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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Most won't receive the truth, having already set their minds on the easy decoy gospel. Why should we expect a future entrance into the kingdom of God when we are not permitted entry into it now? Should we not endeavour to enter NOW to make our salvation sure?
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Those who belong to Christ have BEEN CRUCIFIED in the flesh. Jesus didn't crucify Himself. And we can't do it either. The power of the cross is not in our hands. Look deeper into how and why the bible is translated in a way that denies the power of God.
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Touchy-feeliness on your part doesn't mean I'm mischaracterizing. you. You are exposing your own bent here. I'm not talking about myself. Get over yourself. The bible is not meant just for comfort, but is instruction into life. As such we can protect our flesh...or expose it. You expose your...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Paul says "in me dwells no good thing. " Christianity is about what we do outwardly. Buddhism and New age thinking dichotomize the inward state and the outward acts. There is no "deep truth" in yourself that is not coming out. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks...and acts. We...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    If people have a hard time with hearing God by the Spirit, they are going to freak out when it comes to the gift of SEEING in the Spirit. Spiritual faculties are given to those who are born of the Spirit....and baptized in the Spirit where necessary. (Some receive both simultaneously). Seeing in...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Without the presence of God, the gifts of the Spirit, the voice of God guiding and building His church in real time....there is NO church. All we have is a religious decoy counterfeit. Ministry is about unfolding the mystery of an eternal God building an eternal relationship with His people. The...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Mocking tone. No. God speaks to His servants. Most people are not called to that level of service to God. The "common" believer is to follow Christ from whatever distance he/she is able. I call this the lower walk because it is based on a human faith and faithfulness. God goes easy on such as...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Reading the bible should provide us with more questions that answers. Once we get the questions right, we can seek God's face for answers. That's when He speaks to us...directly with the "still small voice". Doing so we avoid indoctrination, opinions, surmising, assumptions, presumptions...etc...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    This is the same old "Law Versus Grace" argument. How can we know that anything outside the law is from God? We know the law is from God. But what of the testimonies in the NT? Are these backed up by the law? So the early Christians were persecuted for their "extra-scriptural" experiences and...
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    No Condemnation For Those In Christ, But... Sinning Believers Are Condemned Ro 14:23?

    Those 2 verses you are comparing are speaking on 2 different levels. No more condemnation is speaking of the holiness standard of a person who walks in the power of the Spirit...IN Christ where there is no sin. The "whatever is not of faith is sin" is on the righteousness level...not the...
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    T U L I P explained

    At whatever level...whether in righteousness or holiness...he who is faithful in little is also faithful in much.
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Comparing the written words from God to what the Spirit says to Christ-followers should be easy enough if we look at this in balance. The words of God could be seen as a map. They are not personal to us...they are general and meant for all. So they are good for corporate decrees, readings and...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Not at all! :) It's all good. :) Bless you sister <><
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    There's nothing wrong with yielding to what you read about in the bible. The problem is two-fold. First, it is wrong to name and claim everything you read in the bible without the very same intimacy of walk...the higher walk...as we read in the bible about the people who wrote it. And second...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    You say this because all you have is your opinions that are formed through indoctrination from men...and a faulty reading of the bible that is influenced by that indoctrination. The bible should ONLY be taught by those who have experienced what's written on its pages. God is against the false...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    The devil is also a bible teacher. He tried teaching Jesus its finer points when he was in the desert. If you actually read the bible and take its message seriously (rather than pretend to agree with it) ...you will seek God's face and have eternal life. Jesus said (it's in the bible) "go away...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Is the light of God imputed to us? No, it is the light of God. We are to walk IN it. Is the kingdom of God imputed to us? No, It is HIS kingdom. We are to walk in it. Is the righteousness of God imputed to us? No, It is His righteousness...we are to walk in it. Seek first the kingdom of God...
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Even if you posted a thousand commentaries...you don't come close to refuting even one syllable of what I say.
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    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    You don't realize that you are of the generation that is unable to endure sound doctrine. Sound doctrine sounds very strange to you. The religious culture is so pervasive and persuasive that anything else....no matter how apostolic or deep is seen as simply strange and written off immediately. I...