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You have swallowed the decoy gospel hook line and sinker. God is not interested in you having a correct belief. That is Gnosticism. A saving faith or belief? According to whom? The death of Jesus is not good news...just for the devil. What is good news is that God wants to give us His life...

It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In the goal of bringing human nature and it's propensity to get caught up with religion, hypocrisy and vanity to light, I would like to explore this human morality that trips us up so much and that impedes growth in the...

I found this testimony to be both interesting and compelling...and uplifting. I am sharing it here to discuss the approach to having this kind of witness in the world. Now the speaker is Sonny Sandoval...the singer from "Payable On Death" a heavy metal/rap group that has sold millions of...

That's just not biblical. It is your emotions speaking from an indoctrination. But it is not based in truth. We will ALL be judged ONLY for what we have done with what we have been given. That's it. Grace puts us into a different category...away from the world. But you will never seem to...

It's not that God runs out of grace....that's not why grace is deceitful...but because of how we take it and what we do with it. People will take advantage of God's grace and mercy to try getting away with sin. Some people will consider themselves as the final destination of all mercy and grace...

Right....and this is where outer darkness comes into play for they whom God rejects.

Without the requisite reading skills...you may never know! :eek::p

It should be remembered that Luther had a Diet of Worms. :rolleyes::confused:

If you actually read the thread rather than react in your flesh you would see that I am speaking against hyper-grace and Calvinism. That extreme doctrine has a partial truth...as all lies do. God indeed will start us on our spiritual journey. He will call and equip and anoint us. And then He...

Under grace an equal treatment does not necessarily result in an equal outcome. Conversely ...disparate outcomes do not imply disparate treatment. In the parable of the sower....the seed isn't what varies in quality. No the seed is the same in every case. It is the ground that changes quality...

LOL. Nice theatrics and fluffery. But your lack of experience with God is showing and telling. God indeed uses His power to bring men to repentance. Repentance is a gift as well as something a man can do. Faith is also a gift as well as something required of us. So this tendency of manufacturing...

Before one goes off half-cocked into spiritual warfare one must understand oneself and one's own predilection towards self- righteousness and hypocrisy. Yes...that's right. We are born with a moral code that makes us think we are like gods in the world eating from the tree of knowledge. And most...

What is normal is you derailing the thread to make it all about you.

The devil is both underestimated and overestimated. He is underestimated from a POV of thinking that things which are held to be absolutely true are not actually manipulations from the devil. And then there are the self-appointed watchdogs and witch-hunters that look for any kind of variation...

Reasonable discussion involves lucid and biblical arguments that don't ignore vast tracts of biblical verses. So I don't see much here besides the emotional reaction of someone who believes what they want to.

The term "sovereign grace" if you read the OP is a term used by Calvinists...aka irresistible grace. (the I in TULIP.) I'm making a case against this exaggeration and unbalanced doctrine. Grace is the power from God to obey the standards of God...the law of God. His power is made perfect in...

I can't get you to see how the natural mind is different from the mind of Christ. So your kind of reasoning seems legit...and it would be if God was human and was looking just to save humans the way they are. But that's not God's way. We are being tested according to the truth. So if we love...

I think that we are influenced by Western artists like Dante. It was once a practice to try to frighten people to go to church and the like. Eternal punishment is not being burned forever. It is eternal separation from God. God is not a sadist. People who claim to be saved...but without any...

I read a bad interpretation of certain verses. It never says that a person will suffer forever. The Hebrew says people will look on their "corpses". Corpses are dead bodies. Corpses do not suffer eternally. The second death is NOT the second torment. I'm not even going to waste my time with...

More emotional content. You are doing the wrong comparison. Making temporal things to be eternal. But that's what an emotional rationality will do. You are very much ignoring the truth in order to satisfy an emotional requirement from your temporal ego. But since at least to this point you...