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What do you think of this scripture: 2 Peter 2:20-22 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would...

Can you spend a minute looking up that verse for me. I would like to have it. I was baptized 3 times before I was born again of the Spirit. Then a couple months later He spoke to me and told me, "Now, get water baptized." A mortal wound would be a wound that caused their death. So that is...

8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of...

In all our conversations and debates I don't think we've ever discussed if you have been given any supernatural gifts of the Spirit such as speaking in tongues, or supernatural interpretation of tongues. What gifts do you have seeing as we all have at least one. Mortal sins are in the NT as...

Yes, we still have free will and are able to quench the Spirit. The key is abiding in Christ for both freedom from mortal sin and maturing of the fruit of the Spirit. How to not become caught up in heresies is knowing the Word of God.

How do you interpret Romans 8:9? Do you believe we can go in and out of the Spirit?

Good post Randy. What I would like to add is I see two different uses for the words soul and flesh in the New Testament. When God breathed life into Adam, Adam became a living soul or person who also had a soul. He was made of flesh and bones, but Paul then says in Romans 8:9 that we are not in...

No, from within where He lives. The best way I can describe it is He interrupts my own thoughts with His words. One time I asked God a question in prayer, and He spoke immediately the answer to my question.

Praise God! I was speaking from my own experience. I went to church all my life, but I was almost 30 years old when I was born again of the Spirit. I'm sure I can't be the only one going to church every week unsaved...

I believe the Apostle Peter wrote 2 Peter. The voice of God would tell me if it wasn't.

There are many people that go to church but have never been baptized with the Holy Spirit to be born again. I believe that is when we also receive the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 (verse 16 tells us we have the mind of Christ.) Romans 8:9 also tells those who have received the Spirit...

I think of the carnal Christian with a carnal mind saying..." 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

I still don't know if your answer is yes or no.

Do you believe a born again, Spirit-filled Christian has a carnal mind?

Agreed. But weren't you also taught that repentance was turning away from sin? I sure was. No wonder it didn't work.

I remember growing up in church and being taught that repentance was me turning away from sin. So when I was entrenched in a powerful sin as an adult I tried and tried to turn away from that sin, but it only lasted three days and I was back again in it. But even today turning away from sin is...

You and I may have a different definition of GRACE. I see Peter receiving the power of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. One of the gifts of the Spirit that he received was prophecy which on that day was forthtelling that the prophecy of Joel was being fulfilled. Now tell me why you think he was...

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cc: @Ritajanice Peter understood Grace. Grace is divine power. He understood it at Pentecost when he received the power. Acts 1:8. And he prayed that the 120 would receive it also in Acts 4:29-31. I'm not sure what you think Paul taught him that the Holy Spirit hadn't. I like this verse from...

The point to Acts 2:38 and the gospel is the fact that the gospel of Christ is the power of God.