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Thank you. I'll check it out now.

Look in to intermittent fasting. Combine with low carb. That should help.

On paper, as I tried explaining, from one angle, at least, I have to agree with this perspective. Thank you for sharing.

A speculation I have on this is that an important part of this question has to do with fear: how does God relate to me? Should I be afraid? God doesn't give us a spirit of fear, so if we arrive at fear, we have misunderstood something He has said. He says "We have not received a spirit of...

Yeah, I find "He who waters others will himself be watered" true--I hope that by sharing what I know, maybe the answer will pop up. Thanks for interacting.

I can't figure out how it's "unrealistic"--plenty of things are clear in the Bible, why not this? Nothing. I'm not going to bother. Never heard of "The Indigo Girls". I'm not giving up.

Because things have to make sense. I don't like being lied to. I'm not saying "God is lying", I'm saying "I'm not hearing a clear message". I like the truth, and I like to understand why I am doing something. If I can't justify why I am doing something, I'm not going to do it.

Because if I don't have to do them, I'm not going to bother myself to do them.

Not quite: Philippians 2 12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose. So, God...

See, that's where I'm coming in: what is my obligation under Grace (and what is "on the line")? :laughing: :Laughingoutloud:

We walk by faith not sight: Paul says that we who are "in Christ" share in Christ's crucifixion death (literal death--or else the Jews are not freed from their obligation to serve by Torah Ro 7:1-6), and His resurrection. Christ destroys "the body of sin" (Ro 6:6), delivering us from it (Ro...

It has worked for me, before--and, in many ways, it's working today--but I just don't understand what the works are securing. I really do feel like the topic should be discussed if it's in the Bible. I think we can get through it--you can disagree, if you'd like, and we can settle on agreeing...

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, It is weak because it relies on sinful flesh to perform it; but, now, under Grace, God performs works...

Right, but where is "Sin"? It's "in the flesh"--hence, Galatians 3:3 says those who are trying to be perfected by the Law are trying to be perfected "by the flesh".

"Unrighteousness" suppresses the truth about God (Ro 1:18); "righteousness", therefore, is revealing the truth about God. This makes sense of "faith is counted as righteousness": When we say, "God says I sinned, and God says He forgives me for Christ's sake," these beliefs and confessions count...

I think Justification is the adjudication of the Judge about the person after the Judge has examined the evidence and found righteousness. Our righteousness is our faith that God forgives us (Ro 4:6-8 defines our righteousness as "being forgiven"), so we are pronounced "justified" after the...

I am aware of your view, one shared by Dr. N.T. Wright, but I have to disagree: Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. So that we don't have to guess at the definition of "works of Law" by which comes "the...

I mean, it's reasonable, since Jesus's Name is "YHWH Is Salvation".

In this context, faith in God is "the one who does not work but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly", and the message believed is that God "forgives" your sins (Ro 4:6-8). If our righteousness (faith is counted as righteousness) is that we are forgiven, then that would qualify as...

Paul separates faith from works of Law, so it's safe to separate the two.