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  1. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    You are absolutely right that God is not calling us to love Him with an unregenerate, flesh-driven mind. The carnal mind is hostile toward God ~Romans 8:7, and the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit ~1 Corinthians 2:14. Salvation brings a new orientation. God renews the mind...
  2. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    When someone continually suppresses or perverts the gospel, Scripture allows us to doubt that they know Christ. John is clear: “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him” ~1 John 2:4. The gospel that elevates experience and secret...
  3. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    Laurina, You are mistaking revealed truth with secret truth, and Scripture forbids that. You don't have to agree with me. What I am showing is actually in the bible and not made up, like you are defending. But the bad thing is you will answer to God for leading people away from His word. Stop...
  4. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    Laurina, this isn't persecution. It's discernment. Epikopos is a false teacher because what he teaches DOES NOT LINE UP WITH SCRIPTURE. Our God commands us to TEST every teaching...not affirmatively accept every teaching based on feelings/experiences/claims of inner-revelation. "Beloved...
  5. bdavidc

    THE GOSPEL

    Most of what you wrote is biblical. Christ did die for our sins, was buried, and rose again ~1 Corinthians 15:3–4. Salvation is of grace and not of works ~Ephesians 2:8–9. Christ is our substitute and our justification is because of His resurrection ~Romans 4:25. On those points, Scripture is...
  6. bdavidc

    PETER DIDN'T PREACH THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION

    This is a reply to all the false teachings you replied to me about. You are not reading Scripture plainly. You are forcing it into a system that requires you to deny what the text explicitly says. Peter did not merely “condemn Israel.” He preached Christ crucified and risen, and he did so as...
  7. bdavidc

    What You Sowed Is Knocking

    Some prayers aren’t shouted they’re whispered. Some confessions come tumbling out of a man when the room finally falls silent and there is nowhere left to run. That’s where this song lives. You can hear it exhale dust; when a soul learns God is not a means to our ends and sin always leaves...
  8. bdavidc

    PETER DIDN'T PREACH THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION

    What you are teaching is false. Peter preached the death and resurrection of Christ. The text very clearly says that. You aren’t discovering something that has been concealed. You are turning a blind eye to what is right in front of you. Peter preached Christ’s death: “Him…ye have taken, and by...
  9. bdavidc

    DO WE HAVE TO CONFESS HIS NAME?

    The claim that confession “applies only to Israel” is false. Paul explicitly removes that restriction in the same passage: “There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek” ~Romans 10:12. Whatever Romans 10:9–10 teaches applies to all who are saved, not Israel alone. Confession is not a...
  10. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    You are a false teacher. You say you speak truth, yet you regularly place yourself over God’s written Word. You speak of being “corrected” as “cat-calling”, yet James plainly says that every teacher is to be tested by Scripture, NOT how highly he thinks his message should be received ~1 John...
  11. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    You throw around buzzwords from mysticism to dodge denying what God actually wrote. That is not deep, that is deceit. Jesus did not elevate truth above facts. He claimed to be the truth God revealed. He prayed, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” ~John 17:17 If His Word is...
  12. bdavidc

    Christ is both Savior and Judge

    Christ is both Savior and Judge
  13. bdavidc

    Releasing Angels!

    This is not taught anywhere in Scripture. Not once. The Bible does not instruct believers to “release angels,” command spirits over cities, or lay hands on apartment doors as a spiritual technique. Angels are not under human authority. They obey God alone. “Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that...
  14. bdavidc

    Releasing Angels!

    Scripture never instructs believers to claim buildings, command angels, or bind spirits over cities. You will not find that language in the Word of God. Christians do not send out Angels. Angels only obey God’s command. “Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his...
  15. bdavidc

    Impediments to Spiritual Growth in Christ.

    The foundational error of this entire post is the dichotomy between “facts” and “truth.” Scripture never presents truth in that manner. God’s truth reveals what is true about Christ. Doctrine is essential. Doctrine is not the frivolous pursuit of church historians. “Take heed unto thyself, and...
  16. bdavidc

    This is totally for Christian's

    Scripture never describes heaven in terms of human vision or social correctness. Heaven is not something we conform to by evolutionary goodness. We are born fit for heaven through new birth. "Jesus replied, "No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." ~John 3: 3 Do not pray for...
  17. bdavidc

    False Christs, False Prophets and False Teachers. These are the days we live in.

    I totally agree. There are many false teachers on this very forum and other Christian forums I am on. They try to change what the Bible says to say what they want it to say because they don't want to face the truth. But that will not work in the end for them. They are relentless. I really don't...
  18. bdavidc

    Religion Has Always Been the Dividing Factor Among People.

    There is such a thing as self-righteousness. Jesus had no patience with it. “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself… But he that cleansed himself? went away justified before God” as opposed to “the publican that cried unto God” ~Luke 18:9–14. The Bible is crystal clear on that point...
  19. bdavidc

    Unrepentant sin condemns. Repented sin is forgiven.

    Unrepentant sin condemns. Repented sin is forgiven.
  20. bdavidc

    What Did Jesus Mean by “Lord, Lord”? (Matthew 7:21)

    Jesus is not describing strangers knocking on heaven’s door. He is warning church folks who thought they already had the key. “Lord, Lord” is not a cry of panic. It is a claim of familiarity. These are people confident in their religious résumé. They preached. They served. They did things in His...