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The Lord will give us victory... From a place of weakness, like Israel. We are weak but he is strong, and when he rises in us, his enemies are scattered. :)

I think you might be looking at it too mathematically... Sin begins in rebellion. God created everything perfectly... in glory. It was both good, as in in submission to him AND good in the sense that it was full of life and joy. But God gave the beings he created the choice to either remain...

Indeed, God is love. :) But in this we must not forget he is severe. Loving, but severe. 'consider both the goodness and the severity of God'! It is important if we will be sober and wise.

What you're saying sounds nice to the ear, but... Is religion the means that Jesus used? Did he congratulate the Pharisees for their devotion? They used religion to communicate to God too! ;) Following Christ is NOT religion. It is a relationship. Anything short of this is fooling ourselves...

What's being shown is not that a christian can't sin, it's that a christian abiding perfectly in Christ can't sin. Is Christ a minister of sin? That's called gnosticism. So your Spirit is glorifying God while your flesh is serving the devil... I can hear Romans 7 already! But the thing is...

By faith we have access to victory. To remain where this victory is, in Christ, we must add to our faith... Believing in him? Only enough if it means believing INTO him. This type of faith brings one to conformity to Christ by the Spirit. Then adding the character of Christ makes us able to...

Amen! Unless we see what God says, and believe it, we can have no part with him. If we look at it and say it's idealistic... And somehow still claim to believe, we are fooling ourselves! Does an all-powerful God have idealistic standards? Only for those who don't believe he is all-powerful...

The reply was not to you specifically... I was thinking of a general thought that is rampant in the church. :)

It's called abiding... Remaining... Maybe He used those words for a reason! Yes, a disciple can choose to leave his master, like a son can leave his father with his inheritance to go back to the world!

Amen! I see alot of christians judging themselves to be on the inside and everyone else to be on the outside. But this is not wise! 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13But them that are without God judgeth. We have plenty to...

You say I can't see, yet you're the one who sees a verse right before his eyes and says the opposite of the verse the next second! Does the one who is IN CHRIST sin, or not?

The obsession of men with title, being or not being, is nothing but futility... We are not here to judge "he's a christian, he's not a christian". What matters is what God says, and will say. And the Lord says 'he who denies me before men, I will deny him before my Father in heaven'. Men worry...

Peter the pope? Not what scriptures say. He was an apostle. Catholicism has robbed early church history and it's value... Peter was no more a pope than Clement was.. and Clement was a bishop. No more a bishop than Polycarp or Ignatius. The church of Christ is those who are one in him now. They...

In other words, the external signs of sins, we can eliminate, thus seeming righteous, but what actually matters to God, the sins of our heart... Well we know we'll never get rid of that, right? :blink: What people are subtly (or not so subtly) suggesting is that (1) we are to clean the outside...

Sacred tradition according to who's opinion? This would actually leave us with the same dilemma! Rather it is the Spirit that interprets (teaches us) scripture.

Home is with the Lord, and in submission to him, not in Rome, in submission to a pope. The only man who can oversee the whole church is Christ, he is the head.

You said 'those in Christ are no longer in the flesh', then you must agree, since you consider yourself in Christ, that one can no longer be working according to the flesh (in the flesh as you said it) and yet be in a body of flesh! And so he can be in the spirit, and the one who is in the...

If you say that 'jehova had an evil side to his good side' then you are judging what is right and wrong. But who are we to judge God? Do we see what he sees, and understand what he understands that we could say it's wrong? What if having the devil was the best way to teach men and to test men to...

The enemy has penetrated the greater part of the church and subverted it's original purpose, sadly.

Here's a good example of the power of God! 8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ;)