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:lol: Walking like Christ means to walk in the knowledge that you are a wretch? Yes, I forgot that's how Christ walked :blink: Of course, our old self is a wretch. But if you walk by the new creation, then there is no condemnation for that new creation, because it is just like Christ...

Oh yeah, I forgot. Christ walked around the truth of what a wretch he is! Oops! To walk like him doesn't mean anything else but to walk JUST LIKE HIM! With the fullness of God dwelling in you (Yes, that's in scripture). You don't even believe in the power of the new creation and the...

Robbie, do you hear yourself? :) You keep claiming everyone is setting up there own way or something... When we are looking at the word, which says be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Do you believe it...

Have no faith in those promises? Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into...

Is God so powerless that we cannot make us like him? Or is our will taken away from us so that we don't have a part to play in it? Both of these thoughts are wrong. We make him a liar when we say in one breath 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me' and in the other 'I can't be...

'He who loves me obeys my commands' ;)

My understanding of it is this. We cannot judge, and those who do not know Christ, we love, as he loved us. If God empowers, we preach the gospel. The Gospel speaks both of the love of God, that he would accept us if we turn to him, and also of the punishment that will come on the wicked. Both...

I'm done guys... We're just going in circles... God bless you both! :)

I conceded that point to you, and gladly do it again! Salvation is received. But that just means you don't die.We get to live in outer darkness forever if we are unfaithful... Worth warning people, don't you think, and worth fearing ourselves! :huh: It was said of Judas that it would be better...

What I have presented you agrees with the scriptures you have presented me, yes, we have a free gift, that is that we are saved from our old life. Only I add, which is were we disagree, that if a servant is not faithful with this gift and does not run and bear fruit with it, he would be 'tied...

Have you never heard about walking in the Spirit, walking in his righteousness, doing works prepared in advance, that it is required of stewards to be faithful...? All these things are true brother. We cannot judge ourselves and say, 'because I believe, I am saved'. God judges. We can say 'he...

Yes, God loves all. And yet he tells us some wil die in the pit, and some will go to eternal shame, then how can you say that his love simply means we are saved 'no matter what'? So does that contradict the scripture that says 'he who loves me will obey my commandments' and 'faith without...

Turn a blind eye to half the scripture if you will, guys. Yes, salvation is a free gift. But the definition you give salvation makes that cancel other scriptures. Salvation means you don't die, and are rescued out of your current situation. It doesn't mean, on the other hand, you are assured...

God bless you, falconduler :)

Are all things possible, Robbie, or just salvation? I'm not talking about doing our own works. I'm saying, God has made a way, and we can die, and have Christ live through us. We must choose that, daily. I'm not saying we have to have it all together. I'm saying we must repent when we see we...

What about the parable of the ten virgins? What about the parable of the talents? I concede your point; those people are saved. They do not taste the second death. But they are saved to eternal shame. It's not about me. But what 'me' does certainly matters. I'm not God's favorite, and if I...

I don't know what it means either, sister. But I like your thoughts about judgment. :) Judge means to 'set right'. And we are to set ourselves right, to judge ourselves, now, so that we would not be ashamed when the judgment comes.

Are we proud to be American (or whatever we are)? Or do we consider ourselves foreigners and pilgrims? We are not to be of this world. And our battle is not with flesh and blood! We just seem to think somehow there is such a thing as 'good' politics, and a 'christian nation'. Both those things...

Unpatriotic for sure! We are to be foreigners in a distant land. We change the world not by laws and regulations, but by the life of Jesus Christ in us. We are to be different. Let the world do what the world does, it is ruled by the devil anyways, but you, come and follow Christ. The world...

The word is Christ, not science laws! All life is given through Christ. Not science.