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  1. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Jesus came to show the way of holiness. The way of an intimate walk...a HIGHER walk in an overcoming grace according to God's power. Modern believers don't believe such things because they have no faith in God's power. What shows that modern religionists have lost the meaning of the gospel is...
  2. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    People fully miss the context of Paul's letters. He was addressing problems among people he knew, using a short-hand of concepts that were never meant to be taken as a replacement of the fuller statement found in the Scriptures. "Works of the law" is Judaism. Paul preached a hold on Christ...
  3. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Abraham was righteous, Abel was righteous. Phinehas was righteous. In the New Testament...Cornelius was righteous Zachariah and Elizabeth were righteous etc etc etc What you are not getting is that Paul was using shorthand for people whom he knew and you are taking his statements out of...
  4. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Greetings brother :)
  5. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    It's one thing to have a bible and read it...and quite another to try understanding it. You are not understanding the righteousness attributed to Abraham and the righteousness attributed to God. God isn't Abraham...and Abraham isn't God. The righteousness level is not the same...not even close...
  6. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Pathetic. All cloud and no rain. Do you have any points to make beside ad hominem attacks? A ploy of those who are all indoctrination but having no knowledge, wisdom or understanding.
  7. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    A number of dishonest trolls invade my threads with foolish arguments and religious grandstanding glorying in their ignorance...quoting verses that have no bearing on the discussion...in an ego charged display, not knowing the scriptures or pretending to understand what is clearly beyond their...
  8. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    You are a troll...attacking me personally because you have zero argument concerning the subject of this thread. You are a false teacher who is dishonest and disingenuous. You raise no points at all...being indoctrinated into a man-made tradition that denies the scriptures. You have a very...
  9. Episkopos

    Can non-Christians go to Heaven?

    All people will be judged by their works....what they did with what they were given. Too much of modern religion denies the bible narrative and makes up a salvation by having proper beliefs....saving knowledge...which is an influence of Gnosticism. We have free will...and we are here to learn...
  10. Episkopos

    God wants to save Christians too. --- Say what?

    Basically...God saves us from the the world...then He saves us from ourselves.
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    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Do you mean the law of God? The 10 commandments? This is not about personal preference...I think you have been in the modern church too long. ;) The 10 commandments continue into the New Covenant as showing the distinction between righteousness and holiness. There are 4 holiness commandments...
  12. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    How vague. An unlearned person sees a word in the bible and adds in their own understanding...through an indoctrination that negates any nuance or level of God's work. So what do you mean by law? The law of Moses? The law of God? The law of sin and death? The law of faith? The law of the...
  13. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    You are making that parallel...not having any depth of understanding... only a misunderstanding....not being able to discern the difference between an OT style righteousness and the power of God bestowed on the elect by a covering of God's righteousness. Does your error extend to the level of...
  14. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    This is all a strawman...you are doing what you are saying I'm doing. I am speaking to you from the whole counsel of God and you are arguing from Luther's false understanding of Paul. Exactly what you are doing...the opposite game. Either you are that blind or you are disingenuous and an...
  15. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Can you see where it says....UPON ALL... and not "imputed"? Justified by God. It doesn't say...I believe therefore I am just and I declare myself righteous and have the righteousness of God to myself. And who has faith nowadays?
  16. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    men Amen. In Him is no sin. If someone claims the exclusivity of being chosen in Christ then let that one testify to the power of an eternal resurrection life that one experiences IN Him. However, if we are humble and God-fearing God's mercy remains on us. It's all about what we claim for...
  17. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    You have a dogmatic religious viewpoint that obscures the teachings of all the authors of the bible. You are the one judging here...and your judgments don't compliment Jesus...they take away from His mission.
  18. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Or as you mean...to name and claim. That is false. We are meant to be reconciled to God...not be reconciled to dogmas.
  19. Episkopos

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    That's not what we are presented with in the bible. The stories that Jesus told help us with forming a sound doctrine based on understanding what God sees as doing right. But, as I state in the video...not everyone has the same level of choices. Lazarus in the parable had no choices to make...