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It arises from the false assumptions that (1) all mysticism is occult and (2) that there is no place for it in Christianity. It seems to offend most those who refuse to recognize the sacramental aspects of Christianity in which the kingdom of God and the works of Christ and the Holy Spirit are...

When I was commissioned in the army, I took an oath to obey "all lawful orders." We had no responsibility to obey any illegal order. Christians have no responsibility to obey any law or order that violates God's will. In fact, a Christians, we have a duty before God to refuse to obey or...

You do realize that you are asking for authentic, rational, thought and a bit of research, don't you? :huh: Care to place a wager on the outcome? :lol: iakov the fool You have chosen to subject yourself to the rantings of iakov the fool. No warrantee is declared or implied. Individual...

Saving faith does not AUTOMATICALLY result in obedience and works. It results in the desire to be obedient and to do good works. We must choose to act on that desire. iakov the fool You have chosen to subject yourself to the rantings of iakov the fool. No warrantee is declared or implied...

<<please do show me what you took offense to>> Your opening response was confrontational and dismissive. I, unfortunately, immediately took it to the next level. (down) <<What Paul uses in Romans and Ephesians is metaphorical language not mystical language.>> He is describing a reality. We are...

That is God's personality. Everything He does toward mankind is done through love. That includes the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the order to exterminate the Canaanites. Those acts were all done to stop the spread of the overabundance of sin which was a real and present threat of spreading...

As I wrote to Stanj: (here's your copy) The meditation methods of the Buddhists are meant to teach the practitioner to exclude from their consciousness all distracting thoughts. In Transcendental Meditation ™, the instructor will give each person a "Mantra" to repeat which is designed to...

OK! Time out! This went sideways and it's my fault. I took offense at your first response and answered unkindly. I ask your forgiveness. I say that Christianity is a "mystical" religion because, in baptism, we are united with Christ in His death and resurrection. (Ro 6:3-5) It's not a physical...

<<Total deflection and equivocation.>> Some of your question s don't rate answers. <<I'm not surprised you've gone back to Orthodoxy>> How graciously condescending of you. You must be very pleased that you are better than those ORTHOdoxies. <<that doesn't mean you understand Christianity even...

<<On poverty I have been told by a seemingly well respected Christian ''KingJ Have you ever noticed how nobody pays any attention to the opinions of poor paupers?''>> Oh. People like Jesus who owned nothing but the clothes on His back? How rich do you have to be to be heard? As rich as Hillary...

Phl 4:8 (KJV) Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. My...

I was an ordained minister and missionary to Moscow with the Pentecostal Holiness Church where we set up a Bible College for the unregistered Russian Pentecostal church. Now I worship at a Russian Orthodox church. No Calvinism - No Rapture - No angry God. Just love God and do your best to keep...

In spite of whatever flak you may get for asking such a question and suggesting that eastern mysticism have real spiritual value, you've asked an excellent question. It touches upon a serious deficiency in most of western Christianity's teaching and practice. There is an unfortunate mindset...

Look up what the Puritan, Oliver Cromwell did. But, when the Lord returns, it will truly be a theocracy unhindered by human frailty.

That is incorrect. The Koine Greek reads: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος - In the beginning was the Logos καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν - and the Logos was (positionally, relationally) before God. καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος - and God was the Logos. Note that in "θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος," both theos and logos are in...

The reason for the Lord's supper is what Jesus told His disciples: JN 6:53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up...

That is not what She said. There is no Gospel that contains the requirement to keep the law.

So are you now going to publish your full name, degrees, area of expertise, and list of published works? Just curious.

No, it has absolutely nothing to do with the scholastics trying to define exactly when the bread and wine become the body and blood of the Lord and whycome it still looks, tastes, and feels like the same bread and wine it was before. That's how they came to the notion of "transubstantiation."...

Some folk will believe anything