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Yeah, I think actually telling you guys about it has helped me tell the Lord about it and that has helped. Makes sense since we're supposed to have fellowship with Christ, and we are Christ's body.

Even on night mode and dimmed light the White forums are too bright on my android phone.

Would it be possible to offer a Dark Mode option, for night viewing?

To me, this comes off as a "moral dilemma" an unbeliever would invent to try to make Christians give bad answers so as to indict themselves as lawless, tbh.

We're not under Law (if we ever were under Law--if we were religious Jews before Christ--then, "through the Law I died to the Law"), we're under Grace (Ro 6:14). The Law isn't even God's exact will--it's riddled with concessions made for wicked men (Mt 19 "hardness of your hearts" = Heb 3...

Maybe instead of thinking "Christ saved me... but now I'm saving myself by doing the good I know to do," doing good/walking after the spirit should be viewed not as having discontinuity with the profession, "Christ redeemed me, because God loved me, now I know God," but my relating to the world...

I wonder about "abiding in Christ" in my walk, and it seems the way to do that is by faith (both faith in God's Son AND then reflecting that love of God to others by walking in my convictions generated/authored/powered by God's love received through faith in Christ), so that if I walk by the...

I couldn't say they aren't Christian for not understanding that doctrine--I've heard people who believe in Jesus (especially myself) say plenty of silly things before. God is "the only wise King". If He makes us know, we can know. We should thank God for the gift of eternal life, knowing Him...

I'm working through it through prayer--I highly recommend entrusting your lives to God, He's faithful, He comes through with solutions you could NEVER find on your own! The Church is also, contrary to what I'd thought, integral--not because they have precise answers, but because they know God...

I would like to agree with you, but I also believe that, in addition to "obedience", the tenor of the relationship in which the "obedience" takes place matters--both a slave and a son "serve", but we are not to have a slave-master relationship, unto fear, but a son-father relationship, unto...

Had you kept reading, you'd've happened upon my post where I said that praying had resulted in my having found many answers. So, I'm not as confused as I was, though I don't claim to understand to the level I want, but, again, I'm not accusing anyone who disagrees with what God has shown me of...

You don't dictate the topic here. I've already disproven all your other nonsense, so you jump to another topic. Not interested. Go make your own thread if you have information you're interested in disseminating. This isn't the place. Not saying anyone who disagrees with the answers God has...

No, actually, this isn't your thread--I'm not interested in your empty speculation on these topics. I'm interested in the topics I challenge you on, but you are finding it difficult to stay on topic (eg, I never mentioned Heb 10, but you "answered" that). Since you're so ready to talk about...

To understand Paul, it makes more sense to use Paul's ideas--eg, "the work of God is to believe", John's words, might get someone confused if they tried to use a "Pauline lexicon" to understand them.

I never mentioned Heb 10, so all of this is irrelevant. Also, you said believers couldn't fall away, now you say they can (if they commit the unpardonable sin). How can you live with such cognitive dissonance?

LOL Paul doesn't discuss the lake of fire Maybe the difference he's just discussing God's kindness

(Not expecting an answer, per se, just sharing some thoughts I get when reading these passages.) Isn't the reason why "there is no condemnation" for those "in Christ" because they're not mastered by sin (Ro 6:14) as the Jew "in the flesh" (Christians are "not in the flesh, but in the spirit"...

I have wondered at the meaning of "not imputed", here, because if it means it isn't "counted", why would it matter, since "death reigned", anyway? I have wondered if it meant "men's sins were not transgressions", since they didn't know better (unlike Adam and those who received the Law of...

That is what I gathered. "You were grafted in by faith, but can also be cut off for unbelief" (Ro 11:17-23)-- as with the Galatians, who deserted God (Gal 1:6) and were severed from Christ (Gal 5:4) after having believed (Gal 3:1-3). 1 Corinthians 9:27, 10:1-11, which you apparently...

If you construe these things to mean "we can't fall away", we disagree, since Scripture states otherwise, as I have shown. If you acknowledge good works must be done (in partnership with His working in us) to remain in Him, we have no disagreement.