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Does that mean when you cite Hebrew or Greek you are doing it to impress people?? See, I already knew that. But to explain things from the OT without the Hebrew qualifiers will lead people to confusion...those words I cited are translated willy-nilly whatever way the translators felt...

...or a religious imagination of the cross. Amen.

No, quite the opposite. What you are suggesting is that it is wrong to experience what we read about in the bible. All I'm saying is that the bible points the way...but the Spirit gives life...just like it says in the bible. :) This is back-filling what a saint already has...an eternal life in...

Remain steadfast in humanistic reformist ideology! :ummm:

My position harmonizes what Jesus says with what Jesus says. Luther would disagree. The devil wants you to think that seeking God falls into the category of vain human effort. What you are confusing effort with is the antidote to spiritual laziness...the sluggard of Ecclesiastes. Jesus says to...

Indoctrination is a phenomenon associated with having a brain and a free will. When The New Covenant is distorted into the religious ideological dimension, it would certainly appear that God was kidding all along about the wages of sin being death. As in...the wages of sin is death...just...

The Jesus of our imagination VS Encountering the risen Lord. What I see so much of here is people imagining themselves into the biblical narrative. As in....well, if I'm going to be a believer then I will have to first assume that Jesus forgives me... Of course this is a far cry from seeking...

There is no such technique. Things don't happen in reality the way they seem to in our imagination. Does a blind man who approaches Jesus have to realize he is forgiven before receiving his sight? Is there a logical order to have your eyes healed? What if you get the order wrong in your logical...

By its very essence holiness is an eternal thing. If it is temporary for us it is because our faith hope and love is still at an infant stage. We can only grow into Christ-likeness by walking in His perfection...His keeping power. There is a folly in the idea that we can grow into...

Calvin (religious terrorist that he was) was an idealist who hated people for not being perfect. He signed actual believers over to be burned. At least he didn't write a book that inspired Hitler to do a "Kristelnacht" on the Jews. How amazing is it that no Protestant can see through the...

To each his own. But your doctrinal understanding comes from the "enlightenment" period of history...the renaissance...where humanistic ideals were promoted as a basis for modern civilization. That same spirit infiltrated into the churches through men like Luther...who cleverly adapted the...

You are avoiding me by following me around in my threads. The same backward logic you are using to decipher the bible. Turn everything upside down and you might get closer to the truth.

The preaching of the cross is about power from heaven. The power of God. In your scheme grace blinds God to your true condition. So then grace for you is not the power of God...it is the powerlessness of God. All you have to do is turn everything upside down...from serving the flesh and its...

It is the power of the cross that takes away the power of the flesh and makes us able to receive God's grace that makes us holy....and righteous. Your modern ideas are so artificial that you can make all this stuff up in your imagination...and then claim you are doing what is says in the bible...

The sample of grace...the aravon...is meant to have us taste and see that the Lord is good. We have an experience of spiritual life, eternal life, and the kingdom realm, at regeneration. But we will lose that place because we don't understand what holiness is and the cost of it. Like Paul in...

As usual, you mislabel everything and make outrageous claims that have no basis in fact, let alone truth. Since you attack me for what you do...you might want to look a little closer at why you say what you do. Holiness is NOT legalism. So then just how are you deflecting what you are doing...

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These guys like to make up things because they can't stand the truth. Of course we are forgiven.....that's not the point of the cross. These guys want to be forgiven WITHOUT a holy walk. The cross is about sanctification, not forgiveness. God has ALWAYS been merciful. But He wants us to live...

How are we to tell the difference between the true gospel and what is for all intents and purposes "another gospel"? The modern church too often finds its legitimacy in an artificially generated gospel that is without power; where any kind of eternal security must be supposed and presumed...

What people will surmise based on the decoy gospel....for those who don't love the truth... is that God wants to cover up YOUR sins with HIS righteousness. And that is the furthest thing from the truth. That is why it is so popular. Jesus doesn't cover up our sins. First comes a cleansing from...