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Spiritual life is a deeper kind of life...it is an eternal form of life. Not very many have experienced the higher walk in holiness. This is another judgment against a people who don't love the truth. People tend to only consider themselves, and not the things of God. People will push eternal...

Really religious believer you mean... :rolleyes: Certainty is a human ploy. We only come to faith THROUGH our doubt. Jesus' disciples had a hard time with what Jesus did....even hardening their hearts against Him at times. That's a natural progression. Religion is the opposite. It's all just...

And the Reformation just made things a lot worse. In the guise of protesting against ecclesiastical abuses in the church at that time, Luther snuck in what amounts to the "great Delusion" spoken of in 2 Thess. 2. This opened a Pandora's box of strange and foolish doctrines that have become so...

You are confusing what I do for what you do. Spiritual things are not grasped by a religious dogmatic ideology. Religiosity is just one more facet of the flesh. Promise people life in an "afterlife" religion, and you get all kinds of carnal excesses...judgmentalism, unkindness, pride, hatred...

If we look at the warnings against some of the churches in Asia Minor cited in Revelation...like...I will take away your lampstand...we see that all of those places no longer have churches. They are all under Islam. That's why I say that God allowed the rise of Islam...as a judgment against the...

One could ask...why did God allow the rise of another world religion (Islam) AFTER the coming of Christ? Christianity was supposed to solve the problem of religion...not jump on the same bandwagon. But men are men...and people will get things wrong. And that error will become so common-place...

Religious types are very biblical. Jesus warned such that they needed to repent. The Pharisees saw themselves as champions of God...judging others even as they justified themselves. That trend, toward self-justification...has never been more popular than it is today. Maybe we could call...

On a lighter note...WWOD (What would Oprah do?) Is kindness a sin? Can people who have become religious tolerate a person who promotes kindness? In the city where I live (Montreal) they changed the parking meter system because they were losing money: too many people were putting in money for...

I thought it sounded like a line from "the impossible dream" (To be willing to go into hell for a heavenly cause)....or something like that.

For sure. And we are on a public forum where people who don't participate in the debating can still benefit. One has to be ready for strong opposition..and pressure... since the religious mindset is so set against sound doctrine. Imagine Paul commenting on what is posted on forums such as this...

I think the issue is not that Jesus preferred Martha to stop working and listen to Him. I think it has to do with Martha trying to force Mary into doing what she was doing...trying to impose a certain dogmatic stance on what one should be doing. Jesus prefers we do what we should without making...

That's what it looks like to you. I am shocked when people see what I see. I have been very very privileged to know what I do. I don't expect ANYONE to understand the deeper things. I am not dogmatic at all. I think it's a miracle to know the depth of the gospel. Listen to my podcasts...read my...

While this is preferable, context is important. We are to have peace with all men as much as we can AND cursed is he that keeps his sword back from blood. Phinehas was deemed righteous by God for his intervention in stopping the plague...even though it amounted to killing two people. It depends...

What religious people can't see is that their take on God's goodness for themselves...is not the only way to see God. As such, it is often easier to reason spiritual things with non-believers than with those who have been religiously indoctrinated. Non-believers can sometimes see the reasoning...

She wipes her mouth and says ...I have done no iniquity. Can't be talking to me. Nope ....I refuse to listen.

Babylonian dogma check list. 1. Do the meek inherit the earth? (Correct Babylonian response) No. Only those who believe ON Christ are saved. 2. Does God care for the poor? " " No. Not unless they accept Jesus as their personal sacrifice. 3...

Haha...I'm speaking too far over your head. You read without understanding. To you it's just blah blah...because it isn't religious....it's spiritual understanding. And that strikes you as bizarre...it sounds so so ...unreligious. :rolleyes:

The New Covenant is based on holiness. Holiness demands that our hearts be undivided. In the higher walk, too much longing for this world causes one to lose the intimate connection with God and breaks the power that keeps us in His holy walk. Jesus was referring to the higher walk in many of His...

God goes easy on the righteous (the goodness and mercy of God) but hard on the holy and the pretenders to holiness (the severity of God. ) The pretenders will think to themselves.....everything revolves around me being justified...so...God will go easy on me and hard on non-believers who are...

If I went up to Oprah and said that I thought she was a kind person...and you went up and did your evangelical thing and told her she was evil and going straight to hell...which one of us would she think is judging her? Don't overestimate your religious charisma. :ummm: You judge Oprah because...