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Please move a discussion about Calvinism to another thread thank you.

Yes agreed. The ones that taught it - and not the majority as you say, were on the same spiritual 'wavelength' as me and were interpreting certain scriptures on the subject, in the same way that I believe God had taught me, and explaining that it had happened to them. The wolves certainly came...

I haven't spent a lot of time reading them, no, they are very hard to read at times. I have read them though secondary sources too. I found them because of my own experience of Theosis and thought that it should be taught by them, and it was. That is not to say that I go outside of scripture. I...

Of course, but the question in such a state is 'how do I get out of the flesh?' which was Pauls'. Yes I like the phrase 'transcendant'. One one has been there, it is never forgotten and one never ceases to long for it again, out of love for God. He is speaking of his martyrdom which was...

You said 'But don't you add a third condition, someone who has been called but not reborn yet?' so I took it you meant predestination. I see now what you did mean. David was convicted of sin, then repented I assume. Having given this some thought, I wonder whether the ones who were not coming...

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by...

I have no wish to dispute what Tom Plumb said. I disagreed with him over various things. However I agree about the consecration of our whole selves. We do not need to know our hearts - just submit ourselves to whatever will befall us thereafter, having come to the end of ourselves and our...

No I am not epi. There are various levels of being unsaved but they are all in that category. Called? I am no Calvinist. That was before David was confronted by Nathan Paul under house arrest? Impossible for man to restore such a man but not impossible for God. Peter was restored? I...

epi reminded me of it. You have misunderstood my meaning of desperation. It is only those who hate even their unintentional sins as much as God does, who are delivered from them like St Paul. The rest just settle down into 'gradual sanctification'. The scriptures that I would quote are the...

The person who helped me was Adam Mussa: [email protected] and I paid £27 for the 5 day course.

@marks This site may be of some interest and help: https://enterhisrest.net/ I knew Tom before he died and had many long discussions with him. His theology is the western one and there were some areas we had disagreements, but in the main there is much that can be useful on his site.

Therapy can help with imprinted scenes of trauma, I followed one yesterday and the result is that the scene that my mind had held since last Christmas (a family affair) and could not stop it intruding, has diminished, within the 30 mins of the exercise to remove it to the extent that it is just...

@marks on the three options: scripture says throughout that man is saved or lost, a sinner or a saint. You are giving three options, the third being that he is saved yet sins.

It is throughout scripture that men are in two classes spiritually. If it was so with one man then the idea that no-one was baptized and walked in the Spirit in OT times, cannot be correct. There is obviously a difference between them. Are all men like asses because God used one? Right...

marks, regarding those who find The Way (pathway to holiness) and attain Theosis, it was recognized in the early church that they and only they, were qualified to interpret scriptures, being in the same spiritual state as the writers. They would be enabled to see past the seals that are there...

@Brakelite "I believe Christ was crucified at the foundation of the world." I agree, and would add, that the actual crucifixion in AD 33 or whenever, was the ratification of it, and that the spiritual reality of it is applicable throughout all of history, even in the Garden of Eden, where our...

I kept the best till last. No-one enters His rest or finds The Way (credit to @Episkopos) unless they are pretty desperate because you are asked to make a huge sacrifice. The first step is acknowledging that it is what you need - desperately need, and the second is to start listening to God...

"The point Jesus was making is that Nicodemus should have known the truth that the Holy Spirit is the source of new life because it is revealed in the Old Testament. For instance, Moses told the Israelites prior to entering the Promised Land that “The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts...

Yes but if we have a certain mindset, due to incorporating a theology, we will not notice we are doing it. I speak with some experience here, having gone from one theology, Reformed, to Arminian then to the ECF and of course all of us differ on points, but the overall tenet, like for example...