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But that's just what you are doing. You are building your own righteousness by claiming to have God's own righteousness for YOURSELF...which is far more outrageous than what the Pharisees claimed. They claimed to do what the bible said according to the law...and they justified themselves by...

And He has also hidden things from those who read the bible to justify themselves. It's ironic that the very ones spoken against in the bible have the most "assurance" of a good outcome for themselves.

religious teachings from institutions that replace a direct connection to God. The teachings of "experts" and scholars who live by speculation.

Well, for someone who claims to be a Christian you don't seem to be familiar with anything Jesus taught. What are you building your gospel with?

Again with the extremism. You are just like the Pharisees who taunted Jesus by asking Him a loaded question so they could accuse Him of something that they misunderstood about the law. You aren't here but to accuse...not to learn. But to the honest seeker... Almost all rich Westerners need to...

You aren't paying attention. Repentance from sin is on the righteousness level. Faith INTO Christ is on the holiness level. It has nothing to do with your religious spin, you mean. Your gospel has neither righteousness NOR holiness in it. It is truly man-made.

This is an extremist viewpoint that denies God's mercy. To the extremist it's all or nothing. That works for holiness...which you don't have. So by NOT having mercy you forego it yourself.

Repentance? Jesus didn't come to call the righteous to repentance so long as the way of holiness was not yet available. Righteousness was the best we could do. Why stop people from doing righteousness? But when the New Covenant was fully achieved then ALL men were called to repentance INTO...

I think you just tanked.... :rolleyes:

Are you being so bold as to not claim to be as righteous as God like some here? ;) God's righteousness is His banner over us who enter INTO Christ. His righteousness is like a tank we enter into for protection. We enter into the tank by being IN Christ. We, however never become the tank. The...

His rest....yes. I watch baseball sometimes...and the players that are trying to earn a place on a major league team, I find interesting. I cheer for the lesser players that are hanging on for as long as they can...giving value to the team they are assigned to. I identify with those kind of...

When Jesus was among us in the temporal world He spoke many similitudes to the kingdom realm, in an effort to convey it's principles...and ultimately God's will. Now, back then they hadn't yet invented baseball. I'm sure that Jesus would have used baseball to compare realms had it been invented...

It is important to do that is one wishes to swallow a lie whole. If a man believes a lie then he becomes a liar upon confession. God makes things from nothing, speaking things into existence that are not. When a human does this it's called...an imagination, a lie, a dream, a pretense. Tying...

When I hear someone who is not elect decrying what they call "inclusivism" as something evil...I marvel... What I see is a picture (from a popular meme) that shows a man sitting on a branch trying to saw it off while sitting on it himself. IOW he's cutting on the wrong side. The branch is being...

Not so. Your statement is unbiblical and twisted. (spotted with sin) Sure there are dead works. But not all works apart from the Christian religion are dead. Jesus taught a parable about a hated sinner (Samaritan) who did a good work. The Pharisees, hypocrites, saw that as scandalous and...

And you have the arrogance to stand before God and claim to have HIS righteousness. Laughable.

If you think a little truth is a bloodbath, what will you consider judgment day to be? If the footmen tired you, how will you contend with horses?

It's all imagination...and self-justification. The condemnation he shows towards me and others is based on his own refusal to repent. People who read the bible to save themselves only appear to love God. What they love is what they think God will do for them because of a shallow lip-service...

You should try reading it instead of pretending you respect the bible. You worship a book but you are far from knowing anything about its AUTHOR.