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A blessed and happy New Year to you too brother. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man. I just think there are certain things beyond the foundational basics of the gospel that are not essential to salvation and that we shouldn't be divisive over.

My participation on the forum is limited for a few reasons, and I am seldom able to keep up.....I don't know who you are or what you believe. I have no idea whether it's worth my trouble to look you up or not. And no idea why you don't think my POV has a biblical case. Of course, you're...

I'm sorry you don't consider me to be worth the trouble. Should I respond to you in like manner and tell you to just basically go get lost and look up all my past posts yourself? These eschatological things are not foundational beliefs, and it seems obvious that they are "hard to be...

Amen....and one needs to first of all be born of the Spirit and have the Holy Spirit to be able to understand, who leads us into all truth. And then let no man steal their crown through lies and deceptions. Follow Christ alone, not men and churches or denominations.

I and others have been having these discussions with Episkopos for a very long time. There are too many discussions and too many posts to go hunting for specific ones that address that specific thing. He has pointed many times to scriptures such as "For God so loved the world..." and "every...

I pointed out some inconsistency in your teaching, and it appears you are not able to resolve it, otherwise you would.

Is it not God's will that mankind repent and receive Christ? Have you not read that now He commands all men everywhere to repent. The Lord reveals Himself to whomever He wills. What Spirit animates my heart....?.....I hope it is the same Spirit who inspired Rom 9. Not that I am willing that...

Hmm, so you are saying the whole world of unbelieving Gentiles will be saved and inherit eternal life, but He makes an exception in the case of unbelieving Jews or Christians of weak faith? I guess God didn't so love quite the entire world after all in that case (using your own reasoning). No...

If he is born again then I can't help but wonder why is his testimony about what HE did ("dedicating his life to Christ") rather than what the LORD did in his life/heart? Or perhaps it's because of the fact that he has fallen away and is now in darkness and actually has forgotten and lost...

After five minutes into the video.....I observe these things...one is that he is coming from fundamental Baptist....they are cessationists....they do not avail themselves of the Holy Sirit and this limits both their understanding as well as their ability to take on the light and easy yoke and...

I believe the moral and ethical laws are a given. But I don't think of them in terms of a checklist to us, but more as instruction for our inner man, to strengthen and remind and provoke us to walk accordingly. But the curse of the Law and temple ordinances no longer apply to us...they were...

Well, I believe Jesus gave an example of what it means to have the Law written on our hearts....it means we have a new heart which has the Law written on it. Not only should one not commit adultery but the new heart of the new creature will endeavour to not so much as lust after someone...

Boiling down something is a kind of synthesis of all the individual ingredients.....to my mind at least....which is the opposite of de-construction. Wouldn't deconstruction mean taking something that has been boiled down and dividing it into all its components...? But I'm guessing...

Don't know what your definition of deconstruction is, but we always need to be careful of going beyond what is written, lest we become guilty of inventing our own religion. The bible simply isn't teaching that Jesus "deconstructed" the Law. Definition I have of deconstruction is "the reduction...

If you feel you have some truth then why don't you share it ? I have no idea at all what you believe or why except that apparently you disagree with me on these things for some reason. As for me I rather marvel at the blindness of those who can't see there are things that were to the Jew...

Good morning bro, thank you for the invite. :) What happened to Israel was wrath, golly, but just not the final one that will involve the destruction of the whole world.

And I want to add, that it is dispensationalists who treat the events of 70 AD as a footnote rather than the fulfillment of much prophecy., including Jesus'. I am saying it is important that we treat it as important. And it certainly was "important" to Israel to whom it was prophesied and who...

I'm not a full preterist. What I believe is..."to the Jew first, then the Gentile". I hope you will take the time to consider some of what is being said, and not just dismiss it all out of hand because it is new to you.

The Word made flesh speaks in parables, and always has. The false shepherds eating the choice meat of the sheep.....means they are living like kings from exploiting and making merchandise of the sheep. Like we see with televangelists now and like the religious leaders were devouring widows...

I'm only seeing in part, by God's grace...seeing through a glass darkly, but one thing I'm sure of is that God/Jesus is speaking in spirit, not speaking two-dimensionally. It's like there can be more than one layer to the things He is saying. However, I've heard some say that there was a...