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This is more unbalanced commentary. Those who remain in Christ walk as He walked. The last time I checked Jesus walked without sin and was above condemnation. So then happy is he that will be found to be walking in resurrection life. But that pedigree does not cover all believers. Actually very...

There is a verse that says...let he who boasts boast in this...that he understands and knows Me! (Jer. 9:24) God has a sense of humour. Nobody that knows God is going to boast about it. :) So many verses are tantalizing to the part of us that entertains a religious certainty. So we are being...

You are speaking here of hope not faith. What is unscriptural is mixing up the two. Faith is in the moment...knowing that as we walk in His victory we are experiencing His salvation. But judgment day is a whole other matter. Having a living hope and a carnal certainty are two very different...

How many realize that arguing how saved one is is the same as arguing how humble one is? Do we not lose what we are trying so hard to identify with in that effort? Do we realize that by trying to save our life we lose it? It is by losing our lives that we find them. Jesus has made religious...

You're welcome :) Why do you worry over what will happen to you on judgment day. The only thing you can do is to fear the Lord and remain humble. No one knows their own ways. Only God can see us as we are. So then to judge yourself saved is as a bad as to judge yourself condemned. Do you...

The problem is that you are imposing your own way of thinking on eternal ideas. Falling from grace means we are just walking as any other human...in our own weaknesses. Salvation from that understanding means a salvation from sin into an eternal walk in resurrection life. That's what it means to...

Just because somebody doesn't jump into one extreme doesn't mean they have adopted the other. An unbalanced person sees anyone who is not in their extreme as being in another extreme. So then balance cannot be discerned from an extreme. False accusations ensue.

Who's Forrest? As in Forrest Gump? Righteousness comes either by works or by faith. But then faith without works is dead. However, God will justify by faith because He knows in advance what we will do. Otherwise a dying person would never have the time to prove his/her faith. So then believing...

How can them? or better yet...how can they? ;) There are 2 levels to being in Christ. There is a temporal Body present on earth among living believers and there is the eternal Body of Christ for those who abide in Him. What does a temporal Body mean? This world is a simulation of reality. As...

Is this just one more anti-mullet thread? ;):oops::eek::rolleyes::p

What makes Christendom (not real Christianity which is spiritual in nature) anti-critical thinking is that it is based on a dogmatic ideology based on human certainty....rather than on faith. To realize that biblical faith has nothing to do with beliefs is the first step in critical thinking...

I have maintained that the righteous will fill the nations of them who are saved. AND the saints will rule over them from the holy city. The issue is not only what makes a saint...but also what makes one righteous before God. To be righteous means one is humble and fears the Lord. NO doctrinal...

What you are noticing is the difference between righteousness and holiness. There are two standards, One is an OT standard, the other is a NT standard. The OT standard is not wrong...it is merely insufficient. We have been provided a better way through grace. If we "fall from grace" that means...

...unless it is in character and nature. Stature is a whole other thing. God created everything to have ranks...to have priorities of importance. Structures require order. When a we build a structure do we start with the roof? There is an order to consider in everything we undertake. We get is...

Jesus came to fulfill the law. How? By doing it for us as so many unfortunately have been led to believe? OR>>>> by inviting us INTO that fulfillment by abiding in Him? Being under grace means we are fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law. When we walk as Jesus walked...are we not...

I like this thread. :) We tend to react in the flesh when we are confronted with something we don't understand...or something that upsets what we have come to think as settled. We hate being unsettled. And this holds especially true for how we interact with fellows believers. What we see so...

True. We are both inner man and outer man...UNTIL we go to the cross. Then we realize that God wants to have a relationship with the inner man. We are to identify ourselves with that part of us. The outer man does not survive into eternity. But the inner man...if by faith and faithfulness clings...

Yes. The devil's first victory is in convincing us that this world is the ultimate reality and that outer man (with our worldly experiences and adaptive personality) is the real us.

Sound doctrine points to a spiritual walk in Christ. There is so much teaching that limits the disciple of Christ these days. Whether it is liberal or conservative Christianity, the inner man is left weak, blind, and poor. What is being built up in these various religious iterations is the outer...

No human can make a day holy. The OT holiness was really about a shadow of future things. Human efforts or lack of effort does not fulfill the deepest intentions of the law. That future is now. Although the future is not what it used to be! ;) Now we can obey the Sabbath commandment by entering...