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The biggest impediment to growth in Christ is the flesh, and people's attachment to it. Any deeper teaching about God's way in Christ will be deeply unpopular since the Spirit wars against the flesh. We are not to side with the flesh against the Spirit. We are to have no...

Hi Shep! :) Thanks for watching. I think it's a question of depth. Believing with the mind (as mere facts) vs believing with or from the heart (into truth). God is the one who translates the believer into the kingdom realm...and the New Covenant is with the heart. So He decides how deep we...

This is the time to take the "red pill" if you dare: There have never been so many impediments to a spiritual growth in Christ as in our time. The solution to this predicament is both too easy and too hard for us to wrap our minds around. This is by God's design. Pride stops us from discovering...

Yes. Elohim is plural meaning 2 (unless another number is specified). In this case both Father and Son share a name....Jehovah (Yahweh)....the greater and the lesser. (Hashem ha katon) Other instances that show that the plural means 2....is Ephraim (double fruit) Machanayim (2 camps) Mayim...

That doctrine is from a human understanding of spiritual things. Jesus said...My Father and I are ONE. One what? One Spirit. The Father sent His Spirit and whoever doesn't have the Spirit of Christ is not His. So then both Father and Son have a Spirit (actually these SHARE One Holy...

Actually the bible teaches Two Persons in ONE Spirit...Father and Son. There are not 5 separate persons....or 3... just 2 (Elohim) There is only ONE Holy Spirit....not a separate Spirit person apart from God who is God. God IS Spirit. And the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of Christ are not...

Gnosticism posits that there is such a thing as saving knowledge......that people are saved by the accuracy of beliefs...and NOT by obedience to God. And that takes us to the limits or extents of God's mercy. If one is paying attention Jesus will judge the world by how they treated His...

Hi Beebster. While it is certain that salvation goes beyond the church....since God so loved the world...and not just the church, the criteria for salvation hasn't changed to love one neighbour as oneself, to fear the Lord, remain humble, and be merciful (something that a hypocrite cannot do)...

Amen Shep. Another great post. Could this be an indicator of what we can expect for 2026? Hope all have a blessed year in Christ. :) <><

I use the term "fundamentalist" in this context to differentiate these people from the "universalists" that are ever increasing in church circles....and this in reaction to the hypocrites among the "over-spiritualized" as you put it. The bible calls out those who take away righteousness from...

What of all the churches set up by men?? But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matt 15:13

This is one of the better posts I have read in response to my positions. It also reveals how difficult it is to speak with people who justify themselves based on their beliefs. Fundamentalists are like a flock of turkeys who disdain the pigs going to slaughter...not realizing that thanksgiving...

This is typical of an unbalanced thinking. More unbalanced thinking. You need to try understanding God's ways without the self-interest.

And in your opinion how would God assess your own attempt at Christ-following?

Have believers in our time abandoned the faith once delivered to the saints? Historically, for the sake of expediency, those who governed the ecclesiastical institutions of Christendom saw to water down the words of God, twisting the meaning of Scriptures for the sake of self-aggrandizement and...

I think you are limiting God's mercy to your own advantage. Do you think that God gives mercy to the unmerciful?

God's mercy extends into the "nations of them that are saved". And that judgment is yet to come. The meek shall inherit the earth

This is an example of religious folly that seeks for self-affirmation, and condemns all others who don't kiss the ring or bend the knee.. to the "saved" EGO. A person that fears God, and has learned wisdom and balance doesn't slam down one side of an equation and allow mercy and the inclusivity...

And the unmerciful includes the religious fundamentalists that consigns all unbelievers to hell, regardless of their situation. For these extremists...who of course include themselves in their exclusivity...ignore the bible and invent a new set of conditions for salvation based on their own...

When it comes to Jesus as Head of the church, we are being pulled in two opposite directions....in a cosmic tug of war. Those who side with the devil, even as they adopt a shallow veneer of Christ, are adopting a kind of doctrine that supports people who hold onto the flesh and claim exclusivity...