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Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church Diane Langberg

Sisters, I am busy reading an excellent book called: Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church Diane Langberg. She has a ministry to the spiritually abused in the church, and I am finding this book to be excellent but don't come back to bite me if she goes south later on...

Rejoice! @GracePeace, for the Lord is lifting up the veil at the corner for you, for you to see the deeper spiritual meaning in the scripture. The Illumination has arrived! You will not get an answer from those for whom the veil is still in place, and who say 'Peace! Peace! when you know that...

Thankyou @dev553344 for being brave enough to tell your testimony in light of the stupid insensitive remarks and lack of empathy we have seen. Animals in the wild, when escaping their predators, or suchlike trauma, will shake their bodies furiously, which scientists show, releases the energy...

Any drug - nicotine, alcohol, coffee, street drugs, change your biological function and metabolism, so that must be corrected while quitting, and makes the job much less painful. You need the help of biochemists.

I do not think they were infallible, no, but they, being of the same culture and language as the Apostles, and their disciples, and of a closer gap of time period, were much better qualified to interpret scripture according to the intention of the writers. Anyone who has studied the period is...

BE ye holy as He is holy, does not say just believe it as a legal construct, which was brought into the church from the Latin quarter following the ideology of the Roman empire. God deals with reality. How does the world look upon those who say they are without sin, yet sin right in front of...

Calvinism/Arminianism are both imbalanced, whereas the truth is somewhat in the middle, as is usual. Man has free will, and God chooses, when every man that comes into the world, is presented with the light of the gospel, when God decides to draw Him to Himself. That man can open up his heart...

A good therapist, when they hear about the situation the client is living in, and knowing that there must be a feeling of safety in order to recover from cPTSD, will likely advise that the abuser is requested to leave so that they can work on themselves at the same time. NOT together. It has...

A situation like this, is most likely much more complicated than it seems. A woman who ends up in an abusive relationship, has ignored red flags, indicating that the partner does not respect boundaries, and is not likely to respond to Christ for salvation, even if he claims it already. He may...

I agree that enlightening in that context, does not mean salvation. I am not an Arminian as I believe the scriptures say that God chooses the time and place for every man when he is faced with the choice of which way he will go. He can accept the truth that the Holy Spirit has started to reveal...

I don't know whether, @Christian Soldier , you want to wind me up or whether you do not have the mental capacity to remember what I tell you about myself and beliefs, neither of which bode well for any further discussion between us. I was a 5-Point Calvinist for approx. 8 years, and defended...

From another forum: "Augustine and other Romans on Religion and Politics, Slaves of God" by Toni Alimi (published Dissertation) is really hitting at some powerful points that are forcing me to re-think how I've understood Augustine's views on slavery...I.e, he was pro-chattel-slavery, and he...

As I said, I will not debate a Calvinist. The hardest doctrine of all, and the one which folk hate so much in the early church's teaching, is that God requires a walk like that of Jesus (Theosis) and that the result of not doing so is laid out in, Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those...

If this were so, there would be no reason why God has an issue with His children. You can find many scriptures that seem to say that we cannot stop sinning and at the same time find many that say we must, like 'be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect'. It is futile to argue this way...

Philippians 3 and Romans 7 are taken out of context, which is why you are stumbling. I have dealt with them on this thread already. On Romans 7, if you had been enlightened by the Holy Spirit you would see that Paul cried out for deliverance from the inability to stop unintentional sin, then...

The natural food we get today, straight from the field, is nothing like the food of past times, even from our previous generation. Fruit and veg contains nothing like the nutrients of the past apart from the dangers of pesticide and herbicide because of soil depletion. Sea food full of mercury...

I refuse to interact with posters who show such rudeness and arrogance on top of low knowledge of debating rules. These qualities I often find in Calvinists, or it seems exCalvinists, and I know as I was one. I asked you twice to prove your accusation that the doctrine of Theosis is heretical...

I see that you have failed to produce evidence that the early church refuted Theosis so I do not accept your view, and besides, Jude 1:3 tells us that: 'Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to...

I don't see us having a discussion if you call me a heretic, when during the first couple of hundred years, (and at times in the western church) the early church held to this doctrine, all the while refuting the real heresies coming in, like Arianism, Gnosticism and Deterministic theology. Show...