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Unmerited favour is Old Testament grace. We need to upgrade what grace has become with the coming of Christ. Notice the power of the Church described in Acts with the coming of grace. Everything in the NT is upgraded from what people can do in their own strength (OT standard) to what can be...

The one who walks in both righteousness and holiness. Grace is meant to empower a godly and holy walk. We can contrast a man of God with a religious man...who relies on religious rites and ideology...but without any power to walk as Jesus walked. Religion is just dressed up carnality. We know...

You forgot the free massage. This is completely out of any sense of reality. But if it makes you feel good. Your understanding is carnal in the extreme. God is not there to serve us. We are to serve God. You have it exactly backwards. Both of your examples are based on mercy. Your idea of...

Grace: The power of God unto salvation. The power usward who believe. The power to walk as Jesus walked.

Even though I am perhaps getting ahead of myself here. I wonder how you would render the very controversial Matt. 28:19? It should read..."in My name"....as per early citations based on very early reading of the original manuscripts. The RC church tampered with that verse in the 2nd century...

LOL. I have also read the Bible. :) Jesus was tested as we are...but without sin. my turn... Do you believe that the devil had a foothold in Jesus the same way he has in us?

Of course. Being God has its perks! ;) Jesus was tested and tried in the weakness of His flesh...but without sin. Through Christ we take on HIS advantage over sin. That advantage is called grace.

In the garden of Eden Adam was covered by God's life and love. His banner over us is love. When Adam sinned he lost that covering so that he realized he was naked. A naked person has no covering...clothing. Was Adam not covered before he sinned so that he wasn't naked? In the NT we are...

The problem is not with guns per se but with a gun culture. America is a place of extremes and that includes extreme irresponsibility. People tend to react to an extremist view with another extreme view ...thinking that 2 extremes make a balance. But very few seek balance by...

*"in Christ’s person the two natures are found in an inseparable union, therefore, wheresoever Christ’s deity is, there also must his humanity needs be" Jesus was not born with the Adamic nature. As such we can't say that Jesus was born with human nature. He was born with a human nature...but...

You can't compare superficial religious traditions with the depth and scale of God's words. You don't understand spiritual things....rather you are indoctrinated into a religious tradition from men. I was born Catholic...and I maintained that tradition until I met the Lord. Then my...

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned and experienced. The full measure of grace is by putting on Christ. The "how" is through a full surrender of everything we have and are. We are to ask, seek, and knock, until we receive of the Lord. The parable of the kingdom whereby we sell all to...

That is universal...based on "with God nothing is impossible," No one who enters INTO Christ (abiding in Him) sins. In Him is no sin. This is based on the nature of Christ...not us. When an aircraft flies above the clouds, our being INSIDE the plane is not dependent on our own capacity for...

There is some truth to the OP....although the references themselves are questionable if not plain wrong. The real issues lie with claiming Paul's experiences for oneself in a dogmatic religious "wishful thinking." These include: ---Seated in heavenly places with Christ ---Being crucified...

It is a human thing to make mistakes. One mistake is to equate coming to the Father with being saved. Jesus is speaking the truth. But people have their own agenda. Very few want to go to the Father unless to get what THEY want. So we see a selfish agenda in the many who study the Bible. Do we...

Welcome here! God uses broken vessels. Keep seeking that deeper walk! :) Hope for today!

The Lord be praised! :) <><

Hey brother! The words we speak attest to the part of us they are coming from. Our will is part of the inner man. Our will is usually filtered through the sin nature present in the outer man....that is...unless we are broken at the cross...or at least weaned from the outer man. We are to have...

The way I see it is that nothing can stop the child of God who remains humble. The problem arises when a dogmatic belief system gets in the way of unity in the Body. If a dogmatic person thinks someone is a heretic for not holding to human traditions...then that person is exposing himself as a...

To deny that Jesus is God is to do Him a disservice. Likewise to deny that the Father's Spirit IS the Holy Spirit is to deny the FAther. The doctrine of the trinity leaves the Father out of the picture. And yet Jesus came to reconcile us with the Father. Notice how very little is spoken of...