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Small words have a lot of meaning. Can you grow INTO grace? Of course not. But you can grow once you have received grace IN that grace. The same goes for holiness. You can't grow INTO holiness as this is by grace. But once you are walking like Jesus walked, you grow in character until you...

What do you think of the doctrine that states that a person is born of the Spirit before the baptism of the Spirit ---to receive the immersion in the Spirit as a "second blessing" ?? And what are reasons for your views? My own experience is being born of the Spirit as I was baptized in the...

A telephone line is not a person...and certainly not God. And what is this "most" invisible? Do you think the Father is partly invisible? What these modern doctrines do is denigrate the Power of the Father. Do you realize that the Father has put everything under His control? the Spirit of a...

This is a big mistake that is made in modern evangelicalism. Nobody grows INTO holiness. In fact, most people are not even able to hold the ground they were born again to. Just ask people who have been believers for 50+ years. The only thing we can grow in is maturity...but not purity...

The trinity doctrine was invented by the church of Rome early in the second century, as they will readily admit to, in order to give them control over the holy Spirit. If they had not done that then they would be dependent on God's intervention for the power of the Spirit. So then the power and...

Hi Josho, Basically self-taught although I learned a lot from observing and playing with others. The best school is experience through interaction, I think. :) Nowadays, with youtube, the possibility to learn faster, much faster, is there. If only I would have had such a resource when I was...

When? Do you understand what that means? Or is just knowing the formula enough to "get saved". I know the theory of relativity too... E=MC2 Does that mean I'm now a physicist? the devil also trusts that Jesus was crucified and was raised again. Having a human belief ABOUT Jesus just gives...

God gives grace to the humble. The humble what? The humble person of whatever religion? Of course. What about the proud who God resists? Can the proud not be believers? Of course many believers are very proud. You will find very few modern believers who are humble. So do you believe that...

You are confusing a perverting of the gospel with a simple life of humility. Anyway why are you so sure that you aren't doing exactly what you claim to be hating so much? Ah. the humanity.:oops:

That's the problem You claim to be preaching the original gospel. But what I see is a lack of balance. The original gospel was and continues to be in a perfect balance. Did God so love the world that He sent His Son as an excuse to send people to hell? Did God so hate His Son that He condemned...

Have you never read about not judging nothing, or anyone, before the time? Don't cling to the natural mind of the fallen nature. Put on rather the mind of Christ. Hint...the mind of Christ is one of humility.

people will always exaggerate one way or another. Finding a correct balance seems beyond the will and desire of men. So people will champion one aspect of the truth against the other and then claim they are saved by so doing.

LOL are you also ignoring marks?

Correct! But it wasn't that Gandhi loved self. That is unfair and false. No. He was ignorant of the way of Christ because of a lack of witnesses to the power of grace. The same holds true today. Men have turned the way that is in Christ into a powerless religion of presumptions and assumptions...

Amen. Those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God. And then there is the higher standard of actually walking IN the Spirit. Very heady stuff indeed. But the standard of salvation is to call upon the Lord. No performance necessary. It is the born again believers who will be judged...

He didn't submit to what he saw in the Christians he met. He saw through their hypocrisy. He saw that their claim to be walking in a higher righteousness than other men was bogus. What Gandhi refused to do was be dishonest. most people do not have that kind of honesty. They will say what they...

I'll just say this before no longer looking at your posts. Your lack of comprehension lies in that you are not reading the bible as it is written. You exchange "cannot see" for "will not see" as if the kingdom of God was still only in the future. You exchange a "cannot enter" for a "will not...

What part of "you will be judged by your works" are you not able to comprehend? Do you realize how much you are imprinting your own failed logic onto eternal truth?

My thought is that you value your own judgment above the words of God. You don't find the truth when you exclude some of it. The truth will elude you until you have ALL the verses of the Bible lined up properly. If you have ever shot a rifle you will know that you need to line up both sights in...

Exactly! Living a kingdom life is by miraculous grace and faculties. And the very first proof of being in the kingdom realm is that sin has no power over us. In Christ there is no sin.