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I named myself GracePeace because it is a wish that I have for my life. I've heard of scrupulosity before--I was infant baptized Catholic, and my grandmother grew up in a convent in Ecuador, so I have some acquaintance with Catholicism--but I just wish that if I really were wrong in my...

It doesn't matter if you want to, all that matters is that you DO it after wanting it, bc, by my view, that's salvation

My service was excepted to on the basis it was partially out of fear, but it is the most insulting thing to my intelligence to say serve only out of love as if I'm not being threatened bc if I'm not being threatened that would make it as though there were no penalty for not obeying but that is...

You love God by obeying God at the cost of your life.

I either experience God's love or I don't--I don't get nourished by a word but by a substance. Words are just words.

Yeah, we love because He loved us first, but the love is to be in deed not in word, 1 John says, so there is a fear that I may not do the thing that is loving and therefore lose eligibility for the love. Jesus says He lays His life down for His friends, and you are His friend IF YOU DO WHAT HE...

No, I mean I think about going to hell and being tormented if I don't do what I'm supposed to do, and, somehow, that is wrong.

Sure, "salvation" is by grace through faith alone, not our own good deeds--I agree--however, I think we don't define "salvation" the same way. I think Paul defines it by the precedents that went before us : the Jews were "saved" out of Egypt, by the blood of lambs (foreshadowing Christ's blood...

If everything you're saying is true, Paul would have no reason to tell Timothy what he is telling him--he would assume Timothy had already believed and forever had eternal life. I agree that God has given "us" eternal life, and that "we" can know "we" have it--specifically, the life is located...

Jesus's Name is "God Is Our Righteousness". Abiding in Him ("if that which you heard from the beginning abides in you"), it seems, God Himself is our righteousness. Therefore, I disagree that God's righteousness is imputed to us. That said, where we differ is the idea that abiding in Him is a...

Language barrier

We have a language barrier.

You probably speak my language better than I speak yours, so I'm not putting you down, but I wish this was a little clearer. I already explained why I can't conceive of serving WITHOUT fear (not without love but also with fear) : that's what the words I read inspire in me.

Paul already knows Timothy already believed, so your take doesn't fit. The text says doing good deeds is sowing to the spirit, you say that that isn't true. Who should Christians believe?

I see lots of threats in the Bible.

Yet we have the precedent that, with God, a gift that is given must also be possessed. These are two separate things--the gift being given by the Giver, and the gift being possessed by the receiver. Numbers 33:53And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the...

Yeah, I agree with this, but that isn't to say that I understand Christianity, either. I used to do everything I was convicted to do, believing I'd go to hell if I didn't obey, and, once, after I had gone to preach on the corner of the street (I was convicted to do so), God told me I was trying...

Please be more concise. I don't know what you're saying. Ro 7:1 distinguishes Jewish believers as knowing the Law--meaning Paul knows Gentile believers don't know the Law. Yes, they do the Law--this all the more proves Ro 3:31 and 8:4, etc, etc, that being obedient to Grace makes you fulfill...

Not that I think the guy is "accursed", preaching a "false Gospel"--it seems God is with people such as profess things he professes, though I don't understand how--but I also have experienced much ignorance of Scripture, infidelity to Scripture, and seemingly intentional dismissal of Scripture...

I actually agree that the Gospel is in the Torah, and I did discuss it a little, I think (unless that was another, similar, thread), but I still haven't watched the intro video presentation, because I wasn't interacting with it directly, but was interacting with another user who was denying the...