. That's not the point. However, that does not exclude its use in the context of sin after the fall of mankind with Adam and Eve. The...

You make a good point to build upon (as did John). That something that makes for no sin that occurs in a person at the point of salvation, is Christ. This biblical truth is one of great controversy--just as those things that have no cure become billion dollar industries. Such are the ways of...

The general thrust of all scripture is that all who are born are in need of rescue from death to life; and therefore all who are God's should know that life in this world is not life according to God, but actually death. Truly. This is a mystery of God, that only God could give life to the...