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How many Christians tell Jews that if they fail at one part of the law they are guilty of breaking the whole law. Easy peasy judgment. But how many realize that the sword cuts both ways. How many claim that failure at one part of grace...not coming into the full measure of grace makes one...

Have you not read the bible on the subject? OK you were taught by hired preachers. Of course they are going to make things seem easy and safe. Their salaries depend on it. "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye...

Corporately yes. And God does allow babes into the higher walk. It is only as these are conditioned in God's higher ways that the maturing process can begin. And quite quickly these babes will soon offend holiness (all being so new) and be sent back down for more training. But at least these...

There are those who believe that Christ is already in all men...they just need to recognize that. It would be akin to going to a poor country and declaring all to be rich even in their poverty...they just don't realize they are rich...even as they die of hunger and malnutrition. I prefer...

No. One is either in Christ or not. This is a holiness and perfection thing. Only those who walk IN Christ know the higher walk. To others this is foolishness...since the only power these have known is the flesh. There are different levels of maturity IN Christ. But there is no maturity...

And yet you champion a Pharisee that is improving in their walk. Or their acting ability. You don't see the chasm that the blind and deaf are unable to perceive. Why? Because of deafness and blindness. You haven't yet understood God's stand against a "gradual" improvement. As in...Always...

Good analogy. I see the two towers you refer to as two ditches. On the left is the openly carnal ditch (pesha), and on the right the religious ditch (Avon). Then there are the errors we make that are due to a more simple weakness (Chata-ah) as we seek to follow the way in humility and honour...

Obscurity has many adherents. Easier to hide that way. Bottom line...stay away from the light of truth and the challenge of the high calling in Christ. I'd rather trust in the Lord. :dusted:

Long story short...you don't believe it's possible to press into the kingdom realm. Don't lose sight of your motivation.

Obscurantism. Obfuscation. (google them)

The high calling is into the perfection of Christ. You can call that elitist...as in you need faith. But I am not a one trick pony as are my detractors. I also see the lower walk...the meek...inheriting the earth...finding a place among the saved righteous nations in the next age. And the...

So true. Amen. Chances are that the devil and false teacher will go easy on you for being a believer in an easy gospel scheme. And at what level? The false unity that people promote is a far cry from people being members one of another. Only the dishonest would refute this in favour of the...

While a Buddhist may try to get along with whatever human means are at hand...not so the Christian disciple. He realizes that he is poor and needy...since the limitations of the flesh have come to the fore...realizing that the flesh cannot present itself to God, or be pleasing to Him. Instead...

You are trying to shut the barn door when the horse has already departed. I think your rosy picture is off the mark by a large margin. The corruption of Babylon has been in the church for well over a thousand years...to the point where there is a normalcy in the captivity of the flesh...so that...

As long as seeing through a glass darkly is not a premise for thinking that a half-truth is better than no truth at all.

Babylon is the power that holds many believers captive...to this very day. It is man-organized religion...purporting to be serving God by their efforts and schemes. These projections of Babylon have human given names...they are making a name for themselves. They are looking for legitimacy...from...

I think it is easy to miss the paradoxes of spiritual life...eternal life. The kingdom of God is within you??? Within the Pharisees? Or...the kingdom of God is experienced from within. When a person is translated into the kingdom realm...their body remains on earth...although the walk is in...

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Amen...exactly. Where is the kingdom of God that we are to seek first? I think many believers try to avoid the ramifications of that very command of Jesus. I think many are not interested in something that has that level of commitment and cost. They would rather opt for a salvation scheme that...

We live in a time whereby a new birth is seen as the extent to which a person can aspire to the degree that it is not seen as reasonable that there is any possible development beyond that. There is a present war against any form of maturity, wisdom, understanding or knowledge. And people will...