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I appreciate your warning brother, but honestly I don't know enough about her to know if this is might just be someone else's impression. She might have been using what terminology she could to try and convey what she had experienced...? What she called "union of the powers" I thought was her...

I agree about mixture......but it is our own righteousness that is not holy but common/profane (filthy rags)........and we are learning to submit to the righteousness of God (in us), instead of the old way of seeking to establish our own righteousness. Yes, the priest had to be clothed in the...

Amen. Is that called a false dichotomy or straw man...? Something like that whatever it's called....see it a lot around here. Serpentine for sure. And as Job 41 describes very well, it's scales are its pride shut up like a seal and it is king of children of pride.

My new man is righteous. And God is graciously accrediting it to "me".

The point is that we are forgiven FIRST and it is from that foundation we are forgiving others. Your brain synapses are firing far too much and therein lies the problem. Read that parable in Matt 18 again since you boast in your reading skills.

We forgive others BECAUSE we have been forgiven. Otherwise be found as a hypocrite and in danger of once again being unforgiven. See the parable of the servant who was first forgiven his debt then refused to forgive another man his debt....Matt. 18 Episkopos..........unfortunately you're...

Unfortunately Epi, your scheme is based, founded, on self righteousness. That is its foundation. And it does show at times, I have to say.

Those who have received Christ are no longer found to be sinners..........unless we keep on wilfully sinning. Which unfortunately I know is a problem in many of today's churches gone astray. It is our old man that is a failure. Learning, experiencing and truly realizing that is part of our...

Well, that's the thing isn't it? If we have received Christ we are no longer in our sins....because we are in Christ instead. And the verse you quoted is warning about wilfully sinning and rightfully so.

What I had was a question about Guyon being Catholic. You can read it on page 4 of this thread. My initial search found some things that were concerning and we shouldn't be sensitive about people questioning or challenging things because scripture tells us to do just that. As I understand it...

We are only reconciled (rejoined) to God through Christ's Spirit. Before that we didn't know Him and couldn't perceive Him. It is God in Christ....that is why when we receive Christ we are also rejoined/reconciled to God. Is that not also your testimony/experience? If ye have not the Son ye...

What I said was “we” are being purged and purified. I’m not the same person that started out with the Lord many years ago. I think of this as ascending the hill of the Lord, climbing the mountain of God until you finally reach the top and plant your flag, as it were. But that is only one...

I was only indicating different members/parts of the Body of Christ will have their own different approaches. Amen....so many scriptures speak on the need to believe on Christ....that IS the Gospel.

Amen. The bible also says they who are in the flesh cannot please God .....so it can't save the person. Everyone needs to receive Christ, His Spirit.

I didn't mean suffering for suffering's sake....it has vital purposes in the Lord and is effective for those purposes. He who has suffered in the body is done with sin.....suffering is just necessary because of the intractable nature of the flesh, but if we were to receive comfort and solace...

Amen. And it even says we are to be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. The way of the cross.

Absolutely, I do know it brother.

I have always taken it to mean, before anything else, that we need to ingest/receive Him, His Spirit and word, on the INSIDE of us. Where Jesus said behold I stand at the door and knock, if any man OPEN unto me I will come IN to him and sup with him and he with me. And I want to add that He...

Such a one would need to repent, and we hope and labour for that end, each in their own way I expect.

Amen, He is sovereign in everything. And the whole point is to suffer, otherwise it wouldn't be doing the job it is meant to do. I think God only gives us what we need when in His wisdom He knows we need it, or we're ready for it, or whatever the case may be for each unique individual in the...