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But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Gal. 2:17, 18 The problem is worse when one has never had the power of...

This is fully ridiculous. It takes a lot of indoctrination to make God out to be unrighteous like that. The first point of righteousness is to see things as they are. To attribute means to judge something that is there. NOT....something that isn't there.

To impute means to attribute. As in the crying was imputed to the baby. Now we all know that baby's cry. But Luther developed this fiction that says that God imputes His righteousness to us. That's like God recognizing that we are God. If you can swallow that then you have been...

This is the essence of Gnosticsm....reading yourself into a verse by a certain understanding that allows you to do that. Like a lawyer looking for a way into a document. But if you read the bible correctly...it never allows a self-justification. This is beginner's stuff.

How can you justify yourself as righteous for reading a certain chapter in the bible? It's a modern trend. The whole weight of teaching in both testaments is against self-justification. Jesus was punished for our sins. That is a mark against us. And we are still doing the same thing when we...

One of the principle tenets of Judaism is that they are to have God continually before them in thought. So what you are saying is good...unless you claim to be justified in that. Then you have fallen into the same trap as the Pharisees who also do as you do....both by basking in the sublimity...

So do explain how the obedience of Jesus to His father is credited to you. One person's righteousness cannot be imputed to another. That is exactly contrary to the scriptures. One person cannot be punished, righteously, for the sins of another. And then there is the issue of you taking on that...

The Holy Spirit is not business as usual...it is the power of God to walk as Jesus walked. You are looking to sin without guilt. The wages of sin is still death...no matter how you deal with that emotionally. But the gospel is not about feeling better about your sinful weakness...it is the...

Grace is the power of God...His strength that is meant for the weak inner man. 2 Cor. 12:9 Gnosticism is an easy way to pass the outer Adamic man into a supposed area of grace. This is done by dividing the inner man from the outer man....but the wrong way. It is to take away the...

Revelation isn't grace. Grace is the power to fulfill the revelation. We add faith into the revelation and wait on the Lord for His strength.

This is pure Gnosticism and false. It is a human reasoning trying to fit Adam into the bible wordings...unsuccessfully. When we sin...ALL of us sins. A little leaven leavens the whole batch. Without spot or wrinkle means just that. Righteous is as righteous does. Elect is as elect does. You...

Here is the real issue.... Is it right to try resisting sin in one's own strength? Now Judaism is based on this...on David and His heart. David said... Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. So who is doing the hiding? God?....or is it our devotion...

This is of course a mistake in understanding.....a horse of a different colour. :) People like to reason backwards. They will claim some lofty things for themselves...and then try to make it fit. People ALWAYS take things too far...until humility and meekness are valued for the wisdom that...

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Here is a shortened version of a movie based on the dispute between Rambam...the Jewish scholar and a converted Jew named Christiani. Now there is a definite Jewish slant to the film....but there are some very good points being made...that hold up to this day. Jews look at the dogmatic form of...

The blood of Jesus is the life of Jesus. His blood displaces OUR blood..our life...so that it is His perfect life that takes over as we are translated INTO Him. By grace through faith. We go from a life FOR a life to a life IN a life. It is the power of the cross of Christ that takes our life...

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Dogmas, in the religious sense, are static beliefs about God that stand up against the inquiries and experiences of a living faith.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Heb. 9:27 The difference between believers and the world is that there is a separate judgment for God's household. Believers will not be judged with the world.

Those are two different outcomes....or destinies. The lake of fire kills the soul...it is the second death. (not the second torture). And being cast away into an eternal wandering in darkness is for the hypocrites. The first is for they who are unrighteous and the second for they that transgress...