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Those Commies infiltrated the early church in Jerusalem...people selling all to have all things in common! Very un-American (and therefore evil!)o_O

Wow! incredible ....I leave you to your delusions and I hope that those who visit this thread will see through the religious posturing you are exhibiting.

This post demonstrates a lack of understanding about what it means to have understanding. When the wise virgins say that the foolish ones need to buy oil for their lamps...that doesn't mean that they don't need to buy oil for their lamps. The meaning is lost when things are turned upside down to...

We will be judged as we have judged. It's like having a handicap in golf. If our heart is right in our dealings with others then God sees that as being righteous. Very few will be ready to be judged on the scale of a saint. Most will have to be compared with the standard of loving others as...

If God's way in Christ had been satisfied in Judaism then Jesus would not have come. Inside Judaism is the law of God AND the law of Moses. What marks the Jew is not the law of God but the law of Moses. The 10 commandments are to be seen as universal regardless of religion especially where the...

We are a duality of inner man and outer man. The inner man is created in God's image. The outer man replaces the spiritual covering that Adam had in the garden of Eden. Through the carnality of the outer man (and the sin nature embedded within it) we are made to serve the interests of the...

You are missing the understanding of truth which requires dualities. There is no electricity of magnetism without poles that attract and yet can be made to repel. 2 polarities...one flow of power. A river flows from a high point to a lower point. We begin in the flesh and move into the...

It is both. We all have a measure of faith as human beings. But to move mountains we need the faith OF Christ. I see it as a heaving line cast from a ship in distress to a towing ship (tugboat). The line we cast is our own faith. From there our faith is attached to the big towing line that is...

We are not to be under the law of Moses....basically Judaism. Paul didn't want the way of God in Christ to be caught up with Judaism...seeing that Judaism is what men can do in their own strength whereas the way of Christ is about being empowered to walk as Jesus walked. Paul didn't want to...

There IS righteousness in obeying the law of God. BUT that righteousness must be imputed to the obedient one by God not ourselves. We can never justify ourselves by what we have done OR what we believe. It is God who justifies and no other. Should we obey the law! YES! No unrighteous person...

I see from the Bible an everlasting and almighty Father dividing Himself into two...thus begetting a Son...a smaller version of Himself. Jesus is equally God with the Father in nature, character, and Spirit ...but not in stature. The Father is the MOST High. Jesus is not the Most High. But He is...

Hi to all! :) There are many things that bring people together in an external way...there is our culture, nationality, political leanings, interests, hobbies... etc. That is on one level. Then there are things that are external things that penetrate more deeply into us ...things that are more...

When we enter INTO Christ we take on His perfection to become "perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect". Of course this perfection is according to holy purity....not maturity...which is something that must be walked out. No one can enter into another person in this way. Jesus is God. He is...

Actually I'm trying to help you to see the inner man in yourself...which I want to rejoice in...and the outer man in you that reacts. What makes it difficult is that this forum is public. I meant no disrespect to you at criticizing your previous behaviour...I tend to forget what its like to care...

Mark, this is good! :) You know I don't say things lightly. The is no baby "new man" however...but I know what you mean. Putting on Christ is putting on a fully grown Christ....in purity. However, our lack of maturity spoils things. So then WE are the babe in Christ...the spiritual infant (even...

Don't defend. I'm only stating what is true. Taking things personally is from the outer man...defending the "purity" of your intentions from the inner man. It's far better to learn a deep lesson than to defend yourself and stay the way you are..no? What is the way to growth in the truth if not...

yes, our defense mechanism...our preferences...our tastes and bents. Anything outside the knowledge of God...that is meant FOR this temporal world. The outer man cannot live on into eternity. We are only our inner man at the point of death...basically the soul. Did we trust in God or did we...

The Spirit itself does many things. One of those things is to intercede with our inner man to edify it to move into the character of the stature of Christ. Nothing strange here. What is lacking is understanding of how God's Spirit functions...how God creates with His Spirit...how gentle He is...

The inner man is not the New Man. We have both an inner man AND an outer man AFTER conversion....and always. The New Man is Christ whom we put on to be perfect as He is perfect. That is a covering and NEVER us. No longer I.... 1. We are a new creation in Christ....check 2. We are called to put...

The issue here is with WHAT PART of us God is making intercession for. The coming of God's Spirit is only something new when you consider what has been taken out of the way. it is drawing the wrong conclusion to personalize a function of God's Spirit...unless you see this as the Father doing His...