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LOL I think you are right about being insufferable...as you display yourself. Look at how you not only twist my words...but then say the same thing to justify your own errant views. Without any honesty at all. A two-sided coin? A gospel with two sides? A law with two levels? Exactly what I...

You have not understood anything I said. And your comments are like a dog chasing its own tail Why didn't you mention Pelagius or global warming? And you seem obsessed with your own lack of relationship with God. The "ordinary folk" obey God as they can...through hospitality, kindness, service...

Here is the crux of the issue. Do we need an active imagination to be Christian where things need to be assumed or presumed....or...are we to tear down imaginations and anything that exalts itself above an actual knowledge of God? I don't know how many are following this thread ...but I think...

I suppose my efforts here are like trying to teach advanced physics to kids playing in a puddle and all they want to do is splash mud on your treatise. It does make for an interesting plot...if it is a kids movie. :dusted: joy::backtop:

LOL. Is it obstinacy or tenacity? There are many voices that come to us as believers trying to seduce us away from the truth...that is true. Just like Ulysses had his sirens...so we have deceiving spirits tempting us to "go with the flow"...make friends and influence people... live your best...

Amen. and agreed. That's what people call a "positional theology" which I oppose as it is based on imagination. Spiritual warfare consists of tearing down imaginations. These things are real bro! Now, I understand that nobody likes their mind-palaces torn down. I appreciate that. But...

Are you claiming to be sent by God to correct my "foundation"...to turn inward rather than heavenward? I know how the carnal mind works..but no compartmentalizing of a carnal mind leads to the kingdom life of God. The balance is in both the mercy and judgment of God. It's in the goodness and...

In whose mind? You have an artificial grasp of what constitutes victory in Christ. Those who walk in the higher kingdom walk experience victory....overcoming as Jesus overcame. Agreed...if that is their motive. But only God judges the heart. It isn't right for you to judge the motives of...

Good works are good, not bad as you suggest. Otherwise the bible would call them, bad works ...or dead works. You are heavily influenced by Islam. There is no going to heaven when you are dead...only when you are alive. Seek first the kingdom...now. No. You are misrepresenting an obedience...

It's funny how many ways there are to deviate from the truth. It's like a field full of arrows with nary a one on the target. Arrows in trees, stuck in the grass...on the side of buildings....through windows...etc. Sin in its basic form means to miss the mark. And that's when we are actually...

This is a good forum because they are not deciding who is speaking the truth and who is not. So often a forum is run by the same bullies that chase the meek out of the institutions. Bullies do try to intimidate here too..but are rebuffed...much to the consternation of bullies who are used to...

Does it make you feel bad EG? Resentful? A carnal person doesn't realize how that carnality sticks out like a big red flag. God is love. And the brethren have love one for another...we are members one of another. That is fully outside the ego comparisons you are trying to make. I realize you...

I understand what this thread is about...but I can't locate you on the radar. There is a way that seems right to a man...in a logical self-interested way...but that is the way of death. But as a servant of God, why would I not try saving someone from death, knowing that the path someone has...

Actually you only see part of the truth..and assume you know where I'm "off"...not catering to you "foundation" which you admit is in yourself. You rail at me for saying that the foundation is in Christ...alone. To build WHERE HE IS. Where your treasure is there is your heart. And that was not...

Peachy. Do you think that Timothy was confronting Muslims in the fist century? For sure. Often, the person who has the stronghold is convinced that it's the other who is in bondage. I don't see it that way. Forums are a hotbed of human speculations. Because everybody has an equal...

watch for outer man ego defensiveness and touchiness. That's the flesh trying to exalt itself. Don't let it. Amen. The modern gospel is based on people trying to save themselves...by imputing God's righteousness to themselves...by self-justification...condemning the poor and needy...and...

It's one thing to have difficulty honouring your husband in a marriage...and another to contend with a man of God in pursuit of a religious ideology that is being built up in resistance to the knowledge of God. Spiritual warfare consists of tearing down strongholds...vain imaginations and...

Hey how are you today? Paul is speaking to man who he knows... knows the truth...but needs some encouragement to stand up to those who think they know the truth..which they don't. So Paul qualifies Timothy as a man of God...a servant of God. Those who oppose him oppose God and the truth...

There is more than one level to consider on this. 1. This is addressed to the servant of God...a minister...not just anyone with a religious opinion. It assumes that a person knows the truth for real...and is being opposed. 2. Meekness. People may see this as subservience or...

This is a discussion group. If you want to pm me go ahead. But I am in the public forum to represent something that I think has been lost over the centuries. In the churches there is control over others. Here we are free. Of course in the church led by God there is freedom. Where the Spirit is...