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I don't think we can boil down to a easy repetitive formula so to speak. We cry out to God...in repentance....or, if we don't even know how to repent, we just ask the Lord for His help. His response is to give us His holy Spirit. But it is God who decides how deeply that will affect us. To...

I understand grace as the power of God that takes us into the will of God....the power to BE as Christ in the world. By OUR faith we walk as good as we can according to our own level of maturity. But by the faith OF Christ we walk as He walked. That is how we overcome sin. To do that we are...

Amen! It is quite unusual these days to find people who actually understand the way in Christ as opposed to the popular "other" gospel of self-justification. Where do we draw the line for how much is enough on our part to please God? Well WE don't draw the line...God does. It is the very...

To abide in Christ IS to experience eternal life. His life.

Eternal life is a kind of life that is found in Jesus Christ. That life is His life...and to get it we must let go of our own. That life is in holiness and in the presence of God. There there is love joy and peace at a depth that surpasses anything we can experience naturally. So we are to...

i don't see any right side. No one can have a monopoly on the truth. But we can abide in truth...although this is fragile because God doesn't give grace to the proud....but to the humble. Since no one knows what will become of each of us...it is best to be humble and fear the Lord. That's...

Like the difference between the truth and the honest truth? ;)

The Holy Spirit sets up God's churches. And these have no name....they are simply brethren coming together by the Spirit. Man can't just try to emulate the book of Acts in his own strength expecting God to support that effort. So then the very people who claim to NOT be saved by...

But these believers are supporting the wrong thing. They are captured by false promises. They are captive in Babylon....and no threat to the prince of this world,

Of course. All human institutions are a deviation from the will of God...into something sustainable by the religious capacities of mortal men. We have an unending history of trying to seize the initiative away from God and put it in the hands of men with grandiose ideas of what they are capable...

2 Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Now I'm no fan of the RCC...but the above...

No doubt. But this also opened the door to private interpretations...and very popular false interpretations based on what people WANT to hear. Just look at the state of the modern church and how powerless it is to move any kind of principality....so much so that most evangelicals have joined...

Living the dream!:) Do we know each other? Possibly from another site? Christian forums?

People will always try adding themselves into the biblical narrative dishonestly. We see that so much that this has become the main way of becoming a Christian in today's church. In Christ we do take on the perfected life of Jesus. But then the question remains how do we enter into Christ. The...

But in letting the fox out of the barn the weasels snuck in.

You trust in Luther? He speaks for God? Is Luther in your bible? Any discernment at all will easily see the lack of spiritual life in Luther. He was an opinionated man that could see the corruption around him...and called it out. (very practical) But he was also a terrible monk....opening up...

I think that Paul was actually TOO brilliant for most people to understand. He is speaking so specifically...like John also does...that you already have to understand spiritual things to be able to tell what he's saying. He makes seemingly stand-alone points when he's really making distinctions...

People today tend to read themselves into salvation through selecting certain bible verses for themselves....and this without any manifestation you read about in the bible among they who were active in the salvation process of Christ.

Saved by grace means freed from sin. And you are exactly accusing me of what you are doing yourself. You are saying YOUR sins are ok but other people's aren't because they don't have your religious views. But the gospel is not about accepting Jesus as your personal saviour....as opposed to...

A drive-by post with speculation but no foundation. Read the entire thread and all the verses and you will see that you are far off as can be.