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I would argue they don't have the gospel......what they have and are perpetuating unfortunately is actually a false gospel and a false spirit. To belong to Christ one must be born of His Spirit and have received His Spirit. Many people can have a mental belief in Jesus but without His Spirit...

By my reckoning, and I think most born again believers, the "early church" was the church under the apostles......everything that came after that is suspect and requires much sifting and testing, because Paul prophesied that after he departed wolves would come into the church, not sparing the...

Priests, robes, incense offerings, liturgies etc, are all trappings of old covenant temple worship............not the new covenant simplicity of Christ, which is the new way of the Spirit. We should not be about those dead shadows/types any more but about the living substance and reality of...

Haven't read through the thread, but one thing that speaks to me from the idea of grazing is that the sheep are not force-fed. They are led to green pastures of true doctrine (hopefully), the word is preached to them and they are free to graze from any portion of that field as they will, and as...

Servant leadership doesn't mean no leadership, or else Jesus Himself would have been guilty. If the Holy Spirit leads some to stand up and take the lead at any time, or in an overall way, it doesn't mean either He or they are violating servant leadership. Whereas things like a condescending...

I'm just saying in his letter to the Galations Paul was referring back to a time in the past, so perhaps James the apostle was still alive at the time Paul was speaking about. In any case I don't want to keep arguing about this forever....I seem to see there are indications in the bible that...

Amen. The god of this world, prince of this world, aka, spirit of this world....keeps trying to gather and unite souls under his banner. It's a counterfeit deception, as I know you well know brother, and coming to a head at the end of this age. Jesus said it it were possible it would deceive...

The church of Jesus Christ has been under attack ever since its inception. Wrestling not with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities in high places. Once a believer starts growing enough to realize they need to be taught by the Lord and not fallible man per se, they begin to seek...

This is not about winning arguments. It should be about helping one another, shouldn't it? Gloating doesn't help, instead it HINDERS.

In Gal 2:9 Paul was referring to something that had happened in the past, not long after Paul was saved....apparently before James was martyred.

God had delegated rule of this world to Lucifer....prince of this world.....the ruling angelic principality of it. But with God always sovereign over all. But we we know Satan fell and in the fullness of time Jesus in defeating him took the rule from him, or we could say the Father took the...

Amen, very true, but that doesn't cancel out other analogies and aspects of how we are born again.

You're misunderstanding what I meant about not making this seem over-important. All scripture and all truth of course is important, but there are things the Lord wouldn't have us make too much of, for example in the way that Catholicism does. I was referring to this verse, in which Paul...

Yes but a ruler is ruling something, surely...?

We're told to compare spiritual with spiritual in scripture, so we need to think spiritually....to see and hear with spiritual eyes and ears what the SPIRIT is saying.....that verse was fulfilled with the giving of the gospel of peace to the Gentiles. YES, believing Gentiles of the nations are...

David's fallen tabernacle (which was only a shadow of the true spiritual things to come) has already been raised and it includes believing Gentiles. David's kingdom was just allegorical, a figure, for the kingdom of heaven of which Christ is King and He is ruling and reigning now. We need to...

that would be the kingdom of heaven, right? So no eternal life.

No, Jesus said His KINGDOM is not of this world but is within/among them. And He said to the religious Jews that "If I by the finger of God cast out devils then no doubt the kingdom has come to you." And He and the apostles were preaching that the kingdom is NIGH....

The Israel of God (of which we are branches and members of that commonwealth) is what receives the nourishment from the root.

The scripture says Adam was a figure of He who was to come (Rom 5:14). And we have the first Adam, and last Adam. Like Eve was born out of the side of the firs Adam, the church was born out of the side of the last Adam. We need the Holy Spirit to help us see this.