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We lived in Miami, he got his pilot's license at Tamiami airport (same place as Mohammad Atta), and told my Mom they were going to use the air planes as missiles, and we told the FBI circa 1997. He was literally a terrorist. He would berate and beat us for reasons we did not even know, and, on...

For different reasons, I actually agree with both sides (Episkopos' views and his opponents' views) LOL

Well, "the one who observes a day observes it as unto the Lord" : no, it is, plainly, not merely addressing the issue of food, but addresses the broader issue of faith by various practices (eating, observing a day, etc). "Both" "camps"? What are the "two" positions (not including yours, which...

Soberxp speaks Chinese as their native language, so there's a language barrier.

@Soyeong I almost forgot about you No, I should've said it differently : I know what people say about it, but there're lots of arguments about it (as with all things), and I haven't studied all of that.

We have different takeaways. Yes, the universal rule for all of life is "each one must be fully convinced in his own mind". Breaking that rule is "sin", and the one who sins "is condemned" (v23). The one who is condemned is not justified. That, together with numerous other verses, created a...

Irrespectively, the guide outlined in v5 is a universal on how to live before the Lord, and breaking it is sin, which, it says, compromises justification (ie, condemns)--that reality was the difficulty making it difficult to settle in to the peace based on the justification by the righteousness...

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 l I'm getting this understanding that after I'm right with God by grace through faith in Christ, there is an expectation that I will be free, and that that involves being motivated forward by hope and joy (even in small matters), and that that is the opposite of being afraid, worrying about my...

And I see Ro 14 as parallel with Paul's expectations of the Galatians--it pictures men who began by grace and faith/the Spirit who are becoming perfect by grace and faith (vv5, 23) and not works of the Law.

That's the difficulty I've been having--balancing the two doctrines. The issue is I can't get around verses like Ro 14:5, 23, but I think they don't conflict with Ro 5:1 if you don't see yourself getting right with Jesus, and obtaining peace, by walking in love and faith, but that what is not...

Yeah, and, again, the entire question of the convo you joined has been as to the substance of the message that is to be believed, bc if it doesn't make sense, there can't be faith in it.

I said a slave (ie, a Jew) and a son (a christian ) work but only onecis accepted and this shows work isn't enough

I was saying it was Paul's prescription against their Law keeping "to become perfect" after beginning by faith and grace--yes, becoming perfect in grace.

It really is!

Yeah, but this is a general principle that has absolute application--"therefore whether you eat or drink or what ever you do"--so "the one who knows to do good and he doesn't do it for him it is sin", so the person could be thinking, "If i am sinning, and condemned, not justified, if I don't do...

It's one thing to be a son, it's another thing to behave like one--"If I am a Father, where is My honor?"

But you wouldn't think Paul's usage of "await" in "we through the Spirit by faith await the hope of righteousness" has to do with the substance of God's love in the heart which he says is absent when we are facing ourselves (eg, through the Law) instead of facing God (ie, through faith in the...

I also know I have had hope and joy that I would bring glory to God, earlier on in my walk, even before I had time to build proven character, so I may be wrong about my speculation on that.

Yeah, even so, there is a right and a wrong way to serve--"obedience" is assumed of both a slave and a son (Ro 8), but a slave is rejected, only a son is accepted.