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Likewise to you and yours Nancy! :) <><

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Actually we put on the New Man as an entirety...Putting on Christ...His anointing. This is a gift of grace. Our inner man is weak without that anointing ON us. Then the life that is hidden in the inner man is drawn out and empowered as the outer man is crucified (put out of action). All...

If you are concerned with your eternal destiny...there is nothing wrong with not limiting what is now possible with the grace of God. I would think that limiting God limits what your inheritance could be...not the other way round. People tend to limit God based on their own experience. Unless...

In Romans 6 we read that the Old Man is dead to those who have been born of the Spirit in an initial grace. An initial grace? Yes. The beginning of our walk is freedom from the bondage of Egypt. This is equivalent to being saved FROM the world. But saved from is different from being saved to...

A happy and peaceful Christmas to all! :) <><

The Old Man is not the same as the outer man. The Old Man is who we were BEFORE conversion. ALL who have the new birth are dead from the Old Man. The Old Man is dead. (notice I use capitals for Old Man:)) We have been converted from darkness to light in an INITIAL grace that makes us a new...

What I see as non-Biblical is a cover-up of sin...not just a cover over sin. We cover each other's sins by appealing to the inner man. We look beyond the outer man INTO the depths of the soul in a person. It is the outer man that wants his sins covered-up...so he can continue to run the show...

Can the sun's light be imputed to the moon? Of course not. The moon merely reflects the light of the sun. The sun's light is ALWAYS the sun's light. However the moon can reflect the sun's light to lighten the darkness. Does anyone say of the moon at night ...Look at how nice the sunlight is...

The Reformation did one thing right and 2 things wrong. It allows for more personal advancement, but at the cost of many who will become their own "pope" and decide what truth is for themselves. Private interpretations have divided the church so that, in reality, a saint has as much struggle in...

God is a God who hides Himself. He makes OUR darkness His hiding place. God lives in impenetrable light. The righteous in this world are themselves a light because they have allowed the light of truth to penetrate into their own obscurity. What keeps light away from dispelling our darkness...

Yes. Grace also works over time...a time of grace. What will we do with the time we are given AFTER we have been enlightened. And that varies greatly from person to person. We are to judge nothing before the time. But we are to at least try to correct those who are obviously getting it...

Very interesting thoughts. I agree that Paul was not always in the Spirit. The time he argued with Barnabas...and with Peter. A little hot-headed at times. :) We can be led by the Spirit and yet still be walking in our own power (flesh). However, we may learn to grow in character as the...

The reformation idea of imputed righteousness as being that of God Himself is proved wrong very easily. What's harder is for those who have fallen for that form of heresy to be honest. No one is choosing the "imputed" option so far....which is the reformation option. The other option...that of...

I'm hoping to make the imputation doctrine more clear for people so they can choose the road they wish to go down. One of the weanings (shedding of iniquity) of the outer man is to let go of the reformation doctrines that continue to divide the Body of Christ. God doesn't see us differently...

Luther was a mess...not a man of God. An anti_Semite. An authoritarian anti-Christian who consigned Anabaptists (real disciples) to be burned to death. Look at Hitler's diatribe against the Jews...burning their synagogues etc. All this stems from Luther. I'm amazed that believers can't see...

Not so much. There are conditions to being made the righteousness of God. That condition for each believer is to be found IN Christ...as an individual. So then IN Christ we are made the righteousness of God...to the world. Or...We have been made the righteousness of God IN Christ. In todays...

The imputation doctrine is based on covering sin...not destroying sin. Luther's position was that he was a terrible sinner....covered by grace. Like a fresh covering of snow that covers a dunghill. I have posted a poll that I think most reformation types will be too shy to post what they...

Does God make darkness light and light darkness through a scheme that sees one imputed on the other? Or is that on us? Is the Reformation from God or from men? Is Luther an agent of light or of darkness? "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light...