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Ok, well may God bless you, Richard! :) And see you on the other thread... :)

This doctrine completely abolishes the power of Christ, both to put to death the flesh and to live by the Spirit. If there is no sin in Christ, and you are in Christ, can you sin? Paul says he presses on, not as though he had already attained. This doctrine says I have attained, and don't...

Then it is impossible that Christ was fully man, with a body of flesh as we do. We are not perfected by the flesh, but by the Spirit, while still living in a body of flesh. Just like Christ! :) You deny that there is NO temptation that cannot be overcome, as the Bible says. Do you not...

The whole idea of redemption is that Jesus must be both fully God and fully man. Jesus, being fully God, took on flesh, and became fully man. A man, having the fulness of God in him, walked in a way that pleased God to the uttmost. Our hope then, is that us being men, can we filled with the...

Yes, well said brother :) . Walking with Lord and by the Spirit starts now, not when we die. Eternal life is to know the Father and his Son (knowing meaning to be in communion with), not to die with the belief that he will take you there THEN. We are to walk with the Lord now, to overcome now...

A person does not save himself, no. But he does crucify the flesh by the Spirit so that Christ may live in him. Have you never heard 'work out your salvation in fear and trembling'? You deny that man can be as Christ while living in the flesh, yet Christ came and took on flesh, fully, as we...

Good point, brother! We can't change prophecy, what we can change is which side of prophecy we and others are on. :) His plan is set, but he leaves men free to choose what part they will have in it.

I see your point, we should obey scripture, yes. But we shouldn't be putting any hope in what any country could of been. The god of this world, satan, is running things, as God has let him. Our hope is in Christ and the new creation, not the old. Just saying... With love in our Lord :)

Still praying for you Josant! Keep looking to Christ my brother :) With much love in our Lord, dear brother :)

The fullness of God coming to dwell into someone fully man is to show us an example. Jesus was fully God, and became fully man. And he was perfect! We, being fully man, must surrender to God and seek that his FULLNESS would dwell in us, so that we would be as him. Nothing of ourselves, but all...

Exactly! :) To the disciples, Jesus asked to follow him and leave everything behind, then in Acts though, they share everything and have much, and the Spirit does not tell them to get rid of it. That is because they all counted everything they had as being God's, and their brothers'. That is how...

You set yourself up as the teachers of believers, and yet you don't even know that we have a new creation that is born in us? A new nature, Christ, by which we can overcome? Christ was in the flesh and did not sin. Yet you claim that to be impossible for anyone but Christ. Christ was fully...

Amen! I was doing a study this morning with my (biological) sister, and we stumbled on the subject of the woman being saved in child-bearing. Here's what we got. The woman represents the church, as the church is the Lord's bride. And the church is to bear Christ. Now when we come to Christ...

It's not about going back to the flesh. We must put not trust in the flesh and have it be crucified. It's about having faith in Christ, that he is indeed powerful enough to overcome sin... In this life! All things are possible with God. God has made A way, not 2 or 3 or 4. That way is...

Because he loved me first, also! :) I don't love him enough, I would say, but I hope he will teach me. I love because while I was still in darkness, he showed me light, and even though I hated that light at first, he did not give up on me! The things that have been that hardest have produced...

I agree, God gives us a measure of faith. But what we do with it matters. Do we exercise that faith? As Paul said to Timothy, 'Stir up the gift that is within us'. Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. In other words, we have the Spirit, and we are made...

I think God calls some people. That doesn't mean Jeremiah couldn't of failed. It just means he was called. As it says, many are called, few are chosen. Solomon is a good example of this. God had a will for him, he followed for some time, but failed in the end. Otherwise this one part of...

Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, There is only one gospel. Phil. 1:27 Only let your conduct be worthy...

Hey jiggyfly! Not sure what you're trying to get to? :) By hearing, I would say, though I also think after that there are many ways our faith may be built and increased.

Only if you believe that, Jude! ;) God actually tells us that he has set before us life and death, and we choose. We are given the choice. God judges fairly; if someone receives much, much is expected of him. If one receives little, little is expected of him. We do make our choices with what...