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This has to do with the offense of the cross. As in... "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matt. 11:6 People are not offended by the cross if it's seen for Jesus only and not for ourselves. In any group of believers there are at least half that are offended by the idea...

LOL. Someone once said that Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. Weaponizing the Bible? Judging and pontificating? Interpreting good things for ourselves and bad things for others? No life in that. You need to learn the difference between a logos (word) and a...

Jesus Christ is the living Word. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. :) Calling a Bible "the living Bible" is just a way to differentiate one publication from another. For copyright purposes. No Bible has yet to produce a pulse. The Bible is on paper. Paper has no life in it...and...

Why do we need to be broken in order to serve the living God? The inner man is contained within a corrupted covering called the outer man that acts like a husk that covers (and protects) a seed. Unless the outer man husk is broken, the inner man (the part of us that has been regenerated by the...

Maybe the living Christ? I don't think a Bible Christ or a religious Christ is the way to go. :)

I've just recently learned of an evangelist named Erlo Stegan...a South African who went to the Zulus to bring them to Christ. I find his story very poignant, and reveals what is missing so often in our own ministries. At one point Erlo Stegan didn't know why God was not working among the Zulus...

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option 1: It's actually the pews that are saved. People are just saved by sitting in them. option 2: Whoever can say "Jehovah" instead of just the generic term "God." option 3: by our beliefs, opinions, and lip service, and argumentative disposition based on these. option 4: those who enter...

1. Articles of beliefs (not faith) are unimportant compared to how we act. 2. The verse you quoted was corrupted by the Roman church early on. Eusebius quotes an very early copy of Matthew that reads..."baptizing them in My name." 3. The reason why the ecclesiastics wanted to change God into a...

God creates in 2 steps. The Genesis account reveals to us that first God created the heavens and the Earth...there was chaos (tohou bohou) THEN He said let there be light. It is only in verse 14 of 1 Genesis that God created lights in the temporal universe. In our own walks we can understand...

Amen..and well said Mark. Yes. That is the upper scale of what is possible as we walk in Christ to be where He is. We offer ourselves to God and He accepts the sacrifice or not...like Abel. The fire comes down when the surrender goes up...IF God permits. There is also a walk in faithfulness...

Being born again is but a sample of the fulness of grace available IN Christ. You must be born again to SEE and enter into Zion...the kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said...abide in Me AND I in you. Only then can we bear an eternal fruit. Many have been taught that our house within us is the same thing as being where God is in heaven. Such as these have not known the heavenly walk...but have been taught to be satisfied with the sample. Just the free...

An interesting conundrum I concur with! :) But which one brings the greater shame?

What you are espousing is a denial of seeking God's face for God's presence. The whole point of the New Birth is to taste of the Lord and go to Him. Claiming the first step in a race is sufficient is to be disqualified as a DNF. Jesus is BOTH the author AND finisher of our faith. We go to the...

I have a Jewish friend who tries to live by the Torah...to believe and live accordingly. Once I pointed out the verse in Deuteronomy 30 that says "I will circumcise your hearts." He was dumbfounded that the wording was such...since he knew of the other places where God says "circumcise your...

What can we say of people who believe that no one can have more than what they have? Or that they cannot possibly get more of Christ than they already have? Was that not the claim of the Laodiceans?

Why did the disciples of Jesus tarry in Jerusalem? They needed power from heaven to walk in resurrection life. They needed to break free from the bondage of the flesh. As such the baptism in the Spirit is the "second" blessing...or the full measure of grace. This baptism (unless there is the...

As the MOST HIGH the Father is greater than the Son. How do we know this? If it wasn't already self-evident, Jesus tells us that the Father is greater than He is. Who believes the words of Jesus? A small minority...and among these those who will then deny that Jesus is fully God. Now many...

Do you see the narrow road being the aisle between the pews leading to the altar in an RC steeplehouse? ...or is it something more spiritual that is beyond what is accessible to the carnal senses?