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  1. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    For me personally I tend to be fearless of the unknown...because my first experience of the great unknown was being baptized in the Spirit. So I have a HOME base with God that doesn't get shaken. Not that I haven't been fooled by people or a spirit maybe a time or two. But the deviation is very...
  2. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    I think that love paves the way for understanding and knowledge. If you are in a good body relationship and a brother speaks to you from love. Then that face to you becomes familiar...not unknown but known. And if the message he brings is unknown...the known brother can help that message to at...
  3. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    A classic religious mind loop comes with the query "are you saved"??? That loop is so irksome because you realize that there is not much behind it. It is a mindless statement so often that is only ready to hear dogmatic answers. No mystery...nothing spiritual...no heavenly interference. Just...
  4. Episkopos

    Always Spirit-Filled Or Unsaved?

    I'm not indoctrinated so you are barking up the wrong tree. You have it exactly backwards. Marks is confused and has a pathological necessity to be passive aggressive. Please go to my thread on "mind loops" and perhaps you can become freed yourself from these circular ideas you have.
  5. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    What can be in the realm of the known for one person can be in the realm of the unknown in another. In fact this is on purpose! God shows different things to different people so we might learn from one another. The devil wants to put an end to people sharing things and coming to the perfect...
  6. Episkopos

    How do you know your saved??

    6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that...
  7. Episkopos

    How do you know your saved??

    I can't go deep enough here to fix your circular reasoning...since you are also confusing holiness and righteousness. God can forgive righteousness issues...but holiness issues demand a swift justice. So then re-read (if you care to) the differences I listed...since you are not understanding any...
  8. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    Amen! And thank you for that testimony and confirmation. May the Lord take us deeper into His confidence! :)
  9. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    The dialectic. Our brains have two hemispheres. We are wired in our minds to see things 2 ways...the known and the unknown. Order and chaos. We are hard-wired to react to danger and chaos by trying to make order out of things. That's how we can try figuring things out. A healthy mind is...
  10. Episkopos

    All Israel will be saved

    I know the drill. In order to deny the truth of God you make 2 brides. And you use strawman arguments to erase truth from the bible/ But you just need to look more closely and deeply. I suggest you try my new thread on "mind loops". I'm hoping to help people out of circular reasoning.
  11. Episkopos

    All Israel will be saved

    it's always been that way. Not all of national Israel are the Israel of God...just a remnant. Likewise the redeemed among the nations...just a remnant of these. But God gets to showcase...by dividing the people according to ethnicity...His ways. And He upholds both the law and grace. But very...
  12. Episkopos

    Mind Loops

    We could call the mind loops that are instilled in us through propaganda...circular reasoning. And how much is this pathological conditioning the basis for much of what we believe about the bible? Life is circular...as in..the circle of life. But our minds can be set free from circular...
  13. Episkopos

    Always Spirit-Filled Or Unsaved?

    You're doing the mind loop thing again and again and again. Do you realize that? Look back over your posts...they could all be just copy pastes. Let go of your one idea for a moment and consider other things. Otherwise it is an idée fixe. You are not understanding how the Spirit works in...
  14. Episkopos

    Always Spirit-Filled Or Unsaved?

    Ad hominem and hypocrisy as I shall present. I'll respond with your own comment... (see you are in a loop...a mind loop.) You are speaking to yourself...like in an echo chamber. So here is what you say to me...but apply this to yourself... So do you ever get tired of attacking me and the...
  15. Episkopos

    How do you know your saved??

    Grace and mercy are very different. We are getting a lot of confusion by conflating things that aren't the same. Like faith and hope. Like holiness and righteousness. The reason they are different words is because they are unique to themselves. God has always been merciful...but until Jesus...
  16. Episkopos

    What Do You Look For In A Church?

    All of the above. I would add that I don't think youth groups are healthy in that the young shouldn't be leading the young. There will be exceptions to the rule however. We live in a fragmented society that worships youth and disparages older people. But how are the young going to learn anything...
  17. Episkopos

    Failing the grace of God

    I posted this on another thread...but I think it works here too... Grace is a gift that enables us to do things...not to be forgiven things. Quite the opposite. We will be judged harder under grace. Mercy is not the same as grace. God has always been merciful...but grace comes from the...
  18. Episkopos

    All Israel will be saved

    Only if you hate God's way and bible study. The 2 houses is God's masterpiece of justice and mutual understanding. It comprises both main commandments.
  19. Episkopos

    Do we even have the correct definition of "saved?"

    But that's a fallacy since you can only KNOW what you are doing now....not in the future. You can hope. It's funny how that word hope is never used by modern people yet it is one of the big three..faith HOPE and love. Not....faith know and love.
  20. Episkopos

    Always Spirit-Filled Or Unsaved?

    You really have to try turning off the propaganda machine that's in stuck mode in your head bro!