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  1. Episkopos

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

    There will be an endless conflict of human faith and the faith OF Christ until one realizes that faith indeed exists on more than one level. In Him we go from faith to faith. Without understanding the 2 levels of faith we won't understand the 2 levels of righteousness...and the purpose of...
  2. Episkopos

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

    Yes. This is true. Saving faith is not limited to one level. We can be saved by believing God for a healing in a certain situation. Is that not also saving faith? There is a human faith but also a "GIFT OF FAITH" ...by the Spirit. That is the faith that allows for the higher walk....to walk...
  3. Episkopos

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

    Maybe to whom much is given more is required?????
  4. Episkopos

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

    Why do you hate the counsel of Jesus so much? He says to ask, seek and knock. Are you afraid of seeking God? Why? Is that a work? Or do you not love God at all? Are you so selfish that you can't lift a finger to please God? Heb. 4:1 “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of...
  5. Episkopos

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

    And don't forget that all the people in the wilderness that looked up to the brass serpent and were saved in their affliction also perished in the wilderness. Judge nothing before the time. If people could only understand that we are in a race of faith...a wilderness walk...and most are...
  6. Episkopos

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

    But notice how the word saved here so often means to be preserved/healed...a temporal life healing...and not an eternal status. it's a mistake to take a deliverance from a temporal affliction to mean an eternal state. Jesus often says...go and sin no more lest a worse thing happen to you.
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    Is Jordan Peterson Taking the Proper Steps toward Eternal Life?

    Here is an example of a man who does the exact opposite of what so many do in the modern church. Jordan Peterson takes on the challenges of obedience to God but without claiming any of the benefits. He lives as if God exists. So many profess to believe in God but then proceed to behave in a way...
  8. Episkopos

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

    Amen. This is very important to consider. The outer man has no idea of the damage he causes to true faith. But it would be better to have a millstone tied around one's neck and be thrown into the sea than to discourage one inner man. Be strong in Him, sister. Jesus took so much more on Himself...
  9. Episkopos

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

    All based on religious assumptions and presumptions. Only indoctrinated brain-washed people assume the bible is always speaking in glowing terms about their ego.
  10. Episkopos

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

    Who's we? The word speaks to you to repent...not name it claim it to puff up your outer man religious ego. All make believe. You are playing in puddles rather than embarking on a deep-sea spiritual voyage. God does NOT support make-believe. You have no understanding of the biblical...
  11. Episkopos

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

    I use many different tools to get the truth across. Remember, this is a public forum. Each crow thinks its all about him/her. So they will take it personally. I don't take any attacks on me personally. I expect snakes to bite and dogs to bark. But I write for the benefit of all the inner men...
  12. Episkopos

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

    I set the tone in the OP. The tone then shifted towards the superficial and virtue-signalling of the flesh in a selfish panic..in a carnally religious fear. At that point the outer man looks for support...forming a kind of "sanhedrin" against anything and anyone that threatens their false...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are doing the backward thing as usual. You are trying to save yourself by your beliefs. You actually believe that your religious opinions save you. That's amazingly deluded. God doesn't need your beliefs...or your claims. They are as futile as the demons believing. The cross rejection comes...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    A shallow understanding will see the word "believe not" to mean not accepting a religious belief that a person thinks will save them. but that is only a carnal religious understanding. What the verse is saying is that we come into the life and light of God by faith. By faith we enter into His...
  15. Episkopos

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

    Always the outer man wants the last word. Drown out the truth with ranting all you want. Speak lies to cover the truth. You point to Jesus the same way that the Pharisees pointed to Moses. All for self-justification. What did Jesus say....that Moses would condemn those who pointed to him, who...
  16. Episkopos

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

    Many here have learned to have theoretical beliefs. They have been taught...indoctrinated, into believing certain things..and what made that attractive to them was the perceived benefit to themselves...a selfish motivation. These will deny this...to their own detriment. But ALL selfish...
  17. Episkopos

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

    Your superficial religious understanding aside...you need to stop pointing fingers...stop accusing... ...stop posturing...stop grandstanding...and go be WITH Christ. You may like to have a"marveloustime" while you are in the flesh....but judgment is coming. Repent, stop pontificating and go to...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are way off. God didn't invent a salvation scheme that you just have to give assent to. Luther did that. He invented the scheme ...and the flesh LOVES it. And.... it is totally false. You have been deceived by the doctrines of men. I think the modern Protestant churches are full of this...
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    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    People LOVE false prophecy and puffing up of the religious outer man. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife here...and the word of God does that very well. It's funny how all the cessationists call all true prophecy false and anything that puffs up the flesh...they see as...