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  1. Episkopos

    Deconstruction: Into Apostasy

    Have you come to a crossroads in your journey of faith whereby you are now reconsidering what you once believed to be true without question? How we arrive at what we believe is as important as what we believe. When those beliefs are tested, where do we turn?
  2. Episkopos

    Are you ready for Judgment Day?

    I can't begin to tell you how wrong this is...Jesus is not like a coin we pick up for ourselves to spend as we see fit. Jesus is NOT a commodity. . It is God who elects ...not us. And you having beliefs about Jesus is not biblical faith.
  3. Episkopos

    Are you ready for Judgment Day?

    ...for you to name and claim according to your will? You have to think this through. Salvation is of the Lord...and also it is by his power. You can decide to be saved by Jesus as you can...but the gospel is about power not naming and claiming verses for oneself.
  4. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    False. You can't accept your way into the kingdom of God. You have to be translated into it by God. Don't confuse human religious beliefs and NT faith. You espouse a self-effort...and a self-justification. As usual you ask the wrong questions. The spiritual test of being a believer today...
  5. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    This diagram is showing what The bible considers a still divided heart....WANTING to be whole but unable to be because the power of the cross is missing. One who is in the Romans 8 walk has his life HIDDEN in God...fully above the line of separation within the soul. So the above diagram shows a...
  6. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    You are missing the context of Paul's words here. Living and dying in the NT is not a physical thing...no, it is spiritual. Paul says in Romans 7 that sin revived and |he died|. Did he physically die? No, otherwise he would not have been able to write Romans 8. :ummm: What does dying mean in...
  7. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    What is dumbing down is the name-it claim-it false gospel of easy-peasy accept Jesus religion based on self-interest...inventing grace and filling pews. The religious system is anti-truth as the truth tends to empty the pews...so the flesh is being catered to to keep the customers happy. That is...
  8. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    It's "The Sum of All Possibilities in Christ" <>< :) https://www.amazon.com/Sum-All-Possibilities-Christ-ebook/dp/B0B5WSBMX7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PTETH0KTSWN7&keywords=the+sum+of+all+possibilities+in+christ&qid=1661442261&sprefix=the+sum+of+all+possibilities+in+christ%2Caps%2C60&sr=8-1
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    Are You Dead to Self?

    1. The New Man is not us...but Christ. We put on Christ as a covering...likewise the New Man. 2. Sinners can be declared righteous...who still sin afterward. Read the bible. 3. God justifies the ungodly. If you would get off your high horse and be merciful as God is...you would see that to be...
  10. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Are the dead raised through a self-effort? They are certainly not raised by appropriating certain religious beliefs. The problem is when you mistake the spiritual realm for a religious ideology or dogmatic position. So for you when I say eternal life...you think of an after-life. When I say...
  11. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Not at this time. But if you watch the video you'll see that there are lasting effects to having experienced that death. You would have to know how God works to better frame a proper question in regard to the work of the cross in the life of a disciple.
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    Are You Dead to Self?

    Perhaps...but what options are there when there is so much dead religion and dogmatic relativism. Where is the life?
  13. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Oh sister...I'm going to do a podcast on that very thing...2 Cor. 5. ;) Of course this will be a deeper spiritual understanding teaching as opposed to what people normally read into the text. What else would it be??? :)
  14. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Yes. We have definite advantages over those who had the law as a tutor. That even sounds like a school...the school of the law..like grade-school. And the New Covenant by grace is like high school (the higher walk ;)) But the exams are harder in high school than in grade school. So then there...
  15. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Can a person be righteous without also being holy? Of course. But who will listen to what the bible says about it? Few indeed. Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man (righteous man), and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned...
  16. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Well all I can say is that mercy and truth are not the same thing, Grace and mercy are not the same thing, atonement and forgiveness are not the same thing...and what we can do in our own strength is not the same as what a saint can do in the power of the Spirit. A one dimensional walk shows...
  17. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    You are refuting Paul in Romans 7. And you do sin...maybe not in a way that is physical or obvious...but then again the Pharisees didn't recognize anything they did as sin either...yet EVERYTHING they did was tinged with sin. Paul was very sensitive to that. unlike those who remain in Romans 6...
  18. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    Jesus said that we didn't need anyone to teach us...and by necessity that's all I had...and it was very good that I was forced to go to God. No man understands these things. So my experiences with God make sense as I read the testimony of the New Testament. Putting that together with the...
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    Are You Dead to Self?

    Of course a disciple can be dealt with by the Lord without understanding all the ins and outs of God's way in Christ. Paul is relating his testimony in Romans. It's too easy to misunderstand Paul into thinking he was inventing a doctrine to just believe in rather than be explaining what will...
  20. Episkopos

    Are You Dead to Self?

    I follow Christ and I read the bible. :) Testimony is better than theology. Testimony is real experience...theology is based on suppositions. Romans 7 is about Paul discovering a deeper sin within him. Sin revived and he died. 1. The Old Man is the old self. The New Man is Christ. 2. When we...