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If by "required role" you mean the role of doing good works for God, then you are only half right. The role that we take upon ourselves is not required; faith is what is required and the role is automatic because of faith. We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). We love much...

You have missed the point. It is not obedient acts that save (for that would be salvation by works)...but it is the change of attitude that inclines us toward good works, that saves. Iow, it is who I am, and not what I do, that saves me. I am a new creature in Christ; and as a result of this...

They're robbing themselves of a mormon blessing...I don't remember what it was exactly, but I do remember that mormons are motivated to have more than one wife because of a specific blessing promised for that in some mormon documents. So that some groups have broken off of the main mormon...

In both Hebrews 8:8-10 and Hebrews 10:16, it is written that the law of the Lord is written on the hearts and minds of all those who are under the new covenant. Heb 8:8, For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house...

God has shed abroad His love in our hearts via the Holy Ghost (Romans 5:5); and this love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6, Romans 8:4). In this manner, the spirit of the law is written on the hearts and in the minds of all those who exist...

Yes. As we become less, He becomes greater; and thus is fulfilled what is written in holy scripture: 2Co 3:18, But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Or, as the kjv puts it... 1Ti 4:16, Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

I'm in agreement; for it is written, Jhn 5:38, And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Jhn 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Jhn 5:40, And ye will not come to me, that ye...

However in mormonism, it would seem that ministers are not as blessed as the general population; who are allowed to have multiple wives and the blessings in mormonism that go along with that.

I will only say that doctrine is important...1 Timothy 4:16. So, if you have the wrong doctrines in your mind and heart, they will not have the same effect as sound doctrine in the mind and heart...salvation!

Most assuredly, He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world!

I think that as the Messiah of Israel, Jesus had superior moral teaching to that of the OT law. Therefore the purest version of the Golden Rule, as Jesus proclaimed it, is very likely not found in any old manuscripts that might be associated with the Old Testament.

It seemed to be the premise of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis that there is a demon assigned to every Christian.

Amen; and I will do the same for you.

At the very least, a minister of the gospel is to be the husband of one wife. Which would exclude ministers from the benefits of multiple wives in the mormon celestial heaven. (Because I remember you being sympathetic to mormon doctrine, @Grailhunter).

The point being that the gospel is distinctly different from every other religion in the world.

I would say that God is one Person...however He can also be identified as three. I will say that when you understand the doctrine it will be simple in your mind; but I will also say that it cannot be simply stated to someone who may not have a regenerated mind (I'm not saying that's you...but...

by grace through faith, and that not of myself; it is the gift of God; and not of works. Rom 10:13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Jesus gave him the right answer for that moment. He brought the law to bear on his situation. Consider: Gal 3:21, Is the...

Actually, in other religions it is a derivative of the golden rule that accentuates the negative; wherein the golden rule of Christianity accentuates the positive. In other religions: "Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you" i.e. don't hit someone in the face...

In that, it can be seen that the Lord considered our iniquities that He paid the penalty for on the Cross, to be His own.