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I realize you are being cautious. But when you walk into a church gathering do you allow yourself to get bound up because there are musical instruments present...when neither the bible nor the ECF ever mention them? Does you faith take a hit? I think you are being overly protective of your own...

You're not understanding the different standards. When the bible speaks of perfection it is speaking of saints. There IS the "peaceable fruit of righteousness" for non-saints. But in that standard you can't judge others. You have to accept righteousness in all its forms...not just God's...

People who have no experience of the divine tend to misunderstand the full measure of grace available in he gospel....full freedom from sin. Many are in unbelief due to the issue of divine intervention/visitation that this grace requires. That is a flaw of going too far away from Calvinism...

It's funny that you use the words "eternal reality" for the verse you posted since you can only read in English and based on a faulty translation of the Greek word "aphesis" (which means freedom)....which has infected your yet carnal mind to such a degree that you repeat your error over and over...

In the debate between Calvin and Arminius...I think both have a point but neither is right entirely. God works with mankind in synergy. We always retain freewill. Paul could have still rejected the Lord and remain blind. Jesus didn't force the 9 lepers who walked away to return to Him. On...

Agreed. It's better to rightly divide things than to just throw things out...without consideration. I think people get too partisan about things...throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak. I also see Calvinism as taking things to extreme...leaving crucial aspects out..like free...

I think this has to do with the reward at the end...the inheritance and any reward due the athlete of God. Yes and no. I think people confuse purity and maturity. One is instantly sanctified by the blood of Christ that cleanses us from ALL sin. Instantaneous holiness based on being IN Christ...

Gnosticism 101. And you are doing what you say others are doing....you worked out your own salvation...but with hubris and narcissism. False. We are not superior to the Jews who failed in the wilderness. We also fail....and more surprisingly so...since we are ignoring the warnings even as we...

It just seems like that from your legalistic cult theology perspective. I speak the truth. because of that many will flip their own error onto me and claim I'm doing what they are doing. So you have described your own religious condition. I have faith in God....not some religious formula. And...

This is where you are not understanding Paul. The gift of righteousness is not the same as an initial gift of grace. One is the sample (free gift) and the other must be sought after and "bought"...as the fulness of grace. Only careful readers will pick up on the way Paul expresses himself. The...

Paul was not a Calvinist but neither was he a name-it claim-it artist, but that doesn't seem to deter you. :rolleyes: o_O

If you were to open up a bible instead of parroting an invented ideology you are now indoctrinated in...you would read about the blood of Christ CLEANSING from sin...into holiness. The gospel is not about forgiving people who are in bondage to sin. Read the bible. Jesus came to set the captives...

LOL. All you understand is indoctrination. I was actually truly converted and taken up into Zion to walk there in the light in the power of Christ's resurrection. The poverty of your position and experience makes trying to convey simple spiritual things with you impossible. I guess you will...

For what it's worth, the bible has a funny way of being translated at times. I don't believe the translators were prophets....they didn't know what the gospel is about. But as to the text....Paul was not PRESENTLY in the Spirit when he wrote the epistle to the Phillipians. Paul was NOT speaking...

Churchianity, yes. Religious pretenders aside, unless one is actually born in Zion, the bible remains misunderstood. You are trying to understand carnally what is meant to be understood spiritually. A lot of that going around. No. God imputes righteousness (human) either by works or by faith...

Yes and for the sins of the whole world. Read the bible. I never said that. You misread anything you try to read apparently. I'll try explaining it again. Jesus died for the sins of the world. I never said that. I said that God's righteousness cannot be imputed to anyone. Again, since you...

What you are doing with the reading of the bible is not justification by faith....it is self-justification by beliefs.

Jesus came to save us FROM our sins not IN our sins. So you are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to being saved in the present. A future salvation is always possible based on God's mercy. Why do people deny the power of the gospel even as they purport to embrace the message of the...

True words indeed. Most evangelicals have their own private interpretations based on preferences and carnal understanding. Too many vague ideas...too much imagination and figurative ideology. Too much name and claim. Too much narcissism and selective reading. Not enough honesty and reading...

There are different levels to being a Calvinist. Maybe you aren't too severe in your own viewpoint. Accomplishes? Here are you referring to a liberation from sin? If so, agreed! We can't save ourselves from sin. If you are talking about a later inheriting of life....that is by God's mercy. If...