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  1. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is an inevitable conclusion of the bigot. So then anyone of another tradition..,orthodox, catholic, or in my case a spiritual disciple... must be NOT a Christian because we are not like you. You have no love or understanding. Typical of the religious mindset. So I understand what you have...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Saves them... but no others. I am accused by pontificators as being inclusivist. But the truth is in the Pharisaical exclusivism that many have been indoctrinated into here. I get mocked for speaking of such power. For you, that power is theoretical...religious in nature. For those who...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    As religious bigots do, they will judge anything foreign to them as being wrong...less, inferior, and even evil. Long before you were born there were Christians. (Imagine that!) Some of those Christians were Arabs. Actually some Palestinians (that so many Westerners hate) are Christians too...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is ignorance. Long before the existence of Muslims the Coptic believers in Egypt and other Arabic Christians elsewhere, worshiped Allah....the Arabic word for God. Pharisees will always look for a way to judge others who are more worthy than themselves in order to bolster their egos. Among...
  5. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is true. Many here have been brainwashed into thinking that following Luther is the same as following Christ. They play a religious game. Every sentence has "saved" or "born again" or "point to the cross" or "point to Jesus" ....but it's all a smokescreen. It has no meaning beyond...
  6. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are an ADC sycophant. His posts are so simplistic...and annoying...meant only to draw attention to himself and his own his own virtue-signalling. You are bringing only a shameless yes-man ...or "like-man" congratulatory stamp to his many rantings and ravings. I don't see any English skills...
  7. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    But is it really what should be building up a religious ego? There is a great temptation to think we are doing God a service by uplifting ourselves and our status. The Pharisees thought they were needed to uphold the traditions of Moses. But their self-importance got the better of them...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    The Bible doesn't give us the option of self-affirmation. There is a judgment coming that has nothing to do with what our self-esteem is telling us. Without the power of the Spirit...how will we realize that being "poor, naked, wretched and blind" is really about us?
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    There is no resurrection life unless one dies...so I seek to die, not be saved. The kingdom of God is not like this world.
  10. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Not everybody cares so much to be saved as you do. You are putting your neurosis onto me. I never said anything about a desire to be saved. That comes from the shallow crowd here. God is selfless and He's looking for followers who are selfless. Those who seek to save their lives will lose them...
  11. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    I don't identify with a shallow representation of the gospel meant for selfish people to make them feel saved. For you Christ is only a concept...based on satisfying your religious cravings. That is untrue. I very much fear God. I realize that being rich and modern puts me in a very...
  12. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    It is common bread. What you are not understanding is the commemoration based on WHO is partaking of it. Not the elements themselves. Read again where it says discerning the Body. Does that mean not discerning that the bread is the body...or that those present are the Body? If the former than...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Do I seem eternally hateful, or gratefully dead to you? Or does that describe those here who espouse a counterfeit gospel that supports the ego? A chaos of belief. The anti-Christ will appear Christian on the outside...appealing to the aspirations of the selfish outer man. There is no fear of...
  14. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    I never said that. I said that the holiness penalties of sickness and death for NOT discerning the Body only happens when there is holiness present in the people. That's why it's important to "discern" the Body. People are SO used to shallow religion they wouldn't know holiness if it came up...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    ...only to the carnal. But to those who have faith...it is a glorious blessing. Religion prefers you to be isolated, brainwashed, in an echo chamber of mindless agreement and constant authoritarian rule. Religion loves control and hates authenticity, questions, uncertainty, vulnerability...
  16. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is Catholic dogma...not the truth of the matter. You make this sound "New Age." We do not apply any sacrifice to ourselves. Jesus Christ is the lamb of God...not our Lamb. We do no applying His sacrifice to ourselves. That is self-righteousness at work. So then it sounds like your...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    big·ot noun noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. "don't let a few...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are completely wrong and very confused. In your religious bigotry you prefer war, hate, and violence to peace, I bet you miss the days of the crusades where people of other religions got to kill each other in the name of God. But Jesus said...blessed are the peacemakers...love your enemies...
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    Is Jordan Peterson Taking the Proper Steps toward Eternal Life?

    Mr. Peterson has more than one direction/function. Maybe you are getting too drawn in to the political arena?
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Maybe when you were younger and still teachable somebody should have explained to you that within the ONE bible....there were TWO testaments. Maybe someone should have taken your then young flexible mind and explained to you that within the GodHead was BOTH Father and Son. You miss the...