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  1. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    What kind of person is looking to strike nerves? And then makes false claims to have done so? Find a better past-time...something that doesn't get you into eternal difficulties. Allume!
  2. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    All false. Arrête donc de me niaiser. Your accusatory attitude reveals your true nature.
  3. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    I'm playing with a bad man? LOL ;) En tout cas..Looking online for things is not the same as seeking God. Look upward for answers.
  4. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    LOL Does living in Quebec constitute me being an "Eastern" Catholic. Très drole! My calling is actually from God...not men.
  5. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    LOL. The irony. I'm exposing false doctrine and you say I'm splitting hairs by distinguishing being saved IN our sins and being saved FROM our sins (sinning). Just a whole spiritual dimension away...that's nothing to you. Of course not. :rolleyes:
  6. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    I don't know what's in the Kool-aid you are drinking..but you are proving my point. Jesus died because of our sins...not for our sins. I don't think there is much thinking going into your process....a lot of citations...no reasoning power to speak of. In your rush to "correct" me you have...
  7. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    To people He was seen as a transgressor. But you are not making a distinction between what men think and what God thinks. "He was reckoned" is not the same as "And this was reckoned to Him (by God). You think they are the same...as you can claim a bible verse and maybe find some others who will...
  8. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    O, the vanity! :)
  9. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    You deny the power of God by calling that works salvation. A cognitive dissonance based on indoctrination. Which you deny...over and over again. You have zero experience of anything Paul is speaking about...so you rail against the bible witness without knowing it. You are as confused as can...
  10. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    In the same breath as you claim Jesus came to save the world from sin...you deny the power to walk as He walked in HIS SALVATION. Truly schizoid. You mock the higher walk in holiness...which is the actual gospel...a freedom from sin through empowerment by the Spirit.
  11. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    The early believers were Binatarian. But there was a problem. Paul and John could no longer lay hands on people to be EMPOWERED by the Spirit...so the clerics had to assume that power for themselves...without having any access to divine power themselves. So instead of being baptized in the POWER...
  12. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Your religious conclusions are missing the point. Jesus is speaking of spiritual things being of the Spirit....just as carnal things are of the flesh. What is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Through the Spirit we have access INTO the spiritual kingdom...
  13. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Not biblical at all. Jesus doesn't say..."unless you are born again you cannot be as righteous as God". Preposterous. No, what Jesus says is that through the new birth we have ACCESS into the kingdom of God. Spirit allows us to do things in the Spirit. We may enter in and see what is spiritual...
  14. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    The Holy Spirit is a part of God. Like His hand. It's still God acting...in a personal way in His holy presence. Look at this... “By stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.” Acts 4:30 God has a hand? God is Spirit. God's...
  15. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    This is as false as can be. God is Spirit. His Spirit is not a separate person, neither does it have a name. God pours His Spirit out....and we are the vessels that are filled. Your doctrine is man-taught....not biblical at all. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other...
  16. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Does having correct beliefs trump obedience to God in the reformists mindset? Obedience is seen as "works" salvation...if we consider that God rejects those who disobey Him. Why all the extra-biblical doctrines? Why hold to tenets that go directly against the biblical narrative in order to...
  17. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    I hope I am exposing myself. I come to the light because I'm speaking the truth. And what is so wrong with Catholic beliefs?...it's the traditions that are suspect, not the old paths. The reformers threw out the baby with the bathwater. But apostolic doctrines don't begin in the 16th century as...
  18. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Reformists you mean. Most believers do not hold to what you hold so dear. It's better to hold the Lord dear...not tenets. Getting comfort from a set of beliefs misses the point. We tend to be satisfied with things that the Lord does not approve of. That's why Paul says...I am sold under sin...
  19. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    LOL...I don't think you are seeing that faith is in the present tense. It's faith IS not faith will be. And the fact that we receive NOW what we once hoped for (past tense.) In your reading the hoped for is future tense...but it is past tense. Once you have faith you don't need to hope for what...
  20. Episkopos

    Deconstruction Part 2: Into Apostolicity

    Welcome to the discussion! :) So as Eastern Orthodox you don't believe that God is blinded to your sin because He can't see you...only Jesus? Not into the Hebrew roots movement at all. Just into the word of God that just happens to be written in Hebrew. Christian anarchists like Jacques...