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    The Decoy Gospel

    The carnal mind doesn't get to define for itself what is finished. Jesus overcame sin in His race in order for us to do likewise with His grace. Rev. 3:21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Theoretical notions are not testimony. One must enter into Christ to experience HIS perfection...and from there bear fruit...an eternal fruit. God is sinlessly perfect....as is His Son. And as we abide in Him we are putting on His perfection to walk just as He walked. But very few can attest to...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Actually God imputing (accounting) means that He sees righteousness....like in Abraham or for Phinehas. One has to understand just how wrong the false gospel is...even changing the meaning of words to present the lie. Ps. 106:30Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Wild accusations indeed. o_O What next...I'm plotting to steal Christmas? You are running out of superlatives and exaggerations to protect your false doctrine. You are free to believe in a fiction. But you are attacking genuine believers in so doing. Look to yourself and your own nasty...
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    Have you ever converted an atheist?

    Yes...a few. One of these ex-atheists became best man at my wedding. :) He also became a pastor for a time. You don't change people just with words...they need to see your actions. You need God to witness to them WITH you and through you.
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Why don't you look to Christ instead of people? Why the ingrained and harsh unbelief? Why the hiding behind the flesh? I have said....over and over...the VERY biblical....we don't sin as we abide in Christ. But you either can't read or else you are so dishonest that you can't make the thought...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    You do not understand and are twisting the words of Jesus. We are purified from sin from within. And from there the outside IS clean. Jesus was speaking of religious posturing that put on a show. But a crucified believer is pure to the very core. When we are on the cross inwardly (but in the...
  8. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    I know the difficulty of the narrow walk. VERY hard to get there...but once you're there...it's easy and full of joy and peace. I know the full victory over sin WHEN I abide in Christ. We go in and out of the Spirit while we grow more and more into the likeness of Christ. I know the cross of...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    You are trapped in an arrested development and lashing out like a spoiled child against what you see as demanding adults who are just trying to help you in your ignorance and poor attitude. Of course a new believer is given time to get his bearings. God goes easy on a person who has but a short...
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    "Come now, and let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18)

    People tend to rationalize the truth away. So reasoning in one's fallen mind does not lead to truth. Truth is something not understood at all at first. So then Jesus asked...why do you reason among yourselves? And this being a futility since no one understood the truth. It would be like...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    You are in denial. You operate only in your own strength with the moral code you have inherited from Adam. And this imprinted morality based on human failure causes you the following/ Denial of the perfection of Christ available to people of faith. Denial of His gift of grace that causes us to...
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    Moral Conviction.

    Jesus was put on the cross because of moral convictions in religious service. The saints also. Morality supports the flesh and all manner of evil. It justifies itself in a bid for self-preservation. It sacrifices the truth for itself. And we too who speak the truth are also hated. Now people...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    It's what they NEED to hear. They need to twist the truth in order to cover up their sins. So they point the finger at others...even as you try to help these understand the way of Christ which is a victory over sin. So you are hated for loving people. The flesh is very bitter and hateful. No...
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    Sovereign Grace

    God goes easy on the humble...He accepts people easily. But He is hard to please. So there is a paradox there. The problem is that people want God to accept them with their egos intact. God is easy on they who fear Him and are broken and humble. But that's not how most rich Westerns wish to be...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    The decoy gospel denies perfection IN Christ. To set up the decoy the victim will state that you think YOU'RE perfect and deflect away the perfection from Christ in order to deny it...by strawmaning that perfection away from Christ. There is also a heresy that states that we are already perfect...
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    Moral Conviction.

    Now our morality comes from our fallen human natures. We have a code we have built into us to follow outside of the life of God. The code will vary somewhat from person to person (so that people can't get along even in their rebellion against God) Our morality makes us hide from God just as Adam...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    The idea of a "positional" holiness IS the hallmark of a decoy gospel. Where does it come from? Where does such an idea come from? Well, the human imagination must try to understand spiritual things. So a philosophical solution is sought for. But where in the bible do we see a positional...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    I have you on ignore..but you bring your false accusations onto my thread. I expect true seekers to see how you have portrayed the true gospel as an anathema in order to abhor the truth of the gospel which is of the miraculous spiritual kingdom that is in Zion which is according to grace and...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Delusional? No, miraculous. :) So you are still refusing faith in the living God. It sounds too hard for you. But that is who God is. Unapproachable...but yet through the faith of Christ...now approachable. A paradox. But you would make God common and faith to be an easy gesture. So you are...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Oh the irony. The brick wall is your human interpretation that refuses to see beyond your own experience. I said that the bible never speaks of a Gnostic type of positional holiness. You are what you do. You do what you are. That's it. No Gnostic positional salvation. The bible is not written by...