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Well, maybe adding "in the name of Jesus" to the end of the words we say up into the air, doesn't work. :ph34r: Maybe it's about something else. name = nature To believe on the name of the Lord is to trust in the nature of Christ, to abide in Christ, as a real and present experience. And...

The restrainer is the man of sin, the son of perdition. It is what withholds a man from realizing the coming of Christ in him. 2 Th 2:2 sets the context that we are talking about the day of Christ. Which, again, is the appearance of Christ in you, when a man is centered in Spirit and abides...

Foreigner, The key to answering your questions is found in 2 Thes 2:4: ...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God... Compare with 1 Cor 3:16--Know ye not that ye are the temple of God Instead of thinking of the temple exoterically--a physical building built in the world...

2 Tim 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. The word 'study' is unfortunate because it carries the sense of a student doing homework and so we deduce that this verse has something to do with studying the...

We say amen to this. We believe after we die we will be present with the Lord up in the sky. Yet, if that is what we believe, what are the implications of what precedes it? 2 Cor 5:6 whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Are you home in the body? Well then, where...

Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. At the very beginning of his public ministry the first thing that Jesus preached is something so important it effects everything else that follows. The term "at hand" does not refer to...

2 Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 2 Thes 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God...

Thank you. Think of 'I am' in the sense in which you probably use it every day: Who is reading your post? I am. Who is typing a response to you? I am. Who is about to post this? I am. +++ Beneath all the cloaks of self, At the ground of our being, Where we can simply say, I am, We may be...

:D When our minds are at work, yes, it will always provide an opinion. Or perhaps more generally stated, it will provide an interpretation of what it is seeing, But, we don't have to latch on to it and identify with it as "my opinion". When I got familiar with the working of my mind, I...

Good post. It was so freeing for me when I realized that I didn't have to have an opinion on everything.

This regards the place of our being where we are met with the Father. I wrote a poem about it. Here it is. :) The Life of John Doe John went off to college and said, I am a college student. John had some jobs in college and said, I am a cook, I am a cashier. John played sports at college...

Yes, this is what we think (believe to be so) and this informs our point of view. As a man thinketh, so is he (ie. so is his experience). So, based on our thinking, we perceive an experience of separation which isn't really so, it's just all in our head. As the Father is omnipresent, there is...

Hi Angelina, This is simply not true. Where can you go that you are separate from the Omnipresent Father? Where have you ever been that you've been separate from the Omnipresent One? --aj

A good place to start would be to gain understanding about your identification with the above. When we identify as something that we are essentially not, we attempt to transform the identity. What we want to do is for us to be transformed. Selah. So, close your eyes and say, I am here, now...

This all sounds good, this notion of bringing God into our lives or God changing our lives, but let's dig a little deeper. What is your life? It is just the story of your activities from birth to now. And it can't be changed; it is what it is, a history. But, we get so wrapped up in our...

First, my understanding of the verses was aided when I found out that "renewing" could be thought of as renovation. And that it carries with it the idea of transformation into a new kind of life. Generally speaking, my mind was renewed by the good news when I realized that I am not my mind, I...

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. (John 20:23).... .....is a very high calling. When you perceive another as a sinner who sins, their sins are retained to them; and yours are not forgiven either. (Mt 6:15) When you...

Yes, in spirit we are perfect, whole, complete. And our lives can be an unfolding of that perfection; expressing to the outer world that which is in our inner being. The flesh cannot be made perfect and Prentis is not saying that it can. You say we have two natures. Which do you choose to...

:D That is something I've been pondering since I opened this thread this morning. Is darkness the opposite of light? On the surface, of course, it seems so. It is the absence of light, but is it the opposite? We know of opposites, or dualities, such as tall/short, big/small, happy/unhappy...