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The sheer superficiality of todays' gospel...with it's emotional appeal. I tried watching a documentary the other day about the "American gospel"...I had to stop after a few minutes. It was terrible and disingenuous. It stated that most people think they are good even as they break the...

So then you must have a hard time reading the bible in general...or the words of Jesus in particular....with His statements like...ask, seek and knock, ...or else..."few there be that find it' concerning the narrow door and way. Are we supposed to look for God's face? Isn't God free to accept or...

I hope not. No one likes getting a virus. :oops: You are stumbling over Christ with a errant and humanistic view of the working of God. Righteousness is NOT transferable. Never has been and never will be. And you will not understand that because of the great delusion. You have been seduced by a...

Amen. Paul is explaining that the New Covenant will be built upon faith...using Abraham as an forerunner...in an upping of the ante into a spiritual life.So the New Covenant will also be by faith. The decoy gospel seeks to justify non-spiritual people while yet in their fallen natures...as if...

Of course this is fully backwards. No one can have the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. Righteousness isn't transferable. That is the biggest fallacy possible. The bible describes a person entering into Christ in order to partake of the righteousness of God which is by faith. It's like...

Good to hear. Stay stable. :)

By the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit that quickens into life...not just words. So the bible and the Spirit work hand in hand. The letter kills on it's own...but the Spirit gives life.

Rom. 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: You need to hear the gospel...the real gospel. Jesus came TO the flesh to save us away FROM the flesh. I don't...

Mature as a human that is. Jesus had to learn His place inside His own creation...by channeling temptations, emotions and human weakness in general. The body of Jesus was the same as our own. He conquered the world while in the body. And He did that so that when we abide in Him we can take up...

A Christian is not to engage the world on the moral plane. The world will follow the world. We are to be holy and NOT follow the world...even on the good aspects. We are to be reserved for God to follow Him. So the OP may expose the bad judgment of believers who entertain a moral preference as...

Who is doing the imputing? Now righteousness and humility are very related. God resists the proud. He resists the self-righteous. Can a person impute humility to himself? Can a person declare that he is righteous? And this presupposes you even understand what imputing means...apart from a...

Episkopos said: ↑ Are we instantly perfect? Of course not. On what do you base this? That same aorist tense that describes our argument for instant justification is applied to the grace of sanctification in Scripture. As I have stated, too many people confuse purity and maturity. My...

But you are defining the formula with your human spin. We are made righteous by HIS power in us by faith making us to walk in His victory in this world. He becomes OUR life, holiness and perfection. That is what grace does. It empowers us. Grace is the power of God usward who believe.

Now you are sounding like the other sort of reasoners. Why do God's ways always have to line up with a person's way of thinking? Paul describes it as being present with the Lord or absent from Him. Like going for a walk. Are we always with our spouses? Yet we are to remain faithful. So if...

What makes things so difficult is that we have an established kingdom of truth being offered to us...and then we are (a few of us) fumbling our way into it by fits and starts. So then what does the transition look like? Are we instantly perfected (corrected from perfect)? Of course not. Are we...

You understand being led by the Spirit...but have you walked in Zion? So you mustn't limit the walk IN Christ as we are translated INTO the kingdom realm...to walk exactly as Jesus walked. But look closely at the instructions of Jesus... John 10: 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he...

The Christian life is very hard to understand for we humans. It takes a lot of revelation and patience. here are a few things I've noticed..even though this will not concern most people. There are paradoxes and conundrums such as.... 1. You can be alive to the Spirit without being IN the...

I don't see things that black and white. A man can walk in the weakness of the flesh but yet be led by the Spirit. And there is a process to maturity...going in and out of the Spirit. Most faithful Christians are in this category..and the reason they don't understand this being translated up and...

Keeping laws like sabbath and the kosher eating laws is what Paul had in mind concerning law keeping...which is Judaism. God is not looking for more of that kind of law keeping. But the law of God which detects whether we are sinning or not is fulfilled through grace. We become more and more...

Backward, Christian soldiers, fleeing from the fight, With the cross of Jesus nearly out of sight. Christ, our rightful Master, stands against the foe, But forward into battle we are loathe to go. Refrain: Backward, Christian soldiers, fleeing from the fight, With the cross of Jesus nearly out...